The Burning Issue

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Not a phoenix or a bonfire but a pile of sterling going up in flames, a reference to the recent RHI (“Renewable Heat Incentive” rather than Sinn Féin’s promised “Respect, honesty, integrity”) scandal which was a cause of yesterday’s election. Whether it will make any difference to the electorate will be seen today, as counting gets under way in the 2017 Assembly Elections.

Previously from #ae17 (Assembly Elections 2017): Tapaıgh An Deıs | End The Age Of the Dinosaurs | Keep Belfast Clean | Hard Border

Previously about RHI: Heating Empty Barns … Killing Kids

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Beauty To Behold

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Dermot McConaghy’s (DMC |Fb | Tw) #CNB16 mural on the shutters of Dawson’s Music on Royal Avenue.

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Hard Border

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The UK’s vote to leave the EU (“Brexit”) might mean the return of the “hard” border between Northern Ireland and the Republic. The board shown above lists the Tories, DUP, TUV, and (west Belfast rivals) People Before Profit as supporters of Brexit. PBP supported the exit on anti-austerity grounds.

Previously from #ae17 (Assembly Elections 2017): Tapaıgh An Deıs | End The Age Of the Dinosaurs | Keep Belfast Clean

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Keep Belfast Clean

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Voters go to the polls on March 2nd and among the candidates in East Belfast is Northern Ireland Conservative (web | Fb) Sheila Bodel. The party placard above in Grand Parade suggests that the peace process has been a “fleece process”.

Previously: Tapaıgh An Deıs | End The Age Of The Dinosaurs

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In Flanders’ Fields

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A Somme/WWI soldier contemplates a grave next to a hill of poppies. Mural on the shutters of the Peppercorn café in east Belfast.

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The Glass Slipper

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In the folk tale, Cinderella gets her finery and glass slippers from a fairy godmother. Belfast folk must instead rely on The Glass Slipper, a dancewear shop in east Belfast specialising in ballet shoes and clothing.

Woodstock Road, east Belfast

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Free Gaza

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A clash of priorities in Lower Garfield Street: “Free Gaza” – “Free your own country first #LegaliseSameSexMarriage”

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Uncensored Memorials

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Two images of mason’s shops in west and east Belfast. Above, on the Falls Road, McAdams Memorials, with IRPWA signs for “Uncensored Béal Feırste political tours” on the first floor. Below, Hamilton Memorials on Woodstock Road, with “Justice 4 Rings(?) RIP” on the side wall.

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End The Age Of The Dinosaurs

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More from the 2017 campaign (see also Tapaıgh An Deıs), this time a Labour party (Web | Fb) hoarding (this one for Courtney Robinson, standing in East Belfast), encouraging voters to “end the age of the dinosaurs” which has wrought “RHI scandal, NHS in crisis, LGBT and abortion rights denied, and sectarian squabbling” and vote for a “cross-community alternative”. The Ulster banner hangs from the light-pole.

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Be My Valentine

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The movie adaptation of Fifty Shades Darker opened just before Valentine’s Day, with Holywood native Jamie Dornan starring as Christian Grey, the billionaire entrepreneur into BDSM – hence the rope heart in the VisualWaste mural shown above.

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