Heating Empty Barns … Killing Kids

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More commentary on the Renewable Heat Incentive scheme (see also yesterday’s Flaming Hot Tottie): Arlene Foster is depicted as a dragon, flogging wood pellets on her (burner!) mobile: “U lukin NE pellets – got score bags here”. Her jacket pocket is stuffed with twenties and she wears a “F**k Equality” badge on her lapel (see the wide shot, below). “killing kids” is perhaps a reference to the closure of a children’s ward at the Ulster Hospital because of short-staffing (BBC-NI).

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Flaming Hot Tottie

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[Arlene] Foster & [Jonathan] Bell have created a hot drink to keep you warm during the cold winter nights: the Flaming Hot Tottie. To make, combine wood burning pellets, a squeeze of lies, and a twist of aggression, and top it off with collective responsibility. Price: 400 million pounds, though free to MLAs. Commentary on the “cash for ash” (a.k.a. Renewable Heat Incentive) scheme from Comply Or Die.

See also Heating Empty Barns … Killing Kids.

Thanks to the artist for the image.

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Power Box

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An electrical box painted with an Irish Tricolour and the letters “IRA” – Westland Street, Bogside, Derry.

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Lest We Forget

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Ballyclare UVF memorial mural to volunteers from the 3rd and 1st battalions.

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Bigger Than Yeezus

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For CNB16/HTN in Belfast’s city centre street artist VisualWaste (Web | Fb | Tw) painted rapper, producer, and clothing designer (and recent Trump admirer and visitor to Trump Tower) Kanye West.

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The Past Is A Foreign Country

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This image of London-/Derry in days-gone-by is on the outside of the walls of Derry, looking in. The brickwork of which it appears to be the portal is also fake; in fact, this is a covered walkway leading from Bishop Street to the Fountain.

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Yer Da Sells Avon

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Glasgow artist Conzo Throb (web | Fb)  was back in Belfast for CNB16/HTN. The Avon name dates back to 1929 in New York and the company has sellers in more than 100 countries. Male sellers are uncommon but not unheard of – here’s a 2006 NYTimes profile of an ‘Avon Man’. Nonetheless, “Yer Da sells [the] Avon” is the ultimate Scots insult.

Previously by Conzo Throb: Fill Up On Colour | Let’s Melt

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Chains And Bonds Have No Part In Us

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IRA commander Seán McCaughey spent five years on the blanket in Portlaoise prison and died (in 1946) after 23 days on hunger strike (including 13 days refusing liquids). He is commemorated in Ardoyne because he lived there from the age of five onward. (The Pensive Quill.)

“I have no prouder boast to say, I am Irish and have been privileged to fight for the Irish people for Ireland. If I have a duty, I will perform it to the full with the unshakable belief that we are a noble race and the chains and bonds have no part in us.” Óglach Francis Hughes 1981

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Ich Bin Ein Belfaster

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Travel site In Your Pocket recently solicited a good term for people from Belfast. In 1963, JFK went to West Berlin and expressed solidarity with the encircled residents by saying “Ich bin ein Berliner” (inviting the misunderstanding that he was a Berliner Krapfen or jelly doughnut”, but the spirit of the message was clear). (WP has more info and video.) The stencil above puts Kennedy in Belfast: Ich bin ein Belfaster.

Thanks to Brendan McGarry for today’s image.

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By The Campfire Light

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Here’s a piece of street art (in Kent Street) showing two figures out at night, perhaps dancing by the campfire or toasting marshmallows or worshipping a tree god? The wide shot shows how the piece was made to fit with the Gorny Goohoo already in place.

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