THEY DID IT. THE FIRST EVER COMPETITIVE WIN, NO ONE CAN TAKE THAT AWAY FOR SAN MARINO. TODAY SAN MARINO WROTE FOOTBALL HISTORY. THANK YOU SENSOLI, THANK YOU SAN MARINO. FORZA TITANI.

Getting community noted on a not very serious post for omitting context discussed in the same thread. "Comedy is now legal on Twitter", etc.

The UK Government won't be funding Casement. Belfast will not be hosting any Euro 2028 games. Excerpt from letter to Gordon Lyons from Hilary Benn and Lisa Nandy:

Four percent seems oddly specific given the circumstances

Very interesting - and stark - detail in this FactCheckNI piece on deprivation. Very clear, whether you’re in Derry, West Belfast, Portadown or any point in between, we are being let down and failed across almost every domain of consideration. More here: factcheckni.org/articles/is-de…

Things you love to see

When I was watching AFC Wimbledon in the decrepit terraces at Kingsmeadow 20 years ago, the idea that they would be hammering MK in the league and beating Premier League clubs in the League Cup at a packed Plough Lane would have seemed like science fiction. Absolutely incredible.

I wonder if they'd ever consider making these announcements during working hours instead of late at night at the weekend

It is now impossible to find out how bad the situation is with Northern Ireland hospital waiting times because the Department of Health have stopped publishing waiting data for Belfast (so the NI data is incomplete). 39% on waiting lists in Belfast in March were waiting >2 years.

A very long update from Harland & Wolff. Confirms the company is balance sheet insolvent & Teneo are being lined up as administrators. harland-wolff.com/investors/regu…

I'd like to make spreadsheets on my own farm

We normalize so many things in Northern Ireland that are sinister beyond belief

I hadn't seen this chart before and it's astonishing. More than a two thirds reduction in mortality from heart disease amongst people without hypertension meeting guidelines for *both* muscle strengthening and aerobic exercise; only doing one has a much lesser effect.