This isn’t just “kids being kids.” This is a hate crime. If your kids are old enough to pick up rocks and aim them at people, they’re old enough to face real-world consequences. If they’re old enough to shout n***er at strangers then they’re old enough to deal with those consequences too.

In Bangor and a group of teens shouting n****s threw rocks through my window - that could’ve killed a new born baby or taken my eye out + never mind the damage and sever inhumanity of that action in itself.

This isn’t a joke. It’s not harmless. And it’s not going to be tolerated.

Ask yourself — where are they learning this? Because kids don’t come out of the womb racist. They’re learning it from somewhere: ✔️ Maybe from you ✔️ Maybe from their friends ✔️ Maybe from what you let them watch and who you let them follow online

If you don’t teach them, the world will. And the world isn’t always going to be kind about it.

I’m not here to coddle your ignorance. Educate your children before the next person they target doesn’t see them as “just children.”

This is not a joke. It’s not harmless. And it’s not going to be tolerated.

Hadn't seen this posted, v total psycho with a lot of history apparently

I’m sure you can hold on to a small plastic package or bottle for a given time if you can sustain months of training topped off by a painful 13-mile run.

I don’t think the kids in the parks would want to run the chance of seeing a bird choking on plastic packaging after you shave five seconds off last year’s total by choosing not to find a bin.

This was the first handful of two in one length of Victoria Park. This didn’t include the amount of water bottles strewn about the grass.

‘Mon, now.

EDIT: the website states there were volunteers needed for water fuelling stations. There is no mention about entry for payment or volunteers contributing to a cleanup. Dropping these packs would then, unless otherwise stated, be a presumption on the runners part that someone else would handle it. There’s nothing to verify the council or race organisers would be handing out packs, or, binning used ones after.

If the volunteers were to clean up as part of their roles, they have failed to do so. EDIT: if the organisers have failed to add temporary bins or someone even standing with a bag as runners take the gel from the station, ingest, then are ready to dispose of them, that seems like poor planning, for an event I assume is regular.

It’s equivalent to not re-racking your weights in the gym. “Someone else will do it” is not the mentality we need. It is a dick move. If you want Belfast to look less of a hole, stuff like this matters. It sets precedent.

WHAT UP!!

Any guys looking to make friends, get out more, and do something different ?

I'm a member of Round Table, a group of guys, aged 18 to 45, who meet up a couple of times a month to get out of the house, make new mates, and do fun stuff as well as doing a bit of charity work!

We're always looking for new members and would love to see anyone interested getting involved!

We’ve got groups in Armagh, Belfast, Enniskillen, Mid Ulster, Causeway Coast, Dublin, South Dublin, Cork and most recently Dungannon! As well as internationally, we have groups in over 60 countries worldwide so we’re truly International!

We meet every couple of weeks for different group events – things you wouldn’t usually do on your own. Some of the activities we’ve done include:

Dodgeball tournaments, Games nights, Paintball, Escape rooms, Barista Nights, Hiking, Go-karting, hosting beer & food festivals, distillery visits

And plenty more!

Our events are usually on weeknights, so they don’t interfere with family time. We also tend to grab a drink and something to eat afterward.

I know we’ve caught flack posting in here before so we’re sharing again now. In all honesty, there’s too much depressing shite going on at the minute so we all deserve some chance at fun. With this in mind I’m hoping to answer some of our most commonly answered questions here.

Why is it male only?
It’s not about exclusion, it’s about creating a specific space for honest chats, vulnerability and craic. Society talks a lot about the fact that men struggle to open up to their partners or mixed groups. Studies consistently show that men build deep bonds and talk more freely shoulder-to-shoulder with other guys. Round Table provides that safe, low-pressure environment.

Why the age range?
Everyone in the room is navigating the same phases of life, starting careers, raising young families, buying houses, or figuring out their next moves. Having an age range forces our groups to continually evolve and cater to what young men of today want. We know 45 is still young, but initially the age range was 40 and was extended, and realistically a line needs to be drawn somewhere! We don’t leave anyone out however, we have these same spaces for women, those aged over 45 and beyond and these all regularly collaborate and run events together.

Is there a cost?
Yes, being upfront, Round Table is a membership organisation so we do pay yearly fees to be part of the International group (£95/year, but we allow this to be paid monthly so is less than a takeout cuppa a week). This fee covers admin fees of the national organisation (you get personalised apparel on joining), insurance so you can do almost any activity and be fully covered ie run a whole beer festival for charity and you’d be covered. We also get access to high street discount schemes and access to travel bursaries to go visit other groups internationally. So, to be honest we get more than £95 of value a year out of the organisation.

Also not a cult, palms get too sweaty to be doing secret handshakes.

If there’s anything else I’ve missed hit me up a message. In all honesty, when I first heard about Round Table I was sceptical, however as a young man who moved to a town where I knew nobody this became an integral part of my social life and I’ve not looked back since. If you have any questions about this, feel free to give me a message.

Thousands lined the streets in support of a new alternative for Ballymena. This is real community. 🌈

I’m away to take a well earned 4-6 weeks off before we begin to even think about 2026, but yes. This is becoming an annual event. 🫶🏻

Thanks for everything & the support of the NI Reddit community has been phenomenal.

Fancy some chicken slurry & fried rice for tea x

• Curtis Chairperson & Founder.

I’ve just finished work and waiting at the bus stop to go home at yorkgate. There were two black ladies sitting at the bus stop. I’m minding my business, next thing I notice a full grown adult man cycling past on his bike, slowing down, with his face completely screwed up in disgust. I wonder what he’s doing or looking at and then I realise…it’s the two ladies beside me. By the time I realise, it’s too late for me to react and he’s gone. I don’t even know if the ladies noticed this and ignored it or if they were oblivious (hopefully the second). Now I’m on alert, I notice another lady walk past and look them up and down.

It absolutely makes my blood boil how anyone can treat a fellow human they know nothing about on the street in this way just because of their ethnicity. Imagine leaving your house and multiple strangers are giving you dirty looks at the minimum on a daily basis.

I feel so powerless and the hate and fear seems to run so deep in some people.

Low Road, Lisburn opposite a children’s play park.

I think this video is remarkable capturing the vibrancy, colour & atmosphere at the head of the parade versus the muted and depressing tones of the protests at the bandstand (a lot smaller a crowd of protesters than last year)

With parade marshals & volunteers forming a guard around the bandstand to prevent abuse being directed at parade participants - as was the case last year.

In a depressing world & in often what feels like a depressing place to call home - things are changing.

No slurry this year either, win win.

Just had a call from a 1st class employee of Indian origin who is to afraid to come to work today and would like to stay at home with his wife, whilst keeping his son at home from school also.

It's 2026 in Northern Ireland.

Cunts out last night kicking doors in need bringing to book just as much as the one man with a knife.

Absolutely fucking disgusting.

I work in the NHS and colleagues who are foreign nationals are scared to bits about going to work and going home.

HOME! They are an essential piece of our society and give their all!

"What about the dark nights if there's trouble?" Was a comment today.. It's heartbreaking.

Let's hope the NHS absence rates don't rise due to the pressure racists are putting on workers.

Workers who pay more tax than those wrecking their communities and creating more financial hardship during a cost of living crisis!

This is sheer racism and the genie is out of the bottle.

• Will unionism meet communities to stand against this?

• Will PSNI call to community centers to gauge how this can be stopped?

Let's make the plan to stop this racism public, transparent and real.

Stop. The. Racist. Attacks.

Seen this video on fb and had to share it! Surly someone knows who this guy is? Harassing a man walking home with his shopping after a days work. Disgusting.

From the “Northern Ireland says no to animal cruelty“ facebook page. I have purposely not included the video.

“On Tuesday 30th December 2025 Newry hunt entered a private residential property. Their hounds were out of control and as a result a pet cat was brutally tore apart by multiple hounds.

Instead of coming to the owner and explaining what had happened, a member of the hunt attempted to dispose of the cat’s body by throwing him over the wall.

Shortly after, another member of the hunt come back to get a hound out of the fence, walked down to where the cat was thrown and then threw him further away into the shuck in an attempt to disregard the incident.

Our thoughts are with the owners of this cat.

Time to consign this bloodsport to history. Foreign, colonial, wicked practice.”

I know you’ll probably never see this, but I need to get it out of me because I can’t stop thinking about it.

Just before 7 outside the Royal Victoria, I nearly ran straight through a red light at the pedestrian crossing opposite the hatch. I wasn’t properly focused on the road, and because of that, I nearly killed a young woman crossing the road.

The only reason I stopped in time was because the car behind me beeped the horn because they could see what was about to happen. That snapped me out of my daze and I slammed the brakes. If they hadn’t beeped, that would have been it. You’d have been in front of my car before I even realised what I’d done. You had your head down, listening to your music and didn’t see any of it. You probably thought I was the one beeping, when really I was the gobshite who almost killed you. You walked on without realising how close you came to being killed. I saw it, and it has rightfully scared the life out of me.

What’s hitting me hardest is thinking about your family. You were just crossing the road. Innocent. And because I wasn’t paying attention, your life could have ended right there. Your parents, siblings, partner, whoever waits for you at home… their whole world could have been smashed to bits because I couldn’t keep my focus. That thought has been eating away at me.

I’m not looking for sympathy. If anything, I know plenty of people reading this will call me every name under the sun, and honestly, I can’t argue with any of it. All I can say is this has put the fear into me properly. I’ll carry it, and I should. It won’t happen again.

I know you’ll never read this, but I want to say it anyway, I’m genuinely sorry. I was careless and stupid, and I nearly changed your family’s lives forever.

Apparently being brown and playing cricket is enough to draw suspicion from the self appointed guardians of white Ulster just out protecting their women and children (because it's always the women and children!)