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MANY PARTS OF Belfast city centre were cloaked in a foul smell earlier this week but despite two investigations authorities have yet find out what caused the stink.
Numerous people took to social media to report the unusual stench, with many of them noting that it smelled “fishy”.
The Irish News reports that the smell was pervasive in many parts of the city including Wellington Place, Donegall Street, the Divis area and the Falls Road in west Belfast.
The odour was also the source of much debate on the Frank Mitchell Phone-In radio show on U105.8 FM.
Some people blamed it on restaurants while others claimed the smell was coming from local work sites.
Belfast City Council confirmed that it received several reports of the smell and its Environmental Health Department referred the issue to Phoenix Gas and Northern Ireland Water.
A spokesperson for Northern Ireland Water told TheJournal.ie that its investigation offered no clue as as to what the weird whiff was.
“The foul odours reported on Wednesday were not connected to any of our assets,” the spokesperson said.
Phoenix Gas also failed to figure out the source of the stink. ”Phoenix Natural Gas engineers conducted safety checks of the area, as per protocol, and found no traces of gas in these areas,” it said.
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It’s a rotten orange.
@Ser Barristan Selmy:
Or maybe just a light hearted joke on social media
@Kevin Slater: or the stench from some more IRA ‘disappeared’.
@Kevin Slater:Plus Shinners & PIRA…
Didn’t Arlene start her Pilates classes this week?
@ Lol. It’s a very bitter orange.
@Ser Barristan Selmy: absolutely , dreadful comment to make.
Amendment. @ Kevin Slater.
@Deirdre D’Arcy Murphy: Lighten up if you can. It was said it jest. Personally I thought Kevin’s comment was witty & funny.
Arlenes new open top sewers scheme!
@Donal O’Leary: probably just doin her squats again!
Wullie Frazer thinks it was Sinn Fein IRA that did it.
That, my friends, is the foul smell of Brexit.
McClean playing for Irelands A Team sweet strike against the Welsh caused a massive amount of bowel movement,scutter within the dup/uda/uvf community.
@joe oneill: c h i l d …
@Fank Pulman: note the photo of City Hall,Diarmuid,no sign of the Butchers Apron.
REGINA DOTHERY
@ian kennedy: you had one name to spell, fail.
@David Dickson:
I suspect it was intentional.
@David Dickson: ahh well yeh didnt get it ,i thought it was obvious,
@ian kennedy: REGINA DOTHERY i spelled it wrog
Maybe Nicola Sturgeon was visiting Belfast.
@John Hagin Meade: or you…
Thats all the shite the DUP are talking.
Some very fishy politics up there…..
Awful smell of gank alright.
Its the prods id say
Stormont is probably starting to decompose.
It is a fat-berg!!
@Garreth Fitzpatrick: is Gemma Collins from towie in Belfast at the moment!
It could be the rotten government that runs the show…
Rotation in four-dimensional space.
https://youtu.be/vN9T8CHrGo8
The 5-cell is an analog of the tetrahedron.
https://youtu.be/z_KnvGGwpAo
Tesseract is a four-dimensional hypercube – an analog of a cube.
https://youtu.be/HsecXtfd_xs
The 16-cell is an analog of the octahedron.
https://youtu.be/1-oj34hmO1Q
The 24-cell is one of the regular polytope.
https://youtu.be/w3-TqPXKlVk
The hypersphere is an analog of the sphere.
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