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LAST UPDATE | 24 Jan
SEVERE DAMAGE HAS been caused to buildings across the North due to Storm Éowyn, with Newtownabbey in Co Antrim particularly impacted.
All of Northern Ireland has been under a Status Red wind alert since 7am and this warning will remain in place until 2pm.
When the red warning elapses, an amber warning will come into force until 9pm, and this will then be replaced by a yellow alert until midnight.
Then from 7pm this evening until 10am tomorrow morning, a yellow alert for snow and ice will come into force across Northern Ireland.
A Status Yellow wind alert will also come into place on Sunday from 8am until 3pm.
Around 240,000 homes across the North are currently without power and no rail services will operate for the remainder today, with the potential for impact to some early services tomorrow morning also.
In Whiteabbey, a village close to Belfast in Newtownabbey, a home was severely damaged when a tree fell on it.
Devastation in Newtownabbey#StormÉowyn pic.twitter.com/9C44ci4hIJ
— Dáire Ó Néill (@DaireONeill24) January 24, 2025
Significant damage was also caused to the Chimney Corner hotel in Newtownabbey, with the roof flying off the building.
Chimney Corner hotel.. Newtownabbey @BBCNewsNI pic.twitter.com/ZIXGloAfN5
— Dead Center (@craigjames1975) January 24, 2025
And in Bangor, the roof was ripped off the town’s leisure centre.
Aurora Leisure centre Bangor #éowyn pic.twitter.com/3S3hjQNrEr
— Kevin Sharkey (@tv_KevinSharkey) January 24, 2025
Meanwhile in Belfast, many homes have been damaged due to the winds.
Trees have also been torn up from the ground in east Belfast causing extensive damage to the road.
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When they changed to reduced sugar it was the end….. Lilt has never been the same.
@Shane McGrath: Exactly. I’ve been cutting down on soft drinks because I’m allergic to aspartame. It used to be my only reason for ordering regular instead of diet drinks.
And the other artificial sweeteners aren’t doing any favours to the taste either.
If they had reduced the sugar, and left it at that, I wouldn’t mind, but trying to compensate by using artificial sweeteners is wrong on so many levels.
@Shane McGrath: Blame the sugar tax for ruining lifes small pleasures.
If you don’t have Lilt and Cidona as your Christmas softdrinks are you even Irish????
@Fi Wyse: or Tanora if you’re from Cork
@Sara McS: Tanora and a chicken fillet roll. Gift nyom
Rockshandy rules this isle!… Victory!
@thesaltyurchin: The Mas with the flat 7up might not agree with you…..
@Fi Wyse: or the boiled red lemonade. A legendary cure-all! :)
@Fi Wyse:
Who on earth drinks this rubbish?
Artificial sweeteners are the no. 1 causse of cancer.
Can’t say you weren’t warned.
With the cost of living these days lilt might be the closest we get to the tropics.
More than the product itself, I liked the original advertising campaign. Everytime I drank it, or even now when I just think of it, I think of the West Indies and that ‘totally tropical taste’.
I’m sure Fanta will reconsider their decision on the results of this poll, so get voting everyone!
After a sweaty hot day in the bog bringing home trailers of turf, there’s nothing like going to the fridge and opening and downing a can of lilt……..
Who
The
*
Cares
Don’t drink it, but I’m outraged anyway. Is there a protest arranged or maybe an online petition? Anyone know the number for Joe Duffy?
The Aldi version is very nice!
@Gareth Miskelly: no it’s not it’s mank
Fanta was created by Coca Cola for sale in the Nazi market during WWII. That was the company’s way of getting around federal legislation banning trade with Germany. Germany was the only production base for Fanta until the parent company started global sales. It’s a small world, really..
Yes, it’s totally tropical
Just YUCK
Listing the ingredients for fun :)
Carbonated Water, Fruit Juices from Concentrate 5% (Pineapple, Grapefruit), Sugar, Citric Acid, Antioxidant (Ascorbic Acid), Sweeteners (Acesulfame K, Aspartame, Sodium Saccharin), Preservative (Potassium Sorbate), Flavourings, Stabilisers (Acacia Gum, Guar Gum, Sucrose Acetate Isobutyrate, Glycerol Esters of Wood Rosins), Colour (Carotenes). Contains a Source of Phenylalanine.
Total Carbohydrates 4.6g
Total Sugars 4.6g
Fair enough, I’ll be trying the Fanta version.
Never liked the stuff but I have a mate that’s addicted to it. He’ll be freaking out
Always dreamed of being “ The Lilt Man “ – not the same on courtown beach though :-(
Shrugs shoulders and walks away…
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