Peter Donaghy
@peterdonaghy.bsky.social
Belfast based spreadsheet guy
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There's this weird mindset that voters won't object to a breaking of tax promises is if it's done in a sufficiently convoluted way. Like they're fae creatures impressed you found a way around their contract terms or something.
November 25, 2025 at 11:02 PM
There's this weird mindset that voters won't object to a breaking of tax promises is if it's done in a sufficiently convoluted way. Like they're fae creatures impressed you found a way around their contract terms or something.
I've restarted my website and intend to start publishing datasets I have lying around. First - the ONS item price data on average consumer prices across the UK. See how much more pints cost in NI compared with elsewhere. Features small caged mammal. salmonofdata.com/dashboards/u...
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November 24, 2025 at 7:58 PM
I've restarted my website and intend to start publishing datasets I have lying around. First - the ONS item price data on average consumer prices across the UK. See how much more pints cost in NI compared with elsewhere. Features small caged mammal. salmonofdata.com/dashboards/u...
The latest UK regional spending data was published this week. Northern Ireland spent £16.1k per head in 2024-25, £3k more than England (£13.1k). Incapacity, disability and injury benefits were the single biggest difference (£941), followed by agriculture (£417).
November 23, 2025 at 2:19 PM
The latest UK regional spending data was published this week. Northern Ireland spent £16.1k per head in 2024-25, £3k more than England (£13.1k). Incapacity, disability and injury benefits were the single biggest difference (£941), followed by agriculture (£417).
San Marino scoring after 2 minutes in a game they're trying to lose on purpose
November 18, 2025 at 8:08 PM
San Marino scoring after 2 minutes in a game they're trying to lose on purpose
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i do not know if this justifies the URGENT
URGENT Heineken targets mid-single digit revenue growth in 2030 plan reut.rs/47CRrnN
URGENT Heineken targets mid-single digit revenue growth in 2030 plan
Dutch brewer Heineken said on Thursday it expects to deliver mid-single digit organic net revenue growth, with profit growth ahead of that, as it laid out an updated strategic vision covering the years until 2030 ahead of an investor event later in the day.
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October 23, 2025 at 5:36 AM
i do not know if this justifies the URGENT
Possibly concerning news for Sinn Féin? For nearly 3 decades, the SF share of the vote at Irish general elections has been correlated with the length of the title of Rob Zombie's most recent album. If the pattern continues, it could be ominous for SF at the next general election.
October 13, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Possibly concerning news for Sinn Féin? For nearly 3 decades, the SF share of the vote at Irish general elections has been correlated with the length of the title of Rob Zombie's most recent album. If the pattern continues, it could be ominous for SF at the next general election.
This could cause a deflationary spirali
‘A fatal blow’: Italian producers fear effects of Trump’s ‘war against pasta’
‘A fatal blow’: Italian producers fear effects of Trump’s ‘war against pasta’
US president’s threat to impose 92% tariffs targeting major manufacturers put family-run firms in the firing line as well
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October 9, 2025 at 10:03 AM
This could cause a deflationary spirali
It's striking how there was very little change in the demographic makeup of Northern Ireland for the first 50 years after partition, followed by rapid change in the 50 years from 1971.
factcheckni.org/articles/dem...
factcheckni.org/articles/dem...
September 29, 2025 at 9:29 PM
It's striking how there was very little change in the demographic makeup of Northern Ireland for the first 50 years after partition, followed by rapid change in the 50 years from 1971.
factcheckni.org/articles/dem...
factcheckni.org/articles/dem...
By the end of the 2020s we could end up with:
- Nigel Farage as Prime Minister
- TUV as the largest unionist party
- A nationalist plurality in Stormont
- Nigel Farage as Prime Minister
- TUV as the largest unionist party
- A nationalist plurality in Stormont
YouGov's September 2025 MRP projects a hung parliament where Reform UK would be almost certain to form a government
Reform UK: 311 (+306 from 2024)
Labour: 144 (-267)
Lib Dems: 78 (+6)
Conservatives: 45 (-76)
SNP: 37 (+28)
Greens: 7 (+3)
Plaid: 6 (+2)
Others: 3 (-2)
yougov.co.uk/politics/art...
Reform UK: 311 (+306 from 2024)
Labour: 144 (-267)
Lib Dems: 78 (+6)
Conservatives: 45 (-76)
SNP: 37 (+28)
Greens: 7 (+3)
Plaid: 6 (+2)
Others: 3 (-2)
yougov.co.uk/politics/art...
September 26, 2025 at 8:39 AM
By the end of the 2020s we could end up with:
- Nigel Farage as Prime Minister
- TUV as the largest unionist party
- A nationalist plurality in Stormont
- Nigel Farage as Prime Minister
- TUV as the largest unionist party
- A nationalist plurality in Stormont
The shortest distance across the border from England to Scotland is over 130 miles
September 23, 2025 at 8:34 PM
The shortest distance across the border from England to Scotland is over 130 miles
I wonder why spending on schools in Northern Ireland has fallen so far behind GB since 2020.
September 21, 2025 at 9:09 PM
I wonder why spending on schools in Northern Ireland has fallen so far behind GB since 2020.
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Print sales are, amazingly, still the main revenue base for most mainstream local newspapers and cross-subsidise the online journalism. As the remaining print readers die, and with online ad revenue flatlining, that journalistic cross-subsidy will fall. So that's an 18% decline year-on-year.
Regional daily ABCs: Print circulation is down by average of 18% in H1 2025, with The Irish News the only UK regional daily with circulation above 20,000
Regional daily ABCs: Print circulation down by average of 18% in H1 2025
ABC regional daily newspaper circulation fell by 18% in in the first half of 2025, with one daily paper climbing above a 20,000 circulation.
pressgazette.co.uk
September 15, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Print sales are, amazingly, still the main revenue base for most mainstream local newspapers and cross-subsidise the online journalism. As the remaining print readers die, and with online ad revenue flatlining, that journalistic cross-subsidy will fall. So that's an 18% decline year-on-year.
An obviously unsustainable situation. When the Millennials approach retirement age, there will be fewer than 2 working age people for every person over 65 across Europe, with the ratio in Italy close to 1:1. Without enough taxpayers to pay for pensions the system will collapse.
September 13, 2025 at 3:48 PM
An obviously unsustainable situation. When the Millennials approach retirement age, there will be fewer than 2 working age people for every person over 65 across Europe, with the ratio in Italy close to 1:1. Without enough taxpayers to pay for pensions the system will collapse.
Incredibly, it has now been nearly two years since the last Northern Ireland-wide hospital waiting statistics were published because of the ludicrous time it has taken to roll out the new "encompass" patient record system.
September 11, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Incredibly, it has now been nearly two years since the last Northern Ireland-wide hospital waiting statistics were published because of the ludicrous time it has taken to roll out the new "encompass" patient record system.
Comparing the Copernicus imagery of Lough Neagh between 2023 and 2025 shows how the blue-green algae situation has been even worse this year.
September 9, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Comparing the Copernicus imagery of Lough Neagh between 2023 and 2025 shows how the blue-green algae situation has been even worse this year.
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Andy Burnham is not gonna become Labour's next leader, come off it, I mean how would that work, needs a winnable by-election in frankly, a handful of seats, to be able to quit as mayor, this is 'Ruth Davidson to save the Tories' all over again.
September 8, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Andy Burnham is not gonna become Labour's next leader, come off it, I mean how would that work, needs a winnable by-election in frankly, a handful of seats, to be able to quit as mayor, this is 'Ruth Davidson to save the Tories' all over again.
Until this year, Northern Ireland had cheaper electricity than the UK average, but prices are now marginally higher. Prices in the Republic are around 18% higher but NI still one of the most expensive electricity markets worldwide (prices 17% higher than France and 108% higher than the US).
September 7, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Until this year, Northern Ireland had cheaper electricity than the UK average, but prices are now marginally higher. Prices in the Republic are around 18% higher but NI still one of the most expensive electricity markets worldwide (prices 17% higher than France and 108% higher than the US).
Something I hadn't realised - Ireland has the most expensive electricity in the world (apart from 65k population Bermuda), with prices 59% higher than France and 2.4 times higher than average prices in the United States.
September 7, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Something I hadn't realised - Ireland has the most expensive electricity in the world (apart from 65k population Bermuda), with prices 59% higher than France and 2.4 times higher than average prices in the United States.
WWE Raw is coming to Belfast in 2026. It hasn’t had much notice outside wrestling circles, but it’s a major coup - the biggest international broadcast event from the city since the 2021 UEFA Super Cup.
September 1, 2025 at 1:23 PM
WWE Raw is coming to Belfast in 2026. It hasn’t had much notice outside wrestling circles, but it’s a major coup - the biggest international broadcast event from the city since the 2021 UEFA Super Cup.
By the 2050s Millennials will discover the state pensions system was a Ponzi: pay in for decades, collapse at payout. The electoral nihilism of the Boomers today will seem tame by comparison.
The UK and Ireland are far from the most severe amongst developed economies - by 2050 there will be around 1.2 people aged 25-64 for every person over 65 in Italy and Spain.
August 26, 2025 at 7:51 AM
By the 2050s Millennials will discover the state pensions system was a Ponzi: pay in for decades, collapse at payout. The electoral nihilism of the Boomers today will seem tame by comparison.
In the UK in 1950 there were 5 people aged 25-64 for every person over 65. When the Millennials start to reach retirement age in the 2050s there'll be fewer than 2, falling to 1.4 by the end of the century. That seems... unworkable?
August 25, 2025 at 10:44 PM
In the UK in 1950 there were 5 people aged 25-64 for every person over 65. When the Millennials start to reach retirement age in the 2050s there'll be fewer than 2, falling to 1.4 by the end of the century. That seems... unworkable?
Surprising that the increase in the foreign born population in the UK in the 2020s wasn't that large by European standards over the period; much smaller than in Ireland or Austria. And the immigrant population % in the United States has barely increased since 2015.
July 29, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Surprising that the increase in the foreign born population in the UK in the 2020s wasn't that large by European standards over the period; much smaller than in Ireland or Austria. And the immigrant population % in the United States has barely increased since 2015.
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The US-EU deal will greeted with the utmost sensitivity in Ireland, not just because pharma is still not out of the woods, but because it creates a differential in trading rates between Northern Ireland (10% as part of UK deal) and Republic of Ireland (15% as part of EU)
July 27, 2025 at 6:31 PM
The US-EU deal will greeted with the utmost sensitivity in Ireland, not just because pharma is still not out of the woods, but because it creates a differential in trading rates between Northern Ireland (10% as part of UK deal) and Republic of Ireland (15% as part of EU)
Looking at the updated UN migration data for 2024:
- Share of the UK population born abroad up 1.5 percentage points from 2020-24; lower than most other European states
- Ireland’s foreign-born population share rose by 4.0 points in four years; one of the highest rises globally
- Share of the UK population born abroad up 1.5 percentage points from 2020-24; lower than most other European states
- Ireland’s foreign-born population share rose by 4.0 points in four years; one of the highest rises globally
July 27, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Looking at the updated UN migration data for 2024:
- Share of the UK population born abroad up 1.5 percentage points from 2020-24; lower than most other European states
- Ireland’s foreign-born population share rose by 4.0 points in four years; one of the highest rises globally
- Share of the UK population born abroad up 1.5 percentage points from 2020-24; lower than most other European states
- Ireland’s foreign-born population share rose by 4.0 points in four years; one of the highest rises globally