https://www.thejournal.ie/ballymena-slurry-6746206-Jun2025/
Ballymena streets 'spread with slurry overnight' ahead of town's first Pride parade

SLURRY HAS SEEMINGLY been spread on streets in Ballymena and shopfronts have allegedly been vandalised with spray paint ahead of a Pride parade that is due to take place in the Co Antrim town this afternoon.

Business owners this morning opened their shutters on Ballymoney Street and Greenvale Street, close to the Town Centre shopping centre, to find that slurry had been spread up and down the roads overnight.

Family-owned businesses and their staff are currently cleaning up the mess ahead of the town’s first ever Pride parade this afternoon, which was due to finish up on Greenvale Street.

“It’s awful,” one Greenvale shop owner told The Journal. “It’s all up the lampposts as well.”

Local SDLP councillor Denise Johnston wrote on X: “I am hearing that the town centre in Ballymena has been spread with slurry overnight ahead of the town’s first Pride rally. The local businesses are currently cleaning it up.”

“I am disgusted by those bigots who would commit such an act and hope they will have been caught on CCTV,” she added.

Nicole, a manager of the K&G McAtamney Butchery & Deli on Ballymoney Street, said that when workers arrived at the car park this morning there was slurry the whole way from there to the butchers.

“It’s all around the town from Ballymoney street to here, and it’s particularly bad on Greenvale Street,” she said. “The vendors here have been out all morning getting involved in cleaning it, including our workers.”

Shop owners have reported the incident to the police, it is understood. The Journal has asked the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) for a comment on the matter.

Nicole told The Journal: “We don’t understand what would compel somebody to do this and for it to coincide with our first pride event, which is a positive thing bringing people into the town, is just vile.”

“We’re halfway up the street cleaning it now, and it’s been all hands on deck, but it’s been deeply unpleasant for our staff, and of course our customers.”

Ballymena made headlines around the world after three nights of rioting earlier this month in which over 40 PSNI officers were injured.

PSNI said the rioting erupted after a vigil to protest the alleged sexual assault in the town was “hijacked” by “racist thuggery”.

Curtis Lee, the organiser of the Pride parade in Ballymena which will take place this afternoon, told The Journal: “The committee’s opinion was that, no matter what, we’re going ahead with this because to cancel would be to give into fear.”

There will be protests today from four evangelical Christian groups. One of the four groups protesting is United Christian Witness, and the other three are local church groups.

by Presence-Legal

36 comments

  1. Ballymena really is the epitome of “we’re not racist, but…” “we’re not homophobic, but …”

  3. Absolute scumbag move. Should be easy enough to catch who did it at least.

  5. inb4 all CCTV, ANPR and eye witnesses are mysteriously absent.

  6. The irony of some inbred cow fucker daring to judge people’s sexuality

  7. The good thing about Ballymena is that you never have to pass through it to get to your desired destination.

  8. I hope the NIEA/DAERA Pollution team have been contacted.

    This clean up will lead to Slurry likely entering the Braid and/or Main rivers, which ultimately will end up in Lough Neagh.

    But sure the poor farmers are adamant they’re not responsible for any pollution that has contributed to Blue-Green Algae.

    Imagine being so disgustingly hateful.

  11. Should just leave it there for them to walk on during their wee orange pride parade

  12. Ballymena really going out of its way to make everyone knows its full of hateful cunts

  13. Im from the south.

    Can anyone give me an explanation on what the craic is with Ballymena? Genuinely, whats the craic with that town?

  14. I thought the people of Ballymena like parades

  18. Just imagine the world we could have if people put half as much effort into being nice as they do being dicks.

  19. Can you imagine being so full of hate, so petty and such a fucking dirty tramp you’d go to these lengths? Like what is a normal day for these total fucking oddballs?

  21. Can the same be done for the twelfth?  Might drown out the stink of the marchers.

  23. A town that would rather smell of actual shit, than see a parade with a few rainbows.

    Ye have to hand it to them, they really do go the whole hog in wankiness!

  26. I hope people can still take a moment to consider the real victims in all of this, the people who have really been the most overlooked, the people whose fears are ignored, the people who have no voice, no political representation, the people who are the victims of two-tier policing, the people who have always been the victims; Unionists / Loyalists.

    By going about their civil and religiously mandated behaviour to oppress sodomy, multi-culturalism, diversity and inclusivity by rioting, sectarian pogroms, racist marches and now spraying shit over their own town it is the P.U.L community who have not only had to put in the hard work here, but it is they who will suffer the consequences. The Pan-Nationalist Front along with the Communist-Papist Satanic EU will conspire to keep investment out of Ballymena and the fenians will shop elsewhere causing an economic downturn in Ballymena, forcing our upcoming generation of bonfire builders to resort back to heroin which will no doubt have a detrimental effect on the quality and size of said bonfires.

    Please consider the Unionist / Loyalist people and their victimisation at the hands of parades in their town before chiming in with your hate speech.

    Thank you.

  27. Ballymena living up to its reputation as being a total shit hole.

  28. We are not allowed an A5 dual carriageway, we are not allowed a pride parade, we are not allowed casement park. What are we allowed?

  30. I had no idea gays were such a threat to public safety, so scary.

    I hope the farmer gets the mental health support he needs for his irrational phobia.

  31. Hardly make much of a difference to that absolute shithole am I rite guyz!?

    I’m actually surprised anyone even noticed it had happened this morning. Nuke the entire town from orbit tbh.

  32. This is terrorism. Spreading a biohazardous material in a population centre.

  33. Bangor, Lurgan, & Ballymena are all still caught in 1972.
    Ask yourself what the common denominator is with each town….

    Whether LGBTQ or mistreatment of minorities, these types need to be taught a lesson.
    getting some practice in the run-up to the 12th and Marching season…..it’s gonna be feckin bananas

  36. Imagine the national scandal if this was done on the 11th/12th

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