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There is no place in our culture for the pathetic scrawled messages placed on the Cregagh bonfire this evening.
We are a proud community, proud of our culture and traditions. These images do nothing to further our cause.
This does not represent the good people of the Cregagh.
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If they're booing other nationalists in the echo chamber, I can only imagine what might happen if a bona fide Unionist did take up the calls to 'join the conversation' and explain why we're not interested in the UI snake oil.
Thanks, but no thanks.
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Naomi Long asked what the DUP delivered with 10 MPs - £400m for infrastructure, £300m for health (£200m transformation, £50m mental health, £50m immediate pressures) £150m ultra-fast broadband, £50m education, £100m deprivation.
£1bn more for NI than any other party.
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I consider @SeamasBelfast a friend. I also oppose him on most big issues. We work together on constituency issues, but pull no punches in debate.
If you disagree with him, argue, but the kind of bullying & trolling I've just scrolled through is entirely out of order. For shame.
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The Belfast Boy 😍⚽️
First class new mural by the peerless Dee Craig celebrating #GeorgeBest, in the place he called home, the #Cregagh! #EastBelfast So glad to see the plans for the mural in place before the pandemic have finally come to this superb result. 👏🏻
@EastBelfastDUP
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It's noticeable that for some Alliance reps, and one more than most, that snide, contrived digs at Unionists take greater prominence than any particular issue at hand.
It is noticeable that for some unionists the albeit worthy issue of Stadia funding takes greater prominence than our health crisis
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After spending this afternoon discussing it on @bbcradioulster Inside Politics Q&A, came home to find the new @OfficialBlues shirt had arrived. Love it. Roll on footballs return. ⚽
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The BBC spent today spinning the decision to cease live coverage of the Twelfth as leading to "enhanced" coverage...in reality they will offer the same 1 hr highlights they always did anyway...meaning significantly less coverage, context, history, community interest that came 1/2
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Nancy Pelosi, Brendan Boyle et al will be along any minute with deep dismay at the violation of non-specific terms of the 'Good Friday Accords' & making veiled threats on trade with the EU if they don't remove the Brussels' vaccine border on the island of Ireland.
I'll wait...
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As a kid I loved collecting for our bonfire. Seeing old mates, making new ones. Using trolleys & ropes to collect wood all around the town for weeks prior. Camping out guarding it. Seeing the community come out & enjoy something you put huge time & effort into. Thats the culture.
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Remember kids:
SF in govt, Gerry Kelly on the policing board: no problem ✅
Talking to loyalist groups: very very bad ❌
The double standards of how Unionists are expected to treat Provos relative to how others treat, & expect us to treat, loyalists with a past are astonishing
Proscribed terrorist organisations are not a legitimate part of our community. They aren't stakeholders to be consulted.
They are a malignant force destroying our community.
Our job as Ministers is to eradicate paramilitarism, not give them a platform or legitimacy.
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What an utter let down you and Michael Gove have proven to be for Leave voters. Bought off with position and power.
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Im guessing Irish Republicans wont use this image for PR material when rattling tins for American dollars, or lobbying Congressmen in US.
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An privilege to represent @belfastcc at the Ulster Tower Centenary event this morning, laying a wreath on behalf of the citizens of Belfast.
'Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.' John 15:13
#UlsterTower100 #Somme #Remembrance
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Michelle O'Neill talking about leading "for everyone"...while her party under her leadership courts cooperation of New IRA linked dissidents for a divisive border poll....and done so just over a year after the New IRA murdered Lyra McKee. 👇🏻
Sinn Fein approached New IRA group Saoradh over potential ‘co-operation’ on Irish unity referendum
belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/…
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Good to get out to support @NigelDoddsDUP. North Belfast has been blessed with one of the hardest working & most respected MPs in the Commons; an MP who helped deliver £1.5 billion extra investment in NI.
It's Nigel or Sinn Fein's empty benches. Don't lose your voice. 🗳️
Calling round the doors with Nigel in Ballysillan / Benview / Silverstream this evening, with a good response as always
#Dodds4NorthBelfast #VoteDoddsX
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Keep bumping to this fella on the campaign trail far beyond the familiar surrounds of Lisnasharragh...proof us politicians aren't *always* bickering! @Briansmyth99 #Dundonald #EastBelfast
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V sorry to hear of the passing the Cregagh's well known WW2 veteran, Teddy Dixon, from my colleague Tommy Sandford who knew him well.
My generation will never know the fullness of the debt we owe to men like Teddy who risked all to defeat the Nazis. A hero.
Never Forget! 🇺🇲🇬🇧
VIDEO: 100-year-old Teddy Dixon, a WW2 veteran from Belfast, has recorded a message to mark #VEDay75 as people across the city & beyond join the Nation's Toast to thank "those who served and those on the frontline today against Covid19" 🌈
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Disgusted by this vandalism at the pitch at Orangefield Park used by @Bloomfield_fc.
Bloomfield are a progressive community club, who put so much time into teams at every age level. They don't need this as they prepare for the season.
Anyone with information should report it.
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Not only as a Lisnasharragh councillor but as a very proud alumni, delighted to see City Hall bedecked in the blue and green of @GrosvenorGS to celebrate 75 years. 🦌🦌🦌
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Most know I'm most familiar with the City End, but it was an absolute pleasure get a tour of The Oval today from Sam Robinson, who as a Irish League/history fan I could listen to all day. Thanks to @Glentoran for the invite, look fwd to continuing engagement on a range of issues.
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And just like that's it official, I'm on the ballot paper in East Belfast. Glad my friend, and proposer, @GRobinsonDUP could join me for the formalities this morning. #AE22 #EastBelfast 🗳🇬🇧
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Absolutely delighted for my friends @DUPpeterweir and @ArleneFosterUK on their elevation to the House of Lords, where I have no doubt they will be strong and effective advocates for Unionism, NI and the interests of the UK as a whole. Congratulations to you both. 🇬🇧
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Great to have @duponline Leader @J_Donaldson_MP with us in #Dundonald this evening meeting with local business Dundonald Nurseries about the problems the Protocol continues to cause...then hitting the doors in Coronarion & Wanstead in the glorious sunshine. #Brooks1 #EastBelfast
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This week has shown again that SF talk of tolerance, respect, a shared future...
It's just that. Talk.
Actions speak louder.
Their "new Ireland" has no room or recognition for those who don't buy in to their fictitious narrative used to justify decades of sectarian slaughter.
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A reminder that @sinnfeinireland's devotion to public health advice has rarely extended to their own actions, only in what they seek to dictate to the rest of us plebs.
Sinn Féin will continue to be guided by public health advice - Michelle O'Neill sinnfein.ie/contents/58815
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Love that @bbctheview used the footage of @BBCGarethG's daughter taking over Inside Politics and turning herself in a potato while dad was out of the room.
We were also hosted by Daisy the Cow shortly after. Hero. 😂🐄 👇🏻
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Great to meet @DanHannanMEP at @NIVote_Leave event in Ballymena, inspiring us to help sack him on 23 June #VoteLeave
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We've nothing to learn about truth & justice from the political voice of the most murderous gang of victimmakers in operation during the Troubles - chaining men to bombs, blowing up busy shopping streets, disappearing young mothers.
Nor will any act of govt cause us to forget.
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during live coverage, not to mention accessibility to those who can't attend in person. All things that should matter to a public service broadcaster covering one of NIs biggest events. This can only feed existing negative perceptions of the BBC within Unionist communities. 2/2
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Incredibly sorry to hear of the passing of Norman Houston.
I can think of no-one in held in such universal high regard across our NI political spectrum. Our man in the US, I first met him in Washington with @WIPLive in 2013. A gentleman. Prayers with his loved ones.
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Belfast Alliance Cllr deems it appropriate to refer to others as "second rate people".
Few after all could aspire to be as fine a specimen as Emmet, in his own head at least. 🙄
It’s almost - almost - as petty, stupid, and cheap as complaining about the name of a bus stop. I despair at these second rate people with little else to be at.
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The DUP proposal is a direct result of an entirely appropriate request from representatives of victims families, @SEFFLisnaskea.
We have rightly worked to facilitate. To be accused of staging a "sham fight" is disappointing, ill-informed & insensitive - it should be withdrawn.
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Anyone who gives any credence to this ignorant narcissist, and self-appointed expert on all things NI after fly by visits, should read this tweet. He despises any hue of unionism.
His ignorance of basic Irish history, nevermind nuances, shows he has no business pontificating.
The 1912 covenant was a declaration of insurrection & virtual civil war - proximate cause of a century of devastation for the people of Northern Ireland. So sad the DUP celebrate this. Akin to the English celebrating Enoch Powell as their saviour
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Wishing all @OrangeOrder brethren at home a glorious Twelfth/13th with a #Twelfthie from LOL 1105, Virginia, #USA.
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Spoke at comm. tonight with other cllrs in support of @Bloomfield_fc & proposals to better secure their equipment after recent vandalism.
So heartening to visit their training last night & see the new Avoniel being used by hundreds of local girls & boys. Thanks for all u do.🟣⚽️
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Being a blueman its not my natural instinct to defend Glentoran, but the @OfficialIrishFA need to sober up here.
For an FA hierarchy that does little to actually benefit the local game to get precious over a teams management structure based on media speculation is ridiculous. nitter.app/qnewsdesk/status/10000…
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Absolutely, confidence in police in my community is now at an all time low. The sad thing is excellent work on the ground by neighbourhood police officers is being undone, their jobs being made immeasurably more difficult, by the PSNI leadership.
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A judge, Justice McAlinden, has made a scathing assessment of Michelle O'Neill's conduct and politicking around delaying the pension for innocent victims of the Troubles.👇🏻
A judge has accused @moneillsf of deliberating ignoring the rule of law by delaying the victims pension. Justice McAlinden addressed court at outset of a legal challenge by IRA bomb victim Jennifer McNern. Told the lawyers his view was unlikely to change if case was heard in full
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SF doublethink. We must sacrifice...especially the Brits...republicans exempt.
The 1800 at Milltown might have listened to you, but most of us stopped about the same time. It isn't going away you know.
The "greatest risk" posed to NI from coronavirus is from travellers from GB, the deputy first minister has said. Michelle O'Neill said Stormont needs "to act on that".
bbc.in/3hl0fBW
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Heartening to be part of such a significant gathering at Stormont this evening. So many people from such a cross-section of our community standing in defence of the most defenceless, the unborn child. #NIvoiceless #WeWereNotAsked #TheyCannotSpeak
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Good walking meeting with fellow Cllrs & Council officials on #CregaghRoad this morning hosted by Phill from Bethany fruit market, who is full of enthusiasm & vision for the road. So much potential, so many wonderful independent traders, much work for us all to do together.🍎
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En route back to Arras, we stopped off at the memorial cross to the 16th Irish Division at Guillemont, where @SDLPlive Cllr Terry Andrews led our travelling group in a short informal Act of Remembrance. We Will Remember Them.
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Michelle O'Neill says "if SF win, they win for everyone"
Is that with exception to Unionist b*****ds? #ae17
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I can feel Unionist fears, scepticism and resistance to inclusion in Sinn Fein's fabled 'new Ireland' melting away with every bar of the celebratory rebel songs belting out at the Republic's count centres.
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It will be unsettling to many Unionists that such a majority of their neighbours appear to believe that a campaign of mass murder; the strapping men to bombs, murdering & disappearing young mothers, assassinating innocent workmen and bombing busy streets were all justified. #evil
EXCLUSIVE: 7 in 10 nationalists agree with Michelle O’Neill that there was 'no alternative' to the IRA campaign. A @lucidtalk poll finds 69% believe 'violent resistance to British rule during the Troubles' was the only option - just 25% disagree.
belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/…
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The DUP on Belfast City Council have tonight released a statement detailing the below demands we have made of @belfastcc.
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Just back from South Belfast Foodbank where superb work is being done by Stephen & the team. 👏🏻 Met volunteers this morning from @Rosario_Seniors, @BredaghGAC1 and @balmoralgolf.
All donations welcome, 10am-12pm, Mon-Fri, Good Shepherd Parish Centre, Ormeau Rd.
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Next time @SDLPlive talk from the other side of their mouths of hope for future generations, 'Shared/Agreed/New Ireland' & belonging for Unionists etc....rem they (AGAIN) ensured a generation of kids in Newry continue to see IRA glorified at their play park. #DoTheRightThingSDLP
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"I will argue every day for a united Ireland" the leader of the SDLP...the Nationalist party @mikenesbittni is transfering to. #ae17
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Spent this morning in Orangefield Park with a great bunch of other park and @ConnsGreenway users doing our bit to keep the place tidy. 👇🏻🏞️🚮
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Proud of my country, its anthem and all who gave their lives to defend it. Mike Nesbitt's apology is #notinmyname. #Remembrance #UK #GSTQ
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Searchlights over the city, and City Hall falls into darkness as Belfast solemnly remembers the 80th anniversary of the Belfast Blitz. #BelfastBlitz80 #WW2 #WWII
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Waiting by the phone. 📱
@georgedorrian will let me leave on a free transfer. #Leeds
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A profile pic like yours and on twitter spewing knuckle-dragging poison like that. Have a word with yerself.
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That's Sinn Fein, famed for their unwavering and uncompromising adherence to law and order, rules and regulations.
A Sinn Fein councillor has told fellow members of the Belfast local authority that there are only two choices they can make: either support law-and-order, or those that break it -
Full details:
newsletter.co.uk/news/crime/…
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After a long couple days I was delighted be elected alongside @Joanne_Bunting to serve the people of East Belfast. Thank you to all those who voted for me or supported me in any way. It is a privilege I will not take lightly and I will work hard to repay the faith shown in me.
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Delighted that my friend Sammy Douglas has been selected to take the seat I had held as @duponline Councillor for Lisnasharragh @belfastcc. A man who's work in and for local communities has never stopped, he will be a hard worker and asset for all in Lisnasharragh.
Former DUP MLA Sammy Douglas has returned to frontline politics after five years away - he's been co-opted by the party to sit as a cllr on @belfastcc after @DavidBrooksMLA became East Belfast MLA
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Great to see my old boss and, more to the point, fellow #LeedsUnited fan @DianeDoddsMEP in CS Lewis Sq for the @EbpbFB fun day. Great weather made for a great day, looking forward to the parade later (hopefully after a Leeds playoff win) . #ALAW⚽ #Dodds1
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Roy Carroll shows Cliftonville they cannot be gratuitously offensive and disrespectful, as a club and as a team, and still expect to be shown respect in return. 🔵👏🏻
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I would encourage all those rightly concerned by the Northern Ireland Protocol to sign the parliamentary petition below calling on the UK government to trigger Article 16.👇🏻
Petition: Trigger Article 16. We want unfettered GB-NI Trade. petition.parliament.uk/petit…
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There's that blasted DUP influence at Westminster that Robin Swann was lambasting yesterday getting government ministers to commit to things Robin says he wants but has no power to deliver. Grrrr, how unseemly.
Newest thing on Raab is rejecting NI being different from GB on customs AND regulation. Previously, under DUP questioning, he had left the regulation question open.
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🚴♂️ BELFAST BIKES 🚴
Glad to confirm after cross-party support & lobbying from Councillors (inc. @SeamasBelfast who I embarrassing omitted!) #Lisnasharragh LC is 1 of 4 preliminary locations lined up for a new @BelfastBikes station. We continue to work on other locations.
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Dear @M_AndersonSF, a word of advice, if you're going get uppity on economics after reading one @BBCNewsNI story, best reading to the END of the same article. 😂😣
#Fail #ShinnerEconomics
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Imagine getting to a major final and watching as the entire starting line up of your own teammates unite to disrespect national anthem you regard as your own (after your club tried to get it banned).
Maybe they'll focus on the football next time. Well done Coleraine.
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Well worth a visit to Pitt Park to see some of the chalk art down at Frazer Pass/Ballymac Friendship Centre...had my first try of some Romanian scran too 🇲🇩...delicious! 🇬🇧 plenty of inflatables for the kids too.
@EastBelfastDUP
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Belfast City Hall will light up green and white on 24 April to celebrate the achievement of Northern Ireland women's national team, on their way to the Euros, after a request from my DUP colleague Cllr @nicolaverner1. #GAWA @NorthernIreland
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A week since Cllr Seanna Walsh felt it necessary & appropriate to draw comparison between #Israel, the world's only Jewish state, & perpetrators of the Holocaust.
Despite being challenged by @BrianKingston & I, neither he or Sinn Fein apologised at the time or since. For shame.
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The sanitisation of IRA terrorism needs to end.
Take no lectures or eyerolling in reminding society of the slaughter IRA terrorists were responsible for, and SF supporters are endorsing, in all its horror. It should be shared often, never forgotten, allowed excuse or revision.
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I can forgive most things, but putting avocado on an "Ulster Fry" is a crime against humanity. Horrific. 😱
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Delighted to be standing alongside my friend @Joanne_Bunting in #EastBelfast in the NI Assembly Elections.
At City Hall I've focused on issues that matter to the local community, speaking up when needed but working well cross-party. That's a foundation I want to build upon. 🗳
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Wherever your views on the Middle East conflict drawing comparisons between Israel & Nazis, the perpetrators of the Holocaust against the Jewish people, is utterly repugnant and unjustifiable. Cllr Walsh & @sinnfeinireland should apologise immediately. 😡
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A pleasure to welcome HRH The Prince of Wales to #EastBelfast as he visited at CS Lewis Square this morning to celebrate 25 years of @EastSidePship. 🇬🇧
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Disgusted as any right thinking person would be, my thoughts are primarily with the family of Michaela.
There can be no tolerance of this behaviour. Real anger among the many thousands who enjoyed & put effort into our celebrations now having it besmirched by a disgraceful few.
Anger expressed over social media video mocking death of Co Tyrone woman Michaela McAreavey belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/…
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Congratulations to my friend and party colleague @FMcCoubrey1 as he becomes Lord Mayor of #Belfast in this Northern Ireland's centenary year. I've no doubt he'll represent the city with all the pride he has taken in representing the people of the #Shankill for the last 23 years!
Frank McCoubrey, first single dad to be Belfast Lord Mayor, vows to build bridges across city
belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/…
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Happy to own this. My contribution this evening outlined my distain for racism and support for justice campaign.
BLM have political aims beyond racism. The wording I tabled was no less anti-racist, but it would have allowed Council to speak with one anti-racist voice.
DUP Belfast City Councillors trying to remove the words #BlackLivesMatter from a motion expressing solidarity for POC and those working for equity and equality... 🙄
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East Belfast remembers & gives thanks. 🌷✝️
This afternoon I joined @GRobinsonDUP, MLAs & Councillors from across Belfast to sign the Book of Condolence to HM Queen Elizabeth II at City Hall, before attending the community laying of floral tributes at Aslan, CS Lewis Square.
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"We've been working very hard with @GRobinsonDUP, and believe he's been totally sincere in his concern for the workers" Davy Thompson, @unitetheunion tells BBC News.
Those at centre of this effort know the tireless work that went in from all - while others sniped on sidelines.
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Ive had a few Twitter spats with @JamieBrysonCPNI in my time like anyone....but this 'toys out of the pram' reaction to his giving evidence at Westminster is bizarre.
His group submitted a paper *as anyone can*. Hes being invited to present & discuss that paper. Whats the issue?
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Senior UUP MLAs already distancing themselves from UUP leader. Mikes days are surely numbered? Not first time hes upset the membership #AE17
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I don't happen to agree with Van, but Emmet's zeal for cancel culture here is absurd.
Van Morrison was given the Freedom of Belfast - the highest honour the city can bestow. His most recent lyrics undermine the guidance in place to protect lives and are ignorant of established science as we grapple with #COVID19
So I've asked @belfastcc to consider revoking it.
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There is no prospect of the DUP demanding changes to social legislation in rest of the UK...and most peddling this nonsense know that.
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Glad to pop down to Dixon Park at lunch to see the great work @BloomfieldCommA & @WalkwayCommuni1 have been doing with 100+ kids from across #EastBelfast in recent weeks. Well done Rachael, Karen & the workers/volunteers 👏🏻
As you can see I maintained my usual gravitas...😁
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Lisnasharragh on parade! Nothing like the Avenue on the Twelfth morning. Wishing all brethren, bandsman and those spectation a glorious #Twelfth of July 🇬🇧🟣🟠🥁 #EastBelfast
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No Michelle, we can't just say "well that's ok".
Murder was never ok.
It's not a grey area.
If that's your narrative, it's absolutely not ok, it's abhorrent.
Maturity is not the issue, murder is. #victimblaming
If you're going to be a 'First Minister for everyone' then you can't justify murder.
mydup.com/news/a-first-minis…
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A new flagship attraction at the heart of the city centre, made possible by the #Belfast Region City Deal - delivery of which was a key component of the @duponline Confidence and Supply Agreement. #BRCityDeal
Brilliant news to start the day... we're thrilled to announce that the former Bank of Ireland building on Royal Ave is to be transformed into a new visitor attraction for Belfast, a flagship project within #BRCityDeal. Stay tuned for more about #BelfastStories later this morning!
ALT Artist's depiction of Art Deco former Bank of Ireland building on Royal Avenue - home of new Belfast Stories visitor attraction
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Devastated to wake up to this news this morning. I've known Christopher for as long as I've been in the DUP, a friend and very able colleague.
A born politician, DUP to his core but he spoke with most love & pride of his young family who are in my every thought & prayer.
Sir Jeffrey Donaldson pays tribute to Christopher Stalford MLA mydup.com/news/sir-jeffrey-d… via @duponline
@J_Donaldson_MP
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Thanks to all those wealthy pop stars aligning themselves the Bob Geldof's latest grasp to sustain relevance on Brexit.
Let's recall how millionaire Bob responded to the genuine concerns of small fishermen who actually had their industry crushed by the EU.
Yeah Bob. Same.
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Happy to lend a hand to Christopher & Harry over lunch. They delivered packs to juniors at the weekend and had a few to finish.
@OrangeOrder havent been found wanting in this crisis; supporting vulnerable members, purchasing PPE for frontline & to the fore of community response.
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No need, and absolutely. Sorry you're having to deal with that repugnant bile, as too many have had to up to now.
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They're Home! 🚶♂️🚶♂️🚐🇬🇧
Huge congratulations to Connor and Ian in completing their Big Dander around the UK & Ireland in aid of @VeteransCentre!
Huge effort 🇬🇧👏🏻👏🏻 The fundraising page will stay open for a while yet so you can donate at justgiving.com/fundraising/a…
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