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Posted without a hint of irony on the door of the Church of St Mary the Virgin, adjacent to Whitby Abbey.
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Yes, yes, I know #ConorMcGregor is hardly the most appetising salesman.
But 21.8% of Ireland’s population is now foreign-born. The country’s changing at the molecular level with no serious discussion about the long-term implications and with no consent.
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‘Northern Ireland is part of Ireland, not Britain, as can clearly be seen from aerial photographs.’
RIP Jeremy Hardy
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British Govt policy on the Irish border:
1 Don’t worry, it’s not a biggie.
2 Its a bit tricky but we’ll use cameras.
3 Okay, so the technology doesn’t exist.
4 We’ll effectively keep NI in Customs Union.
5 Whoops! The DUP doesn’t like that.
6 It’s all Ireland’s fault.
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The three phases of Britain’s Brexit diplomacy over the Irish border:
1. “Don’t worry Paddy, you’re not top priority, we’ll get to you...”
2. “Now look here Paddy, you’re having a border and you’ll ruddy well like it.”
3. “Please Paddy, be reasonable. We’re old friends...”
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This is the equivalent of going to a restaurant, eating a meal and then being given a bill that includes the costs of the plate, cutlery, table and chair.
The assumptions in this report are nonsensical.
The real figure's less than €3bn.
The initial cost of a united Ireland would be at least €8bn (£6.86bn) a year rising to potentially €20bn (£17.15bn) a year, a new study from Dublin think tank @iiea has estimated bbc.in/3TNvla2
ALT UK and Irish flags
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This candidate for the Social Democrats called the cops to a bunch of Catholics praying the Rosary outside their church during Covid.
Delighted at this result.
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I won’t retweet the video, but just hope all my British followers take a minute to check out why ‘Orange Order’ is trending.
Impossible to plumb the depth of their sectarian hatred.
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'King Charles and Pope Leo are to become the first British monarch and pontiff to pray together at a church service since the Reformation in the 16th Century.'
Thoughts with the Orange Order at this difficult time...
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Given no one in Kneecap has been convicted of anything, this is both highly prejudicial to live legal proceedings and defamatory.
The BBC should not be showing Kneecap propaganda.
One Kneecap band member is currently on bail, charged under the Terrorism Act.
As a publicly funded platform the BBC should not be rewarding extremism.
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I’ve been studying, researching, commentating and and writing about Northern Ireland for 30 years.
I can genuinely count the number of genuinely-reflective, generous, open-minded unionist politicians I’ve come across on one hand.
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A permissible Irish joke.
Paddy goes for a job on a building site. ‘I’ll give you a test,’ says the foreman.
‘What’s the difference between a joist and a girder?''
‘C’mon now, that’s too easy,’ says Paddy.
‘The difference is that Joyce wrote Ulysses and Goethe wrote Faust...'
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It’s a mark of tolerance by Catholic-Nationalists in such a deeply divided society that they don’t demand that the Orange Order - and all the hatred and violence it embodies - is scrapped entirely.
March where you’re wanted. Keep away from places you’re not.
And that’s it.
"It is a very sad day.... that Orange feet are still not welcome on a particular stretch of road."
DUP MP @carlalockhart says calls for mediation over the Drumcree / Garvaghy Rd dispute.
#SundayPolitics | @MarkCarruthers7
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'MI5 plotted to murder the Irish PM.'
Just let that sink in.
When it comes to Northern Ireland, Britain has behaved like a South American junta.
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Sinn Fein should pay close attention to the SNP’s performance. They’re going to pay a heavy price for their embrace of wokery and lack of focus on their core purpose.
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A horrible story - but the direct result of an insane immigration policy backed by all the Irish parties.
BREAKING: Details of sexual assault at Citywest earlier today.
It is understood a 10 year old Irish girl is alleged to have been raped by an African Asylum seeker on the grounds of the hotel, which is housing asylum seekers.
The girl is in Tusla care.
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Because it’s Irish.
And because it’s…Irish.
And, well, it’s…Irish.
Jim Allister sets out three reasons why he opposes the Irish language in the court system:
newsletter.co.uk/news/courts…
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In summary:
Biden wrote off the NI leg a couple of weeks ago. Will get a mega reception down south instead.
Sunak loses out. He couldn’t deliver a restoration of devo. Left it too late to strongarm the DUP. No decent pics.
The DUP? Disgraced themselves again. Just no class.
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Martin McGuinness 1970-1994 shows us what happens when politics fails.
Martin McGuinness 1994-2017 shows us what's possible when it doesn't
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And we’re straight back to the 19thC anti-Irish tropes!
He’s even depicted drinking (although Biden’s teetotal).
@thetimes can’t break the habit of a lifetime in peddling Irish racism.
Hardly your finest hour @BrookesTimes
My cartoon Thursday @TheTimes. Where the emphasis of Blarney Biden’s visit lies. `#JoeBiden #Ireland
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Sinn Fein was clearly better at turning out it’s vote. But NI’s electorate is changing.
Nationalists are younger and Unionists are older. Much older.
There’s a tipping point when this essential fact of political physics is going to change everything.
Have we now reached it?
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Strip off the posho accent and he could be the latest Big Brother contestant booted out of the house. Poring over ridiculous ‘he said/she said’ pointless micro-grievances. #HarryTheInterview
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It’s actually insane that Irish - the oldest vernacular written language in Europe - is given co-billing with a local dialect. Corrupted English.
As widely expected, Pól Deeds confirmed as the north's first Irish language commissioner and Lee Reynolds named as commissioner for the Ulster Scots and the Ulster British tradition. TEO has also appointed Katy Radford as director of the Office of Identity and Cultural Expression
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Boom!!
MPs back #WindsorFramework by a massive 515-29. Not even half the ERG voted with the DUP.
A landmark defeat for brainless, hardline Unionism.
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There is no comparable gesture, hitherto - or likely in the future - from any Unionist.
Which is why their position will continue to erode.
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Douglas Murray's excoriating Spectator piece from 2021:
'...having watched all of the Bloody Sunday shooters testify, I can say with certainty that they include not only unapologetic killers, but unrelenting liars.'
spectator.co.uk/article/the-…
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‘They [Unionists] can see what’s happening as clearly as anyone else. Northern Ireland is edging towards the exit door.’
@theirishpost
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It doesn’t really matter what your politics are, or whether it’s a Sinn Fein politician making this point, or an academic, or economist.
It’s indisputably true. A single Irish economy will make people in NI better off.
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Unionists don’t get to talk to nationalists like this any more.
An MP has suggested that those living in Northern Ireland who wish to vote in Irish Presidential elections should "move to the Republic of Ireland and take up residency there"
belfastlive.co.uk/news/mp-te…
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A loyalist bonfire, adorned with election posters of the mainstream SDLP and People Before Profit.
'KAT' means 'Kill All Taigs (Catholics).
This expression of fascism, with a side of ethnic cleansing, would not be tolerated anywhere else in the democratic world.
It’s extremely disappointing to see my election posters alongside this sectarian message on an eleventh night bonfire. Leaders in the unionist community need to call these actions out and put a stop to this once and for all.
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Yeah, Katie Hopkins is a wind-up merchant, but what happens when the next person to get banned from Twitter is someone you agree with?
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I've come to the conclusion that there are about six bedsit loyalists running about 50 fake Twitter accounts!
I've been keeping a tally on account addresses and the same sequence of numbers are used, time and again.
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The worst ‘all must have prizes’ nonsense.
Foster was FM for five years - with the executive only functioning for two.
She was kicked out by her own colleagues.
Backed hard Brexit.
Dismissed Nationalists as ‘crocodiles’ for wanting equality.
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Every British person should read this horror story.
Water boarding an innocent man, threatening to murder him, forcing a confession, sentencing him to death (commuted, but not abolished in NI until ‘73), ruining his life, quashing his conviction and only now paying out.
The family of west Belfast man Liam Holden has been awarded £350,000 in damages after he was tortured into admitting a murder in 1972 bbc.in/3K4uLBf
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Unionists: Up the Ra chanting means we can have no place in a United Ireland.
Also Unionists: The existence of still-active loyalist paramilitary organisations is totally acceptable.
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Rich farmers are the new coal misers, apparently.
What utter bilge, @JeremyClarkson
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'The Act is also an attempt to ‘Britwash’ the Troubles. To avoid undermining the narrative that British Forces were merely an impartial referee - rather than an enthusiastic participant throughout the Troubles...No-one is fooled.'
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How much longer are we going to ignore the sheer, unadulterated fascism that sits at the heart of unionist politics? independent.co.uk/news/uk/cr…
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Leo: 'I’m the Taoiseach. Articles two and three of our Constitution aspire to unity. It shouldn’t be a surprise to anyone that a Taoiseach of the country would also aspire to unity.'
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Here we are, in 2023, with Northern Ireland’s electoral system still compromised.
Whoever is responsible for allowing that hall to be used as a polling station looking like that should lose their job.
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Calling a border poll is a legal obligation on the British government and a fundamental facet of the Good Friday Agreement. Which can - and might - get tested in court in due course. Perhaps that’s how it was always going to be? bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-i…
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‘In all, 10,000 [Catholic] workers were driven from their places of work, with thousands more burnt or beaten out of their homes in parts of Belfast.
‘Those initial few years, as Northern Ireland was coming into existence, set the seal on what would become a century of strife.’
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‘Goodbye Boris, we shan’t forget you.
Your contribution to the cause of Irish unity will not be overlooked. The day after that border poll, as the sun shines across a single, 32-county Ireland, the multitudes will rejoice.’
@irishborderpoll
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It’s easy to dislike the DUP for any number of reasons.
But even easier to regard them as shysters and rank hypocrites.
52% was good enough for the hard Brexit they sought.
There is no chance of this becoming law. None. All it does is tell us they expect a border poll.
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‘I think the British record in Ireland is a hideous record' - Benn.
(Tony, not Hilary)
rte.ie/archives/2019/1122/10…
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The vast majority of Irish Catholics arrested and tortured under internment between 1971-75 had nothing to do with the IRA.
Hopefully Jenrick’s defamation of them catches the eye of a decent lawyer and they sue his chiselling little arse.
Starmer made Gerry Adams’s lawyer the Attorney General.
He then dropped a winnable appeal, the result of which is likely to be paying out Gerry Adams - and IRA terrorists.
Lord Hermer refuses to say if he recused himself.
We need answers.
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I'm not Scottish, so don't have a dog in the fight, but it's always struck me Scottish independence is a perfectly reasonable political aspiration. Labour's traditional opposition is a misplaced fear the party couldn't win without Scottish seats. politicshome.com/news/uk/pol…
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Who are the 103,568 people voting for Jim Gavin?
That's a fair old slice of straight-up idiocy.
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The last six months for the DUP:
Abandoned by the Tories
Duped by Boris
Border down the Irish Sea
Abortion and same sex marriage
Lost majority of NI Westminster seats
Irish language act
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We talk about the wickedness of the Taliban stopping girls from going to school.
Loyalists did this 20 years ago this week, inside the British state.
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Is everyone in the DUP utterly deranged?
‘Leo Varadkar should accept his role in foisting a bad deal on Northern Ireland..’
He did nothing of the sort.
Lord Frost negotiated the Protocol.
Boris Johnson agreed it.
The British cabinet backed it.
Parliament voted for it.
The DUP has questioned how Leo Varadkar’s admissions about “mistakes” being made over Brexit sit with his previous staunch refusals to entertain changes to the Protocol
trib.al/zNLNVLv
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‘The British government will heave a gigantic sigh of relief once Northern Ireland is finally off its books.’
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This is about as dark as it gets.
Enniskillen bomb relatives call for public inquiry following allegations that MI5 had interfered with the bomb’s timing mechanism, “determining that the explosion would devastate the IRA’s public image”.
Kevin Winters instructed on behalf of four families.
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120,000 'baton rounds' (rubber or plastic bullets) were fired during the Troubles.
17 people killed. 8 of them children. Youngest was 10.
16 of the victims were Catholic.
Baton rounds NEVER used in Britain. Ever.
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‘Rishi Sunak has told the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) to back his Brexit deal or face the prospect of a united Ireland…’
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The House of Commons just now.
MPs struggle to find seats to discuss the ‘Humble Address’ about how Westminster values Northern Ireland.
Hope the DUP is satisfied at this outpouring of support.
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This is the night the UK died.
#IndyRef2 in Scotland within two years.
Referendum on #Irishunity with five.
#UKElection #GeneralElection2019
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Thankfully, the Good Friday Agreement is enacted in primary legislation, stopping chiselling politicians from redefining it on a whim.
irishtimes.com/politics/2023…
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You really are the most exceptionally stupid person to have ever troubled Northern Irish public life. A low-grade provincial solicitor who should never have risen above the office of local councillor. A period of silence on your part would be most welcome.
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I was on Nolan talking about this nonsense earlier.
On reflection, the issue is a perfect encapsulation of contemporary Unionism.
Divisive. Entitled. Self-pitying. Hypocritical. Expensive.
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The RUC was scrapped - on the orders of the British PM and by the former Chairman of the Conservative Party - because it was a sectarian force that colluded in the mass murder of ordinary Catholics.
Good riddance to the RUC.
So much hatred for the Royal Ulster Constabulary GC on this platform.
In today's rewritten narrative we continually see the RUC vilified and demonised as an organisation.
The cold, hard truth is that 300 RUC officers were brutally murdered during the Troubles.
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'New UVF chiefs stamp authority by setting fire to Catholic man's property'
Where else in the Western world would you read a headline like that?
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This idiot makes Bryson sound like Noam Chomsky.
The Easter Rising was a failed terrorist insurgency and it ought to be remembered as such. It was a futile and hopeless insurrection that resulted in disaster, destruction and death for so many involved.
Shamefully, Irish extremists have reinterpreted and exploited the “Rising” to inspire a legacy of Republican blood sacrifice and armed struggle which has plagued this island for over 100 years.
The Irish Republican Brotherhood (IRB), those responsible for the “Rising,”were far from heroes, saints and role models. They were a small group of socialist elitist fanatics who sought to physically impose their radical ideology on Ireland despite the wishes of a moderate constitutional majority.
An example of their marginal status is the fact that over 200,000 Irishmen voluntarily signed up to the British war effort, whereas less than 1,300 took part in the IRB’s infamous insurrection. Which do you think was a greater reflection of Irish society as whole?
The “Rising” terrorists misjudged that more Irish men and women would support them in their military campaign as it unfolded. However, the dismal numbers that turned out on Easter Monday, which had originally meant to be Easter Sunday but for the confiscation of imported illegal arms and arrest of Roger Casement on Good Friday, meant that the entire mission was doomed to fail - and fail it did. Within a week the radicals had surrendered and they were imprisoned awaiting trial.
The swift, abrupt and fierce response by the British Army generated support for the weaker and amateur insurrectionists. So too did the hasty trial and execution of the main plotters. But ultimately, the “Rising” would sew the seeds for future conflicts in Ireland, including the War of Independence, the Irish Civil War and even the modern Troubles.
The truth of the Easter Rising is now substituted for Republican legend and romanticism. The failed insurrectionists are elevated into Irish folklore and memorialised in such a way that reinterprets their radical terrorism as something to be inspired by. Terrorists are now viewed as founding fathers of the state even though an independent Republic would not be realised for over 40 years after the “Rising,” and it when it came to pass it would look nothing like the socialist state James Connolly and Patrick Pearse envisaged.
Every year at Easter, aspects of Irish society revisit the outdated and irrelevant victim-story which wrongly asserts the British as evil oppressors while at the same time proclaiming extremists as saint-like revolutionaries.
In a baptism of anti-British hate, new generations are indoctrinated into a divisive, anti-British, victimhood mindset justifying the physical force tradition within Irish Republicanism and providing cover for the heinous, immoral and discriminatory killing sprees that Republican extremists have engaged in for over a century.
The Easter Rising should be remembered not for its success but for its failure. Not for its romanticism but for its horror. It marks a major moment when the gun was first fired to answer the Irish question at the start of the 20th Century.
Its legacy and impact on this island is not one to be proud of for it has been used to justify every IRA terrorist campaign since which has went on to claim the lives of so many innocent people.
Remember the Easter Rising but remember it for the right reasons.
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So revealing. It’s clear that Arlene Foster - who opposes the entire Good Friday Agreement and settlement - was never fit to have served as First Minister.
Her appointment was the single worst decision affecting NI in the past 20 years.
Dublin's claim over NI was wrong and illegal says Arlene Foster - adding that she would vote against the Good Friday Agreement again if she could
newsletter.co.uk/news/politi…
#32counties #Irishunity #Ireland #gfa25
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The state of Unionism:
Loyalist terrorists threatening to murder Irish politicians.
DUP leader beset by fanatics, choking off devolution.
Daily lies about the Protocol's effects.
Attempts to bully a prominent academic into silence.
Ever-more lurid and destructive rhetoric.
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My three wishes, you ask?
Boris Johnson obliged to negotiate a border poll with Taoiseach, Mary-Lou McDonald.
Boris Johnson obliged to negotiate a border poll with Taoiseach, Mary-Lou McDonald.
Boris Johnson obliged to negotiate a border poll with Taoiseach, Mary-Lou McDonald.
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If the SNP does win 55 out of 59 seats they will have effectively banished the British political class from Scotland.
Good. Scotland is big and bold enough to govern itself.
#IndyRef2 is now inevitable.
#UKelection2019
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A regular reminder of just how unfit for office she was.
'Joe Biden hates the UK, I don't think there's any doubt about that.'
Former First Minister of Northern Ireland Dame Arlene Foster says that Joe Biden's visit to Northern Ireland 'won't put any pressure on the DUP because he's seen by so many people as simply pro-republic'.
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Justifies the BBC's decision to limit coverage.
Over half the people in NI are actively disinterested and no-one in Britain cares at all.
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The best way to rein in Lord Kilclooney’s insufferable pomposity is to NEVER refer to him by his ridiculous title.
He’s plain John Taylor.
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New poll: Majority of 18-44 yr olds in NI want Irish unity. 56/34%.
United Ireland is inevitable.
Someone should write a book about that...
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'I’ve seen people in Shankhill Road going to Sinn Fein for housing problems, because at least they’re working, and they seem to resolve the problems.'
unherd.com/2023/05/the-betra…
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‘So it begs the question: What have Unionist leaders ever done to show respect and understanding to Catholic-Nationalists?
‘Let me answer my own rhetorical question. Not a lot.’
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What a journey West Belfast has been on. For their parents and grandparents, the summer of 1969 was anything but a joyous occasion - with a full-scale pogrom waged against them by loyalists.
A Rocking Falls Park belting out Bryan Adams Anthem 'Summer of 69'
Celebrating our 35th anniversary and the crowd are loving it 🙌🙌
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The dry numbers mask an essential truth: Northern Ireland is an economic basket case and there's a simpler, better alternative.
This is why Irish unity is inevitable.
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Why is the Garda Commissioner politicising his role and allowing himself to be used as foil for Leo and Micheal in their last gasp attempt to cling on to power?
Harris agrees with PSNI that army council still oversees both Sinn Féin and IRA irishtimes.com/news/crime-an…
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Fine, let the DUP prove that NI cannot ever work for nationalists.
Time to think and plan past this grisly sectarian fief.
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The shambles of Ireland’s open-door asylum policy - created by Fianna Fáil/Fine Gael but aided by the other parties and endorsed by a client media - has led to this scene.
Large container of glass bottles hurled at Gardaí by protesters outside Citywest Hotel in Saggart, Co Dublin.
Fireworks continue to be launched at officers defending the entrance to the hotel. Earlier, a Garda van was set alight.
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Weeks apart, the #BallymurphyMassacre and #BloodySunday killlings remind us that the British state turbo-charged the troubles.
Bad policy - driven by remote politicians in Westminster and brainless securocrats in Whitehall - brought three decades of misery and suffering.
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It’s should be in every British newspaper. But it won’t be.
UVF gunmen behind 1988 double murder were state agents
The UVF gunmen who murdered two Catholic civilians in an attack the Police Ombudsman found was not properly investigated by the RUC were Special Branch agents - @TheSundayLife
m.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/sun…
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'Footage has emerged of three senior DUP members looking on as a loyalist band played anti-Catholic anthems during an Apprentice Boys parade on the same day Pope Francis died.'
Quelle surprise.
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I wish it wasn’t so, but unionists hate all things Irish. Their ideology is unremittingly fascist.
Show me examples to the contrary.
🚨🗣NEW: 'I've no difficulty with Irish language, but I do with the cost...I've NOT had a conversation with the DUP ahead of Executive on Thursday.'
🎥🎤Chief Reporter @jamesgould23 speaking to Health Minister and @uuponline Leader @mikenesbittni about the estimated £145,000 Irish language signage at Grand Central Station in Belfast.
⁉️Mr Nesbitt questions "why is this coming up so late in the day. Why wasnt it delt with in the construction phase?"
🗣Yesterday, @duponline deputy First Minister @little_pengelly said she will raise concerns on it during Executive meeting on Thursday - Mr Nesbitt says he's had no conversation with DUP ahead of it.
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The British media urgently needs to focus on Belfast North. (NI media too complicit in making the abnormal normal).
DUP in bed with violent loyalist paramilitaries, with veiled threat against Sinn Fein candidate.
The people the DUP have sat with many times over the past few weeks are putting posters like this up about a candidate. A candidate with a Prtestant mother and a dead father murdered by the State. PSNI stand by! @duponline have not condemned this. It needs broadcast in GB!
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What’s Leo got planned for St Patrick’s Day? Commemorating the snakes?
Taoiseach @LeoVaradkar has said he is disappointed by the decision of two lord mayors and Sinn Féin to boycott a forthcoming State event to commemorate members of the RIC and the Dublin Metropolitan Police, who died during the War of Independence. | bit.ly/36xBZHy
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What a terrible, terrible misjudgment by @ChiefConPSNI
So his force soft soaps loyalist narco-terrorists but some poor officers waving a GAA flag get the book thrown at them?
Boutcher has flinched at unionist political whinging. Should have stood his ground.
Camlough video: Criminal probe into officers who celebrated Armagh win
3 community police officers served misconduct papers and their driving cards removed.
PSD will retain ownership of both the criminal and misconduct aspects of the investigations
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This is outrageously poor reporting by @BBCNewsNI
A Democratic vote was taken. Irish-hating unionists lost. That’s because Belfast is a changed city.
But the BBC legitimises their malicious grievance - and doesn’t challenge their phoney narrative once in this piece.
A DUP councillor has said the unionist community have been "ignored" after Belfast City council voted in favour of adopting a new draft Irish language policy.
bbc.in/48clROC
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The DUP's visceral hatred of all things Irish descends into absurdity.
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There was always an alternative to the IRA’s campaign. It involved
➡️ Stormont not being a bigoted Unionist fief
➡️ Westminster paying attention
➡️ British army not killing 14 people on Bloody Sunday.
➡️ Etc.
None of those things happened, which is why we had the Troubles.
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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Typical BBC understatement: ‘The famine killed more than a million Irish people and forced about a million more to emigrate after blight devastated the potato crop.’
The abundance of other produce and belief in curtailing ‘surplus population’ meant it was a British-made famine.
The remains of 21 people lost in a shipwreck while fleeing the #IrishFamine will be buried in Canada later - 172 years after they died.
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‘There is marginally more chance of Ian Paisley being beatified by the Pope than there is of a British PM going back to Brussels to plead with them to reopen negotiations [over the WF] to placate the crackpots in the DUP.’
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28 civilians shot on Bloody Sunday.
14 killed.
No warnings given.
Soldiers didn't fire in response to attack.
Judicial Inquiry: 'Unjustified and unjustifiable.'
British PM apologised and said many of the soldiers lied about their actions.
But its now all 'political correctness'
THE former head of the British Army has accused the Government of allowing the IRA's political wing to "rewrite history" after it was claimed that soldiers involved in Bloody Sunday could be charged
express.co.uk/news/uk/109498…
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Of course the smart (and dignified) response would be not to make one.
But since the OO can’t help themselves, it’s worth pointing out the late Queen spoke for most people in Britain on this one.
Orange Order grand secretary @mervgib responds to the remarks attributed to the late Queen Elizabeth II.
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llluminating because of the lack of illumination.
Jamie's sideshow routine - inverting objective criticisms of unionism straight back at nationalists in much the way that a child does - merely highlights the intellectual void at the centre of unionism.
irishtimes.com/life-style/pe…
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Of all the arguments against Irish unity ‘Dublin can’t afford the north’ is now the most demonstrably untrue.
Ireland's Finance Minister says the central part of their Sovereign Wealth Fund will be called the Future Ireland Fund & aims to have assets of up to 100bn euro in the next decade. Alongside that will be a 14bn euro fund for infrastructure, climate & nature spending.
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Obviously, the British media will completely ignore this story.
But take a minute to read it.
The implications are utterly scandalous.
belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/…
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Check it out. An empty House of Commons. No one in Britain cares, mate.
.@eastantrimmp "There is a border on the Irish Sea. There is a disruption of trade between NI and GB, and vice versa... The truth of the matter is, the people of NI are not experiencing the full benefits of being UK citizens that they had before the 31st December."
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