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Aaron Edwards

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8 years

Can we stop the world please, I'd like to get off now, thanks...

Japan knife attack: 19 killed at care centre in Sagamihara

A stabbing rampage leaves 19 people dead at a care home for people with mental disabilities near Tokyo, in Japan's worst mass killing in decades.

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BREAKING NEWS: #Loyalist sources in Belfast tell me that the UVF’s East Belfast battalion has been stood down, with effect from midnight tonight. Apparently “massive cheers rang out” in different areas when the statement was issued. More details here:

Breaking News: East Belfast UVF to be Stood Down

A loyalist source has contacted me to tell me that the East Belfast UVF have been stood down, effective from midnight tonight. The statement is believed to have been issued by the UVF Brigade Staff,...

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Let us hope this ends one of the most disgraceful and grotesque episodes of the Troubles when a Provo death squad murdered and secretly disposed of the body of Army Captain Robert #Nairac . His family deserve closure #TheDisappeared

Robert Nairac: First search for murdered Army captain begins - BBC News

The Army captain was abducted and murdered by the IRA while operating undercover in 1977.

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7 months

@GlobeEyeNews Source? Lots of your tweets have no links and few come to pass…

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What kind of future did Sir James Craig & other #Unionist leaders envisage for the people of #NorthernIreland ? As I walked the ground of my old homestead #Rathcoole I was shocked to see how the perfect storm of deprivation, disaffection & despair has broken over the estate 1/10

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‘Unionism must unite behind DUP to stop those who would weaken the Union’ - via ⁦ @BelTel ⁩ | By their strategic errors of judgement over many years, it is the ⁦ @duponline ⁩ who have weakened the Union. If you think otherwise, you’re deluded.

‘Unionism must unite behind DUP to stop those who would weaken the Union’

Unionists should unite around the DUP’s message to prevent those who seek to “weaken the Union” from taking seats at next week’s local government election,...

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10 months

I listened patiently as Mr Campbell spoke but I have to inform him that my local Sainsbury’s ‘on the mainland’ sells about 6 varieties of sausages - last time I checked, my local Sainsbury’s in Newtownabbey sold about 12! You are being treated differently by getting more choice!

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The chair of the Loyalist Communities Council has said there can't be a return to Stormont until the DUP's issues around the Northern Ireland Protocol are resolved. ➡️

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9 months

Looks like all those loyalist bots slabbering last night about my ‘sources’ aren’t challenging similar reporting by Stephen Nolan this morning… Funny old thing that!

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4 years

How did British Intelligence infiltrate the IRA? Just one of the many questions answered in AGENTS OF INFLUENCE - published at the end of this month. Preorder now from @AmazonUK and all good bookshops! #Intelligence #CovertAction #NorthernIrelandTroubles

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1 year

I’d be astounded if the Chief Constable was still in post at the end of the week. This is the single worst security breach in the 20 year history of the PSNI.

Belfast Telegraph

@BelTel

1 year

LATEST: PSNI blunder identifies every serving police officer and civilian staff with 345,000 pieces of data, prompting security nightmare

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8 months

An extraordinary admission: “Back in 1972 I saw a top secret document, I was in the SoS’s office so I saw this from Alec Douglas-Home, former Prime Minister & current Foreign Secretary, saying that 'we need to get out of Ireland, I don't want direct rule'”

Chris Maccabe: Ex-NIO man says Irish unity possible in 20 years

The former top official Chris Maccabe says despite his unionist background his identity is Irish.

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@DrAaronEdwards

2 years

"You cannot go through a winter when people are being asked to take the biggest cut in their standards of living for 50 years & not ask people to understand what you're trying to do, & give them a plan” - ⁦ @GordonBrown ⁩ ⁦ @SkyNews ⁩

Gordon Brown says Britain is 'at war with America over Ireland'

In a wide-ranging interview with Sky News political editor Beth Rigby, the former PM took Boris Johnson's government to task over its approach to global agreements and claimed it had no plan to...

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4 months

The attitude of these entitled people - at least the smugness has been wiped off his face! 😊

Niamh Campbell

@niamh_journo

4 months

Ian Paisley Jr has arrived in Magherafelt and wasn't for letting his son stop on the way to the ballot papers to have his wristband checked #GE2024 #GeneralElection2024 @BelTel

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1 year

Something that “shouldn’t have happened” has happened a second day in a row! What kind of signal is this supposed to send & to whom? | Masked men appear at Belfast Crown Court for second day as #UVF murder trial continues - ⁦ @irish_news ⁩

Masked men appear at Belfast Crown Court for second day as UVF murder trial continues

Northern Ireland Secretary Chris Heaton-Harris has said he “simply can’t believe” the incident where men sat in a court with their faces covered during a double murder trial

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I’ve known Jon McCourt since I led the Journeys Out project ⁦ @INCOREinfo back in 2007-08. He’s a man of principle & conviction - respect for his decision | Victims campaigner who witnessed shootings on Bloody Sunday declines MBE - ⁦ @irish_news ⁩

Victims campaigner who witnessed shootings on Bloody Sunday declines MBE

A campaigner for victims of historical abuse who witnessed two teenagers being injured on Bloody Sunday has declined to be made an MBE.

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10 months

Reinforces my analysis from last month that the #DUP has had a deal on the table from HMG & is desperately trying to steady the horses inside the party. Also reflects the truism that the party’s main interest is holding itself together rather than putting NorthernIreland first!

Suzanne Breen

@SuzyJourno

10 months

EXCLUSIVE: British govt tells Jeffrey Donaldson it’s time to “step up & make a decision”. If DUP doesn’t restore devolution by Thursday, the SoS may publish details of the 'generous' deal offered to the party. Another MLA pay cut could also be considered.

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5 years

Northern Ireland, 2019. Where paramilitary gangs are still, apparently, able to dictate who stands where in elections. This is not democracy! #FailedStatelet #Terrorism

PSNI called in as UDA tells UUP to step aside

Police have been called in after a series of threatening messages were sent to UUP figures, including one which explicitly referred to a meeting involving a notorious UDA faction which told the party...

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2 years

Time for Truth! #GerryAdams

Gerry Adams – Time for Truth

Justice Denied, Victims Forgotten.

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2 years

Three cheers for Her Majesty, The Queen! @RMASandhurst @LSW_RMAS #PlatinumJubilee #ServeToLead

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9 months

The #DUP have boxed themselves into this corner. No good blaming anyone else, nor indulging in never, never, never, never land politics. It’s make or break time for Sir Jeffrey and his leadership of the party…

Alex.Kane

@AlexKane221b

9 months

This might be of interest to those unionists who seem to think it’s worth waiting for a Labour victory later in the year.

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6 years

I’ve just heard the devastating news about my dear friend, journalist @LyraMcKee , murdered last night as she reported on trouble in Derry. #RIP “Be passionate and be involved in what you believe in, and do it as thoroughly and honestly and fearlessly as you can” - Marie Colvin

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A sad occasion💔 Laying flowers in memory of my dear friend, #LyraMcKee , murdered by cowards on this spot 5 years ago 18/04/19 “Be passionate & be involved in what you believe in, & do it as thoroughly & honestly & fearlessly as you can” - Marie Colvin #NeverForget #JusticeNow

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2 years

A People Under Siege: The Unionists of #NorthernIreland , from Partition to Brexit and Beyond

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4 years

Coming Soon... Published by @MerrionPress in March 2021. Preorder your copy here:

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3 years

I am genuinely shaking my head at this. It’s like something from a bygone era of colonialism. "Not only did he abandon his Afghan staff but they loaded up their plane with dogs at the same time as the US were loading up their 13 dead. Everyone here is absolutely broken.”

Larisa Brown

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3 years

A former marine who wanted to save 168 dogs and cats from Afghanistan told a government adviser he would “f***ing destroy” him if he did not arrange for them to be evacuated, a leaked audio recording reveals

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10 months

Rumour has it the deal is done, with an eagerly awaited announcement on Tuesday + ratification by DUP Executive on Wednesday. If this is indeed the game plan, it begs the question: is this the biggest gamble of Sir Jeffrey Donaldson’s political career? Much hangs in the balance…

Jayne McCormack

@BBCJayneMcC

10 months

Stormont: DUP won't be distracted by hype, Donaldson tells party - BBC News In latest email to all DUP members, the DUP leader insists he will not be "sidetracked by calendar-led initiatives" when it comes to deciding whether to return to Stormont.

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5 years

#Hitch

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3 years

Big story re NI politics. Sources have suggested to me that the DUP will collapse the institutions & seek an election on the basis of a plebiscite on the border. This follows through on a speech made by Sir Jeffrey Donaldson, which saw DUP harden its opposition to NI Protocol 1/3

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6 months

My💔still breaks for my wee mate, #Lyra , 5 years on. Taken from us long before her time. Like all her friends and family I await justice with great patience. Just like peace it comes dropping slow #NeverForget

Aaron Edwards

@DrAaronEdwards

6 years

I’ve just heard the devastating news about my dear friend, journalist @LyraMcKee , murdered last night as she reported on trouble in Derry. #RIP “Be passionate and be involved in what you believe in, and do it as thoroughly and honestly and fearlessly as you can” - Marie Colvin

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#DUP

Philosophy Quotes

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9 months

“Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it.” — Albert Camus

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Making Ulster Great Again? “I’m hearing rumblings of a new formal political alliance about to be launched. One that is likely to have negative consequences for #Loyalism and #Unionism stuck in the cul-de-sac of despair over the #NorthernIreland Protocol.”

Making Ulster Great Again?

Readers of this blog will know that I have (probably) spent far too much time exploring the destructive tendencies of Ulster loyalism and the politics of Never, Never, Never Land. My rationale for...

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4 years

“[T]he revelations surrounding “Stakeknife” point to a more profound network of agents inside the Provisionals than has ever been admitted.” My latest review essay in @dubreviewbooks

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7 months

@rebelexposed @GlobeEyeNews Lol sources? “Many”?

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1 year

Following my scoop on the #UVF standing down it’s East Belfast battalion, what next for the group? Will this provoke an “LVF moment”? Will the police & security services step up to neutralize the threat this rogue element poses to the peace process?

The UVF Cleans Up its ACT

Earlier in the summer I was discussing the UVF's East Belfast battalion with a journalist from one of the daily newspapers in Northern Ireland. They were asking me about the state of play within...

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2 months

This is an absolute disgrace. I hadn’t had the opportunity to visit but by all accounts it was a fantastic restaurant, now the joy and happiness it brought to staff and customers reduced to ashes by local fascist scum. Long since time local reps called out these hate crimes

Cool FM News

@newsoncool

2 months

🚨❗️NEW: Newtownabbey hate attack 🎤Chief Reporter @jamesgould23 has this report from the scene of a hate crime on the Ballyclare Road. ❗️The Railway Bar and Steam Dining restaurant was set on fire in the early hours of this morning, and graffiti sprayed on a wall. It is

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3 years

“A shared island”?

Glasnevin memorial wall to be discontinued after repeated vandalism

Necrology wall set out to name all those who died in Irish conflicts between 1916 and 1923

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@DrAaronEdwards

2 years

Of course there’s no response - there will never be an acceptance of ‘the other’, despite the election slogans. The Enlightenment ideals of the United Irishmen have long since vanished from Irish republican discourse

Brendan Hughes

@brendanhughes64

2 years

'Michelle O'Neill, you say you want to be a First Minister for all. Will you say the words 'Northern Ireland'? No response from Sinn Féin to @BelfastLive 's question at their Stormont press conference. #AE22

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“It’s almost as if to be a more cultured person you have to reject your Ulster Protestant background. But I’ve always tried to talk about what it meant to me. It’s part of who I am & I’m not going to deny it”. Great interview with Geoff Beattie @GWalker9

Geoffrey Beattie: 'Being an Ulster Protestant is something to be proud of, I can't believe that so...

Geoffrey Beattie's life has taken him on an astonishing trajectory from an impoverished childhood in Protestant working-class Belfast to a career as a worl...

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12 days

Took a dander along the Shore Road, #Belfast , earlier today and came across this sticker on a lamppost ⬇️ It seems that Éireann’s fascists have started to mark territory near a Presbyterian church 1/2

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1 year

“As the people of … [ #Rathcoole ] would attest, their political leadership have essentially condemned them to live in repeated cycles of deprivation, disaffection & despair” | My opinion piece in today’s @Independent_ie #Unionism #NorthernIreland #DUP @MerrionPress @Peterocmedia

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3 years

“Mum's grotesque murder and disappearance was carried out by IRA thugs, masquerading as freedom fighters who claimed that my mother, who knew nothing of their activities had passed on information to the security forces. A ludicrous farce to justify the barbarity!”

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2 years

I personally think it’s a disgrace that some Provisional republicans in the death cult refer to Gerry Fitt as a “West Brit” when so many of them clearly worked directly for British Intelligence - and some still do!

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2 years

“We are not to simply bandage the wounds of victims beneath the wheels of injustice, we are to drive a spoke into the wheel itself” - Dietrich Bonhoeffer #NeverForget #JusticeForLyra

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@DrAaronEdwards

6 years

I’ve just heard the devastating news about my dear friend, journalist @LyraMcKee , murdered last night as she reported on trouble in Derry. #RIP “Be passionate and be involved in what you believe in, and do it as thoroughly and honestly and fearlessly as you can” - Marie Colvin

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1 year

Hmm. One of the most disgraceful acts of the Twentieth Century. Odd and disturbing that anyone should try and excuse it away.

Irish Independent

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1 year

Tánaiste Micheál Martin has dismissed as “shallow” criticism of former President Éamon de Valera in the Israeli press for sending his condolences to Germany in the aftermath of Adolf Hitler’s death during World War II

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2 years

"I am not an Ulsterman but yesterday, the 1st July, as I followed their amazing attack, I felt that I would rather be an Ulsterman than anything else in the world” - Cpt Wilfred Spender, 2 July 1916 #LestWeForget

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11 months

A vile attack. People need to ask themselves what sort of a world they want to live in when they can behave in this way. “Loyalist community leaders” (a euphemism for those close to paramilitaries) are not a legitimate lever to pull & the @PoliceServiceNI need to realise that…

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@BBCNewsNI

11 months

A charity targeted in racist attacks had been advised by police to reassure loyalist community leaders it was not running a mosque, @BBCSpotlightNI reports

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“What is the Game Plan?” My latest blog piece detailing more revelations and context on what my sources have said about the #UVF Brigade Staff statement on its East Belfast ‘battalion’.

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4 years

Buy... Another Day | Not exactly sure why, but I’m starting to feel a little like Daniel Craig. The release date of my new @MerrionPress book has now been put back to 8 April. Keep the faith, dear reader, you’re in for a treat. My author’s copy of #AgentsOfInfluence has arrived.

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“It is time for all paramilitary organisations to stand down en masse – and there would be widespread support for this” - @cllrjohnkyle #UVFStatement

Local UVF leaders in east Belfast stood down, but all groupings should disband: John Kyle

A former PUP deputy leader has called on all paramilitary groups to “stand down” following reports that UVF leaders in east Belfast have been ousted.

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@DrAaronEdwards

3 years

Max Hastings should be ashamed of himself. This sort of stereotyping cannot go unchallenged.

Jenny McCartney

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3 years

In the pages of The Times, Sir Max Hastings offers his take on an entire community of people in Northern Ireland, with a long and complex history: "the Unionists, people little less grotesque than they were in my day." Extraordinary. Imagine it being said about any other group.

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9 months

Unconfirmed reports suggesting that Sir Jeffrey Donaldson only secured the backing of 53% of his party. It’s a slender majority in the post-Brexit referendum world, which could spell trouble - possibly even revolt - along the way. Suggests a precarious path between now & #GE24 …

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“I will say this: that if ever you are going to bring about a united Ireland, if ever you are going to bring the Ulster portion of the community into line with the rest of Ireland, you will never do it by any means except those of persuasion” - Sir Edward Carson, 10 June 1913

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It’s always a source of bemusement to me that my exclusives about the #DUP pulling down the institutions & then reversing their decision were never taken up by the media. I mean, everything I’ve said has now come to pass… #Analysis #StrategicStudies #StructuredAnalyticTechniques

Stephen Nolan

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9 months

Senior DUP source tells Nolan Show Sir Jeffrey’s plan is to “get it all up and running by next week and move on from the Windsor Framework”

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1 year

With the PUP & UUP in rapid electoral decline, the DUP vote down & unionists not turning out in great numbers, it’s time for political unionism to adopt a new approach. Playing to sectional identities - whatever they are - simply doesn’t wash with people in this day & age #LE23

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3 years

“the UK government & decision-makers within the devolved NI administration should make it clear to paramilitary-linked community groups that money will not be available unless & until all threats to the media are ended for good,” writes @henrymcdonald

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Loyalists riot against the NI Protocol | & to think many ‘community leaders’ downplayed this possibility. The fall of the Berlin Wall took the CIA by surprise because they spent far too much time talking to elite-level agents & missed the ‘ground truth’.

Appeals for calm after fourth night of loyalist riots in Derry

POLITICAL leaders in Derry have appealed for calm after police and fire crews came under attack from loyalist rioters for a fourth consecutive night in the city's Waterside.

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9 months

Very sorry to see the Pettifogger-in-Chief has unfollowed me and I’ve unfollowed him in turn. Also, I’ve unfollowed or blocked his multiple bot accounts - he is a bit like a poundland Russian or China bot - because they add zero to our understanding of unionism or loyalism.

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9 months

Good to see Stephen Nolan running with a story I broke a week ago. It’s been a tumultuous few weeks for Sir @J_Donaldson_MP ’s leadership. Does he have the numbers now? Can he lead his party back to powersharing? The people want it. It’s time for the DUP to do the right thing.

Stephen Nolan

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9 months

Senior DUP source to Nolan Show “Jeffrey is banking on people remaining silent - for the sake of party unity - that they will hold fire . That remains to be seen”

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3 years

True story…

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3 years

"I am not an Ulsterman but yesterday, the 1st July, as I followed their amazing attack, I felt that I would rather be an Ulsterman than anything else in the world” - Cpt Wilfred Spender, 2 July 1916 - my Great Grandfather, Sapper William Graham, fought at the #Somme #LestWeForget

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1 year

An incredible role model | These well-spoken words by Alan McBride ought to resonate with everyone who want to see politics work in #NorthernIreland

Cool FM News

@newsoncool

1 year

🗣Shankill Bomb: 30 years on from the IRA attack, today marks a turning point in Alan McBride's life. Alan lost his wife and father-in-law in the bomb. Speaking to @jamesgould23 , he says he has struggled mentally over the last two years & had a message for NI's politicians.

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Well, that’s a wrap to a very successful trip back home to #Belfast . Good to do some fact-finding after my appearance in Westminster last week. A huge thanks to the @WHSmith @BELFASTCITY_AIR team for the opportunity to sign my books! Great to see them flying out! @MerrionPress

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“People have become radicalised around… the protocol &… loyalist… groups are now having their hands forced by the grassroots. I think elements of the UVF & UDA are considering ramping up & increasing tensions” - ⁦ @DrAaronEdwards ⁩ ⁦ @thetimes ⁩

Row over Northern Ireland protocol ‘reinvigorating loyalist terrorist groups’

A report submitted to a British parliamentary committee on Northern Ireland has warned that loyalist terrorist groups are being invigorated by Brexit and issues

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3 years

This is absolute nonsense! I know @SDLPlive are Republican leaning given their recent attempts to outgreen @sinnfeinireland - but come on, I have literally written the book on Northern Ireland Labour - catch yourself on @HackneyAbbott - you had two Irish wings to your party!

Diane Abbott

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3 years

My colleague @lloyd_rm is exactly right. @UKLabour is not unionist. We take our lead from our sister party the SDLP who are republican and pro Irish unification #Ireland

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Hallelujah - this is the best news ever to wake up to! A deeply unpleasant individual. Off you fuck!

Paul Brand

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4 months

BREAKING: Jacob Rees-Mogg has lost his seat. Labour take it with a 5,000 majority.

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3 years

‘Their talk of a united Ireland “in my lifetime” is mystical blather, but it has the power to unsettle a fragile political environment.’ A real attempt to understand unionist angst, though sadly it would appear we are well beyond the ‘Mary Robinson Years’

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3 years

A rare photo of my Great Grandfather William Graham (left of picture, with dark suit, bowler & medals). He was a Sapper with the 36th (Ulster) Division on the Western Front, pictured here on parade with other First World War servicemen in #Belfast #NorthernIreland #LestWeForget

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The Ghosts of Christmas Past | “The reality is that while some of those mounting the “STOP DUP SELLOUT” campaign are members or supporters of the TUV, I can exclusively reveal that the real opponents are inside the DUP itself” #Unionism #NorthernIreland

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3 years

‘Masked gunmen who ordered a terrified bus driver out of his vehicle in Newtownards claimed they were from the “Protestant Action Force”’ - that’ll be an old UVF flag of convenience then…

Belfast Telegraph

@BelTel

3 years

Exclusive: Gunmen who set bus on fire in Newtownards ‘from Protestant Action Force’

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Former #IRA man with links to Freddie Scappaticci flees Belfast home - I’d say there would be quite a few out there with “links” #OperationKenova

Former IRA man with links to Freddie Scappaticci flees Belfast home

A suspected informer and ex member of the IRA’s internal security unit with links to Freddie Scappaticci has fled his west Belfast home.

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3 years

If you think that Unionists and Loyalists will simply pack a day bag and leave, you need to give your head a shake 😂 Time to read Ernest Gellner or Donald Horowitz and get real

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2 months

It only took the West 20 years to replace the ragtag bunch of #Taliban jihadis with, er, a better armed, better trained, better equipped and more ruthless #Taliban Am I the only one who finds this all very predictable and horrifying. Liberal interventionism was an utter failure.

Clash Report

@clashreport

2 months

Taliban organized a massive military parade at Bagram Military Base on the 3rd anniversary of the US withdrawal from Afghanistan. Military equipment left by the U.S. forces everywhere.

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1 year

The editor of @irish_news , Noel Doran, said: "The Irish News has firm evidence setting out the circumstances in which junior members of staff were placed in the audience of Nolan Live…”

Stephen Nolan sent sexually explicit images to work colleagues, not only "long-term friend and peer...

On his radio show, Mr Nolan said he is "deeply sorry" about sharing picture but said he was "talking" to friend and peer outside work.

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1 year

This is a welcome intervention from @BeattieDoug . It’s time for proper strategic thinking with the objective of maintaining the Union between GB & NI long into the future, making it work for everyone. &, crucially, for unionists to reject the morally bankrupt Little Ulster agenda

Doug Beattie

@BeattieDoug

1 year

I pose the question - are some NI unionist actions now damaging the union they profess to support. @uuponline

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10 months

A great point from @RobertBuckland - time Unionists everywhere had the courage to stand up for what is right & challenge the doom merchants. Poundland Paisleyism can only carry you so far, especially amidst the dynamism of political resurgence & recalibration anticipated in 2024!

BBC The View

@bbctheview

10 months

"The time has come for intellectual, cerebral unionism. Muscular unionism will only take you so far." Chair of the NI Affairs Committee @RobertBuckland speaks to @MarkCarruthers7 More on @BBCTheView tonight at 10.40pm @BBCNewsNI

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3 years

Nauseating nonsense

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4 years

“His concept of an Army career was that of total commitment to those with whom he served & unflagging pursuit of his ideals” - a fitting epitaph for Colonel David Benest, a great friend, mentor & one of the most principled human beings I’ve ever known

Colonel David Benest, CO of 2 Para whose experiences drove reflections on military ethics – obituary

His concept of an Army career was that of total commitment to those with whom he served and unflagging pursuit of his ideals

www.telegraph.co.uk

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@DrAaronEdwards

10 months

It’s Hobson’s Choice Time for Unionism - my sources close to the #DUP have informed me that the deal is done. The big question now is: can Sir Jeffrey Donaldson sell it to his party? #NorthernIreland #Politics #WindsorFramework

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4 years

Spies in the IRA | I was delighted to speak to @williamcrawley on @BBCTalkback today about my new book #AgentsOfInfluence | You can hear the interview from 1 hour, 6 minutes in | Available from all good bookshops now! @MerrionPress @Peterocmedia

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7 months

Thank you to all my followers for sharing my tweets, especially those linked to my blog. I am very grateful. I will never charge you for my critical analysis - it’s free but please do keep liking and RTing me so I can keep beating the MSM to the story!

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8 months

Will be interesting to watch this coming week’s #Spotlight on @BBCnireland . It should help some people out there - who are still in denial - come to terms with recent developments in loyalist paramilitarism #EndTheHarmOfPettifoggery #UVFBook

BBC One - Spotlight, 30 Years Behind the Mask

Conor Spackman investigates the UVF replacing the leaders of its east Belfast unit.

www.bbc.co.uk

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3 years

“Like Edwards’ other books the greatest strength lies in the painstaking attention to detail & the piecing together of complicated, often confusing, & sometimes very long, threads of evidence… [A] fascinating & rewarding read” - @AlexKane221b @News_Letter

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4 years

As we remember the 18 soldiers and one civilian killed near #Warrenpoint four decades ago, it is also worth keeping in mind how it represents a Pyrrhic victory for the IRA... Within a decade of the killings the group had strategically surrendered...

1979: the year the gloves finally came off in the battle against the IRA

Forty years ago the Provisional IRA carried out two of its most audacious attacks. In Mullaghmore, Co Sligo, they exploded a bomb on the boat of the former...

www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk

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@DrAaronEdwards

4 years

#AgentsOfInfluence “offers a rare & shocking glimpse into the clandestine world of secret agents, British intelligence strategy & the betrayal at the heart of militant Irish republicanism | Not long now - only republican ‘metaphors’ & ‘angst’ in this one!

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@DrAaronEdwards

9 months

I grew up in Rathcoole & Carnmoney. I spent my holidays in Donaghadee. I met all the loyalists. A friend of a friend knows a UDA guy who lives in a massive house on the road out of the Dee. Guess who his next door neighbour is? Yup! You guessed it: the parents of the pettifogger!

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3 years

“I’ve seen hardship & division of societies & people in a different light in Bosnia & Kosovo, I’ve seen poverty in Uganda & Sierra Leone & Somalia, so I see poverty in a different way, I see division in a different way.” Great interview with @BeattieDoug

Doug Beattie: Moving beyond the politics of identity

‘You have to leave religion at the door when you’re trying to do politics,’ says UUP leader

www.irishtimes.com

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@DrAaronEdwards

5 years

There are some sectarian thugs on Twitter this evening. However, as Orwell once said...

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@DrAaronEdwards

2 months

A disgusting act of bigotry. Needs to be unreservedly condemned across the board.

Kevin Scott

@Kscott_94

2 months

Watch: CCTV shows the moment that a mosque was petrol bombed last night in Newtownards. @WbeeCampbell the mosque was previously targeted by ‘KKK’ The founder says his community is “very scared” @BelTel Full Story:

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8 months

@AlexKane221b Sammy has been making the same single transferable speech since the 1990s. He couldn’t possibly be a unionist after bad mouthing HMG so consistently over the past decades, could he?

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8 months

“Unionists need to be honest with themselves about #Casement ” - via @irish_news

Unionists need to be honest with themselves about Casement – Aaron Edwards

www.irishnews.com

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@DrAaronEdwards

2 months

Sad to see young republicans participating in sectarian violence. It’s the road to nowhere and only harms their own communities. Thoughts with those local reps trying to calm tensions, as they have had to do for many years #DerryRiots

Dean McLaughlin

@Dean_Journalist

2 months

UPDATE: Petrol bombs are now being thrown at officers on Nailors Row in Derry. It's understood the young people are gathering their materials from the Bogside. @BBCNewsNI

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@DrAaronEdwards

5 years

. @NaomiAKlein on President Trump, the “reality TV star”, desperately trying to bend reality to his outlook is the most entertaining (and scary) analysis I’ve heard all week. Thanks to @longformpodcast folks for this fascinating episode #LockdownPolitics

Longform Podcast #388: Naomi Klein · Longform

Naomi Klein is a senior correspondent at The Intercept and the author of The Shock Doctrine and No Logo. Her most recent book is On Fire: The (Burning) Case for a Green New Deal. “I have no idea...

longform.org

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@DrAaronEdwards

1 month

Scandalous but then again what else should we expect from the garrison statelet? #Terrorism #Gangsterism #PeaceAtAnyPrice

BBC Newsline

@bbcnewsline

1 month

A Stormont committee has been told that some ethnic minority communities have been advised by the PSNI to consult with community leaders linked to paramilitary organisations. The committee has been hearing from groups on how racist violence has affected their communities.

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4 years

“Joanne Mathers was an intelligent young woman, an honours graduate who left behind a husband and young child, Joanne represented what was good in Northern Ireland Society.” The Provisional IRA death squad murder of a civilian 40 years ago remembered

Murdered census worker Joanne Mathers remembered on 40-year anniversary

A memorial service will take place today for a census worker who was shot dead by an IRA gunman exactly 40 years ago in Londonderry.

www.newsletter.co.uk

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4 years

I see the Shinnerbots are in overdrive again this evening, like last weekend, angry about loyalist angst. That troll farm in Serbia must have them on an intravenous drip of Rakija. I see they’ve thought better of contesting the presence of #AgentsOfInfluence in their ranks though

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3 years

Why I wrote #AgentsOfInfluence | “Much of the material declassified and released to me in recent years has been truly eye-opening” | Pick up your copy at all good bookshops now! #SecretIntelligence #CovertAction #CounterTerrorism #NorthernIreland #PME

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3 years

It’s interesting that more of these sorts of files keep finding their way into the public archives… #NorthernIreland

British Government believed Gerry Adams was part of IRA’s high command in 1994

A Foreign Office official told the Irish ambassador to the UK that they thought the Sinn Fein president was a member of the IRA’s Army Council.

www.standard.co.uk

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@DrAaronEdwards

1 year

It’s been a long old week of meeting people, researching the next book and doing podcast interviews. Time to recharge those batteries in the Hill Tavern #SchoolNightPints

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@DrAaronEdwards

1 year

How do we know numbers? Back in the early 1990s, for instance, the UVF was small. Active paramilitaries numbered dozens with hundreds of supporters - now there’s thousands. The BBC obtained a leaked security assessment in 2020 putting the number at 12,500. What are they doing?

Irish Agreement

@irishagreement

1 year

@BelTel @DrAaronEdwards @CommonsNIAC “for those who .. have lived with paramilitarism all their lives and still see paramilitaries with some kind of standing in their communities, there’s a shaking of heads and all I can really see the strategy doing at the moment is mowing the grass …”

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4 years

“[The Unionist] government was practising what unionists had long argued regarding the advantages of British citizenship – that UK rights and privileges would apply equitably to all.” Proven to be nonsense by some of us who actually research this period!

A unionist history of Northern Ireland

The editors of a new book on unionism blame the South, Northern Catholics and IRA

www.irishtimes.com

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