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Paddy Shanks

@PaddyShanks

2 years

Clogher area, Co Tyrone. Sarah Primrose who lived on a farm off the beaten path in Co Tyrone. These officers kept an eye on her welfare especially in the winter

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NI Centenary (101) celebration parade: I noticed this photo from Newtownards Road today, so much more appropriate than the earlier "Irish News" malignant cartoon I spotted. I have for awhile begun to wonder who actually are the sectarians in our country.

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@PaddyShanks

2 years

RUC Officer colluding with the Ambulance Service

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@PaddyShanks

2 years

Or should it be Ireland "Our day will come". Surely SKY Ireland must examine their four-year sponsorship from ROI ladies after the team sing a song promoting a terrorist organisation which murdered over 1700 people.

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@PaddyShanks

2 years

@elonmusk Elon, congratulations. A simple equality request: Please consider the possibility of permitting an emoji on Twitter of the Ulster Banner to represent Northern Ireland, like the other nations within the UK, England, Scotland and Wales. Despite complaints no joy.

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7 months

Celebration at RUC graduation parade in Enniskillen 1978 and a few on duty in same year. A generally happy bunch, they certainly saved many lives in Northern Ireland, despite huge pressures in their working and family lives.

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1 year

If new stadium (£168m) is to be built in West Belfast funded by UK taxpayer with minimal financial input from GAA (£15m), and is to be used for Gaelic games, Soccer & Rugby the name should be changed from Casement Park to The Ulster Stadium reflecting the diversity of its users.

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Paddy Shanks

@PaddyShanks

3 years

Does anyone else find this sickening? One can only imagine the outrage from the whole of society if, today, Jeffrey Donaldson were to stand in front of a mural eulogising Billy Wright. Sinn Fein's propaganda machine has finally immunised them against the the terrorism virus.

Ógra Shinn Féin

@Ogra_SF

3 years

“100 years on, we can right that wrong, we can build a new and United Ireland. We are now living in the endgame of partition, and the end days of partition” - @MaryLouMcDonald

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@PaddyShanks

8 months

UK Gov should now take gloves off with reciprocal action. Republic of Ireland received 112 requests for extradition of suspected terrorists from 1970 to 1992- Just 8 fulfilled Shameful refusals under the excuse of "political crimes", many suspects went on to murder again in NI/GB

Kate Hoey

@CatharineHoey

8 months

Time that our Government realises that the Irish government is more of a friend to the EU than to the U.K. This is a disgraceful but not unexpected move by @LeoVaradkar . Maybe U.K. gov should re think all the special arrangements we have with ROI and stop being so reasonable?

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3 years

Please think carefully before you vote next time! The party which is still eulogising a man who took part in this murder 45 years ago. "Yvonne Dunlop, a 26-year-old woman who was burnt alive when one of the firebombs destroyed her clothes shop Alley Katz in Ballymena."

Sinn Féin

@sinnfeinireland

3 years

40 years ago today, at 11am, Óglach Thomas McElwee from Bellaghy died after 62 days on hunger strike in the H-Blocks of Long Kesh. He was a political prisoner; unbowed and unbroken. This is his story.

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2 years

"Unfortunate that there were members who did bad things & we're not trying to hide that, what we would say is that there's almost 50,000 people who didn't do bad things – who did good things, who were ordinary decent people who wanted to do the best they could for their country."

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@PaddyShanks

3 years

Glad to see Taoiseach Micheal Martin standing up to the hypocrisy and bitterness of Sinn Fein. Scratch the surface a little and just listen to the venom in their response.!

JOE.ie

@JOEdotie

3 years

"There's one law for Sinn Fein. There's a different law for everybody else." There was an almighty row in the Dáil after Taoiseach Micheál Martin referenced Bobby Storey’s funeral.

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Paddy Shanks

@PaddyShanks

2 years

My goodness, the party of goodness and light. What a rather nasty bit of work.

ProgressivePoliticsNI

@ProgPoliticsNI

2 years

Alliance leader Naomi Long sticking it to 'one seat wonder' Jim Allister in the chamber👏. Sometimes you can only meet prejudice and heckling with a brutal put down of your own.

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Paddy Shanks

@PaddyShanks

4 years

Lieutenant Colonel Robert Blair "Paddy" Mayne, DSO & Three Bars was a British Army soldier from Newtownards, Northern Ireland, capped for Ireland and the British Lions at rugby union, lawyer, amateur boxer and a founding member of the Special Air Service:

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Paddy Shanks

@PaddyShanks

2 years

If Gov does not move against Protocol, thus non DUP participation at Stormont, and there is another Assembly election within next six months, unionist parties must establish ONE new NI Unionist Party. If Conservative and Labour can have broad range of views so can Unionists

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Paddy Shanks

@PaddyShanks

4 years

Field Marshal Alan Brooke 23/7/1883 – 17/6/1963 family from Brookeborough Co Fermanagh Churchill said about Brooke: "When I thump the table what does he do? Thumps the table harder and glares back at me I know these Brookes – stiff-necked Ulstermen, no one worse to deal with"

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Paddy Shanks

@PaddyShanks

3 years

Walked into Belfast City Centre yesterday. I thought to myself "what a dirty city". Footpaths filthy, litter. When it rains next BC Council needs to get out and give all of them a good washing. Buildings tired, empty, dirty, reminded me of some Eastern bloc city in 1980s.

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Paddy Shanks

@PaddyShanks

9 months

Proud Irishman, Hemingway was born on 17 July 1919, in Dublin into a Church of Ireland family.He attended St. Patrick's Cathedral Choir School and St Andrew's College. Still lives in Dublin.

Timothy Ferres

@timothyferres

9 months

Group-Captain John Hemingway DFC, 104 years of age.

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Paddy Shanks

@PaddyShanks

2 years

A thought for today:

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Paddy Shanks

@PaddyShanks

7 months

This in the slim chance that you might read this request for the Northern Ireland Flag (Ulster Banner) be added to the X emojis along with England, Scotland, Wales flags. I hope you had a good Christmas and wish you a successful and healthy 2024. @elonmusk

Paddy Shanks

@PaddyShanks

2 years

@elonmusk Elon, congratulations. A simple equality request: Please consider the possibility of permitting an emoji on Twitter of the Ulster Banner to represent Northern Ireland, like the other nations within the UK, England, Scotland and Wales. Despite complaints no joy.

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Paddy Shanks

@PaddyShanks

4 years

Joe Biden stood against the deportation of IRA suspects from the US to UK In 1985 he told the Senate during a debate on a possible extradition treaty: “If we ratify this treaty, we will be admitting that the justice system in Northern Ireland is fair, a notion I absolutely abhor”

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Paddy Shanks

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2 years

Who the heck do you think your are Claire Hanna? Suggesting that we should be protected from "people like this" Suella Braverman QC, an elected MP, mother of two from a Indian/Ugandan background who in 2018 resigned on principle over the Backstop issue. Look in the mirror first.

Claire Hanna

@ClaireHanna

2 years

The ECHR exists to protect us from people like this.

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Paddy Shanks

@PaddyShanks

3 years

Just one of the thousands of the disgusting deeds carried out by of the "brave volunteers" of the IRA and sidekicks. I constantly find it difficult to comprehend why so many apparently decent people happy to vote for the the political party which continues to justify such horrors

OnThisDayTheIRA

@OnThisDayPIRA

3 years

#OnThisDay in 1973 the IRA murdered David W Bingham, 22. Married father of 2; 4 yrs & 6 mths. Off duty UDR abducted #OTD on way to an appointment at the Royal Victoria Hospital. His car was hijacked Roden Street area. Next day, body was found shot in the head, in another car boot

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1 year

"What this agreement means then is the EU will effectively run Northern Ireland, and the UK can have a voice on the Joint Committee that will do the actual work of running Northern Ireland. But only if the rest of the UK also does as it is told and does not diverge from EU law."

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@katy_scarletta

1 year

Is Rishi Sunak’s Brexit deal all it’s cracked up to be? via @spectator

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Paddy Shanks

@PaddyShanks

2 years

A breath of fresh air from Taoiseach Micheal Martin- Sinn Fein President cracking under the pressure of truth

Rónán Duffy

@ronanduffy_

2 years

Pretty extraordinary stuff as Taoiseach responds to McDonald's referencing 'corruption and Galway tent' by saying SF has 'corrupted public life for 40 years'. He says SF supported 'murder and mayhem...and the undermining of women raped by the IRA'. 'Pathetic,' McDonald says.

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Paddy Shanks

@PaddyShanks

3 years

@Sapere_vivere So sorry Bruce, many in Northern Ireland will be thinking of you. A short poem for all of us:

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2 years

There are Irish republican influencers everywhere including Google HQ in Dublin, which has refused, despite ongoing complaints, to include the NI flag (Ulster Banner) as an emoji along with those of England, Scotland and Wales and indeed Palestine.

Kate Hoey

@CatharineHoey

2 years

Information for @BBCNews This is the flag carried by the Northern Ireland team at the opening ceremony of the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham

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2 years

Not regular church goer but was brought up with manners and respect for others' Christian views. Does Colum Eastwood, at this stage of life, not know that many people will be offended by him using the words Jesus Christ in this context "What's wrong with these people?" is enough

Colum Eastwood

@columeastwood

2 years

Jesus Christ! What us wrong with these people?

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1 year

This is brilliant from John Bolton, calling a spade a spade in relation to Brexit/NI/UK despite RTÉ Drivetime host trying desperately to protect an unbiased stance. He may run for President of US

Former US National Security Advisor John Bolton

John Bolton, Donald Trump's former national security adviser, on the former president's impending arrest.

www.rte.ie

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2 months

Coincidence : Pat Cullen Chief Ex & General Secretary of the RCN & now 2024 Parliamentary candidate for Sinn Féin Fermanagh ST. 1987 Alberta Quinten & Marie Wilson, nurses and RCN members, were murdered by PIRA in Enniskillen bombing. PIRA was the terrorist wing of Sinn Féin.

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2 years

Today heard hypocrite in chief of Sinn Fein McDonald whining in Irish parliament comparing Russo-Ukrainian situation with antiquated Anglo-Irish history. I remember the the daily shudder of car bombs, murdered friends, hooded bodies orchestrated by her paramilitary wing.

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@PaddyShanks

9 months

Sinn Féin: "We believe in, and support partition on the Iberian Peninsula, both for Catalonia and the Basque Country (Population: 2.178 million similar to Northern Ireland) But we just cannot bring ourselves to support partition on the island of Ireland."

Darren O’Rourke TD

@orourke_darren

9 months

It was my great honour to represent Sinn Féin at today’s enormous Basque independence rally in Bilbao. ✊🏼

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8 months

@redoctoberirp This is part of what what wearing the poppy represents: Lest we forget those who fought for freedom of democracy: Some 3,600 Irish volunteers from ROI were killed during the Second World War and many thousands more wounded. 35,000 Irish perished in the First World War.

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9 months

Don't be fooled by moralistic sweet talk. This person formerly known as Caroline Cullen, Sinn Féin MLA in Northern Ireland Assembly, not Ireland, she is former Irish republican terrorist who went to jail for trying to murder policemen. Gained BSc in Social Studies at UK expense.

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@PaddyShanks

2 years

Veiled threats. Once again Simon Coveney, a foreign Minister, raising the issue of threat to peace again, you think he would have learnt from his past utterances 2017>2019.

Simon Coveney

@simoncoveney

2 years

Todays Sunday ⁦ @Telegraph ⁩ - “Peace in Northern Ireland can only be protected with partnership and pragmatism.” 🇮🇪🇬🇧🇪🇺

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1 year

What have our politicians come to? This is like watching a rather poor clichéd performance from a Speech and Drama exam by an over animated 15 year old.

Alliance Party

@allianceparty

1 year

"It's very clear that the DUP are running out of road, and the people of Northern Ireland want them to accept a deal," said @SorchaEastwood on @ViewFrmStormont Watch below 👇

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1 year

I have followed BBC Sport NI on Twitter and Facebook for quite a while and feel that it should change it's name to BBC Sport IE. Majority of coverage relates to the Republic of Ireland sportspeople and teams and Gaelic Games certainly not Northern Ireland orientated. @BBCSPORTNI

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2 years

If hypothetically Michelle O'Neill were to become FM (Joint First Minister in her own words) she would be representing Northern Ireland, being paid by the NI Assembly, therefore must do everything in her power to promote a successful NI, including calling it by its proper name

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8 months

When the heck was this passed by our City Council? Certainly not in my name. I notice they refused to show solidarity with Israel's colours just after the 7th October attacks and kidnappings. Best to cease all contentious lightings of City Hall.

Cllr. Caoimhín McCann 🇮🇪

@CaoimhinOSF

8 months

Belfast stands with Palestine! 🇵🇸 Tonight, we echoed calls for an end to Israel's bombardment, an end to their illegal settlements, an end to the occupation and an end to apartheid. To the people of Palestine - Belfast stands with you. #FreePalestine 🇵🇸

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8 months

Yes,,,, 21 US Presidents from an Ulster background.

Epic Maps 🗺️

@Locati0ns

8 months

Ancestral background of presidents of the United States

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@PaddyShanks

2 years

NIR 2023 🌤️

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2 years

At this very sad time, and going forward with optimism, the regions and nations of the now truly United Kingdom. "All for one and one for all."

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@PaddyShanks

1 year

@SeanKellyMEP @EU_Commission @berndlange @davidmcallister @EP_President @EPPGroup @EP_Trade Bloody cheek. More threats, you really should keep your trap shut at this delicate stage of proceedings in Northern Ireland

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8 months

WW2 Harland &Wolff built six aircraft carriers, two cruisers and 131 other naval ships; repaired over 22,000 vessels. It also manufactured tanks and artillery components. It was in this period that the company's workforce peaked at around 35,000 people. HMS Belfast🔽

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4 years

I like many unionists, yes moderate, are peed off with the likes of Coveney, Richmond and McGuinness (Mairead EU guru) playing the mister and missus nice game with us, on one hand conciliation for a diddly doo shared future, on the other trying to stitch us up in their EU/ROI web

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3 years

As the police ombudsman reflects upon killings some 50 years ago, it does no harm to remind people of the putrid climate at the time: Young Stephen Parker was one of nine people murdered by Sinn Fein's military wing in July 1972. This below from Belfast Telegraph article 2008:

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@PaddyShanks

2 months

Why on earth does the SDLP insist upon calling a constituency by the incorrect name, it's verging on bigotry, as it is called East Londonderry, which refers to the county. Unlike the City there have never been a County Derry.

The SDLP

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The SDLP has selected Cara Hunter as our candidate in East Derry in the Westminster election. Cara has been an outstanding advocate for a new generation. She would be an incredible MP for people in every community.

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3 years

This morning fresh faced....My Swedish grand daughter Beatrice (16 months) managed to overcome illogical manmade travel barriers to spend her Christmas in Ulster.🎅

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@PaddyShanks

3 years

Ireland was only ever united under British stewardship. On the eve of the Norman Invasion, Ireland was divided into several rival kingdoms fighting a bloody and ruthless struggle to dominate the island. Ulaid is where the name of Ulster is derived. Boundaries expand and contract

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@PaddyShanks

2 years

Rule 1.11 of the GAA's Official Guide states: "The Association shall be non-party political. Party political questions shall not be discussed at its meetings, and no Committee, Club, Council or representative thereof shall take part, as such, in any party political movement."

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@PaddyShanks

2 years

The Republic of Ireland received in excess of 100 requests for extradition of suspected terrorists from 1970 to 1998- Just 8 fulfilled Shameful refusals under the excuse of "political crimes"

Kate Hoey

@CatharineHoey

2 years

@bbctheview @Fergusodowd @MarkCarruthers7 When will your Committee start asking questions on suspected collusion between past Irish governments and the IRA and condemn their failure to extradite terrorists to the U.K. ?

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@PaddyShanks

2 years

Now we know categorically where the professor stands on human rights issues in relation to the Northern Ireland's violent past.

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@PaddyShanks

1 year

Remember, it was also rigid identity politics 1919-1921 which led to the breakaway 26 county Irish Free State exiting the United Kingdom. The six counties of Northern Ireland have remained within that 222 year old nation, and will continue to do so despite foreigners such as you.

US Rep Brendan Boyle

@RepBrendanBoyle

1 year

The argument for a United Ireland is a slam dunk based on the economic evidence. Only rigid identity politics would argue against it.

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1 year

True, we were brought up with Irishness in our home, of course being British was part of family's fabric also. Sinn Féin & their armed wing over the next 30 years did a great job of beating the Irishness out of us. Without SF/IRA we would have been on better terms with ROI today.

Pogo

@PogoSkyBlues42

1 year

@Kilsally N I became steadily less Irish over the last 50-yrs. Ballymena my hometown had Irish dancing schools attended by PUL kids. Army barracks was the Royal Irish Rangers. Their mascot was an Irish Greyhound called Brian Boru. I attended Fheis's. If anything this is Back to the Future.

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"To visit north" what? You continue to show no respect for the people of Northern Ireland. Maybe just laziness on your behalf, but you should at least try to show more respect. In this context, it is not north of your country, but a separate state with a title, like Scotland.

Neale Richmond

@nealerichmond

3 years

Maros Sefcovic due to visit north this week as protocol negotiations ramp up via @irish_news

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@PaddyShanks

3 years

Our beautiful Northern Ireland: Centenary 3rd May (1921 to 2021)

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@PaddyShanks

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£40,176 pledged so far to help support Ben Habib and others' legal challenge against the illegitimate NI Protocol:

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Act of Union 1800 “In all treaties made by his Majesty his heirs and successors, with any foreign power, his Majesty’s subjects of Ireland shall have the same privileges and be on the same footing as his Majesty’s subjects of Great Britain.”

Jeff Dudgeon: The backstop would drastically alter the 1800 Act of Union

The 1800 Act of Union between Ireland and Great Britain is actually two Acts, one of the Irish parliament and one of the Westminster parliament.

www.newsletter.co.uk

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@PaddyShanks

3 years

Mary Lou McDonald, socialist TD and President of Sinn Fein worth €1.9million

Kevin Doyle

@KevDoyle_Indo

3 years

Two months of hard graft has led to Ireland’s Political Rich List. In a 8-page special today you can see what every TD is worth, who are the biggest landlords, the 68 millionaires, the ones with holiday homes and shares in companies like Pfizer & Amazon. #JournalismMatters

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@PaddyShanks

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NI Protocol Solution: Move customs border to the Celtic Sea. This way Ireland will be at economic peace with Northern Ireland & the EU Single market will be protected. Also GB goods easier to access for ROI customers. Surely worth this small sacrifice by our friends in the South

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Another little gem: "EU’s legislation relating to VAT will continue to apply in NI but not in the rest of the UK. These means for example that NI would be restricted from introducing a lower VAT rate to encourage tourism, even if such a rate were brought in elsewhere in the UK."

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@PaddyShanks

3 years

Lest we forget the murders of brave UDR soldiers Alfred Johnston, 32 and a father of four, and James Eames 33, a father of three. Both killed by bomb in roadside vehicle, Irvinestown Road, Enniskillen on 25th August 1972, planted by person or persons, so far, unprosecuted.

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2019 General Election: This MP received 23,078 (47%) of vote but refused to take his seat, in doing so dis-enfranchised 25,960 (53%) of voters. In 1996 IRA "volunteers" targeted his political opponent Nigel Dodds, this Sunday this same man will openly eulogise IRA volunteers.

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@PaddyShanks

9 months

All people in Northern Ireland who have a (false) preconceived/inherited view about systemic discrimination against Catholics in housing & employment by 1921>72 pre- 1972 unionist government and local councils, I suggest you read this analytical overview.

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@PaddyShanks

2 years

Please take note and learn about the Irish mindset, just in case you feel you have to apologise again.

Rt Hon Steve Baker FRSA 🗽

@SteveBakerFRSA

2 years

I am deeply shocked and concerned to see this behaviour in Dublin airport. This is profoundly disrespectful to the victims of terrorism.

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Sinn Féin MP abstentionist costs 2023 Staff costs-£1,350,736 John Finucane £206,890 Michelle Gildernew£170,624 Paul Maskey£209,419 Francie Molloy £213,770 Órfhlaith Begley£189,678 Mickey Brady£165,697 Chris Hazzard£194,858 Office Costs- Total £164,827

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@PaddyShanks

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Northern Ireland 1921>2024 -Voting rights same for every citizen -Social housing provided equally for all. -Social security same for all. Protestant born population today ROI 1.4% was 10% 1921. NI Catholic born population 45% today was 31% 1930. Which seems the fairer state?

Claire Higgins

@ClarNiUigin

1 month

Do pro-Union apologists who say they don't want a reunited Ireland because they are worried about how they will be treated the same way nationalists/Catholics were treated here have ANY idea how big a tell that is??

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Out of good manners, we in Northern Ireland have been keeping silent for months now about how far ahead the UK were of ROIreland in vaccinations, and predictably, here we are, with ROI just 0.3% ahead of UK it has to start bumming about it. Classic example of inferiority complex

Micheál Martin

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3 years

The vaccine rollout is continuing at great pace. Today we edged ahead of our nearest neighbours - a brilliant effort by everyone involved. ➡️Ireland: 72.4% of adults fully vaccinated ➡️UK: 72.1% of adults fully vaccinated

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4 years

It's time for our brothers and sisters in Eire to sit down and discuss re-unification, and their future in a revitalised United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. ❌🙃

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@PaddyShanks

1 year

You background photo, with green, white and orange flag accompanying Countess Markiewicz, who in April 1916, shot dead in cold blood an unarmed policeman Constable Michael Lahiff in St Stephen's Green, certainly contradicts you message of better and safer workplaces for workers.

Neale Richmond

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1 year

Happy May Day!

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@PaddyShanks

3 months

Stay out of Northern Ireland schools please, we do not want polluted with fractious external politics! By the way educated teachers, referring to your map , there is no such county as Derry and never has been.

Teachers For Palestine

@Teachers4Pal

3 months

Is your school taking part? ☘️🍉

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@PaddyShanks

1 year

Northern Ireland World Cup 1982: Now that was some team. (And manager)

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@PaddyShanks

2 years

Great speech from Suella Braverman, she hits back hard, fluent, pragmatic and precise.

Sky News

@SkyNews

2 years

"Let's stop pretending they are all refugees in distress, the whole country knows that is not true." Suella Braverman says she is "utterly serious about ending the scourge of illegal migration" and about fixing "our hopelessly lax asylum system".

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2 years

I remember back in the day that petrol bombs were ruled to be lethal weapons and obvious perpetrators could be legally shot, but I suppose it's just considered to be another slightly more violent form of graffiti these days.

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Paddy Shanks

@PaddyShanks

3 years

Wise words from Kate Hoey.

GB News

@GBNEWS

3 years

"You have a government with one party that doesn't want Northern Ireland to be successful. Why would they? They want a united Ireland. So they make difficulties out of everything." In this week's Free Speech Nation podcast, Baroness Hoey talks NI protocol and Brexit.

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@PaddyShanks

3 years

The murder of Sir David Amess yesterday was gruesome. Brought back memories of Rev Robert Bradford assassinated by IRA in 1981 whilst holding a political surgery, along with a caretaker Kenneth Campbell. Led to retaliatory murders of 3 Catholics by UVF

MP could have been saved

In the third part of our explosive series The Special Branch Files, journalist Greg Harkin reveals how a botched undercover operation led to the murder of ...

www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk

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@PaddyShanks

3 years

At long last new "logical" number plate badge required when travelling abroad. New UK car registration badge will replace old GB badge September 2021 "Government sources told the Times the change is “inclusive of Northern Ireland” and will “promote the whole of the UK abroad”."

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Paddy Shanks

@PaddyShanks

1 month

Hypocrisy: One of scores of forgotten women murdered by paramilitary wing of Sinn Féin: 1988: "Jillian Johnston, murder victim who was shot 27 times by the IRA. A kind-natured girl who couldn't do enough to help customers in her chemist's shop in the border village of Belleek"

Sinn Féin

@sinnfeinireland

1 month

Sinn Féin President Mary Lou McDonald TD has called for urgent action to bring an end to the epidemic of violence against women in our society @MaryLouMcDonald

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@PaddyShanks

3 years

@tim_carey1 From early 1st century the Greek, name a collective term for the islands was used, appearing as αἱ Πρετανικαι νησοι ("Pretanic Islands") and αἱ Βρεττανιαι ("Brittanic Isles") Evolved into the geographical, non political term of the British Isles

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@PaddyShanks

2 years

And Northern Ireland IS the UK, (no such entity without NI), now with a customs border within it breaking the 1800 Act of Union (1921) on trade, EU VAT rules and restriction of State Aid. Also, undermining the core "change of status by consent" pillar in the Belfast Agreement

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@PaddyShanks

2 years

Criticism of RA chanting is huge, and whilst there are many, many Irish who are disgusted and embarrassed at it, I feel that momentum will gather at a plethora of gatherings at football, pub, party, street venues, as an indigenous dormant pro rebel anti British mindset explodes.

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@PaddyShanks

11 months

According to the Cain website, the Provisional IRA murdered some 138 females during the course of its campaign, out of 1,705 lives overall. Today Sinn Féin's female leaders' voice opposition to violence against women yet also believe there was "no alternative" to murdering them.

SEFF

@SEFFLisnaskea

11 months

Remember Rita Meeke, 53, Protestant widow, insurance agent & farmer from Tullyvallen nr Newtownhamilton, S Armagh, murdered 50 yrs ago, 24/8/73 Rita was shot in a PIRA ambush less than a mile from her farm. PIRA claimed the attack was "intended for a UDR man" Rita was driving..

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@PaddyShanks

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Let us be thankful for the 40,000+ UDR>>RIR men and women from all backgrounds who helped keep law abiding citizens of our country safe, day and night, throughout those terrible 27 years.

Tony Harte

@Tony_Harte12

9 months

@AlisonW37619617 The UDR were terrorists, and your ma was in the UDR.

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Paddy Shanks

@PaddyShanks

2 years

I have seen Lidl's motto in Castlereagh store "Supporting Northern Ireland". Unfortunately since the NI Protocol was instigated most fresh and other food and drink products now originate in the Republic of Ireland, apart from a minority amount of NI meat and dairy products.

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@PaddyShanks

3 years

Sometimes overlooked part of the NI Protocol is the potential restriction of UK State aid to NI if there is a hint of it affecting the EU 27. If Bombardier/Spirit AeroSystems were to be a candidate, such aid could be denied if it affects EU Aero industry.

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Paddy Shanks

@PaddyShanks

2 years

I notice the starred logo of FG's Neale Richmond now encapsulates the whole island of Ireland under the EU emblem. This is another stealthy tactic of ROI annexing part of the United Kingdom previously verbally and now visually.

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Paddy Shanks

@PaddyShanks

9 months

Murdered at Belcoo by an IRA sniper from 300 yards away at position on high ground near Blacklion in the safe haven of the Republic of Ireland.

OnThisDayTheIRA

@OnThisDayPIRA

9 months

#OnThisDay in 1992 the IRA murdered Alan Corbett, 25. Full time RUCR, from Banbridge, shot x1 in his head, on a road at night, Saturday evening, 11:30pm, on joint Army/Police foot patrol & making vehicle checks (known as a rolling checkpoint) Belcoo, Fermanagh. Died next day #OTD

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Paddy Shanks

@PaddyShanks

3 years

Britain has left the EU and part of the United Kingdom remains within, contrary to the result of the nationwide vote on 23rd June 2016.

Andrea Leadsom

@andrealeadsom

3 years

Happy Brexit day!

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Paddy Shanks

@PaddyShanks

10 months

Proud indeed.

Micheál Martin

@MichealMartinTD

10 months

Congratulations Shane Lowry, Rory McIlroy and all of #TeamEurope on regaining the Ryder Cup! Incredible performance and sporting drama over the past three days.

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Paddy Shanks

@PaddyShanks

2 years

"The Irish state funded formation of the Provisional IRA with £100,000 in 1969-70." "The Irish state allowed IRA training camps to operate with virtual impunity in its territory"

Brian Higginson 🇬🇧

@BHigginsonUKNI

2 years

OOH AR UP THE RA: HERE WE GO AGAIN. The impossible has been achieved. An unrepentant IRA has been sanitised and turned into an identifying anthem of Irish soccer. Article by Kevin Myers.

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@PaddyShanks

9 months

At least 94% of unionists are unhappy with the NI Protocol/Windsor Framework and want it scrapped or re-negotiated.

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Paddy Shanks

@PaddyShanks

2 years

How many times did we hear this. Time for an official apology from the Irish state to the people of NI and Britain for its turning a blind eye and non- extradition policy "for political murders". "Murderers escaped over border 500 yds away"

OnThisDayTheIRA

@OnThisDayPIRA

2 years

#OnThisDay in 1984 the IRA murdered Ivan E. Hillen, 45. Married father of 1. Off duty UDR shot point blank x17 as he went to feed pigs, Augher. Murderers escaped over border 500 yds away. Wife heard shots. “She went out & saw him lying there. It was horrific"- sister-in-law. #OTD

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3 years

At long last,,,,, legal action against illegitimate NI Protocol: Thank you Ben Habib, Kate Hoey and Jim Allister and others.

Kate Hoey

@CatharineHoey

3 years

Pleased to join @benhabib6 and @JimAllister in this action We will soon be joined by the key leaders in Northern Ireland as all who care about the Union speak out

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@PaddyShanks

6 months

Unbalanced: GAA (newly named Ulster Stadium) project originally had a budget of c£77m, with Stormont pledging £62m and the GAA providing £15m. Cost could now rise to £200m with GAA still only contributing £15m. Kingspan Stadium received £16.5m while Windsor Park received £31m.

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@PaddyShanks

2 years

Claudy bombings cover up, 9 murdered in July 1972. Ordered by whom? "Father Chesney was ordered to place bombs in Claudy to take the heat off IRA Derry brigade which was suffering a new and sustained assault following the breakdown of the 1972 ceasefire."

Who was Father James Chesney?

A Catholic priest is suspected of being involved in an IRA atrocity.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Paddy Shanks

@PaddyShanks

1 year

18/07/23- Wise words from Máiriá Cahill on West Belfast Festival

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Paddy Shanks

@PaddyShanks

5 years

@M_AndersonSF Great for community relations! How would the Nationalist community react to a council funded Billy Wright play park, I wonder. "The rifle that McCreesh had in his possession when captured was one of those used in the Kingsmill massacre on 5 January 1976" BBC News 2013

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@PaddyShanks

2 years

Ireland, a "holier than thou" State which, with straight face, could blatantly protect terrorists, because it considered their crimes to be "politically motivated", though could easily lock up a similar killer for 30 years. Many of these same murderers went on to kill again in NI

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Paddy Shanks

@PaddyShanks

3 years

Is there anyone else in Northern Ireland who is becoming exasperated by the litter lying beside roads, sometimes for years, + old, dirty and overgrown, damaged signposts. Grass cut perhaps, and litter left where it is. Councils spending on PR and surplus things but no pride.

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@PaddyShanks

8 months

George Washington, the founding father of the United States, was heard to have remarked: ‘If defeated everywhere else, I will make my last stand for liberty among the Scotch-Irish of my native Virginia’.

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