Critical Disc An. Constituting the facticity of common assumptions in e/day talk. A Westie (Belfast) exiled in Donegal/🐶 Butler/RT≠endor
#AbortionIsHealthcare
female caller to Nolan on brexit & damage being done to NI by DUP
@StephenNolan
asks if she's a nationalist then angrily attacks her over SF (she's not SF) & brings in John Downey & Soldier F?? Don't hear this type of attack when it's George from Shankill. What a complete bastard
Jamie Bryson says the IRA started the Troubles. Let's not rewrite history: UVF carried out the first killings of the Troubles 3 years before republicans based on rumours, scaremongering, and apocalyptic warnings of equality. They were also planting cross border bombs in 1969
@LMcAtackney
Heartbreaking. And to hear the justifications by people who know nothing of the reality of life in Palestine makes it all the more jarring.
@JohnnyMercerUK
let's hope justice is served for John Pat Cunningham, an innocent 27 year old man with learning difficulties shot in the back. His murderer deserves to die in prison.
Ards Peninsula: 150 (m2), pop: 25,000
Gaza Strip: 141 (m2), pop: 2.2m
(NI pop: 1.9m)
Imagine over 8,000 bombs being dropped on Ards Peninsula in 25 days, 88x the pop, there is no clean water, sanitation, medical supplies, electricity, or communication, and you can't get out.
NI vs North of Ireland.
When Unionists call NI 'Ulster' it's no different to saying the 'North of Ireland' as Ulster (9 counties) is 'literally' the north of Ireland. So why complain when others say 'NoI' when they are doing exactly that by calling it 'Ulster'?
€1.6bn of peace money went into NI (1995-2020). If loyalists only got day trips out of it then questions need asked of the community leaders and an audit of the organisations who were funded.
@Jennijeremies
nothing courageous about collapsing a health service. Hope you're thinking 'we did that' when operations are cancelled and cancer patients can't get treated because there's no beds. Well done folks, great job.
@Rebecca99LT
don't be sorry, I'd say majority of healthcare staff are terrified. You shouldn't have had to be in this position. Take care and thank you 💚
Two days unionists, on air, have complained about:
A statue to an Irish republican & suffragette in city centre
Irish being included in a multilingual sign in city centre
Discussing a BP
Then say we should concentrate on making NI work for all.
Anyone see the problem?
Millionaire Ministers scuttle back to the HoC from the £35,000 a-seat Tory Winter Ball, to vote to leave the poorest households with no choice but to sell their homes for social care - while simultaneously protecting the £1Million plus householders…
Unbelievable, according to Mervin Gibson the Quinn brothers deaths were society's fault nothing to do with the OO. The fault of a society who hated each other, but that hate was inflamed by the OO at Drumcree.
Doug Beattie “doesn’t see the need” for bilingual signage.
Good to know minority language rights depends on whether a non-Irish speaker feels there’s any need for them.
#UnionofPeople
The vile, abusive, misogynistic, bigoted responses to tweets of Michelle O’Neill by some unionists is shameful.
Remember this the next time you are outraged at perceived disrespect for your culture when your response is to also hurl abuse when they do reach out in respect.
Is the principle of consent needed for NIP?
UK High Court: No, the GFA is clear
UK Court of Appeal: No, the GFA is clear
UK Supreme Court: No, the GFA is clear
Can journalists & presenters please stick to the facts and stop letting people spread disinformation?
This week:
A UVF funeral breaching covid regs, a crowd of masked UVF walking thru streets, intimidation, threats, drugs seizures. No arrests
Also this week:
handful of survivors & relatives of a loyalist attack, socially dist to lay flowers at a memorial - assaulted & arrested
DUP are complaining about language students being housed together at QUB because it segregates students whilst at the same time threatening to use the POC against an the integrated education bill? what's that all about?...
@clareanneath
Having Irish heritage does not give you a right to tell the Irish people what they protest for and support.
This is Ireland supporting the end to the decades of oppression of Palestinians. 🇮🇪🇵🇸
Jeffrey Donaldson doing his best “don’t the EU know who we are” on the news 😂 who’s gonna break it to him the UK is no longer an empire, they don’t hold all the cards and no, the EU don’t need you more than you need them
Ms Pengelly having a complete normal one this morning pushing how nationalist designation hasn't grown in 25 years. That is true but sure it could be worse, at least it hasn't decreased by 12.6% (strangely she hasn't mentioned that bit)
@DeirdreConroyIE
@TheCrownNetflix
Using children's murders to point score is pathetic
Children <16 killed between 1969-2008 (not including 17 yr olds murdered on Bloody Sunday or elsewhere)
State forces: 44
Loyalists: 48
IRA: 47
Dissidents: 8
INLA: 5
Not known: 3
Catholics: 118
Protestants: 27
Not known: 10
To recap. The man who wrote the forward to a book on 'constitutional law' written by a blogger with no qualifications in constitutional law is complaining to a university about a professor of constitutional law co-authoring a legal & academic report on constitutional change.
Jim Wells thinks Protestant students go to England for university because Queen's have Irish language signs in the SU. Don't they go to Irish universities either then?
#bbctalkback
When
@williamcrawley
says to a politician "you're hurting my head" you know it's a car crash interview of epic proportions. DUP desperately repeating the same three sentence script was painful. Great interviewing 👏
#BBCTalkback
@NoraUtd
Rape and sexual violence doesn’t discriminate by gender, it affects everyone & rape crisis centres are for all victims. Feminists believe in equality not discrimination. Well done
@RapeCrisis_NI
How insecure do you have to be to block a tweet in Irish to celebrate the 130th anniversary of Conradh na Gaeilge.
So much for respect & moving forward together DUP.
So we've heard loyalists 'will' 'could' 'may' hold 'mass' protests in Dublin like it's some sort of threat. Here's the thing, large protests in Dublin are nothing new and as it's highly doubtful you'll get anywhere near the numbers they're used to, do it or don't, nobody cares
How many people attended the DUP meeting last night? As it was indoors, was there a risk assessment done? did they all wear face masks and socially distance?
been thinking about the PONI report(s) & ex-SB William Matchett saying the IRA and UVF informers were run in the exact same way. What if the reports found the weapons used to murder Protestants had been handed to the IRA by the RUC/UDR? How different would the response have been?
I can't breathe 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 That's what you get for lundying the King 😂😂😂😂😂😂 King & queenie are also coming to celebrate the GFA while DUP stand outside huffing 😂😂😂😂😂
As Sinn Féin arrive health workers ask
@moneillsf
to tell
@chhcalling
to speak to them as he’s “playing hide and seek”. She replies he’s “playing hide and seek with everybody”
@wereontheditch
FF invite her to their Ard Fheis
FF leader tours Isreal with her
FF host her at the Mansion House on International Day of Solidarity with Palestine
Just in case there was any confusion around who FF support.
First they wore green, then they played with hurls, were surrounded by GAA shirts & now they’re tweeting as gaeilge!!
the republican agenda plot twist you weren’t expecting
KAT
Swastika with 'CRT'
Graphic obscene image
Flag with rocket launcher
Culture.
Bonfire builders hut decked in sectarian, violent and Nazi images via
@irish_news
Court of Appeal: the GFA has not changed, NI remains in UK until the majority vote to leave
Loyalist twitter: No, no, no, we don't want that. This ends the BA
This has never been about scrapping the NIP, it's been about scrapping the GFA to remove any possibility of a BP
Clearly this was all a scam by the DUP, using language legislation as a weapon to get SF to collapse the Assembly. When that didn’t happen they wanted Poots to collapse it by not nominating a FM. The DUP are putting health & education at risk because it wasn’t blocked.
The most entertaining thing about the Casement Park 'row' is listening to the mental gymnastics of bigots trying to deny their sectarianism.
The consequence of DUP decision to veto a multi-use stadium at the Maze.
The basic nonsense of the Protocol/Framework is that it's ok to put barriers between Northern Ireland and the rest of the United Kingdom, but nowhere else. That is unacceptable
when loyalists with large platforms spend the day pontificating against the PSNI, is it any wonder that 24/48 hours later there's riots? then have the cheek to say the only way is through education and politics. This is on you too
"everyone who wants a UI is baptised catholic & goes to catholic school, everyone who wants the Union is baptised protestant & go to a state school"
Hottest of hot bullshit takes from Malachi O'Doherty. How does anyone take this man seriously? he's stuck in the 1970s
instead of giving paramilitaries £50m to 'transition', why not use it to help those losing their universal credit uplift, or waiting lists, or schools, or nurses wages ....?
Former soldier punched and kicked two teenagers about the head and body as they lay defenceless on the ground after discovering one was a Catholic wearing a GAA top.
What is there to stop someone whose knowledge of Irish might be no greater than Gregory Campbell's claiming in the census that they are fluent in the language?
everyone knew what they were voting for in the GFA, we all agreed to support constitutional change as long as it came through peaceful, democratic means. Now that is a possibility, Unionists do not get to change the rules as that would make them dishonest brokers.
@BBCTalkback
the big lie: "the DUP tell voters the GFA is a conspiracy to give nationalists everything and unionists nathin"
The DUP who have blocked any and all progressive legislation on education, social change, language, and human rights. 👏
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@carlalockhart
questions International Trade Minister,
@GregHands
on the UK-Australia trade deal and its potential impact on farmers in Northern Ireland.
The DUP has to turn up to a recall debate or the UUP can elect a speaker without it.
There is no limit in standing orders to how often or how many recall petitions there may be.
If the UUP acting speaker allowed it, everyone else could have the DUP back in the chamber every day.
SMcB: I ask if he wld have dissident republicans or those who support them, on air
Nolan: no because they “are currently threatening to murder police officers — that’s the difference"
UVF are currently threatening to murder Irish politicians LCC even threatened violence on air
I've a solution to the sea border. As our chums in Scotland want in on the same deal as the north here, why not put the hard/technical/altern (delete as approp) border between Scotland and England and have Scot/NoI in same protocol. Let the English deal with having a hard border
Carla Lockhart making a complete tit out of herself on GMU, blaming everyone else on picking and choosing on what is devolved and what is national issues, blaming everyone else on having contempt for devolution - the same party who is stopping the devolved govt back from working
BREAKING: Jim Wells says he has a very boring sex life because he is an ordinary husband. If that isn't a promotion for not getting married I don't know what is 😬
@HoratioNelson0
Says more about your lack of morals if you think holding a concert in support of people ravaged by genocide and famine is something to be condemned.
This “only x amount speak Irish therefore language rights shouldn’t be protected” trope is so fucking BORING. I rarely use the health service it doesn’t mean I shouldn’t have a right to healthcare. Rights are not conferred by usage but by national citizenship.
#BBCtalkback
the lodge said: "Once again we are being denied our right to walk due to threats of Republican violence" adding it "cannot understand the Parades Commission's logic"
The logic is clear: you're not being 'denied', you 'agreed' not to walk. Now why do you want to disrupt peace?