Paul Larkin @brehonisbest Twitter profile

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6 years

PM of Luxembourg - No deal ? So what? Brexit is your choice not mine ... 👏👏😎

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And the winner of best placard is …

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No threats. No intolerance. Just Grá … ❤️

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KAT - Kill All Taigs (Catholics). This where we are. Every Year. Every year, sectarian and racist attacks spike in this same period. And every year the Commentariat condones this by pretending there is no link between the Orange Order 'holiday' and this KKK style running sore.

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Are they turning on African ‘Taigs’ now - (Ivory Coast?)

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‘Michelle O’Neill - Fenian Slut’ - where else in the world would this annual hatefest be viewed as normal and tolerated by the statutory agencies?

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All this because the DUP can't hack the thought of a Fenian First Minister .. #NorthernIrelandProtocol

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Apparently English football fans are going to face-paint Ukrainian colours this weekend and they will still boo James McClean.

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It is a fact Sinn Féin backed the IRA. The DUP founded Ulster Resistance and was involved in an anti GFA campaign with LVF links. The British Govt wants to indemnify its own combatants. Portraying the IRA as the only violent Troubles actor is fake news and ahistorical hypocrisy.

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We have had more comment and vehemence from the Irish establishment in four days about #celticsymphony than we have had about the Dublin and Monaghan bombs and Miami Showband attack in four decades.

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10 months

Once again comedy steps into remind journalism of its task of providing context. #Gaza

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The most Irish thing ever - For six months or more we were being told by the John Bull Brigade that only ‘their’ RAF stands between the Republic of Ireland and the Apocalypse. Then the ‘little’ Irish Air Corps just rocks up to save Northern Ireland.

Irish Air Corps deployed to tackle Antrim gorse fire

The Irish Air Corp has been deployed to help put out a huge gorse fire in Glenariff, Co Antrim.

www.rte.ie

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Tricolour waving Irish racists and fascists welcome a right wing British 'loyalist' to Ireland. Enough said.

British far-right activist Tommy Robinson to visit Ireland after protests over immigration

Far-right British Islamophobe Tommy Robinson is due to visit Ireland this week after praising demonstrations here.

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3 years

The sick + dastardly plan for #Miami attack was that the bomb would detonate near Dundalk- thus implicating IRA + by extension 'Catholic' bands (wrong) playing in the North. The muted media reaction to the court ruling is therefore doubly shocking. All respect to @MiamiShowband

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It's very hard to put your finger on, isn’t it? The reason why the DUP would baulk at serving under a Catholic.

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Late loyalist Willie Frazer to be unmasked as driver in sectarian Reavey brothers massacre -

Late loyalist Willie Frazer to be unmasked as driver in sectarian Reavey brothers massacre

Loyalist firebrand Willie Frazer is expected to be unmasked as the teenager driver in the sectarian murder of the Reavey brothers.

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6 years

Lads - since my eldest son sent me the vid of Luxembourg PM which I tweeted this morning I’ve been trying to find the name of its creator - as soon as I find out, or am told by tweeps, I’ll let you know. Yes I’m a film maker but I’m not the creator of that genius clip

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Genius

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“You don’t get to be Irish and racist ...”

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7 years

Stretford/Salford artist LS Lowry, who was on a par with Edvard Munch in my view, rejected five honours during his life, including a knighthood in 1968. He holds the record for the most rejected British honours. Respect.

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So there we have it ...

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3 years

The #EoghanHarris story is moving so quickly and I'm getting so many messages I'm a bit overwhelmed, but will work through them. Thanks for all the support. Meanwhile here is my @IrishTimes article, which led to his outing:

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When will Unionists be continually asked to apologise for the blood curdling 1912 Ulster Covenant, sectarian Partition, the removal of Proportional Representation, Gerrymandering, the anti-Catholic pogroms, the Special Powers Act, the B Specials, Ulster Resistance and Collusion?

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2 years

Well ..,

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9 months

Over twenty years of ‘transitioning’ payouts to loyalists and this is where we are - wonder where they get this hatred from …?

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4 years

#UnquietGraves Thinking of Martin O'Hagan (RIP) this day. He gave me crucial help in my work. Acting alone, and against his initial political instincts, he went down into the swamp to expose the RUC/UVF/LVF interface and he was thrown to the wolves like a dog.

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3 years

The blatant character assassination campaign against @cjhumanrights bears all the hallmarks of the orchestrated campaigns against other human rights advocates like Pat Finucane and Rosemary Nelson. Action is needed now. All must have a right to express their personal opinion.

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“Outspoken loyalist Jamie Bryson, who has connections to the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF), has tweeted about Prof Harvey almost 50 times.”

‘Beheading’ tweet sent by a loyalist to Queen’s human rights law professor

The Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) is investigating a series of “intimidating” tweets sent to a Queen’s University Belfast (QUB) academic by a l...

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This all day - Stand firm against fascism.

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6 years

Morning lads - seems myself and @CarlMullan broke the internet with this tweet of the Luxembourg PM putting Brexiters in their place - bloody hell

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4 years

We are all one people

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The southern establishment did not just abandon ‘the Irish’ in the North. It went further + legitimised anti power sharing Unionists who were to the right of Thatcher + par with Enoch Powell. And they do not like being reminded of this. #BernadetteMcAliskey #TommyTiernanShow

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It appears that the Ulster Plantation and associated events has been expunged from the record. So it's Derry/Doire Colmcille all round now lads ...

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The days of smearing people because they successfully exposed a sectarian dark state and its death squads - as I did - are over.

KRW Law Human Rights

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Statement on behalf of our client Paul Larkin @brehonisbest in respect of social media trolling by Eoghan Harris. Harris has been outed as an anonymous twitter account and has been dropped as a columnist by the Sunday Independent.

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The people who divided the island are now telling us that any talk of reversing that is divisive ... irony is dead.

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3 years

No harm, but that is desperate stuff from Arlene Foster, if genuine. ⁦ @MarkCarruthers7 ⁩ is the best and most scrupulous journalist in Ireland and the UK in my opinion.

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On the 29th of March this year - ‘Babs’ - Eoghan Harris - @barbarapym2 posted this atrocious tweet about me and my @IrishTimes article - I instructed @KRWLaw and a complaint was made -

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5 years

Meet Seamus Ludlow. A completely innocent Dundalk man, abducted by drunken loyalists + shot dead in May 1976. The identity of the gang was known almost immediately but “rumours” initially blamed the IRA. Police inquiries were soon dropped. Seamus has never been an election issue.

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20 years of ‘Stakeknife’ headlines - whilst Robin Jackson, Billy Wright and the RUC’s Belfast killers were all vanished from the picture. Go figure

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I'm amazed Irish Republican 'dissidents' have not set up an 'RCC' and thereby guarantee themselves instant access to the deepest corridors of power, a free right to issue threats and exclusion orders and @BBCnireland et al issuing their statements out like confetti ... #LCC

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6 years

@cotswoldpilgrim @PoliticalJenga 😂😂

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2 years

In the months prior to the murder of Pat Finucane, paramilitaries (from both sides) were telling me he would be attacked. It was the same with Rosemary Nelson and Martin O'Hagan. 2022 and the campaign against @cjhumanrights produces the same establishment shrug of the shoulders.

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It's entirely logical, from the perspective of those who wish to commemorate partition, to celebrate the B Specials, but it also highlights exactly what our Government is now commemorating and how right our President was to reject it -

B Specials re-enactment for NI celebrations branded ‘offensive’

Coleraine festival organiser defends event saying force ‘played a part in history of Northern Ireland’

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How could anyone have imagined that this was a good idea? So close to Croke Park, also. Ireland is the only country I know of in which a section of the ‘native’ establishment seeks to place repressive colonial forces on a par with the liberators.

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2 years

Unionist attempts to portray the American GFA/Protocol delegation as not understanding Northern Ireland is a conceit. For they clearly understand 2 essential points: 1) The DUP's antagonism towards the GFA 2) The motivation behind the DUP's Brexit drive was to restore Partition

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3 years

Welcome to Ireland where Catholics were literally blamed for spreading Covid; the presence of Catholics/Irish nationalists in the professions is pronounced a conspiracy and an organisation that views Catholics as 'heretics' is invited to meet heads of state.

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6 years

It wasnt Gerry Adams who said “Tír gan teanga, tír gan anam." A country without a language is a country without a soul.” It was Pádraig Pearse. He was right then and he is right now. Journalists attaching this position solely to modern SF are the ones weaponizing the debate

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1 year

Assuming this report is accurate, this should mean the end of this annual hate fest - “Shankill Butcher Eddie McIlwaine spotted marching in Whiterock parade”

Shankill Butcher Eddie McIlwaine spotted marching in Whiterock parade

Shankill Butcher Eddie McIlwaine has been spotted marching again — this time at the Whiterock parade in west Belfast.

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5 years

At the request of your reporter Philip Bradfield, I gave @News_Letter incontrovertible details of collusion on the part of the Glenanne gang, including RUC/UDR/UVF men. My clear cut evidence was not questioned by you, it was just binned along with my article. Fake news indeed

Belfast News Letter

@News_Letter

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Glenanne Gang probe because of ‘greatest fake news story in the world’

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For two decades I have been described as a fantasist for describing the 90s loyalist/collusion campaign as a 'Jihad'. Now here we have @NIOgov itself officially using that very term, exactly as one source described it to me.

State Papers: Portadown pastors worked on nurturing new generation of Billy Wrights for ‘NI Jihad’

Northern Ireland Office (NIO) officials were briefed in 1998 that there were "so-called pastors" in Portadown "busy nurturing the next generation of Billy ...

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“Media access and information about Thursday's visit was limited, with only GB News understood to have given prior details of the Shankill meeting.” Welcome to Hong Kong …

Liz Truss criticised for meeting Orange Order while snubbing three of Stormont's main parties

CHIEF Brexit negotiator Liz Truss has been criticised for meeting a senior member of the Orange Order and loyalist community representatives in Belfast on Thursday while failing to engage with other...

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Miami Showband survivor on settlement: Full court hearing would have been 'disastrous for the British' via @newstalkfm

Miami Showband survivor on settlement: Full court hearing would have been 'disastrous for the...

Survivors ultimately decided to settle the case before it got to a full court hearing, amid concerns over a possible Troubles amnesty.

www.newstalk.com

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When in 2004 I described how members of RUC Special Branch liaised with the worst, sectarian dregs of the loyalist paramilitary underworld I was called a fantasist. #SeanBrown 💔🙏

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Mike Nesbitt: “"I have to say I know people of a unionist background who are now thinking the unthinkable and thinking, would I be better off or worse off? (in a united Ireland).”

Mike Nesbitt: Brexit could be 'biggest own goal' for unionists in 100 years

The former Ulster Unionist leader Mike Nesbitt has suggested that Brexit could be the "biggest own goal" for unionists in the last century if it leads it a...

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“We watched the Royal Ulster Constabulary, paramilitary arm of the Unionist Party, ruthlessly crush civil rights protests or, more sinister, hold the ring while Paisleyite thugs did the job.”

Max Hastings: ‘Branagh’s Belfast is too nice — and a lot less ugly than the city I knew’

On the night of August 14, 1969 — 24 hours before the start of the tale told in Kenneth Branagh’s new movie — I saw in Belfast a nine-year-old boy, the same ag

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7 years

The South of Ireland finally gets smacked full in the face with the type of Unionist bigotry, ignorance and misplaced sense of superiority that the Six County Irish have put up with since partition.

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Myself and Martin O'Hagan (RIP) were stating and claiming this from the early 1990s. Martin was murdered and I was smeared as a fantasist. So who were the 'fundamentalist' handlers and 'pastors'?

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So this cold house for Unionists … “The agency’s report on the university, which employed 3,000 staff, showed 79 per cent of the Northern Ireland-born employees were Protestant and 21 per cent Catholic.” via @IrishTimes

‘Sad tale of bigotry’: Employment at Queen’s University scrutinised

British papers: 1989 report showed 79% of NI-born staff were Protestant, 21% Catholic

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As someone who received multiple death threats following intemperate language and smears - forcing me to live away from my home at times - and also as a member of @NUJofficial , I stand four-square behind @sean_murray1 We have not even begun to grasp the magnitude of collusion.

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Ó Muirigh Solicitors statement re: Seán Murray, Director of Unquiet Graves.

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@RobbieTFoster The general atmosphere is slightly different in fairness ...

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And so this hate-fest goes on and on. Thinking of MIchael McGoldrick - Paul McCauley - the Quinn Brothers this day. In my view, the Orange Order should cancel all parades until hate-bonfires are finallly halted. The Twelfth beacon celebrations I have seen are the way to go.

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Eugene Reavey, Miami Showband members, Jack Kielty, US envoy Martha Pope, Rosemary Nelson, Pat Finucane all victims (sometimes lethally) of 'IRA' smear psyops but nobody seeking the root source of these smears.

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Born round the corner from where I was born - the Salford Irish have a great history. ❤️

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Salford-born actor Albert Finney declined a CBE in 1980, and a knighthood in 2000. He described the idea of knighting people as "a disease".

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This tidal wave of smearing against academics, lawyers, film makers, journalists, has been going on for over two years. It was/is obviously some sort of group-think, given that it is always the same (perceived) target profile. How did this happen? Few have asked that question.

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Right … who did this? #Trump

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“I dont want to undermine the poppy as a symbol of pride within Britain or offend anyone, however, we are all a product of our own upbringing and this is a personal choice for the reasons outlined.” (So what makes James McClean different to Nemanja Matic?)

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There are now major questions for people in supposedly high places with this revelation. Frazer’s role and that of his accomplices has been known about for decades by ‘insiders’.

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Late loyalist Willie Frazer to be unmasked as driver in sectarian Reavey brothers massacre -

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“Speaking on RTÉ's Drivetime, Mr Eastwood said - "They tried to pretend this is about Stormont representation but I don’t sit in Stormont, I’m in Westminster, so is Jeffrey Donaldson and we were both invited," he said.

Taoiseach hopes SF 'exclusion' will not set precedent

The Taoiseach has said he hopes the decision not to allow the Sinn Féin leader to attend a meeting with the British Foreign Secretary today was a "one off" and will not set a new precedent.

www.rte.ie

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8 years

My reply to Israeli company offering me translation work

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7 years

@bbcnickrobinson Ireland has a Good Friday Agreement, Nick. This was voted for by the whole island. Moreover, the majority in Northern Ireland voted remain. Your tweet says the 'Northern Irish' will be upset. This is inaccurate. Unless by 'Northern Irish' you are referring solely to the DUP/UUP?

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#EverybodyKnew ... “The feeling in the North is the South turned a blind eye. As writer + historian Paul Larkin argues, the only explanation for the Southern response to anyone talking honestly about the North "is self shame- a phenomenon well attested in post-colonial societies”

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Right wing Unionists have terrible amnesia about the commitment of their forebears to violent rebellion against any law or election that changed their privileged status quo.

Defining the ‘sub-polity’ that is Northern Ireland

Brendan O’Leary’s Treatise and Eoin McNamee’s novels are key to understanding the North

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1 year

Jolly news stories about the twelfth notwithstanding - here is more reality …

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So a man shot in loyalist Mount Vernon area last night and not a peep from the DUP or their ‘stakeholders’ the LCC who’ve otherwise not been off the airwaves this last while.

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A calm and reasoned contribution from one of our brethren on the sensitive question of peace in the middle east …

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5 years

@BBCNewsNI Well done that @BBCnireland reporter for refusing to be bullied when trying to put a legitimate question to Ian Paisley

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When Arlene Foster suffered horrible troll abuse, media commentators, journalists and public figures across Ireland immediately-and quite rightly-publicly sprang to her defence. Why has there been no such alacrity from these same people after last night's gruesome mock lynchings?

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🙄”It is now clear even to the dimmest that the IRA have won in Northern Ireland. “ - PETER HITCHENS: Part of the UK will soon be ruled by Dublin. So much for the defeat of the IRA... | Daily Mail Online

PETER HITCHENS: Part of the UK will soon be ruled by Dublin

PETER HITCHENS: It is hard to see how this will not now lead, in the fullness of time, to the transfer of the Six Counties of Northern Ireland to Dublin rule.

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I have no doubt that the media will now rush to former top PSNI intelligence commander (DCC) and present head of An Garda Síochána, Drew Harris, for his explanation … via @rte

PSNI decision on Hooded Men wrong - UK Supreme Court

The UK Supreme Court has ruled that the PSNI was wrong not to investigate allegations of torture used against the 'Hooded Men'.

www.rte.ie

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And they called me a “fantasist” - ‘On … the eve of the publication of a damning Police Ombudsman report into the murders, Sunday Life can reveal the killer was in the pay of the state.’

Revealed: Ormeau Road bookies massacre gunman was Special Branch agent

The UDA gunman who massacred five civilians in the Sean Graham’s betting shop attack was working for Special Branch.

www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk

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2 months

Best message of all to those racist, pro-colonial underlings and Powellites. Stand firm against fascism. #OneLove

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The journey to the #BillOfShame began with the wholesale censoring of the final Stevens Report. The smearing - and worse - of those who sought to shine a light on state sponsored terrorism + the vanishing of Robin Jackson's name. The UK govt has now admitted it is a rogue state.

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Dear @BrandonLewis and @ChiefConPSNI how on earth was it possible for your covert agencies to issue a 'dissident republican' threat warning to a West Belfast UDA man when no such threat existed? He is now apparently admitting it was fake. (Great work by @trishdevlin ) #psyops ...?

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How a group of women trailblazers was demonised by a hidebound, neo-unionist commentariat - brilliant from @andreemurphy : "Instead of being congratulated and feted ... they have been used as a vehicle to promote anti-republican narratives in various forms."

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Can’t think why Charlie Flanagan seems to have decided he would not retain his seat were he to stand for election again ...

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So now that the whole of Ireland is agreed that parading round in strange garb and showing crass insensitivity to victims and Troubles trauma generally is wrong, this presumably means the end of all Orange Order marches ...

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I said this very thing 20 years ago: “It is very difficult to come to any conclusion other than that there was a cabal within Special Branch who were devoted to destabilising the peace process” -

Call for an inquiry into Special Branch after damning Police Ombudsman report into UDA killings

There have been calls for a public inquiry into the activities of RUC Special Branch following a damning Police Ombudsman’s report into the murders of 11 p...

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Right, which genius did this?

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I'm still trying to work out how a blatant refusal by one side to implement previously agreed legislation has - in much of the established narrative - become a stand off involving both sides.? #AchtAnois

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All happening for decades within a fifteen mile radius of MI5 HQ and ⁦ @NIOgov ⁩ photo opps/hot lines/zooms with the LCC - change of tactics chaps?

Violence, murder and gangsterism: Timeline of UVF activity since 1998

Almost 25 years after the Good Friday Agreement, the UVF remain linked to violence, murder and gangsterism.

www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk

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3 years

Extraordinary

Angie B 🏴‍☠️🇵🇸🇮🇪

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3 years

The best explanation of British Colonialism you’ll ever hear. Worth listening to 6 minutes. Isn’t it sinful to watch our politicians fawn over the British, Simon and Boris. Please watch 1/4

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The @FineGael / @fiannafailparty argument that you can place a former leading RUC Special Branch man- and all the baggage that goes with that- as head of An Garda Síochána but can't have @MaryLouMcDonald anywhere near government smacks of a new type of civil war antiGFA politics

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Paul Larkin

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In 2000, George Mitchell publicly stated that ⁦ @NIOgov ⁩ agitated against the GFA. The media ignored this story just as it failed to investigate the smear plot against Mitchell’s senior aide, Martha Pope.

George Mitchell to fly to Belfast to celebrate anniversary of Good Friday Agreement

The decision by 89-year-old Senator George Mitchell, who is suffering from cancer, to fly to Belfast next week where he will take part in the events surrounding the 25th anniversary of the Good...

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Paul Larkin

@brehonisbest

3 years

Which of you geniuses made this geansaí and where do I get one?

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Paul Larkin

@brehonisbest

3 years

The penny still hasn’t dropped that when the British state says it talked to loyalist paramilitaries it was talking to its own shadow.

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Paul Larkin

@brehonisbest

3 months

I think I am allowed - with no sense of pleasure; rather with disgust and dismay - to say I told you all so. It has taken three wasted decades to get to this point.

Mandy McAuley

@mandy_mcauley

3 months

As Troubles inquests are shut down ⁦ @BBCSpotlightNI ⁩ investigates why the government stepped in to stop the release of information about the involvement of state agents in murders by Mid-Ulster UVF. Testimony from inside the gang raises new questions. Tue BBC1 & I-player

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Paul Larkin

@brehonisbest

3 years

Provocateurs - the questions neither Brandon Lewis, nor the DUP are ever asked.

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Paul Larkin

@brehonisbest

6 months

Regarding the DUP's consultations with the LCC, the Unionist parties in the North have always had links with loyalist paramilitaries. The only group that has pretended this isn’t so is the media.

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Paul Larkin

@brehonisbest

3 years

The Irish Government via @dfatirl has poured millions into @cooperationirl and the LCC's David Campbell appears to have been one of its directors until June this year - So apparently 8 days ago (one week before the LCC statement threatening Irish government officials?)

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Paul Larkin

@brehonisbest

10 months

‘Masked men stroll nonchalantly past armed PSNI officers’ is a more literary but more apt headline. Narnia land in full sight.

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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