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Brian John Spencer

4 years

Seamus Heaney, 135 x 74 cm. And some other recent work... #SeamusHeaney #WillieAnderson #rugbyartist #guinness #guinnesstoucan

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Brian John Spencer

@brianjohnspencr

8 months

From 1619th fastest man to 3rd fastest “woman” This trans stuff is obscene, utterly offensive to logic and fact and anyone who supports this is sick in the head. Thank God for @sharrond62 and @Riley_Gaines_

Riley Gaines

@Riley_Gaines_

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Sadie (Camden) Schreiner's time in the 200m makes him the 3rd fastest D3 collegiate runner in the nation in the women's category. For perspective, his time ranks him 1,619th in his rightful category of the men's division. 1619th->3rd. But no yeah men can totally become women!

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The Batley Grammar school teacher is still in hiding with PTSD because a Muslim mob threatened his life… (A teacher in France was beheaded by a Muslim extremist) But @Nigel_Farage is the one demonised for pointing out the problem…

GB News

@GBNEWS

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‘He was hounded out of his job. In our country, in our democracy, in 2024, it’s absolutely unacceptable’ Dame Sara Khan has released a report today, exposing the 'chilling' effects of extremism on the UK, and says the Batley school teacher is still in hiding with PTSD.

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8 months

@DaveAtherton20 look at the weak men who do nothing!

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@brianjohnspencr

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As an Ulsterman I’m watching the final with interest and hoping #Armagh can take the win. Grown men spend large chunks of their salary to watch multi millionaires play Premier League football… These lads grew up down the road from me and are unpaid. Massive respect.

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Brian John Spencer

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3 years

I got on v well with Christopher Stalford. I would see him in Belvoir when I lived there and often park outside his office I really enjoyed chatting to him & painting him. I did of him and his son. I felt compelled to draw this because he was such an exceptionally good father.

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Brian John Spencer

@brianjohnspencr

10 years

8000 lighted balloons tracing the path of the Berlin Wall on the 25th anniversary of its fall: http://t.co/jhx5Ng0Fe0”

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@brianjohnspencr

1 year

Can’t get a tattoo or drink alcohol until you’re 18, makes sense…

Montana bans transgender medical care for children

Republican politicians have campaigned to restrict treatments for transgender youth, including hormone treatments and puberty blockers

www.telegraph.co.uk

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@brianjohnspencr

10 months

@JohnOBrennan2 The petty jealousy and burning resentment of the big state leftist is something to behold.

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Brian John Spencer

@brianjohnspencr

6 months

@tomdoorley @desondy The word “creatures” is fascistic and dehumanising language. Do you deny that people have a right to question and oppose mass migration? Opposing mass migration does not make someone a xenophobe.

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Brian John Spencer

@brianjohnspencr

3 years

Head of state, of a country where over 90% of schools are run by the Catholic Church, condemns segregated education...

President condemns segregation in NI schools as shameful

Integrated education key element to successful future in North, says Higgins

www.irishtimes.com

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Brian John Spencer

@brianjohnspencr

2 years

@LucyABaxter My house identifies as Irish and the Queen as ours, and we regard her as part of our Irish culture. Just feel you are pushing a narrow notion of “Irish”. Everyone born on this island should regard themselves as Irish, but it’s narrow Irishness you’re pushing that stops this

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@brianjohnspencr

5 years

“Bits Out!” #belfast #mayor #ge19

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@brianjohnspencr

3 months

The West is killing itself with “kindness” Muslim migrants threw Christians overboard, Italian police say - ⁦ @CNN ⁩

Muslim migrants threw Christians overboard, police say - CNN

Muslims trying to get from Libya to Italy in a boat threw 12 fellow passengers overboard, killing them, because they were Christians, Italian police say.

www.cnn.com

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Brian John Spencer

@brianjohnspencr

6 months

@DaveAtherton20 @RishiSunak I’ve said it countless times, it’s by design and willed by the people at the top. Any talk of stopping the boats is pure pretence.

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Brian John Spencer

@brianjohnspencr

1 year

Painting ahead of the #Coronation

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Brian John Spencer

@brianjohnspencr

4 years

Painting of #belfast skyline I did a month back or so #NorthernIreland #Ireland #IrishArt #BelfastArt

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Brian John Spencer

@brianjohnspencr

3 years

Good question. The EU is lowering animal feed standards. Will that apply to Northern Ireland or will we remain with the higher standards that exist in the UK? Quite astonishing those who have shrieked about US chicken and Australian beef have nothing to say on this news.

Jim Allister

@JimAllister

3 years

Mr Jim Allister To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs (i) whether the lifting on the ban by the EU on the feeding of animal remains to pigs and poultry be applicable in Northern Ireland; and (ii) for his assessement of the lifting of the ban.

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Brian John Spencer

@brianjohnspencr

3 years

Painting I did of Belfast City Hall #belfast #northernIreland #irishArt #IrishArtist

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Brian John Spencer

@brianjohnspencr

2 years

“Jeering at unionist fears is all very well for Irish Times columnists, but they will not have to pick up the pieces if the Shankill Road or East Belfast explodes…”

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Brian John Spencer

@brianjohnspencr

3 years

#Ukraine #Belfast via Olivier Bernard

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Brian John Spencer

@brianjohnspencr

3 years

Wow! Need an investigation in to this by QUB promptly. Happens far too frequently to ignore any longer. For young educated students to be chanting and cheering for a terrorist organisation is truly a nightmarish scenario…

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@Carrick_Girl

3 years

Freshers week already? #Holylands #shithole

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Brian John Spencer

@brianjohnspencr

8 months

I voted remain in Brexit vote, and was adamant in the run up to the vote. But the years of sneering and gloating that came in the aftermath of Brexit from Dublin and EU elites was sickening I’m enjoying gloating about the mess the EU now finds itself in #AgriculteursEnColere

Eva Vlaardingerbroek

@EvaVlaar

8 months

🇳🇱 Listen to this brave Dutch farmer as he warns the political establishment: “We are done talking. We’re done with these fake problems created by you politicans. You are trying to destroy farmers all over Europe, but just like the farmers in Brussels today, we will fight back!”

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Brian John Spencer

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2 years

In Northern Ireland we have lived with ultimatum, leverage and demand politics for well on a decade and more, with long periods of no Stormont government, but never have I seen the anywhere near level of outrage for the party simply doing what has long been done before…

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Brian John Spencer

@brianjohnspencr

10 months

@kelvmackenzie Utterly deplorable comments from @TherealNihal . Would like see @bbcfivelive @BBCNews take Nihal for tolerance and diversity training. What is the breakdown of BBC staff and how does that equate to the total breakdown of UK population?

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Brian John Spencer

@brianjohnspencr

3 months

Will we see the same outrage next time a ‘Londonderry’ or ‘Entering Northern Ireland’ sign is defaced? I’ve seen these words defaced my entire life.

Lord Mayor of Belfast, Cllr Micky Murray

@micky_murray

3 months

Really disappointing that the dual language street signage at Cranmore Gardens was defaced over the past couple of days, in an attempt to remove the Irish street name. I’ve got most of it cleaned off, and I’ve asked Council to attend to give it a good clean.

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Brian John Spencer

@brianjohnspencr

3 years

@naomi_long @antisyzygy Correction, NI is clearly in the British flag logo… Clearly reads GB NI.

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Brian John Spencer

@brianjohnspencr

3 years

University isn’t the only way to succeed in life. This meme is very real to me. Why do we as a society put such emphasis on academics and poo poo traditional trades and crafts?

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Brian John Spencer

@brianjohnspencr

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@DaveAtherton20 @RishiSunak They could do this in a second, if they wanted. But the elites want the boats, and all this talk of “stopping the boats” is pure theatrical play fighting for the gallery. It’s so DEMORALISING, and that’s THE POINT!!

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Brian John Spencer

@brianjohnspencr

2 years

Professor Liam Kennedy is a profound and notable scholar of Irish history at QUB. AS a colleague of @cjhumanrights , with an office nearby, it’s very strange that the “let’s have a conversation guy” doesn’t want to have a conversation with Liam… Quite Orwellian. Via @mairiac31

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Brian John Spencer

@brianjohnspencr

3 years

I voted remain, but the Zealotry and pettiness of Brussels is plain to see. What is worse, is the lack of comment and criticism of the zealotry. This move from the EU Commission is just ridiculous.

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@brianjohnspencr

3 years

I understand why people share Craig statement on NI being a protestant state Can’t understand why same don’t share de Valera’s call that the 26 counties was a Catholic country and that unionists were an “alien garrison” with the same regularity/revulsion?

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Brian John Spencer

@brianjohnspencr

2 years

Algeria is 1,200 miles from France and was colonised by FR in the 1800s… Ulster and Scotland are 11 miles apart and there has been community and trade between our two islands for a millennia and more. There is no analogy here. Propagating this in @irish_news is utter tripe

Richard Aardvark 🇺🇦

@Richard_Ardvark

2 years

I see a board member of Ireland's Future is promoting the idea that unionists are settlers who do not belong in Ireland

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@brianjohnspencr

3 years

Northern Ireland is Northern Ireland. It is not like, it is nothing like, Cyprus, India, Zimbabwe or Afghanistan. This is misty eyed green nonsense that perpetuates mistrust and hatred.

#Think32

@Think32_

3 years

Unionists know Britain will eventually withdraw from North too. - Brian Feeney's Irish News column. #Think32

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9 years

Cassette Boy kills it with #PigGate Must watch! http://t.co/sH1ZIQC0XN

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3 years

My latest painting of Belfast City Hall. #belfast #northernIreland #IrishArtist

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@brianjohnspencr

4 years

Paul O’Connell, a heroic Irishman and my childhood hero. Showing solemn grace, true kinship and leadership in wearing a #poppy . The venom spewed by people like @buff_egan and others is an Ireland that is very real, but one we should reject totally.

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@brianjohnspencr

2 years

@mooreholmes24 @richardtgarland Given Dublin has never sought to reach out or be seen to be concerned with the grave concerns of unionism, it is absolutely right that UK government has acted. There was plenty of time for Dublin to make a gesture to unionism. Unionism only got ignorance and mockery from Dublin.

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@brianjohnspencr

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'Were you born in an RHI shed?' The new saying for that person in your life who always leave the door open... #RHI

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@brianjohnspencr

4 years

Marxists open business. The marxists then don’t pay staff. 😂 So sad for those staff not paid, especially under these conditions. And I’m one of the people owed money for art sold.

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@brianjohnspencr

3 years

Eastwood says unionjsts need grow up, let’s live together and stop culture war Yes! I’m on board. Then why has every modest effort to mark NI centenary been blocked any time his party had chance? Even totally apolitical unionists proud to be NI I chat with are alarmed at this

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@brianjohnspencr

3 years

Painting #bonfire at Pitt Park in E Belfast To my friends in south and the other community offended at painting the flag I can only say, I can only paint what I see I guess also we should remember that loyalists would say that tricolour is more a symbol to them of IRA than ROI

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Brian John Spencer

@brianjohnspencr

3 years

Doug B cartoon

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Brian John Spencer

@brianjohnspencr

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@OxfordDiplomat Every country has been invaded in the past. Also, I’m also Irish, but I don’t possess your obvious anglophobia and obsession with the past and putting every global event through an Anglo-Irish lens…

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@brianjohnspencr

3 years

Nice to be able to do a portrait of @CatharineHoey on behalf of the boxing club and then present it.

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@CatharineHoey

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Pleased to visit Sandy Row Boxing Club and present awards. Thanks to all the volunteer coaches and helpers. A great atmosphere #boxing

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Fascinating to see watch the lambeg drummers in Markethill, over 90 in action today. #armagh #northernIreland #ireland

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@brianjohnspencr

3 years

This #belfast #northernIreland

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The young lad playing the pipes in his first big parade in Dromore today on #BlackSaturday Utmost decorum and respect on display today and most family friendly, nothing sectarian or laudatory to report @chrisadonnelly @KevinPMeagher

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Brian John Spencer

@brianjohnspencr

3 years

British expressly wished for all-Ireland settlement 100 years ago. Irish* Unionists however exercised self-determination to opt out of Dublin rule and remain in UK. This kind of misinformation - “UK border imposed on island of Ireland” - from academic is why we are so divided.

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Brian John Spencer

@brianjohnspencr

3 years

Very very depressing. Incomprehensible.

Squinter

@squinteratn

3 years

Para flags going up in some areas of Derry for the 50th anniversary of Bloody Sunday. Just so depressing.

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2 years

“Dublin knew that what it was pushing for would upset the peace settlement; & EU used its power over the UK to impose untenable conditions it would never accept for itself” - ⁦ @TomMcTague ⁩ One of few journalists giving fair account of where we are

Europe’s Ireland Problem Is Here to Stay

Brexit created a problem that cannot be solved, only managed. Both Britain and the European Union are responsible for what happens now.

www.theatlantic.com

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@brianjohnspencr

2 years

Arrived in Pisa in Italy for a wedding, and the queue for British and non-EU passports was way shorter and quicker… Don’t tell the usual crowd! Photos to follow.

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@brianjohnspencr

5 months

@McNeillYeah Haven’t heard the Irish left mention Azerbaijan colonising Armenian Christian lands… or Nigerian Muslims killing en masse the Christians in that country…

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1 year

As mentioned before, the boy has been learning the chanter/bagpipes for the past two years and recently moved on to the full bag… Here is his first public performance at a recent Sunday Children’s Service. Very proud. #bagpipes #pipes #UlsterScots

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@brianjohnspencr

2 years

Someone needs to go back to school and learn some basic constitutional history. That first line is a howler, and any teacher would put a big red line through it.

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Brian John Spencer

@brianjohnspencr

1 year

Another big milestone on the piping journey… After two years of working on the practice chanter, the boy has made it to the full band. Today enjoying his first ever parade. Very chuffed and very proud. Doing things I could only dream of as a child and young person.

Brian John Spencer

@brianjohnspencr

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And so it came to pass… Nearly there. Little by little. Patience and perseverance is key. #Bagpipes #culture #NorthernIreland

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Brian John Spencer

@brianjohnspencr

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"Don't forget to leave the door open after yourself..." My latest cartoon on the retirement of #MartinMcGuinness with an #RHI twist

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@brianjohnspencr

4 months

Why is nobody talking about the EU’s Holland and Sweden and their hard line anti-immigrant actions? We’re still at the stage of just labelling everyone far-right who questions mass migration…

Theo Wold

@RealTheoWold

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Holland: implementing strictest ever entry rules for asylum. Sweden: deporting asylum-seekers & immigrants for drug use, criminal gang affiliation or “statements threatening Swedish values.” Biden: We *might* close the border but only after illegal crossings exceed 4,000 a day.

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Brian John Spencer

@brianjohnspencr

3 years

“As someone who covered the ceasefires and the GFA extensively at the time I can assure you the EU played absolutely no role in any of those negotiations back then.” - @henrymcdonald

Guy Verhofstadt

@guyverhofstadt

3 years

The Good Friday Agreement, which ended so many years of violence & suffering, was due to the efforts of many, especially 🇪🇺 Due to Brexit, NI has left the Union. The deceit of some about it's consequences can't be allowed to endanger the peace that must prevail.

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This can’t be said/emphasised enough. Official Ireland can not simply lament partition and blame British. “The very first Acts passed by Dail Eireann authorised the erection of Border customs posts, making them a Free State invention, not a unionist one”

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@brianjohnspencr

3 years

@CatharineHoey That quote doesn’t appear on any mural in NI and is extremely difficult even to find online... I’ve said few times that I’d love to work with some people to make a art installation or mural on this.

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@brianjohnspencr

4 months

@DerekHolly7 It’s not a colonial term. It’s just the term.

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@brianjohnspencr

4 years

No idea how NI artist Cupar Pilson isn’t more recognised and celebrated. Incredibly smart, conscientious and gifted artist, nearly as much as he’s under-rated.

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@brianjohnspencr

3 years

“They have used their position to undermine the constitutional position here. I can only put their [Leo Varadkar and Simon Coveney] aggressive nationalism down to the growth of Sinn Fein in the Republic.” - ⁦ @ArleneFosterUK ⁩

Arlene Foster reveals she had to shop online over ‘physical and verbal threats’ during time in...

Former First Minister Arlene Foster has revealed she had to avoid physically shopping in stores over “physical threats and verbal threats” during her time ...

www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk

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Brian John Spencer

@brianjohnspencr

5 years

Why is it so commonplace for young nationalists to speak and endorse old sectarian slogans like “Brits out”, “Tiocfaidh ár lá“ and “up the RA”... Very disappointing to see yet another high profile example.

Belfast News Letter

@News_Letter

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"It seems to me that resentment and hatred for my identity is still prevalent within the university" - Calvin Reid

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@brianjohnspencr

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If you want to know why rents have sky rocketed in Belfast and across Ireland, it’s because of simple maths… Increase the demand (via mass migration), but maintain the same supply of houses Prices go up. The richer get richer and the poor get poorer.

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3 years

Looking forward to painting #twelfth I’ve done this ever since seeing Sir John Lavery’s painting of Portadown 12th 1928 I see why this time of year can be offensive, but having travelled across the island & met many within community, I would urge examination of the complexities

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Working class lad in a tracksuit schools trendy avocado-eating-feminists on how insane the notion of “trans kids” is

Billboard Chris 🇨🇦🇺🇸

@BillboardChris

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Young Irish dad completely schools these three women who can only parrot trans activist talking points. Their thoughts are not their own. They’re pre-programmed. One minute ago the woman in white was calling me ridiculous and a di*khead for saying that children are having

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“As far as [the ROI] was concerned, a line was drawn across the page of historic Provisional IRA criminality in Northern Ireland.”

Sinn Féin needs reality check on historic prosecutions from Troubles

Party demanded line be drawn on Troubles-era crimes in Republic during peace process

www.irishtimes.com

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@brianjohnspencr

3 years

What a raucous celebration that was in Armagh. I can definitely see how republicans were so offended.

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@brianjohnspencr

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If I was a proper Irish Republican I’d be seething. But anglophobia prohibits the slightest bad word to be spoken against the all-powerful & benevolent EU Even as an Irish unionists I’m gobsmacked at how waters around this island of mine and ours is being plundered by foreigners

Peter Casey

@CaseyPeterJ

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Time to reconsider!

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@brianjohnspencr

4 years

John Hume: spent his political life trying to convince everybody that territorial unity is not what matters but unity between people.

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@brianjohnspencr

1 year

Partition for thee but not for me…

An Phoblacht

@An_Phoblacht

1 year

The Catalans are not Spanish – They are Catalan by Declan Kearney

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@timmckane @BelTel My son is in this. What on earth are guy talking about Tim? All he does is learn about history, go bowling and went to the last Ulster rugby game. I’m standing outside an orange hall right now at pipe practice. You are expressing flat out gammon bigotry. Sort yourself out

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@brianjohnspencr

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There’s the “Grace Period” NI Protocol we have lived with, and then there’s the full NIP, where no product made in Scotland, Wales or England can be sold in Northern Ireland because NI is regarded as the EU single market…

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Brian John Spencer

@brianjohnspencr

3 years

I am Irish… but I use the term Boxing Day… Lots of “Irish people” call 26th December “Boxing Day”.

Paul Butler

@PolDeBuitleir

3 years

Next year can Irish people please refer to the 26th December as St Stephen's Day or Lá Fhéile Stiofáin 'as gaeilge' from now on. Go raibh maith agaibh 🙂

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Northern Ireland is an utterly changed place. It’s not green or orange, but many colours, and home to all. Don’t let people demoralise or shame you for a homeplace you’re proud of. Embrace and share both traditions and build forward. #EmbraceAGiantSpirit #NIBeyond100 #NI2021

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Brian John Spencer

@brianjohnspencr

1 year

Partition for thee but not for me

Francie Molloy

@FrancieMolloy

1 year

Best of luck to our Basque and Catalan comrades in today’s election. The future is independence.

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Brian John Spencer

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@tomdoorley @desondy Mass migration (in to ROIreland), you know what I mean! You don’t live in a council house, so your sneering is just appalling. Here in Belfast rents have sky rocketed, so I know exactly how many must feel in Dublin!

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Brian John Spencer

@brianjohnspencr

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@sinead_ryan I am Irish, and I’m also British, and I think your tweet sets a very negative tone. Saying any other person or group should get out would cause outrage.

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Brian John Spencer

@brianjohnspencr

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On Nolan @paulgivan talking about his “British, Ulster Scots and Irish identity” I and others have spoken for years about our dual *Irish & British identity*, but DUP politicians etc were usually v firm on being British only… Another big milestone in Northern Ireland politics

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During the funeral of Douglas Hyde the entire @fiannafailparty sat outside the Protestant cathedral, because the Catholic hierarchy forbade their entry Did the British divide them and make them fear and suspect their Protestant neighbours?

PoliticsJOE

@PoliticsJOE_UK

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"This wasn't something that was deeply ingrained in us." @KNEECAPCEOL says the government stoked sectarianism to divide the working class.

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Fainting couch republicanism. You’d think the Republican movement was a scout group. IRA man turned British agent Sean O’Callaghan said he decided to quit after IRA terrorists cheered to the roof after news of killing a female RUC officer, and one said “hope she was pregnant!”

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Brian John Spencer

@brianjohnspencr

3 years

@nealerichmond More negativity Neale. Polling shows he’s exactly right, why push a false narrative? What happened to a shared Island and differing views? You only seem to like views that aren’t unionist…

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Brian John Spencer

@brianjohnspencr

5 years

@Sinclair1875 @BigPaulieDoyle Wrong. Read a history book. He voted against the Good Friday Agreement and is on the record of refusing to condemn IRA violence when it was happening.

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Brian John Spencer

@brianjohnspencr

7 months

What madness that we on this island of Ireland don’t celebrate the Duke of Wellington,.. The Irish man who ended expansionism of Bonaparte. Americans would love hearing about Wellington. Far more interesting than a mad Scottish Marxist called James Connolly…

History Hive

@HistoricHive

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After Waterloo, the Duke of Wellington attended a ball in Vienna. Upon his arrival, some French officers turned their backs on the conqueror of their emperor. When a woman apologized to the Duke for their rudeness, he replied: ‘’Tis of no matter, Your Highness; I have seen

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3 years

It’s just like events from 100 years ago. Unionists are ignored, and it always has to be presented as a Dublin-London stand-off… Why does Dublin not want to listen to unionist concerns? Why always ignore and turn to London?

Neale Richmond

@nealerichmond

3 years

Facing chaos and needing a scapegoat, the Tories seek an endless fight with Europe | Fintan O’Toole

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Brian John Spencer

@brianjohnspencr

3 years

There’s a nastiness here that is sad to read. Academics funded by the Dublin government to promote a #sharedisland should show a little more leadership and thought about being a role model that old tribal mud slinging. Where are the tweets about SF populism and duplicity?

Deirdre Heenan

@deirdreheenan

3 years

Woman who couldn’t resist the allure of the wingnuts in the ERG, trusted Boris Johnson, pushed and agitated for a hard Brexit against the wishes of the majority in NI, voted to make the UK a third country, *outraged* that UK is being treated like a third country! Quantum Idiocy

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Brian John Spencer

@brianjohnspencr

2 years

Biden's paternal third great-grandfather, William Biden (1789–1849), was born in England and emigrated to the America,. According to historian Eddy Greenfield, he was born in Sussex, and was christened at St John the Baptist's Church… 🙄😵‍💫🤔

The Jewish Chronicle

@JewishChron

2 years

US President Joe Biden has sparked controversy for comparing the Israel-Palestine conflict with Britain’s violent past in Northern Ireland.

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Brian John Spencer

@brianjohnspencr

3 years

Booze in Ireland on each side of the border. Speaks for itself!

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Brian John Spencer

@brianjohnspencr

8 years

Self-determination for Ulster, when it suits...

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Brian John Spencer

@brianjohnspencr

2 years

Every single elected unionist politician - councillor, MLA, MP - from Claire Sugden to Doug Beattie to Jim Allister opposes current protocol… Other than being grossly misinformed/mislead, how on earth could someone then say that the current Protocol dispute is “manufactured”??

RTÉ News

@rtenews

2 years

US Congressman Richard Neal said: 'The [Northern Ireland] Protocol dispute seems to me to be a manufactured issue'

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Brian John Spencer

@brianjohnspencr

3 years

The sickness of anglophobia. All events in the UK must be seen and refracted through the lens of the past. I’m Irish, but I never revel in mishap or misfortune of the British nor anyone else. In fact, Edward Carson said, “England’s difficulty is Ireland’s difficulty.”

Brian Whelan

@brianwhelanhack

3 years

Well, well, well. If it isn’t the country that stole all our vegetables in 1847.

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Brian John Spencer

@brianjohnspencr

2 years

@SMurphyTV @fmcomment @RishiSunak Is Ireland part of the continent of Europe? No. You’re still European… Is it appropriate for an Ireland correspondent to question the identity of those from a unionist tradition on the island of Ireland which is part of the British Isles??

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Brian John Spencer

@brianjohnspencr

3 years

It should not be a surprise that removing the 11 plus fixes anything... England did it, and all it did was create an even more narrow and elitist system. What’s worse, Labour front benchers who oppose any selection then send their children to private fee paying schools 😬😑

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Brian John Spencer

@brianjohnspencr

5 months

If you asked someone living in the 1970s or 1980s, they’d tell you this was what a demon looks like. Demonic. There is no other word.

Henry McKean

@HenryMcKean

5 months

“I cried with my team.” Ireland 🇮🇪 Eurovision finalist Bambie Thug is asked how they felt when Israel qualified for the #EUROVISION final.

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Brian John Spencer

@brianjohnspencr

2 years

@jorymicah Touting socialism from the United States… why not go to Venezuela and live it?

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Brian John Spencer

@brianjohnspencr

7 months

The boy playing Foggy Dew for the locals at Molloys just by the train station… Apparently the sash would go down well closer to the ground. Maybe one for later, but he knows his audience and has learnt a good few song that Dubliners would appreciate #IREvSCO

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Brian John Spencer

@brianjohnspencr

3 years

“Friendliest place in the UK if not the world”

Jeremy Vine

@theJeremyVine

3 years

Thought I'd take my daughter, 14, for a holiday trip. Didn't want to go too far. Visited #NorthernIreland . Absolutely confirmed it as the friendliest place in UK if not the world. And Belfast still so interesting (see pics). Tuesday tour guides @EmmaVardyTV and @Mr_Bumcheeks ❤️

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Brian John Spencer

@brianjohnspencr

3 years

“Unionists once had few reservations about calling themselves Irish. Now many do. We should all be sad about that.”

Branagh’s Belfast is right, unionists didn't have a problem calling themselves Irish

Donald Clarke: Even Ian Paisley saw no contradiction in being both British and Irish

www.irishtimes.com

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Brian John Spencer

@brianjohnspencr

6 months

@1rorycowan 75% of ROIreland citizens say there has been too much migration… They’re not extremists. The people pushing more migration are the undemocratic extremists

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