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Máiría Cahill

11 months

If you want a deeper understanding on how women and children are the "Spoils of War" in any conflict, listen to the wonderful Olivia O'Leary - unrivalled in her detailed observations of human nature - and in her delivery. At 2 minutes 11 seconds here ;

Dublin launch of Rough Beast, October 4th 2023, Hodges Figgis, Dublin.

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Máiría Cahill

@cahillbooks

10 months

Announcement re Aoife Grace Moore’s recent book on Sinn Féin. Moral of the story? Check, check again, and if you get it wrong, do the decent thing and apologise. I've turned comments off as I am solely concerned with a dignified addressing of a very distressing episode.

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Máiría Cahill

@cahillbooks

11 months

The woman on the right of this picture at the coffin is Breige Wright. She features heavily in my book as one of three IRA members who took me into a room to face my rapist. She's just this year, been put on the board of Community Restorative Justice. Go figure.

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Máiría Cahill

@cahillbooks

7 months

This all sounds lovely, and would be, if she wasn't telling IRA victims, there was "no alternative" at the same time. You cannot on the one hand say you "regret" a "loss of life" and then argue there was no other way out than for the IRA "campaign" which killed them...

The Late Late Show

@RTELateLateShow

7 months

“Let’s make sure those circumstances never arise again” #latelate

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Máiría Cahill

@cahillbooks

11 months

I've been thinking about this post, and to explain how ridiculous it is, it's like saying "The rapes of Máiría Cahill by an IRA man were terrible, but put them in the context of the Famine and partition." Rape is a war crime. No ifs or buts.

Máiría Cahill

@cahillbooks

11 months

Where to start...

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Máiría Cahill

@cahillbooks

7 months

Michelle O'Neill is currently speaking about "having women's backs" in relation to violence against women and girls. Here's what she said on an IRA sex abuse case. "Not for me to say whether I believe her."

Michelle O'Neill: 'Not for me to say that I believe Mairia Cahill'

Sinn Fein's Northern Ireland leader has declined to state clearly whether she believes Mairia Cahill.

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Máiría Cahill

@cahillbooks

1 year

“I don’t think you can call yourself a feminist and still support Sinn Fein while they continue to deny what happened in my case. I think that’s called hypocrisy.”

Máiría Cahill: ‘An IRA officer raped me. Sinn Fein did nothing.’

Until she was 16, Máiría Cahill was a happy, successful teenager. Despite the violence surrounding her on the streets of Belfast, she managed to do well in her

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Máiría Cahill

@cahillbooks

11 months

Where to start? In '91, the IRA killed two people by bombing Musgrave Park hospital. They also left a bomb outside the Royal Children's Hospital on the Falls Road. Then, the time bullets ripped through incubators in the neo natal unit when they tried to kill Nigel Dodds.

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Máiría Cahill

@cahillbooks

2 months

I can see now why SF kept her off the TV in advance of the election. It's like Give My Head Peace with posh accents.

Conor Coyle

@ccoyle212

2 months

Pat Cullen asked if she will take her seat in Westminster, and whether she will move to the Fermanagh and South Tyrone area during her time as MP @irish_news #GE24

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Máiría Cahill

@cahillbooks

5 months

Easter Sunday yesterday, Belfast. It's about time children were just allowed to be children.

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@cahillbooks

2 months

The SF difficulty with this interview was not the interviewer's approach, but that McDonald was not allowed to waffle as she normally does, particularly in media doorsteps and in NI. The interview was simply trying to illicit detail on her vacuous policy.

‘Extremely rude,’ says Mary Lou McDonald in heated row with RTÉ’s Philip Boucher Hayes as she...

Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald has defended her party's new migration policy and said "I'm not the minister" when probed on details of how it would be ...

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Máiría Cahill

@cahillbooks

23 days

What is the collective noun for three out of tune auld codgers who wouldn't know an armalite from their asses, and a few thousand drunk eejits?

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Máiría Cahill

@cahillbooks

5 months

Here is the FM saying the Kingsmill families deserved truth and justice at the inquest. The republican movement, including members of her party, refused to cooperate with the inquest, meaning that they denied the full truth to them. Anyone going to call out this gaslighting?

Cool FM News

@newsoncool

5 months

🚨FM @moneillsf : "I am sorry for every lost life, including those in Kingsmill disaster." When asked if she would apologise on behalf of republican movement for killings carried out - FM also said "families deserve truth & justice." Political Reporter @jamesgould23 was there.

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Máiría Cahill

@cahillbooks

4 months

So, the man who abused me - and other children - sent a good luck message to @johnfinucane for going on the telly last night. This was John Finucane's public response. Seriously, John?

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Máiría Cahill

@cahillbooks

11 months

Thank you to everyone who came to the Dublin book launch of Rough Beast, and to Olivia O'Leary who was so kind about the book. Great night.

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Máiría Cahill

@cahillbooks

1 year

Here is the former Officer Commanding of the IRA in Long Kesh prison, tweeting me complaining about who he thinks turned up to my book launch. This is what I have to put up with. News, Flash. Youse don't scare me any more. @splancmc

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Máiría Cahill

@cahillbooks

10 months

@moneillsf Agree. You couldn't start by exercising your own responsibility as a SF leader and admit that the IRA "investigated" my abuse, brought me face to face with my rapist, and used SF offices to question me? You could ask your colleague Duckser. He might know the answer...

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Máiría Cahill

@cahillbooks

9 months

Fair play to the man who walked into the SF shop on the Falls Road to ask if he could buy a copy of Rough Beast. He couldn't because, although they sell Ian Paisley's books (even though he removed a tricolour nearby), they're censoring mine... here it is in Tenerife instead. 😉

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Máiría Cahill

@cahillbooks

11 months

Where to start...

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Máiría Cahill

@cahillbooks

11 months

If anyone else put out a sweeping sectarian statement like this, it would be called a dog-whistle. But its Joe Brolly (who incidentally believes he has a positive contribution to make to political office), and so many people just roll their eyes and go "That's Joe". Why?

Joe Brolly

@JoeBrolly1993

11 months

Why do Ulster Scot Protestants support genocide? The mass murder of men, women and children? Why do they champion it with such relish - crush, erase, eradicate, destroy? 8,000 murdered already. How many dead kids is enough? 10,000? 100,000? 500,000?

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Máiría Cahill

@cahillbooks

11 months

I just spent time with the families of the Shankill bomb at a very moving service. I put my arms around a terminally ill mother whose 13 year old child was taken from her along with eight others that day. I watched devastation on first responders faces. Take down your tweet.

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Máiría Cahill

@cahillbooks

1 year

Not sure what is going on with Joe Brolly these days, but this is really unacceptable. Perhaps if you read the book Joe, you'd think twice about your online persona, which, I'm told, is marginally worse than your offline one. I'll send you a copy if you like. @JoeBrolly1993

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Máiría Cahill

@cahillbooks

9 months

Me being questioned by the IRA in Gerry Adams' office and in other Sinn Féin offices about my abuse, has been read into the Dáil record by @ciarancannon Sinn Féin should answer questions put to it by journalists. Rough Beast details the meetings and I'm glad to have it raised.

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Máiría Cahill

@cahillbooks

11 days

Congratulations to @mikenesbittni on @uuponline leadership. I've known him since he was Victims Commissioner, and he's a good guy. A wee story... Mike wasn't able to make my Belfast book launch, so he hopped on a train after a busy day and surprised me at the Dublin one. 1/2

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Máiría Cahill

@cahillbooks

11 months

Monday's Shankill bomb memorial service taken by their official photographer. Joe Hendron visited the road in the aftermath of the bomb to offer help to people. Now, at almost 91, he's still visiting.

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Máiría Cahill

@cahillbooks

11 months

She didn't lose her life. Her life was taken from her because people chose to take it.

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Máiría Cahill

@cahillbooks

11 months

In every conflict, the sense of entitlement over women's bodies means that they and children are the "spoils of war." The recent videos showing women who have been clearly raped and are bleeding being paraded through the streets, is both chilling and sickening.

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Máiría Cahill

@cahillbooks

1 year

4 star review from The Telegraph for #roughbeast "To begin with Rough Beast reads like a thriller... Anyone who thinks Adams' party should be anywhere near power in Ireland, should read this book."

Terrorist links and sex-abuse claims: inside Sinn Féin’s rotten soul

As two disturbing books reveal, the Irish nationalists’ road to the cusp of power has been paved with innocent victims of all stripes

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Máiría Cahill

@cahillbooks

2 months

For those who don't know, a 'museum' has opened up in Derry called "Peacemakers", consisting of a load of information about Sinn Féin people and a photo of John Hume, presumably to give it credence. Hume's family have distanced themselves. Who funds it? Photos below..

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@cahillbooks

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Máiría Cahill

@cahillbooks

3 months

This woman came into my life ten years ago because she stood up for the right thing and gave me a voice against my abusers. She got dogs abuse, has integrity to her fingertips. and stayed the course. I am so proud of my friend @ReginaDo . She deserves every bit of this win.

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Máiría Cahill

@cahillbooks

5 months

This is disgusting. Brolly would be the first to complain if his views on anything were linked to his late father. John FitzGerald is an economist who stated on air he is agnostic on unity. He also said his father was "suffering from confirmation bias". Brolly should apologise.

Joe Brolly

@JoeBrolly1993

5 months

The “top economist” who spearheaded the ‘research’ on a United Ireland is John Fitzgerald. He is Fine Gael royalty. His grandfather a founding member of FG. As Taoiseach, his father Garret supported Margaret Thatcher’s position on the hunger strikes. He loathed our community.

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Máiría Cahill

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6 months

Like anyone else who knows Jeffrey Donaldson, I am shocked by recent news. There is a court process in place, and that has to be allowed to run its course. Online speculation is not helpful to anyone, and I don't intend to add to it, but I will await the outcome of that process.

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Máiría Cahill

@cahillbooks

7 months

The funeral service for Michael O'Regan was a lovely one for a lovely man. This reflection is worth sharing.

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Máiría Cahill

@cahillbooks

3 months

Life comes at you fast. One minute, you've got Sinn Féin proudly displayed in your profile, then after insulting a child abuse victim who calls you out, you don't.

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Máiría Cahill

@cahillbooks

10 months

Thank you to @fionnansheahan . "Sinn Féin has ducked, dived and dodged questions for almost a decade now about whether its offices hosted an IRA kangaroo court. Imagine the outcry if a Labour Party office was used for a Kinahan Cartel meeting..."

Fionnán Sheahan: Tiocfaidh ár law – letting Sinn Féin gain ground on justice is an incredible fail...

Please don’t sue me, Sinn Féin. You have to preface any comments you make about Mary Lou McDonald’s party with that caveat now as even the most innocuous o...

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Máiría Cahill

@cahillbooks

10 months

Here I am, late 1990s at a Sinn Féin organised protest ( later turned into a riot). I have confidence in Drew Harris and the Justice Minister, because I watched Gardaí deal with widespread disorder in a short space of time, without firing one baton round. Mary Lou is showboating.

RTÉ News

@rtenews

10 months

Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald says she has no confidence in the Garda Commissioner Drew Harris or the Minister for Justice Helen McEntee following last night riots in Dublin city centre.

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Máiría Cahill

@cahillbooks

10 months

Sweet Jesus.

Sinn Féin

@sinnfeinireland

10 months

Kathleen Funchion TD has called on the government to do more to meet the needs of victims of domestic, sexual and gender based violence @Kathleensf1

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Máiría Cahill

@cahillbooks

2 months

Shinners really treating the electorate as if they're taking their votes for granted by repeatedly not putting Michelle O'Neill up in debates. It also makes her look like an imbecile and not capable of holding her own.

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Máiría Cahill

@cahillbooks

6 months

No response that I could write in a tweet is adequate. Read Rough Beast.

Rough Beast: My Story and the Reality of Sinn Féin

www.amazon.co.uk

Gerry Adams

@GerryAdamsSF

6 months

Republicans have long understood the connection between Irish freedom & women’s rights. From Ann Devlin to Anna Parnell, Markievicz to Drumm, from Sheena Campbell to Mairead Farrell - an unbroken line of women who sacrificed for freedom, equality & justice

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Máiría Cahill

@cahillbooks

8 months

I'm very happy at this judgement - it has been a long 4+ years case for @malodoherty - and it was a disgraceful case to take against him. Other Sinn Féin representatives should drop their existing cases against journalists and stop issuing legal letters like confetti. #slapp

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Máiría Cahill

@cahillbooks

8 months

"Not since Gerry Kelly blew up the Old Bailey in London half a century ago has he caused so much damage. But whereas that explosion killed one man and injured more than 200 others, this time the damage is confined to himself and his party. "

Sam McBride: Sinn Féin is seeking an authoritarian society where criticism is not allowed

Not since Gerry Kelly blew up the Old Bailey in London half a century ago has he caused so much damage. But whereas that explosion killed one man and injur...

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Máiría Cahill

@cahillbooks

12 days

I've known @columeastwood since before he had a beard.. He's hugely talented - a great communicator, nimble in an argument. I have always appreciated his support, and I am sorry to see him stepping down as SDLP leader. Best of luck to you, Colum, as you go forward.

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Máiría Cahill

@cahillbooks

1 year

Great news! Rough Beast is now available to buy in all good bookshops throughout Ireland and the UK. Thanks to everyone who will buy a copy, or who has already pre-ordered. Very much appreciated.

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Máiría Cahill

@cahillbooks

11 months

Well. Rough Beast went to Number One in the Irish Paperback Non-Fiction charts. Thank you to all who are buying the book and reading it. And who are telling your friends to pick it up too. #roughbeast

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Máiría Cahill

@cahillbooks

5 months

@chrisadonnelly Wasn't a myth Chris. I did a series on tape of prominent SF women, one of whom was Marie Moore - then the Deputy Mayor of Belfast - who not only admitted to impersonation, but described how she voted 6 times in one day. @SJAMcBride

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@cahillbooks

1 year

Am really chuffed (and overwhelmed) to say that world-renowned author and playwright Roddy Doyle has read my book, and he says it is "Shocking, important, and unputdownable." Thanks so much Roddy, I really appreciate it. Rough Beast is available from 28th September.

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Máiría Cahill

@cahillbooks

7 months

Jim Allister rightly pointing out to the First Minister her words about a rape victim, and indeed Gerry Adams' words to me. He didn't need to use the word hypocrites on a motion on Violence against women. Have a listen.

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Máiría Cahill

@cahillbooks

5 months

So many words, yet nothing said. "We're sorry" might have been a start.

Kingsmill families are entitled to truth – Kelly

Speaking following the conclusion of the inquest into the killings of ten people at Kingsmill in 1976, Sinn Féin Policing Spokesperson Gerry Kelly said: “The Kingsmill families are entitled to truth…

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Máiría Cahill

@cahillbooks

9 months

Here's Sinn Fein's Alex Maskey switching on the Stormont Christmas tree lights in November, Mairéad. In 2022, there were 45,292 households on the social housing waiting list in NI.

Mairéad Farrell TD

@Farrell_Mairead

9 months

Spotted this tree in the Dáil this evening just after speaking on homelessness in the Dáil, shame on the Government for making people homeless in the run up to Christmas, thinking of the families who can't put up a tree this year, shame on this Government

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Máiría Cahill

@cahillbooks

3 months

IRA man Seamus Marley, son of IRA leader Larry Marley, who abused Paudie McGahon and another boy, will be released next week. He refuses to accept responsibility for his crimes. Sinn Féin had the info and never reported it to Gardaí, putting children at risk.

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1 year

Just to those who are running accounts with very little followers all saying the same thing. Not my first rodeo. I now thankfully have recourse to hold abusive accounts (and those operating them) accountable. If you had any wit you'd realise you're selling my book for me.

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Máiría Cahill

@cahillbooks

11 months

"In Belfast Adams carried the Shankill bombers coffin. There is a myth, oft-repeated, that he had to, for peace. Nonsense. He chose to, and he should own the fact that he deliberately shouldered Begley, knowing the signal it would send to the bereaved."

Máiría Cahill: Why nobody should ever forget the brutal death of 13-year-old Leanne Murray

When the bodybag was unzipped for Gina Murray, the first thing she noticed was that her 13-year-old daughter Leanne had rubble in her hair.

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Máiría Cahill

@cahillbooks

8 months

I'd say you slapped the bake off him @malodoherty . And an important victory against lawfare.

SF’s Gerry Kelly facing huge financial hit as he opts not to appeal stinging libel verdict

Gerry Kelly has accepted a devastating judgment which leaves him liable for a huge legal bill over what a judge said was an attempt to intimidate a journal...

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Máiría Cahill

@cahillbooks

15 days

In 1999, the body of Ardoyne man Eamon Molloy (killed in 1975) was left in a coffin above ground near Faughart cemetery. Now, again in the same townland, the ICLVR are digging for the remains of Robert Nairac. His family deserves closure.

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@cahillbooks

6 months

I'm scratching my head at the whole Pearse Mc Auley debate. 1. SF members will not go to his funeral. 2. SF members will go to Rose Dugdales funeral. That is because SF (as I wrote previously) separate different acts of violence. Cont'd.

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@cahillbooks

8 months

"For instance, Mary Lou McDonald is suing RTÉ over comments made about the Mairia Cahill case, while her husband is suing Shane Ross over parts of his book that dealt with the purchase and renovation of the couple’s house."

Sinn Féin’s libel actions attract mounting criticism in wake of Belfast ruling

The party correctly argues that members of other parties sued for libel - but not in the sames numbers that Sinn Féin members have

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@cahillbooks

1 year

“I understand that people are frustrated and look for where the grass is greener..but anybody that thinks Sinn Fein is going to wave a wand and have this utopian magic united Ireland, which is going to do away with every social ill there is bonkers...”

Máiría Cahill: ‘An IRA officer raped me. Sinn Fein did nothing.’

Until she was 16, Máiría Cahill was a happy, successful teenager. Despite the violence surrounding her on the streets of Belfast, she managed to do well in her

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@cahillbooks

11 months

Big thank you to @StephenNolan and his team at @BBCNolan for that interview. A reminder that Sinn Féin has never admitted an IRA investigation took place, or that their offices were used by the IRA to question me. Read the book. It's in there from A-Z. #roughbeast

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@cahillbooks

3 months

To stand against violence inflicted on women, you have to stand against it all without party hypocrisy,blind eyes, or refusal to admit your own failings. Mary Lou McDonald told a newspaper she had "no regrets" on her handling of my case. She lost all credibility at that point.

Sinn Féin

@sinnfeinireland

3 months

Sinn Féin Leader @MaryLouMcDonald has extended her solidarity to Natasha O’Brien, adding: “Yesterday’s court judgement and others like it raise fundamental questions about how the government and the judicial system deal with violence against women.”

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3 months

@patcullen9 I look forward to you speaking up and speaking out about sexual abuse by republicans, and covered up by Sinn Féin, which resulted in victims having to be treated by the health service.

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4 months

"I will never apologise for going to the funeral of my friend."

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6 months

The crazy thing about all this is that SF want Stormont funding to name a peace building in Derry – and they want Mc Guinness' name alongside John Humes. Can anyone think of a worse insult to Hume's legacy?

Máiría Cahill

@cahillbooks

6 months

When I wrote the line in the McGuinness The Fisherman poem : 'He loaded the boot with a bomb and smiled for the camera', this is the film I was referring to. Watch Martin McGuinness help to put a car bomb together, which later blows up Shipquay Street.

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10 months

Ah, sure, you have to take the selfie while you're both still sensible... @AnPostIBAS , here we come.

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@cahillbooks

8 months

The comments under this article prove my point for me. Ireland has a problem with toxic, angry men. And racism.

Irish Independent

@Independent_ie

8 months

Máiría Cahill: Ireland is full — full of hypocrites who don’t know their history

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22 days

To the person who recently sent me a letter about IRA sexual abuse but didn't leave your name or contact details. Just to let them know that I received it. And that you should never blame yourself for the actions of another / others. Thank you for writing.

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11 months

This is two years after I was first abused, and the same year that the IRA came to me in 1999. Look how young I was. This is the young woman who walks up the street in the Prologue of Rough Beast.

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3 months

Today's column. Máiría Cahill: Rhasidat Adeleke is an icon of true Irish pride. Racists should run a mile in her shoes. A hard job, when they are not fit to tie her laces.

Máiría Cahill: Rhasidat Adeleke is an icon of true Irish pride

Pat Rabbitte isn’t short of a soundbite, never has been. So it was no surprise that, in typically robust language, he uttered the following phrase last Sun...

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11 months

Morning. On your way to work this morning, if you're passing a wee bookshop, call in and pick up a copy of this... #roughbeast

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1 year

My daughter Saorlaith was 13 recently. I was pregnant with her when I made my police complaint. What better way to be an embarrassing mother than to have everyone at a book launch sing Happy Birthday? (We kept her out of the room due to the sensitive content until the end.)

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2 months

I absolutely condemn the threat against Ms McDonald. She should rethink her comments below in light of her recent experience. Words carry weight and contribute to a toxic environment. Zero tolerance of violence means zero without justification, past or present.

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1 year

"If a victim of abuse is telling you (Mary Lou Mc Donald) that the Sinn Féin party offices were used by an illegal armed organisation to question them, then you have a responsibility to do something about that." Sinn Féin are corporately responsible.

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@cahillbooks

8 months

Happy New Year. The first two women made my year in October, and are the kindest (and brilliant) women. The second two are wingnuts, but good wingnuts. Here's to 2024, and thanks to everyone who read the book, shared the book, or sold the book in the last one. Always appreciated.

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@cahillbooks

11 months

I got more accountability out of the waxwork...😇 #roughbeast

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@cahillbooks

8 months

The obvious question to Michelle would have been : "Have you ever instructed a solicitor to send a legal letter on your behalf to a journalist, and then not follow up with a writ?" I know the answer, I would just like to know if it was asked. If not, people are sleeping in.

Belfast Telegraph

@BelTel

8 months

Michelle O’Neill said Sinn Fein has no “joined-up or concerted effort” to silence anybody through legal action after a party MLA was ordered to pay costs in a failed defamation action. ➡️

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8 months

In short. If you're going to complain that being called an IRA man accused of shooting someone in the head damages your reputation, probably best not to write not one but two memoirs about being in the IRA.

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@cahillbooks

9 months

At the risk of starting murder, it isn't just "British people" who call it Boxing Day. We've always called it Boxing Day in NI, and in all of my 42 years, I never heard one Irish west Belfast republican refer to it as anything else.

Why do Irish people call it St Stephen’s Day and British people call it Boxing Day?

December 26 marks the last bank holiday of the calendar year in Ireland, and, in case anyone needs reminding of what day today is, this year it falls on a ...

m.independent.ie

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@cahillbooks

11 months

I am thinking of my friends Breege and Stephen on the 16th anniversary of their son Paul's murder. Anyone who can help the Quinn family, please do so. It's never too late.

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@cahillbooks

6 months

. @SimonHarrisTD means business.

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@cahillbooks

1 year

Quite a lot of misogyny flying around here again, which disproves my theory that had I gone public after #MeToo     I wouldn't have been treated as badly by republicans online. They're just as bad, and so the only thing to do is keep plugging the book.

Rough Beast: My Story and the Reality of Sinn Féin

www.amazon.co.uk

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@cahillbooks

4 months

Celebrations. I'm still closer to 40 than I am to 50... 🍻

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@cahillbooks

8 months

This review for Rough Beast gave me a smile this morning.

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@cahillbooks

3 months

Una has been suggesting for the last number of years that SF is a left wing party. They are not. Never have been. To understand the party, you have to understand that two things come first. 1. The party 2. Irish republicanism. Every other policy is secondary.

Irish Times Opinion

@IrishTimesOpEd

3 months

Opinion: It’s time for the left to assert itself cohesively via @IrishTimesOpEd

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@cahillbooks

6 months

Before the bots fly at me, I was specifically asked "Do you think Kneecap would be treated the same if they were Loyalists? And I said "no, there would be less romanticism"..

Belfast News Letter

@News_Letter

6 months

Mairia Cahill: ‘There’d be less romanticism around Kneecap if they were loyalists’:

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@cahillbooks

6 months

Máiría Cahill: Squalid intricacies of IRA ‘freedom fighting’ laid bare as leaders lie low.

Máiría Cahill: Squalid intricacies of IRA ‘freedom fighting’ laid bare as leaders lie low

If “tout” is the most loaded word in the republican dictionary, “lost” is the most supine. Ask the brave IRA men (some of whom are now Shinners) who on Fri...

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@cahillbooks

11 months

Still wondering how this happened. No agent, little clue what I was doing, just me, a laptop and an understanding editor and publisher when I changed from the book I was writing, to Rough Beast. Now, nominated for Non- Fiction book of the year. Vote.

Vote - Irish Book Awards

AN POST IRISH BOOk AWARDS Public Vote 2023 Vote for your favourite books of the year here and win €100 of National Book Tokens Scroll down and vote for the book you would like to win each award...

www.irishbookawards.ie

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Máiría Cahill

@cahillbooks

9 months

Thanks to everyone who has helped to get this book out there since September. All those who have read the book, bought the book, sold it, recommended it, or gifted it. All my Christmas prep is done, so I'm now catching up on reading everyone else's writing.

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Máiría Cahill

@cahillbooks

3 months

@DominicDohertyj No Dominic. Just an abuse victim who is upset that two other traumatised victims are traumatised that their abuser is getting out next wk, and that the party of which you were/are a press officer, would be so indifferent to their pain, that you would tweet this and think it's OK.

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Máiría Cahill

@cahillbooks

3 months

Southern media take note : Mc Donald's 'move on' response is all the more callous to those hurt, given a victim whose mother was blown to bits was on radio this morning reacting to Pat Cullen's answer. Until SF take responsibility, no one is moving forward.

David Archer

@davidarcherNI

3 months

Mary Lou McDonald defends former nursing chief Pat Cullen as a ‘good woman’ after failure to condemn IRA attacks @BelTel #SinnFein #FermanaghSouthTyrone #GeneralElection24

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@cahillbooks

10 months

I loved this review for #roughbeast "They say revenge is a dish best served cold, and Mairia Cahill has served both Adams and McDonald on ice, like 2 beautifully dressed crabs." "If Cahill hasn't considered a career as a political sketchwriter, she really should start."

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@cahillbooks

1 year

Last night's book launch was a microcosm of NI society. There were Unionists and Nationalists, Loyalists and Republicans, people who had no position on the Constitutional question, police, lawyers, politicians and non political people. Everyone got along. Thank you all.

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@cahillbooks

3 months

I have written about Rhasidat Adeleke for tomorrow's Sunday Independent.

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@cahillbooks

8 months

A bit of a thread as to why this case was such a head scratcher for Gerry Kelly to take. 1. He was involved in the 1983 Prison escape. 2. He was involved with Bobby Storey in a takeover of part of the prison. A gun was involved. 3. A prison officer was shot in the head.(1/3)

Máiría Cahill

@cahillbooks

8 months

I'm very happy at this judgement - it has been a long 4+ years case for @malodoherty - and it was a disgraceful case to take against him. Other Sinn Féin representatives should drop their existing cases against journalists and stop issuing legal letters like confetti. #slapp

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@cahillbooks

6 months

When I wrote the line in the McGuinness The Fisherman poem : 'He loaded the boot with a bomb and smiled for the camera', this is the film I was referring to. Watch Martin McGuinness help to put a car bomb together, which later blows up Shipquay Street.

Exposed: The true story of a lost documentary.

Secretly filmed inside the IRA, it then vanished.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Máiría Cahill

@cahillbooks

8 months

I interviewed Ian Bailey four years ago in west Cork for @Independent_ie . It remains the strangest interview I've done. I don't know definitively whether or not he killed Sophie Toscan du Plantier. But I wouldn't be surprised if he did.

'It’s a form of torture' - Ian Bailey on renewed extradition attempt over Sophie Toscan du Plantier...

It was the painting that caught my eye at first, glistening in the West Cork sun. Pink and purple rushes, Monet-like, offset with green and yellow hills in...

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Máiría Cahill

@cahillbooks

5 months

Thirty years ago today, UFF gunmen shot my classmate's mother, Theresa Clinton (34), 23 times as she sat on her sofa, killing her. She had two children. Later, a report found collusion. This is a plaque about her life. I think of her and Roseann often, but especially on the 14th.

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@cahillbooks

6 months

I wrote this piece for #IWD a few years ago. Rather than write another, given my view hasn't changed, I'm recycling this one. It's for those people who call themselves feminists but cherrypick their victims, making them not feminists but hypocrites.

A strange sort of feminism from followers of the SF bandwagon

'It is never pleasant to watch human decency sacrificed on the altar of a political party's internal discipline… Harm was done to a girl of 16 on Gerry Ada...

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Máiría Cahill

@cahillbooks

5 months

It shouldn't have to be said, but if you publish information which could, or is likely to lead to the identification of a complainant in a sexual offences case, it is 6 months imprisonment. Complainants in such cases have a legal lifetime right to anonymity +25 yrs after death.

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@cahillbooks

10 months

As the Sinn Féin Ard Fheis gets underway, The Newsletter continues to try and get an answer from the party. "Mairia Cahill has called for clarity over a claim in her book that the IRA used Sinn Fein offices to question her about abuse allegations."

Belfast not Dublin still calls the shots in Sinn Fein says Mairia Cahill

As republicans meet in Athlone, Mairia Cahill has called for clarity over a claim in her book that the IRA used Sinn Fein offices to question her about abuse allegations.

www.newsletter.co.uk

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Máiría Cahill

@cahillbooks

11 months

Meant to post this earlier. My daughter Saorlaith is usually very cool around public figures because she's grown up around a lot of them and thinks they're her mates. I have never seen a reaction from her like the other night when she met Ryan Tubridy and @1rorycowan . Delighted.

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@cahillbooks

11 months

Very happy to be nominated for An Post Non-Fiction book of the year. @AnPostIBAS @HoZ_Books @GillHessLtd @DubrayBooks

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Máiría Cahill

@cahillbooks

7 months

I would expect the @duponline , the @SDLPlive the @uuponline and @allianceparty to make the obvious point. We cannot cherry pick which women we treat properly and those we don't. Treating women properly means admitting responsibility for how they were treated. #nocredibility

Declan Kearney

@DeclanKearneySF

7 months

Sinn Féin will bring forward an Assembly motion to ensure the Violence Against Women & Girls Strategy becomes a priority. Tackling violence against women & girls is essential in our community. The scourge of gender violence & misogyny must be ended #WorkingForAll

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