Gareth Gordon
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Ken Clarke or Baron Clarke has accused
@duponline
of using the protocol as an “excuse” for not joining
@niexecutive
“under Sinn Fein leadership”.
@NigelDoddsDUP
denied the allegation
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PM Theresa May arrives for Brexit JMC meeting in Cardiff. Reporter asks if she'll be holding Nicola Sturgeons hand
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A shipyard worker has just shouted “Save our shipyard” in Irish to cheers from language activists. Boris has achieved something in his first morning in N.I.
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Early nominee for taxi driver of the year is the one in London I inadvertently handed a Bank of Ireland £20 note to. He was delighted. “That’s cool. I’ve never had a Northern Ireland banknote.” I told him that wasn’t the usual reaction.
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Yesterday on his 6th visit to NI since becoming Taoiseach
@campaignforleo
went to
@OrangeOrder
spent enormous time shaking hands with real people in an area which was not exactly home ground. Last time Theresa May came she visited a cowshed outside Bangor
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To those who don’t like us reporting worst case scenarios being projected by our Health Minister and his officials I have news - we don’t like it either. But that’s what they’re saying so that’s what we report. They change their mind we’ll report that too. More happily
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.
@BeattieDoug
says
@uuponline
will NOT sign
@duponline
petition of concern to block Integrated Education Bill. It would be an abuse of mechanism to protect minorities
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Martin McGuinness watching on via his portrait as history is made at Stormont..
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Edward O’Neill, who survived the UVF Dublin bombings in which his father died, has sent an angry e-mail to
@M_AndersonSF
copying in every MLA 1/3
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David Trimble was like no other politician I ever dealt with. You never - and I can’t emphasise this enough - knew what you were going to get. But his courage, both physical and psychological, was immense. We hear a lot about the GFA. Without him there’d have been no GFA.
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The Stormont Cycle:
1. Election 😉 2. Looming crisis 😢 3. Crisis ☹️ 4. Armageddon 😡 5. Talks 🤨 6. Executive 👏 7. Repeat 👀
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@RobinSwannMoH
tells
@bbcnewsline
he’s “taking advice” over the attack on him by Van Morrison and Ian Paisley. As for the MPs claim it was parody he says “I can assure you as I assured him that there’s no-one in our house laughing over it.”
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It’s understood a
@duponline
councillor has tragically died after suffering Covid. Paul Hamill was a member of Antrim and Newtownabbey council. He leaves a young family
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Have I got this right? The new leader of a party accused of boycotting North South meetings is heading to Dublin later for a North South meeting. The NI Guide to Politics for beginners just got a new chapter
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Apologies if I've missed anyone but so far haven't seen a single
@duponline
MP in the House for the debate on the customs union in which NI is featuring heavily. Lady Sylvia Hermon appears to be a lone NI representative on green benches.
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Apparently when
@moneillsf
referred to herself in a speech on Monday as “a proud Ulster woman” it was intended as an olive branch to unionists but no one picked up on it
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The
@NIOgov
not pleased with my report of
@chhcalling
visit to Downpatrick today. Perhaps I should have said it went really well…
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I may have been expecting too much from Boris but there’s a lady in the front row asleep
#dup18
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When a politician claims they’ve been “taken out of context” it’s usually code for “I screwed up”
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Sad day
@BBCnireland
. Losing four great colleagues. Privilege to work closely with
@markdevenport
for 19 years. Small in stature but most of it brains.
@KevinMageeBeeb
one of my oldest friends in journalism. Since 1987 he says. Intense and funny in equal measure. Irreplaceable.
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“It is now clear that anti-protocol rallies are being used to raise the temperature in Northern Ireland and adding to tensions that now see a resurgence in UVF activity” says
@BeattieDoug
. Significant cracks appearing tonight in unionism and how it fights the protocol
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Watching BBC Two and need to get something off my chest. Portillo’s Great Continental Railway Journeys is some of the finest television ever made. Apologies in advance to those that may upset…..
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Tried to sabotage my own vaccine day by turning up an hour late (misread the text doh!) They never batted an eyelid. Slick operation. As impressive as impressive can be!
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The death of Stephen Grimason is a massive loss. Great, great journalist, what he didn’t know about NI politics wasn’t worth knowing. But nothing quite became him like the way in which he faced death. Head on, no sentimentality and black humour to the end. Inspirational…
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.
@Naomi_long
says sight of older people goading on younger people rioting “nothing short of child abuse”
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Child’s play.
@NicholaMallon
arrives for talks with
@JulianSmithUK
along with the latest member of her family
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The Organ Donation Bill shows the people of Northern Ireland “there can be days like this” says
@RobinSwannMoH
. Is he trolling Van Morrison now…
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Brian Clough was Leeds manager for 44 days. Just saying…..
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@benhabib6
tells
@TUVonline
conference the Windsor Framework is WORSE than the Protocol because it indelibly embeds EU law in NI
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I once rang Rangers about a story and asked if I could speak to Walter Smith. Unlikely I thought. A man came on and said he was Walter Smith but that he was about to take a shower and could he ring back. Unlikely I thought. He did. I forget the story but will never forget that
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Man approaches at the
@uuponline
manifesto launch asking for a selfie. I’ve finally arrived. Then he says “I’m only asking you because
@Tracey_utv
isn’t here” 😡😡😡
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A Scottish colleague passed me this. They were used on all the room doors of his hotel near the
#CPC22
. Honestly
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Source out of today’s meeting with parties and Karen Bradley described it as “a sh*t show”.
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Source says NI civic leaders’ meeting with Jeremy Corbyn lasted 15 mins when it eventually happened. One said “I’d wait five hours to spend 15 minutes talking to Beyoncé but not Corbyn”. Added they did make some forceful points which seemed to register. Not re Beyoncé though
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@BrandonLewis
calls
@LeoVaradkar
comments on United Ireland “unhelpful and ill advised” particularly at this time of year. Says they may have something to do with
@sinnfeinireland
being ahead in polls in RoI and calls on everyone to “dial down the rhetoric”. Quite a rebuke
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.
@SteveAikenUUP
backtracks on remarks he made last week about HM Inspectorate of Constabulary. Embarrassing
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Quite a statement from a former Head of the Civil Service
Strolled past Stormont today, a place I’ve been through 100s of times (good days and bad!)
Despite the bright sunshine, there’s a sad end of days feel in the air.
Can’t help thinking if the Assembly has met for the last time, it will be Unionists who come to regret it the most.
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@moneillsf
tells Christopher Stalford “I don’t think it’s for you to decide which funerals I can attend”
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On Inside Politics
@bbcradioulster
@DUPleader
several times refuses to rule out
@duponline
becoming a remain party if they believe it would save the Union.
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Re crunch
@duponline
meeting turns out Ian Paisley was right all along. He said it could be a “ice age” before Stormont returns….
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Speaking in Rome President Higgins concedes the organisers of the centenary service always referred to him as the President of Ireland and not the Republic of Ireland as he told
@harrymcgee
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At the end of my morning walk I’ve just come across something very sad. A funeral. A few people standing in the church car park. A few more across the road. All observing the rules. But probably with hearts aching all the more because of it.
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Important info. Hairdressers tattoo parlours are Step Four so at least we’ll be looking well when we get back to pubs and restaurants (step five)
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In one swoop Karen Bradley cuts MLA salaries, kills the possibility of an Assembly election, talks up the North South Ministerial Council, promises moves to allow civil servants to make decisions and opens door to outside talks chairperson. What kept you so long some will say..
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@naomi_long
says they had a frank and candid exchange of views with Boris Johnson. she says if he has a plan he disguises it well
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@MaryLouMcDonald
says
@sinnfeinireland
have had what she would describe as a “very tough meeting” with
@BorisJohnson
. It’s clear she says his priority is “placating” the
@duponline
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The Electoral Office has told the Stormont parties the Assembly election is likely to be on December 15
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I understand
@ArleneFosterUK
has absolutely no intention of coming back to local politics including as a
@duponline
candidate in any by-election for Lagan Valley. She has “moved on”
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.
@BrandonLewis
says he will bring in legislation to cut MLA pay “if Stormont is not back up and running soon”
#SundayPoliticsNI
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Ian Paisley criticised by chair of
@CommonsNIAC
for using the phrase “the Catholic IRA.”
@Simon4NDorset
said the remark was “not conducive to moving things along.”
@StephenFarryMP
asked to be disassociated from remark saying IRA terrorism had been condemned by Catholic Church
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It’s already looking like it’s
@naomi_long
for third seat. Might be early but that’s the way it looks
#EuropeanElectionResults
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At last count five statements in from
@sinnfeinireland
MLAs and MPs today either criticising Ministers from other parties or calling on them to doing something re
#Coronavirus
. What happened the united front evident for a few weeks after devolution returned.
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Little eight year old Adam Watson from Banbridge deserves support as he battles leukaemia ....
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No questions allowed at
@duponline
manifesto launch. I personally have never experienced such a thing
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A senior
@duponline
source on
@edwinpootsmla
nominating a First Minister: “he’s alienated all the people who know it needs to be done and he’s surrounded himself with people who don’t want to do it”
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A
@sinnfeinireland
source confirms this is first time
@moneillsf
has used the term Northern Ireland in Assembly chamber “as an attempt to show she wants to be a First Minister for all”
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@moneillsf
tells MLAs she stands ready to take on leadership of “the Northern Ireland Executive as a First Minister for all”
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Gregory Campbell on
@BBCTalkback
trying to explain
@EdwinPoots1
comments on Covid being more prevalent in nationalist areas.
@duponline
in danger of tying themselves in knots
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.
@JimAllister
says the Director of Public Prosecutions should be considering his position over Denis Hutchings who “died an innocent man”
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In 12 months
@EdwinPoots1
has fought cancer, temporarily standing aside as Agriculture Minister to do so, lead a coup, became DUP leader then an ex DUP leader, tried to become an MLA for south Down and ended up with south Belfast instead.
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Fair play to the amazing
@BBCJayneMcC
for laying out the gory details on
#GMU
after three hours sleep. The wonders of youth 🤣
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Ian Paisley claims his father’s removal as leader of
@duponline
was what killed him. He died of a broken heart he said. Quite a claim
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This video is like a metaphor for the Northern Ireland of the past 25 years, all the more so this morning….
I can find no video that sums up being a lawyer better
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When did putting the words “the wee” before everything become a thing? As in “what’s your wee name” “what’s your wee address?” Uh?? Nice or a wee bit annoying after the 49th time?
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.
@moneillsf
says she stands over every word she made about China order on PPE on March 23 and invites
@JimAllister
to make his comments outside the Assembly chamber when he doesn’t have legal privilege
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There is an unprecedented need to find a substitute word for unprecedented
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Here is
@chhcalling
telling journalists what he is going to do about an Assembly election. But we’re not allowed to report it into 5pm
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Ian Paisley calls death of Denis Hutchings “a disgrace” claiming he’s been placed in a situation “where the stress of all of this has resulted in this outcome”
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Could Twitter please settle something for me. How common is the phrase “hasn’t got his sorrows to seek” Strange request I know….
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.
@RobinSwannMoH
says at end of pandemic there will be only one thing that divides us those who died and those who survived. Refuses to answer question about
@moneillsf
criticism saying he can’t afford to get distracted
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@BeattieDoug
tells his party’s manifesto launch there will be no United Ireland in his children’s lifetime
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He’s no
@MarkCarruthers7
but he’s
@endamcclafferty
. Doing a fine job filling the big shoes - and socks - on
@bbctheview
. Braver man than me
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On a day like this the Antrim Coast Road gets my No 1 vote…..
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Farewell
@KenReid_utv
Known him for, ahem, nearly forty years with never a cross word (except when we’re talking about football and the fact he’s left us with
@Tracey_utv
)
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This is now close to humiliation for Karen Bradley and at any other time in any other Ministry you have to think she’d be packing her bags...
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