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BBC Northern Ireland's weekly politics programme. Presented by @MarkCarruthers7 . Also posts on #SundayPolitics & #BBCRedLines ▪️Email: BBCPoliticsNI @BBC .co.uk
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"Casement Park needs to be built. I believe some of the opposition to it.... smacks of sectarianism."
@Naomi_Long
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"You might aswell ask to refight the Battle of the Boyne."
SDLP MP
@ClaireHanna
says the Drumcree dispute is in the past.
@MarkCarruthers7
#SundayPolitics
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On the day that a new constitutional committee was setup in Downing St to oversee relationships across the UK - here's Cork comedian
@TadhgHickey
's take on it.
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@ProfKarolSikora
Our health service is going to be stretched over the next few days. That's why it is so important we don't get more & more people infected by meeting on the beach."
#Coronavirus
#covid19
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Is there a good IRA and a bad IRA?
@MarkCarruthers7
asks Tánaiste & Fianna Fáil leader
@MichealMartinTD
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Northern Ireland's most senior judge reacts to
@Brandonlewis
' comments that the UK "will break international law."
Watch the full interview with Sir Declan Morgan - on
@BBCTheView
tomorrow night on
@BBCOneNI
@MarkCarruthers7
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"There is nothing to say that I will vote to remain part of the UK or that I will vote for a new Ireland."
Former loyalist politician Davy Adams says he'll make any decision on a border poll based 'solely on where he thinks the best future for his grandchildren lies.
#BBCTheView
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"A gutless government."
@SuzyJourno
tells
@endamcclafferty
that the Labour Government tried to "bury the bad news" over Casement Park...
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"She lacked humility, she was passive aggressive, she was very uncomfortable, she was sometimes quite rude, but at no point was there empathy or compassion"
@deirdreheenan
talks to
@MarkCarruthers7
about former First Minister Arlene Foster's appearance at the Covid Inquiry
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"Now is the time" for the Irish government to call a "citizens' assembly" on Irish unity, says Sinn Féin leader
@MaryLouMcDonald
#SundayPolitics
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@MarkCarruthers7
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#BBCRedLines
"It's just alienate, alienate, alienate,"
Joe Brolly accuses the DUP of "short-term opportunism"
rather than attempting to creating a viable & flourishing Northern Ireland.
Listen to the interview in full:
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"A coalition government run by numbskulls."
Hotelier Bill Wolsey - on the Stormont Executive.
#BBCTheView
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@MarkCarruthers7
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Coming up on
#SundayPolitics
at 2.30 on
@BBCOneNI
@SuzyJourno
tells
@MarkCarruthers7
👇
"It will be a shame if people in NI are collateral damage in some game of blackmail between the Tory government and the
@duponline
"
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.
@MarkCarruthers7
challenges DUP leader
@J_Donaldson_MP
about social media postings from one of the party's council candidates.
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"I think I'd say get stuffed,"
Professor Diarmaid Ferriter - on what he'd say if the NIO called and ask him to help write an official history of The Troubles.
@MarkCarruthers7
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On
#SundayPolitics
,
@MarkCarruthers7
asks
@MaryLouMcDonald
for her view on 'murderous IRA criminality during the Troubles':
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Senator Ian Marshall says remarks by
@J_Donaldson_MP
that agri-food industry leaders haven't fully read the UK-EU Brexit deal are "very disappointing" "completely disrespectful" and that Sir Jeffrey has got it "horribly wrong"
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"We need to remember that unionism needs Stormont more than nationalists do."
Noel Doran,
@Irish_News
Editor.
#SundayPolitics
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@MarkCarruthers7
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"Disturbing pile on."
@ClaireHanna
tells
@MarkCarruthers7
that criticism of SDLP candidate Cara Hunter has been "deeply sectarian"...
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"This notion it is discrimination is ludicrous."
@EoinTennyson
disagrees with the DUP position on Covid vaccine passports...
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"Unless this Protocol goes, then this Union is over."
@JimAllister
tells
@MarkCarruthers7
he wants rid of the "Windsor Whitewash"...
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"The DUP approach has always been a sideshow."
@ClaireHanna
tells
@MarkCarruthers7
that it will be talks between the UK and EU that will resolve the NI Protocol...
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"Right across this bill you see a spine of political interference"
@annacbryson
tells
@MarkCarruthers7
historians are wary of the government’s official history on the Troubles
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Lord Trimble reflects on his last visit to see Seamus Mallon
#SundayPolitics
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@MarkCarruthers7
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"That's a job for fruits & fenians." - what writer Gary Mitchell's careers teacher told him when he said he wanted to be a writer.
@MarkCarruthers7
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#BBCTheView
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Kingsmills murders: "It was wrong when it happened. It's wrong today...As a republican I'm shamed by it" says
@JohnODowdSF
as he also reveals three relatives of his were murdered the night before.
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"There has been a substantial shift towards Irish Unity.... that has been driven by Brexit".
@JonTonge
- on his research of Alliance party members.
#SundayPolitics
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@MarkCarruthers7
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"You couldn't but be a little bit disturbed with the way they (FF & FG) handled this situation, that is 'Get Sinn Fein', rather than come with a narrative around the future"
Denis Bradley, ex co-chair of the Consultative Group on the Past
@MarkCarruthers7
#BBCTheView
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#GE2020
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"I don't see what's to celebrate or commemorate about an event that is fundamentally divisive".
PBP's
@fiona_ferg
- on the upcoming Church service marking the partition of Ireland & the centenary of NI.
#SundayPolitics
@MarkCarruthers7
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"Completely disrespectful"..."He's got it horribly wrong" Reaction to
@J_Donaldson_MP
comments last night that agri-food business leaders don't fully understand the EU-UK withdrawal agreement deal. Former UFU president Ian Marshall and FSB NI chair
@tinamckenz
hit back
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Coming up tonight....
PUP Cllr John Kyle tells
@MarkCarruthers7
that the protocol needs fundamental change but it also offers significant economic opportunities for Northern Ireland.
Watch the full interview on
@BBCTheView
at 10.35pm on BBC One NI
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"This is a result of decisions the UK government has made."
@ClaireHanna
has little sympathy for
@eastantrimmp
and others opposing the NI Protocol...
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"I would far rather travel extra miles to have treatment in a timely fashion."
@naomi_long
tells
@MarkCarruthers7
that more people should be prepared to travel to access healthcare...
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.
@NewtonEmerson
says the DUP's humiliation has only started.
"How on earth can they knock on doors and say defend the union, effectively from what we have done to it."
#BBCTheView
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"Decades down the road the union as we know it will come to an end."
@wallyt53
tells
@MarkCarruthers7
that unionists should prepare for what’s coming?
⏰11pm | BBC One NI
#BBCTheView
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"Those who have most to lose from us all having to consider an alternative to Stormont are those who are refusing to go back in"
@chrisadonnelly
tells
@MarkCarruthers7
that Unionists are in a difficult position if Stormont doesn't return
#BBCTheView
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The
@SJAMcBride
'state of NI' article at the weekend kicked off a debate about how broken is NI and can it be fixed. He opened tonight's show with these thoughts
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"We could get Windsor Park up to scratch."
@CatharineHoey
tells
@MarkCarruthers7
that the legacy of the European Championships coming to Northern Ireland should benefit football not GAA.
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"The NI Protocol is a gross assault on our constitutional position. The protocol is not just about economics, it is about something much bigger."
@JimAllister
@MarkCarruthers7
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#SundayPolitics
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"..Even the Grand Orange Lodge is an all Ireland institution."
@chrisadonnelly
talks to
@MarkCarruthers7
about the cultural and institutional connections across the island
#BBCTheView
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Direct rule "...is out of the question"
Sinn Féin leader
@MaryLouMcDonald
tells
@DarranMarshall
what she thinks 'Plan B' should mean if Stormont doesn't return
#BBCTheView
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@MarkCarruthers7
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"There is now no real emotional bond between the political establishment and N Ireland."
The former Alliance leader
@AlderdiceLord
talks to
@MarkCarruthers7
about the change in attitudes to N Ireland from London.
#BBCTheView
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@MarkCarruthers7
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"We have no alternative.. Education is in crisis in Northern Ireland."
"If I was now 28, I couldn't afford to be a teacher"
@liam_mcguckin_
from the National Association of Head Teachers.
@NAHTnews
@MarkCarruthers7
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"As Irish republicans we should be big enough to say that we're not going to be part of celebrating partition"
@PearseDoherty
tells
@MarkCarruthers7
#bbctheview
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"I want to see bonfires that represent the very historic nature - when the were lit to welcome King William to Northern Ireland."
DUP MP
@carlalockhart
- on last night's bonfire in Dungannon which had an Irish tricolour & an image of the Taoiseach on it.
@MarkCarruthers7
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@moneillsf
: "There appears to be a double standard within the policing service. There appears to be an ethos or culture that turns a blind eye to UDA / UVF thugs on the street but a disproportionate attempt to target nationalist communities."
@MarkCarruthers7
#SundayPolitics
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How much are Sinn Féin MPs paid?
@MarkCarruthers7
asked
@johnfinucane
. The North Belfast MP said he doesn't have permission to provide that information.
#SundayPolitics
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A bet's a bet. On
@bbctheview
tonight the ballad of the Green MLA and the commentator in the purple dress.
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"I'm glad we have most of the Game of Thrones stuff out of the way. It is maddening that we are all in this crazy waiting room, and that the DUP's internal psychodramas are allowed to set the pace."
@ClaireHanna
@MarkCarruthers7
#SundayPolitics
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"In any other city they'd just be called a crime group."
Belfast Telegraph's
@AllisonMorris1
says questions need to be asked as to why loyalists paramilitary groups continue to recruit young people.
#BBCTheView
|
@MarkCarruthers7
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"It was the Real IRA who detonated the bomb that day."
Kenny Donaldson from
@SEFFLisnaskea
tells
@MarkCarruthers7
that people shouldn't forget who caused the Omagh bomb...
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"Of course I'd vote for him."
@columeastwood
knows who he would support if he lived in north Belfast.
#bbctheview
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"I am tired of Sammy Wilson desperately running around trying to seek a headline. He has been continually irresponsible throughout this pandemic."
Minister
@NicholaMallon
says Sammy Wilson's comments about Dr Tom Black were "outrageous" & "reckless"
@BBCTheView
#BBCTheView
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"More people will turn away from the union in my view"
@LeoVaradkar
tells
@MarkCarruthers7
the UK government's bid to unilaterally change the protocol was a "strategic mistake" and a "peculiar policy"
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"The people of Derry have taken me into their hearts."
Incoming Mayor of Derry City & Strabane
@Lseenoi
says her new job is about representing the people who elected her.
#SundayPolitics
@MarkCarruthers7
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"We need reasons to live, reasons to have joy."
@garysnowpatrol
tells
@MarkCarruthers7
that the lack of arts funding in Northern Ireland damages the chances of younger artists making it.
The interview in full on Sunday Politics on
@BBCOneNI
at 10:15am.
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.
@naomi_long
says the 'DUP didn't just look the gift horse in the mouth, they shot it in the head', about negotiations on Monday.
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"I predicted there would be these problems " Former Brexit Secretary
@DavidDavisMP
tells
@MarkCarruthers7
#bbctheview
1K
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"I think Brexit itself will accelerate the debate about a united Ireland," Dominic Grieve MP says Northern Ireland's "identity and status" is being "churned up" as a result of Brexit.
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"The people of Northern Ireland are now being asked to accept bad governance or no governance"
@deirdreheenan
talks to
@MarkCarruthers7
about what the Covid Inquiry showed about our political institutions
#bbctheview
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Message to the politicians from
@ManufacturingNI
's Richard Hogg "Get over youselves - let this deal run."
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“I was standing saying no surrender…but it has got us absolutely nowhere, it has put us into reverse.”
@MarkCarruthers7
asks
@wallyt53
if unionist leaders need to learn the lessons of history?
⏰11pm | BBC One NI
#BBCTheView
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Is MLA pay an issue for Jeffrey Donaldson?
@MarkCarruthers7
asks
@SuzyJourno
"There is resentment among some MLAs that the people stopping the deal are the MPs who have nice big, fat salaries."
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'Planning for constitutional change needs to start now,' says
@MaryLouMcDonald
on
#bbctheview
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"Utterly irrelevant"
@BobbyMcDonagh1
says the size of
@BorisJohnson
majority carries no weight internationally.
"It won't stop the US insisting on exporting chlorinated chicken to the UK. It won't affect the resolve of the EU to defend its interests."
@MarkCarruthers7
#Brexit
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"The Celtic Symphony is widely played and widely sung"
@MaryLouMcDonald
tells
@MarkCarruthers7
.
#sundaypolitics
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"You cannot burnish your credentials as a victim one day and tarnish the memory of victims the next"
@GRobinsonDUP
tells
@taramillstv
@johnfinucane
should withdraw from commemoration event.
#SundayPolitics
Catch the programme tonight at 23:05 on
@BBCTwoNI
or on
@bbciplayer
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"Nationalists and republicans are so far ahead of unionism when it comes to organising".
What's the unionist version of Ireland's Future?
@NewsDeclan
asks
@Saraita101
#BBCTheView
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From small 'u' unionist party to a small 'u' unity party?
#SundayPolitics
understands research presented to the Alliance Party suggests its base is more in favour of a United Ireland than the status quo.
@MarkCarruthers7
asks
@naomi_long
about the findings.
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"Westminster has never acted in our interests."
@moneillsf
tells
@MarkCarruthers7
that
@sinnfeinireland
wants to tackle "underfunding" here...
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149
.
@GabrielScally
says NI & the Republic need to coordinate their policies when it comes to lifting restrictions - "otherwise we'll get infections spilling back & forth across the border."
#Coronavirus
#covid19
#BBCTheView
@MarkCarruthers7
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Brian Feeney from
@IrelandsFuture
says "Reconciliation and reunification are not mutually exclusive."
#BBCTheView
|
@MarkCarruthers7
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"Everybody is using (The Past) in their own way."
Denis Bradley says the Stormont parties, the UK & the Irish Governments "have been using it for their own particular needs".
@MarkCarruthers7
|
#BBCTheView
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"We are not talking about some sort of detox programme" for paramilitaries.
@allianceparty
MLA
@NualaMcAllister
"We are 25yrs on. If these people wanted to stop being paramilitaries they'd stop being paramilitaries"
@MarkCarruthers7
|
#BBCTheView
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"It is a very sad day.... that Orange feet are still not welcome on a particular stretch of road."
DUP MP
@carlalockhart
says calls for mediation over the Drumcree / Garvaghy Rd dispute.
#SundayPolitics
|
@MarkCarruthers7
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Has
#brexit
changed your mind on the constitutional position of Northern Ireland?
📊NI results
@BBCSpotlightNI
poll
#BBCTheView
@MarkCarruthers7
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"Some in the DUP might hope that it has built a good personal relationship with
@JamieBrysonCPNI
and that may mean his criticisms of the deal will be managed."
@SuzyJourno
says "that may be a very unwise calculation for the DUP to make."
#SundayPolitics
@MarkCarruthers7
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"My vision of a united Ireland does not involve a takeover. It is everyone on the island coming together to initiate a new country."
Fianna Fáil's
@OCallaghanJim
- outlines some of his proposals for uniting Ireland.
#SundayPolitics
@MarkCarruthers7
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39
141
.
@BorisJohnson
is "talking about a £30bn bridge - that in all likelihood is never going to happen - when
@NicholaMallon
doesn't have enough money to maintain the roads & fill in the potholes."
@LouHaigh
says spending priorities should be set by Stomont ministers.
#BBCTheView
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"Thirty pieces of silver" and "nothing to show to their electorate" says
@ChrisHazzardSF
....
#bbctheview
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"The notion that they're doing it for the benefit of NI is completely spurious"
@StephenFarryMP
on UK government's Brexit tactics.
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"The South has never been wealthier.... and the North's is in a ha'penny place in terms of economic productivity & output. Clearly the South is better off"
@PaulColgan
says there is a clear divergence between the economies of Northern Ireland & the Republic.
@MarkCarruthers7
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Sinn Féin's
@ChrisHazzardSF
says the there is no good
#brexit
deal - only degrees of pain. He says the ultimate solution is Irish unity.
#BBCTheView
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"Many of us saw this coming...."
Gardaí "were not prepared because they've been minimising the far-right movement in this country."
SDLP cllr
@Lseenoi
on the
#DublinRiots
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Unionists are 'angry' that
@sinnfeinireland
brought down Stormont but haven't been criticised as heavily as
@NIOgov
ministers have criticised unionists in the current suspension
@BenLowry2
talking to
@MarkCarruthers7
on Sunday Politics
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"Cold, hungry and no hope for the future."
@C_Fitz_
tells
@MarkCarruthers7
that the "political pantomime" at Westminster helps no one...
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"It is beyond unacceptable that we should be governed by laws that we don't make, cant change, and cannot even influence."
@TUVonline
leader
@JimAllister
#BBCTheView
|
@MarkCarruthers7
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"No one wants to see a border poll immediately what they want is one in the short to medium term."
@chrisadonnelly
tells
@MarkCarruthers7
#bbctheview
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Why do you say the prospect of the Union ending is much more likely than at any time since 1920 ?
@MarkCarruthers7
asks Prof Brendan O'Leary.
#bbctheview
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"There has to be a role for the Irish Government"
@MatthewOToole2
tells
@MarkCarruthers7
what he thinks should happen if the devolved institutions don't come back
#BBCTheView
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