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As someone who worked in the Belfast Telegraph for 12 great years I'm genuinely still upset at its front page today. That story was the very definition of NOT in the public interest. The story behind that is none of our business. One of the biggest own goals I've ever seen.
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As a unionist I say that this Bill is an appalling stunt by an appalling member of an appalling political dynasty. We have always justified the union on the basis of its majority support in NI. This bill is an act of abject surrender by Paisley. His father would be so proud.
The DUP's Ian Paisley has introduced new legislation in Westminster today which aims to require a "supermajority" (undefined) before any part of the United Kingdom can leave. If enacted it could mean that 50%+1 would not be enough to trigger a United Ireland.
@VirginMediaNews
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Sometimes Twitter can be very funny. Yesterday I used the word "Taoisigh" (plural of Taoiseach) when I was talking about more than one Taoiseach. Someone pulled me about misspelling Taoiseach (I didn't) then better yet, someone with an IRISH LANGUAGE ACT avatar liked his post😂😂
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The Nolan Show seems to be actively facilitating Jamie Bryson and Mervyn Gibson in trying to create a new political crisis over the protocol. Looks like Jeffrey Donaldson’s been easily suckered in so now he’s after the UUP. This is not public service broadcasting.
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Just watched all 3 series of
#AfterLife
for the 3rd time. Its been an unexpectedly tough year and that programme is so reassuring. Everyone should watch all 18 episodes once a year. If
@rickygervais
never does another thing he's given us one of the most important TV series ever.
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Ben lowry: “ prosperity is a powerful case, but its not a unionist case“. One of the most incredible comnents I have ever heard. Prosperity is the strongest case unionism can make to waverers. Particularly younger people..
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Can’t abide people who have voluntarily gone to live in England then endlessly complain (from England) about the English being anti-Irish or anti-Scots. In my experience Irish (north or south) & Scottish people are generally made very welcome & do well in England. I certainly was
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Great debate on
@BBCNolan
this morning. Angry ones calling to say there were too many people on the trains to Portrush and Helens Bay yesterday. What thy really mean is they were too many “other people” on the train. It was those other people‘s fault the trains were packed 😂
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There's something horribly tribal (dare I say sectarian) about this attitude. Like Ireland's Future had captured a citadel from the Prods. I love the Ulster Hall but associate it with Stiff Little Fingers, the Undertones and the Clash when I was a kid.Not with anything political.
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No matter what else we might differ on, can we all agree that anyone carrying a “Jail Robin Swann” placard is an irredeemable arsehole?
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Is anywhere more lacking in self awareness than NI? A potential bomb attack today causing moral outrage among those here who spend half their lives commemorating people arrested or killed while planting bombs. If something is wrong it isn't just wrong when the other side does it.
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Stephen Nolan just exclaimed “isn’t it farcical that I’m asking Jamie Bryson what the DUP mean?” Yes it is Stephen but you invited him in to your show and you chose to ask him the question.
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Have Northern Ireland people on Twitter and the media absolutely no self-awareness? So many of them constantly outraged at sectarianism from the other side but totally blind to it on their own side. Yet still they come, unable for even a minute to see how ridiculous they look.
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I don't like to politicise personal tragedy but surely the awful loss of 3 young lads on the A5 should be a catalyst for Stormont to stop fannying about with trivia and actually get round to fixing truly awful roads like that. I commuted it for over 3 years. Its a public scandal.
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This Laura Whitmore business. It seems to me her detractors are furious that this young Irish woman moved to England, settled in well, did well and forgot she was supposed to hate the English. All seems a bit outdated.
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I'm seeing a lot of kickback about "loyalist hypocrisy" in criticising the SF funeral. Red herring. It's not "loyalists" making the criticisms. Its a group that can only be broadly described as "everyone else".
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Genuine question. I’m in ROI a lot. I like it there and can see an evident sense of well-being, confidence and prosperity that much of NI doesn’t have. So why are they on the verge of a major protest vote to hand the country over to the Felons Club in Belfast?
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A sad thing watching that Paisley documentary was seeing protests about the Anglo Irish Agreement in 1985 and there’s Wilson, Dodds, Allister, Jeffrey at the back of the City Hall shouting at a car and having as little impact as ever. How are they still there 40 years on?
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I'm no fan of the latest DUP stunt, but even less so now we've been told of all the fantastic, wonderful, life enhancing things Stormont was just about to do for all of us. If only they'd done them all already just think how happy we'd all be. Unless its all bull. Surely not.
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I'm just sad that all the super things Stormont was apparently about to do to make our lives better through health, education, welfare reform, etc won't get to happen now. If only they'd known this was going to happen they could have done them sometime in the previous 23 years.
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Not a rugby man but rugby folk singing the Cranberries seem to have outraged the perpetually offended even more than ever this weekend. Apparently Dolores was an arch partitionist all along. Who knew? Lesson to the south - these are the ones who want to take over your country.
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The Newtownards Road is a place I love and it doesn’t get a lot to cheer about. Brilliant scenes as the
@Glentoran
bus made its way home from the Cup Final last night.
@MickMcDermott
@RobbieMcDaid
@PMcClean15
@pauloneill26
@mkane432
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Every MLA who voted to retain the barbarity of hunting with dogs should be ashamed of themselves, no matter what spurious (because they are all spurious) justification they try to offer.
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Was at the City Hospital today and drove past that shop on the Donegall Road that was attacked and burnt this week. A main road very poorly served by shops and they do this to a new one because the shopkeeper isn't "local". Absolute morons by any standards.
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Its important to be able to freely criticise all politicians equally when they deserve it.A big problem in NI is smug, self conscious, middle class protestants who find it easy to criticise unionism but can't do the same to nationalism as they're terrified of being called a bigot
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I see we've now entered that time of year when people who don't like working class Protestants get very concerned for the health and safety of those very same working class Protestants. Bonfire season would bring a tear to a glass eye, 😂😂
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I saw some moron tweet earlier that the fact the vast majority of sons support the same football team as their dad is bad and somehow tribal or coercive. Self indulgent stupidity beyond belief. Being taken to football by your Dad one of the purest forms of parental bonding.
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Flip sale what a shame. The DUP has blocked the Assembly from working just at the very moment parties who’ve been in government for 15 years have figured out how to fix the NHS. Just our luck 😤
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I see John Barrowman is trending. I presume its just thousands of peoiple tweetiing this.
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Look at this crap. I've been to lots of weddings in the Republic. Family, friends and - oh yes - my own. Plenty of parties too. At not one has this song or any other one of its ilk started up. I place the Irish people on a much higher standard than this guy.
It's a song that's played at every Wedding, Party and Pub in Ireland.
It doesn't mean the whole team are gonna go out and wear balaclavas at the next game
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Sorry but in all the misty eyed nostalgia over the GFA all i see is 2 selfish, idiot blocs of voters that couldn’t wait to throw out the people who created it in favour of people who would never have come up with it and who’ve mangled it beyond recognition.
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This will be so disappointing for the legions on here who wanted this to be about poppies or religion. Spare a thought for them and all their unused tweets.
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The SDLP has found out this week what the UUP experiened for decades but never caught on to until now - if you step aside to help the louder party in your tribe, they will eat you up and spit you out. Its utterly the wrong thing to do.
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Listening to
@SJAMcBride
on
@StephenNolan
just now. Unlike the predictable rentaquotes who cheapen their profession by accepting invitations to speak on anything (irrespective of lack of knowledge) Sam is a REAL journalist who finds and investigated REAL stories. A cut above 👏👏
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We don’t do much well from Northern Ireland but when you see the big dopey smiles on the faces in Washington this week we definitely do self-serving, self-satisfied freeloaders to an Oscar-winning level.
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The Alliance Party seems strangely exercised by this trans legislation in Scotland. Not sure they’re reading the room right in Bangor West snd Ballyhackamore.
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This morning
@StephenNolan
tied Matthew O’Toole so badly in knots I thought I was listening to Stephen Farry. 😂
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Lockdown TV is telling us a lot about people. Jim Allister on Nolan Live, sitting on a leather chair with no jacket, no tie and 3 shirt buttons undone. What sort of a Protestant is he, sitting there like Tom Jones? 😆
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I see Congressman Neal has kindly referred to us as "Planters" on his visit here. Try telling that to my wife . 29 years married and I haven't planted so much as a rosebush. 🤣🤣
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Some truly pitiful people here. Jamie Bryson tweeted about being ill and Arlene Foster showed a photo of her dog. The abuse they both got in response was a torrent. I don’t support either of them but why follow people you don’t like just to abuse them? Its a bit mental. 🥹
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Not specifically NI but has any other profession had its credibility damaged by social media as much as academia? The number of "academics" who are childlike in their Twitter behaviour is quite startling and really doesn't say a lot for the bubble they've never existed outside.
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Read some terrible crap about Barrys in recent days. Barrys (and Morellis) is the complete essence of Portrush. Its been sacrificed to a short term gentrification of the place. That wont last and we’ll be left with a shell of a place fill of negative equity and little else. .
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This sums up BBCNI. Yesterday Carruthers asking ELP if she'd attend a GAA match and tonight McClafferty asking Michelle O'Neill if she'd go to a NI match. Give it up FFS. Robinson and Foster have gone to GAA matches and McGuinness and Ní Chuilín to NI matches. This is insulting.
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Incredible blunder by the UUP to just echo DUP policy for the EU election. It's like last week's council elections didn't happen. There's a massive base of pro union people who are also pro remain and political unionism has chosen to ignore them. Alliance will mop them up..
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@DDawson2020
@john_mcareavey
Yes Diane. When we heard about Michaela's murder all we thought of was a beautiful young woman murdered on her honeymoon and a young husband robbed of his new wife. Because that's what happened. Her community background was irrelevant, And still is.
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In all seriousness (and not focusing on Kelly's past), how on Earth can we expect a capable Chief Constable to be appointed by a panel of time servers with not one bit of policing experience or knowledge between them? Its a racket.
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I identify as a 23 year old world class number 10 who should be playing for Arsenal (or Rangers) & N Ireland. I keep being misgendered as a middle aged bloke who can’t run the length of himself. Who do i need to report this to so I can have money for my hurt feelings?
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Without going into the pros and cons of the Northern Ireland protocol, the main reason I want it sorted is so that we don’t ever have to look at or hear from Neale Fecking Richmond ever again. The ultimate one trick pony .
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When you look at the people who are after
@StephenNolan
- and I don’t mean those miffed just because they can’t get on the show - you see how imperative it is that BBCNI stand firm in support of him. The show has flaws in its regular guests but this campaign is largely sectarian.
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Does anyone share my observation that those in NI who use the word "themmuns" in a smug, patronising manner are actually the people who truly hate "themmuns" most of all. Just as those whose profiles profess to "hate bigots" generally tend to only hate the other side's bigots
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Incredible number of tweets on the
@BBCNolan
issue from people who joined Twitter this very month and who haven't posted on any other subject. There is NO conspiracy here.
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There are generations of people in Northern Ireland - including many people in prominent jobs across society - relieved there were no smartphones or twitter in their youth. Young people need to be allowed to grow up, not have youthful daftness blight their lives and careers.
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I’ve reconsidered the whole Nesbitt at the Shinner rally issue. We should show a bit of empathy towards him. This will be the first part he’s ever played where the whole audience will think he was good. Or at least they’ll tell him he was. Actors need that sort of fake love 😂
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I’m not an economist. I got a B in A-level economics in 1980 (and as very pleased with it) and that’s pretty much as far as it goes. So can somebody please explain to me in simple terms, why it makes sense for the government to make sure very rich people pay less tax? Thank you
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The night each summer when most of those who spend July being outraged by sectarianism change sides on the issue. And vice versa. 😂
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Does every Alliance candidate HAVE to post a twitter video claiming their posters have been removed? It’s starting to stretch disbelief a bit now. 🥱
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Big bonfires near homes is a real issue. I remember the one i used to go to cracking my granny’s back windows. But spare me the mock concern from people who for the rest of the year deride the people in working class PUL areas as lowlife “fleggers”.
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Not a word about lifting bins or the state of Royal Avenue. But they know all about the Middle East.
Heated debate at City Hall as Belfast Council pass package of pro-Palestinian calls
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One of the more surreal aspects of NI politics is to watch the phoney "progressive alliance" cosy up to the stale, pale (and overwhelmingly male) visitors from the reactionary USA, and hang ofn their every confused and uninformed word.
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The TUV roster of candidates and where they're standing proves what I've always thought. Jim Allister - like Paisley before him - is not a unionist. He is a peculiar form of ego driven Irish Protestant whose true enemy - again like Paisley - is not nationalism (1/2)
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The world understands that both world wars were a few generations ago, as was European imperialism. But I’m not sure the UK is ready to be lectured by a German on its historic relationship with Ireland. Self awareness is s valuable commodity.
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I'm in the city centre. It's terrible. Even in the bad years of the 70s 80s and 90s it was a more lively vibrant place than it is today
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I have to say Alliance were a lot safer and more likeable when they were just about Protestants snd Catholics being s bit nicer to each other. Now they're a bit too obsessed with this side of things with no evidence they understand it.
On Monday, Alliance is bringing a motion calling for inclusive, standardised, and age-appropriate Relationship and Sexuality Education in schools across NI.
RSE is a safeguarding tool, and every young person deserves guidance on how to build healthy, respectful relationships 👇
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Unionism is definitely being marginalised and its concerns over the protocol are being either ignored and trivialised. But its time unionist brexiteers showed some contrition for presenting nationalism with an open goal. In 2015 the union had never been more secure.
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The Radio Ulster News has just told us that Zoe Ball has covid. Why? I doubt if too many of us have come into contact with her this week. I know a lad in East Belfast who has it and they haven't mentioned him once. 😂
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This is beyond crazy. He was 14!!! Those of us who were teenagers in NI during the Troubles can all consider ourselves very lucky there was no social media back then. The vast majority of people would be deemed unemployable had they been tweeting as 14 year olds.
Middlesbrough defender Marc Bola has been charged by the FA over a nine-year-old social media post, made when he was 14.
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Anyone not able to hear
@BBCNolan
this morning should listen to the pod. He’s asking a particularly vacuous Alliance MLA for concrete poverty policies. All she can come back with is “we need strategies” and promising to set up some committees. Its like a Chris Morris programme.
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Had to drive across most of East Belfast this afternoon. No crowds or disruption. Just families sitting outside their houses and a few sitting outside pubs. Good community feel about the place. That's a couple of tomorrow's front pages that will need to be rewritten.
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Protestants having ideas and being artistic? Is this a new thing? We’ll be singing songs next. And listening to music. And having different coloured curtains and going to the theatre. Maybe even reading books. All very new and scary things for us no doubt.
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Interesting to see
@SJAMcBride
and
@stephennolan
vilified by the same people who venerated their rigorous approach to RHI. This place really is a political sewer. There’s even a Shinnerbot campaign to get Nolan off the air. He blocked me years ago but what double standards.
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Is there another country in the world where the government would spend £40m on an "investigation" that ends up demanding an apology for infiltrating and defeating a terrorist movement and ultimately bringing about peace?
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I’m totally anti DUP but i knew JD back in the early 80s. He is NOT from a privileged background. But let’s not allow that to get in the way of a lazy, stolen cliche.
When you’re accustomed to privilege, equality feels like oppression.
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The way people here are treating the Israel/Gaza catastrophe like they’re supporting a team in a football match is truly nauseating. Sums up the absolute worst of Northern Irish/Irish people. Horrible but so predictable
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Re: the “internal housekeeping” around Denis Donaldson. Am I the only one who suspects that the Police Ombudsman is terrified that if she even once comes close to absolving the police she’ll be out of a job? Post GFA NI has an entire strata of society in jobs like this.
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Arlene Foster tweeted an innocent photo of her mum having a nice day in the garden. Some of the responses were both unbelievable & totally predictable. Seriously folks, if you can’t get a girlfriend or boyfriend don’t take it out on others. There are dating websites now. Try one
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This piece on
@BBCNolan
about the state of the City Centre is demoralising. With 1 or 2 exceptions city councillors need to realise that City Hall isn’t like the student union. When you pass a motion there you don’t just get to go to the pub. You have to follow up with action
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Without rehashing any of the issues around the Storey funeral, those 2 car crash interviews on
@BBCNolan
this morning are an awful indictment against the calibre of people being promoted to important positions right across society. All jargon and waffle but no substance.
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Gerry Carroll on BBC bemoaning losing "a great councillor" for West Belfast. Then highlights said great councillor proposing a motion about Palestine as a great example of his greatness. That says so much about what's wrong about so many of our local government.
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Claire Hanna on
@BBCTalkback
"I don't want to spend whatever London gives us. I look to the South". So she wants the Republic to give us their money instead? Why would they want to do that? By the way we pay tax to London. It isn't THEIR money.
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Stephen Nolan is currently behaving EXACTLY the same way towards Sinn Fein as he did towards the DUP over RHI four years ago. Over the top but fundamentally right in both cases. Yet mow there's a campaign to get him off the radio. We really don't do consistency here in N Ireland.
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I'm not an avid Royal watcher but I hope the vile individuals who obsessed on social media about Princess Kate's health are ashamed of themselves. This is a mother of young children and how she deals with a serious health issue is a matter for herself and her family. No one else.
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I like good cop shows but I'm hard to please. Four episodes into
#BlueLights
and its absolutely superb. Great hard nosed procedural stories. Really well written and acted and no naff Belfastisms for comic effect. Congratulations to those responsible.
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This row on
@BBCNolan
about the PSNI badge is missing what I think is the likely motivation behind it. In the modern world If someone takes over an organisation and hasn’t any real ideas how to make it better they just change the logo or name. It’s the waffler’s way to a legacy
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Got petrol today at £1.6999 today then 4 miles away saw a Tesco 10p per litre more expensive. Nobody can tell me there's no profiteering going on here.
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Looking on as someone who’s always been a unionist, am I right in assuming that no matter what is agreed is worse for unionism and NI than the arrangements pre 2016. Wouldn’t you think the DUP might have thought of that before the referendum if they were any good at their job?
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Weirder and weirder. Our revenge will be the mutilation of our children.
Sinn Fein has called for new legislation for Northern Ireland to make puberty blockers available to young trans teens as part of normal healthcare.
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I see that, even though he’s off the air for a while, the campaign against Stephen Nolan has been ramped up. Its entirely driven by sectarianism, snobbery, political, censorship, and the resentments of a couple of disappointed Nolan wannabes.
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Apparently the airlines and holiday companies are struggling to cope with “unprecedented rise in bookings”. Bookings that they willingly and enthusiastically took. We are truly in a world where nothing is anyone’s fault and no one needs to be any good at anything.
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Think this election is all about the middle classes:
1. Catholic mc coalesce behind the boys in the Felons.
2. Protestant mc doesn’t vote jn case somebody from Ravenhill sees & thinks they’re a bigot
3. Their children vote Alliance until they’re old enough to know what a woman is
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Anyone who worked in newspapers in the UK in the past 15 years will recognise the Paula Vennels type from the Post Office scandal. Abjectly under qualified, full of pueril new jargon, and prepared to throw anyone under a bus to save themselves. These grifters run everything now.
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Honest to God, BBCNI now has Stephen Farry, Ben Lowry and some lad from PBP on arguing the ins and outs of the Israel/Palestine issue. I've said it before but there's an argument for BBC1 just showing cartoons for an hour if this is the best it can do,
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The Ormeau Rd PSNI fallout is symbolic of a greater malaise in society ie a strata of senior “managers” with no talent, expertise, ability or knowledge other than how to utter soundbites, pass blame, sacrifice others and stay ahead of the posse. They are absolutely everywhere. 🤯
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It’s grotesque watching so many NI politicians lining up to take sides on Israel/Hamas today based on some contrived and bogus equivalence. But it sums up what’s toxic about this rancid hole.
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What about Northern Ireland people? Howling indignantly on Tuesday because the King doesn't mention them then howling indignantly on Wednesday because the Home Secretary does. Truly the world's must horribly self important place. 🥱🥱🥱
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"Ah boss the party had a bad time in the elections down south. Will we lead with that?"
"No. Find something bad that Protestants did. That'll cheer everyone up and take their minds off the election".
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Here. Take a photo of me on the phone. 🙄
In Creggan now, I’ve spoken to residents and the police. I’ve appealed for the police to end their operation as soon as possible so peace can be restored. Violence will solve nothing.
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Watching the reactions to Stephen Nolan wearing shorts outside his house confirms my long held view that there is a great nouveau riche snobbery in a lot of the negative attitudes to him. How dare someone from the Shankill own a house like that? It needs to be called out.
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Alliance "what I did this week" tweets are good fun. They distill to:
1. Spoke to a few people (standing outside )
2 Spoke to a few people at a meeting (sitting down)
3. Got my photo taken with people
4. Tweeted stuff
5.(weather permitting) Stood outside the City Hall on Saturday
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Can’t see too many looking down their nose at the Irish League after the live matches over the past few weeks. Brilliant stuff!
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Remember the Belfast Telegraph? There’s still a version of it out there but this one can publish this glowing obituary to a man who spent 19 years in jail without even once hinting at what he did to be sent there.
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