James McD
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interested in politics: wedded to truth : my own opinions: easily distracted by wine and song. retweets are not an endorsement
Joined October 2022
Why is Pat Cullen the only candidate being asked about her stance on the past. No questions of that type put to UUP candidates about the decades of discrimination and collusion. BBC really needs to show a greater impartiality and fairness.
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I drove by new houses in Antrim that are still boarded up because unionist paramilitaries don’t want catholics or immigrants living them. This isn’t a new story but I haven’t seen unionist politicians beating a path to the chief constable since it broke. But fly an Armagh flag….
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Following some of the criticism of Pat Cullen by SDLP members ( none of which has been disowned by SDLP leadership) their determination to reduce her chances in FST by standing a candidate; I have decided to spoil my vote in S Belfast.
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@BelTel The irony of the orange order commenting on equality is as ridiculous as it gets. An organisation that is synonymous with inequality and sectarianism across the world. The fact that the BT repeats this nonsense without challenge says everything about it moral bankruptcy.
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@IrishTimes Scratch the surface and the unionist myopia is revealed. No recognition as to why the IRA existed. No recognition that state systemic discrimination, oppression, oppression and murder were standard from before and continued during the years that unionism had dominance.
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@MarkWilson1980 35% of the population of this jurisdiction claim to be British but none of them live in Britain.
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@BBCNewsNI This is incredible: a man received 6 months custodial for painting a window and a RUC man gets 12 months for colluding the murder of a catholic.
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@MacgMairtin Holy god : the whole place festooned with orange, loyalist drug gangs and British flags and it’s wrong to wear a sports shirt unless it’s linfield. How do we change a society where sectarian advantage is the default position by the orange tradition.
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@Lowkey0nline @simon_comm The Labour Party would do well to jettison this genocide apologist and others before a general election.
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@BrianPJRowan DUP meets with the representatives of drug dealing paramilitaries: yeah, but what about the Wolf Tones and up the ra!.
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@bbctheview @MarkCarruthers7 @johnfinucane I have never heard the BBC quiz any other political reps on their salary or the assets they hold. The number of family members employed through public funds or how much they are paid. This sounds very like anti nationalist witch-hunt.
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I can’t wait to hear the clamour of demands for an apology from the UUP candidate for this sectarian disgrace or at least a condemnation. I wonder what the non sectarian captain Doug will have to say.
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@brianjohnspencr Totally different circumstances: Irish is the native language of this island, the prefixes of London and northern are the result of colonialism.
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@carlalockhart Amazing that you don’t understand government finances. Stadia are funded from Westminster for all international tournaments in the UK. It’s not a devolved issue. Perhaps you should focus on the ice bowl instead. Your sectarian sentiments on show again .
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@BrattyBritG Vile characterisation of nationalism. I would bet that the vast majority of Irish nationalists either empathise, sympathise or are at worst apathetic to king Charles’ plight. The opinions of outliers should not be the measure of a group. To do so is disingenuous and mendacious.
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@MacgMairtin The coverage on bbc ni was not very precise ; it said a boat had been set afire because of a flag , no mention of what flag. If the tables were turned they would certainly would be shy in the same way.
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@LBC @TiceRichard @NickFerrariLBC What is British culture: does it include carrying swords, wearing orange collars, flying flags etc. is that common in Leeds or Brixton. Is it wearing traditional Welsh dress in Inverness?.What he’s talking about is the stiff upper lip, golden days of empire that never existed.
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@BBCNewsNI @ArleneFosterUK They’re having a laugh ; she was responsible for the biggest ever single loss to the treasury from this jurisdiction when she was economy minister. I’d rather see an economics O’level student in charge.
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@DMiliband @gavinesler Be clear ; there is only one solution to this problem and dancing around it with vague words doesn’t help: force the rogue state Israel to stop the genocide and starvation of the Palestinian people now!.You’re in a position of influence, show some moral courage and call it out.
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@oconnellhugh The story is straight out of Trump Communications handbook. FG lost seats.FF lost seats.SF gained seats.And yet the headline is SF disaster? .This is worse than bad journalism. It’s reminiscent of Nazi propaganda.
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@BBCNolan @StephenNolan @bbcradioulster @BBCSounds Obviously the Nolan bias has swung from the lost cause of the Irish Sea border to casement. Pathetic and predictable!.
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@PutneyFleur Amazing that a mp from a socialist party poses with and celebrates a festival which is overtly sectarian. Do you realise that at least half the population are disgusted by this event and thousands of catholics leave the north of Ireland to avoid this jamboree of hate.
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@RedbrickedSlums The missing statement is; I’m honest about the murky past of the RUC and its involvement in murder and collusion.
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@QUBFoodProf Holy mackerel you’re a senior academic that thinks ni has a team at the Olympics. QUB needs to review its staffing.
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@R4FcMuK7k8IhUKz Unfortunately you’re Irish, I prefer that you weren’t but …. You could always consider moving to Britain if you feel more connected with the culture on that land mass.
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@MarkWilson1980 Mexico is in North America but the natives are called Mexicans. There’s no part of this island called Britain. I fervently hope you’re not a geography or politics teacher!!!!.
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@Alan__Shatter You’re an extreme Zionist who by omission of condemnation of the agonies heaped on innocent men, women and children as well as your unswerving support for the Israeli state supports genocide. Poor as they are at balanced news reports, Rte couldn’t risk platforming an extremist.
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@DarranMarshall @williamcrawley David Jeffries the latest in a long list of sectarian comments. If he’s so worried about the competing priorities in public finances why not cancel dundonald ice bowl, orange parades policing and clean up, bonfire costs including repairs?.
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@arleneseesit It makes you think that twitter has plenty of people who will post any old nonsense. In what universe would Israel attack Ireland?.
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@BelfastBre @StephenNolan He’s a ridiculous excuse for a journalist and wouldn’t get on any other show except the unionist platform also known as the Nolan Show.
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@TeamUnion_UK My goodness what arrogance: NI has lasted for 100years because of a built-in unionist majority that allowed state sponsored discrimination and oppression. Nothing to be proud of and wakey wakey ; the majority gone!.
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@chrisadonnelly @paulmurphy68 And of course Bin Lorry says that there has never been a problem in unionism with an SF FM . He’s made more ridiculous looking every day. The DUP boycott was never solely about the protocol, power sharing was always the undercurrent.
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@DarranMarshall It’s very obvious that he is trying to time out the tender process so that casement can’t be completed in time for the Euros. Disgraceful bigotry!.
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@ramc__86 Why is speaking Irish an insult to unionists? That’s just pure sectarianism. As for Alex; give a vote to a man who has an election agent with resist and sectarian views ; not if you’re a reasonable human being.
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@SJAMcBride I think it’s admirable that you don’t hide your anti nationalist prejudice at all. At no point in the last 25 yrs has SF been the only party in government. Having worked in the area of housing policy and delivery I can identify only one source for the housing crisis; British gov.
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@McManusDavid @KNEECAPCEOL What utter nonsense : Rory O’Connor, Liam Mellows, Joe mckelvey, Liam Lynch - all patriotic Irish men. The Irish isn’t and has never been limited to the 26 counties. West Brit FG values on show yet again.
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@BBCNewsNI Surely this report should be balanced by a report about the mass exodus from the 6 countries of catholics who wish to avoid contact with this sectarian festival.
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@PhilipMcGarry4 Why would you focus solely on nationalism. Surely the discrimination, state sponsored murder and violence as well as actions that led to the disbandment of the RUC and the establishment of the fair employment and equality commission requires equal if not more focus.
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@daveirl Haughey swims for hong kong ; Wiffen swims for Ireland. No dispute with facts. He doesn’t swim for team GB &ni: fact. Anything else is mischievous and misleading.
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@R4FcMuK7k8IhUKz My goodness; you’re understanding of the travails visited on catholic/ nationalists is remarkably accurate.
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@annie_mcginley How can sectarianism be withdrawn from an organisation that fundamental ethos is anti Irish catholic. The parade may have been more dignified than those in the north but that doesn’t lance the boil of sectarianism.
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@_quincey When nationalists win a battle they butcher the opposition and when the Protestant/ unionists win its a stunning defeat. Ridiculous excuse for a historian.
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@DENISEJOHNSTO10 @ArnoldCarton sanctimonious nonsense and the biggest single reason why the SDLP is in terminal decline. Every nationalist in the north with the exception of the few middle class knew that conflict was inevitable. The human condition doesn’t deal well with oppression. Stop pathetic point score.
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@BelTel The BT is remarkably consistent in its witch-hunt against the Irish language and more generally against nationalism.
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@SteveAikenUUP @UKLabour @Keir_Starmer @hilarybennmp @NIOgov Surely the constitutional rights and decisions lie with the Irish people not a government in London. It’s time you read the GFA. All these protests against any discussion smell of fear. Why don’t you join the conversation rather than cursing the dark.
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@ClaireHanna It’s a mystery to me that its editor gets platformed by BBCni and RTE so often. Indeed surely it is time the appropriate regulator looks at the content of this rag.
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@timmckane In the wake of the criticism being handed out to the BBC over the Huw Edwards controversy surely the BBCni management need to look again at porn being shared by mr Nolan to colleagues.
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@BelTel Is this for real. UVF shows of strength in East Belfast ignored but the heinous crime of ladder shaking that’s another matter. I only hope they’ll be setting up a a serious crime task force.
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@mjc0ughl4n While I want to avoid speaking I’ll of the dead, I feel given the level of praise being heaped on John bruton as a proud Irish man there needs to be a realty check. He would have been very happy with Ireland as part of the UK or at least, part of the British commonwealth .
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@Maceroni2000 @irishborderpoll Granted but I live in SBelfast. And I think some nationalist voters are being taken for granted.
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@williamcrawley @BenLowry2 Maybe you should think twice before you have the editor on your show again or at least question him as to why this was the label attached to the Derry City Mayor.
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@chrisadonnelly If anyone not from these shores had been listening or viewing the local media they would be convinced that the DUP are the biggest and only political party in the North. The SoS sharing a press conference with JD and the level of benign questioning from journalists is bizarre.
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@BBCNolan @StephenNolan @bbcradioulster @BBCSounds Gutter show covering nonsense story while real issues are not being discussed. BBC need to review it’s editorial policy.
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@UnionistCentri1 Isn’t that simplicity equally applicable to the ;.UUP: Bspecials, RUC.DUP; Ulster resistance and ongoing consultations with loyalist drug gangs. Balance and fairness is the issue.
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@ArnoldCarton He’s getting increasingly more shrill in his comments. It smacks of desperation. Next he’ll be targeting anyone who owns an Irish Red Setter.
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@newsoncool @hannahpattJ @Journo_BenA This is a sectarian event; do your job and present as such. If these were antisemitic parades or KKK you wouldn’t report it as a community fun day out. It would be reported as an aberration but it’s only Irish catholics so it doesn’t count. Very poor journalism!.
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@KateNicholl The media normalise it by presenting the whole 12th as community festival; it’s a sectarian jamboree with racism as an add on.
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@FrankoSerpico Many rumours circulating for years around him and the existence of a super injunction.
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@malodoherty Why don’t you test your popularity and stand rather than criticise those willing to engage in the democratic process.
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@drorfh What weird logic . SDLP cllr Adam Gannon and other members were viciously critical of Pat Cullen, joining with extreme unionists; but the SDLP are to be immune from criticism. If you can’t stand the heat get out of the kitchen!.
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@News_Letter Indoctrination of the young into an openly sectarian organisation. You wouldn’t believe it were possible in a civilised country.
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@rory_farrell @columeastwood @SDLPlive @Derry_SDLP @BrianTierney09 @SeanMooneySDLP This is misleading, the Tory party are unlikely to stand in foyle never mind win. As for Westminster; given the polls SDLP almost certainly will not hold the balance of power. This is about keeping Colm in a job.
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@CatharineHoey Holy god are you really congratulating people who may have stolen pallets and are poisoning the atmosphere with toxins. If you are the moral quality that is found in the House of Lords; God help us.
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@News_Letter Shouldn’t there be a church service in memory of those murdered or maimed by members of the orange order.
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@BelTel What a weird place we live in; where a sectarian event is treated as a festival for all, whereas at least half the population find it abhorrent. I’m not calling for a ban but some honest reporting would be a welcome departure from the norm.
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@MacgMairtin The inconsistencies of the courts and police force are startling; this bigot sentenced for singing a sectarian song , a man painted a window-6 months custodial and yet we have a 5 mths long marching season when sectarian spate sung regularly without any action. Go figure?.
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@PolDeBuitleir Surely this can’t be the same RUC that was protecting us all from the bad guys? The RUC that lives on in the PSNI frustrating inquests by withholding and destroying evidence.
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@Maceroni2000 @BTriagain Incredible: contrast this sentence with a man serving 6 Months for painting a window.
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@malodoherty @sinnfeinireland Isn’t the contradiction of swearing an oath to a British king and avowing a dedication to an Idependent free Ireland obvious even to you. You purposefully provoke rage it’s your one trick . A pity others don’t have the sense not to react to the nonsense.
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@murchadhfinn @DominicDohertyj @ATownNews Really good article. Unfortunately BBCNI continues to have a unionist bias that is most obvious in the Nolan show but also in how their journalists frame questions. e.g. “do you think the announcement of cash for A5 is insensitive to unionism “; Q. to Leo Varadkar by Tara mills.
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@News_Letter A disaster that saw them gain vote share and seats?.Proof that the efficacy of your journalism(if indeed it can be classed as such) is as safe as your claim to being a historian.
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@SeanNash72 The silence from unionist political leaders is deafening. The leader of the OO took part in the march . This is an individual who is regularly consulted by unionist parties.
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@irish_news @CaraHunterSDLP I saw no abuse directed at this woman. There was criticism aimed at the SDLP’s strategy. It is also noteworthy that there was no coverage of the pile on from SDLP members and supporters who attacked Pat Cullen for not responding to calls for an apology.
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@dmcbfs The tender process is not complete so I don’t know how a final cost estimate could be known. GAA are refuting this story and quoting a much reduced price. Colum Boyle DfC permanent sec y’day said he’s positive .There is no debate; casement has replaced the protocol for unionism.
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@squinteratn @BBCNewsNI @BelTel The media coverage of this like there was a dispute between 2 women’s institute associations over whether the annual cake fair should focus on chocolate fudge or Victoria sponge.
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@BelTel @JohnCharlesLave This is misleading and I assume meant to appeal to unionist opponents of the project. Ni is not being asked for £308m : the Irish govt. , GAA and British are putting up majority. The stadiums for doc yard rugby got their contribution, not a word said. This is antinationalist.
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@HoratioNelson0 You must live in an alternative universe: it has one of the most successful economies in the world and is a progress liberal democracy. Contrast that with the basket case that is the north ; economic failure, socially regressive, legitimatised drug gangs, annual sectarian marches.
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@BBCMarkSimpson @dreamdearg Irish is not another language: it is unique in terms of its origins and central to the culture of its people. It isn’t mandarin or Japanese; its special position on our island should be respected and treated appropriately. Disgraceful position for Translink to take.
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@nigelkillian Having a profound conviction does not mitigate the wrongness of that conviction. British rule in Ireland resulted in massacres, institutionalised discrimination, poverty and social regression.
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@PeterShirlow That is a ridiculous assertion, there are many criticisms of this right wing fascist behaviour by republicans and nationalists. You’re presenting a false narrative. I like all real republicans believe in embracing diversity and having a welcoming society. Show some decorum.
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@chrisadonnelly Nolan trying to equate an attempted theft from a Middle East food store on the Falls by street rats with the organised intimidation by unionist paramilitaries.
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To be fair the leaders of the unionist parties have requested an urgent meeting with the the chief constable to discuss how these celebrations of terrorism can be challenged- NOT!.
@squinteratn Parade last night to glorify UVF terrorists with men in paramilitary style uniform, PAF and UVF flags. All given a PSNI escort.
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@AlexKane221b So the damage and thuggery was directed by Dublin racists with casual involvement from local racists?.This is either sloppy commentary or purposefully misleading. There is no shortage of the ability to create damage by local racists.
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@News_Letter Good old honest Owen! No flirting with policy, honesty or candidates’ ability; it’s all about the sectarian headcount.
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@sean_murray1 @jmcevoy_2 No surprise but interesting that we don’t hear anything in the media about it. If a nationalist had a cup of coffee with a Palestinian it would be front page news.
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@BBCNolan Usual sloppy journalism. No surprise that there was no research into the make up of the march which included my people of the Jewish faith or that turning up with your bodyguards and cameras isn’t normal for a walk across a road. Also selective use of a 15 min interview; garbage!.
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@smccarthynire Such eradication, except the drive for a UI is not limited to SF voters. Nor should consideration of it be based on the current situation: demographics, voter migration and economic conditions are among the many factors. Pursuit of a UI is legitimate and should be respected.
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@snowleopardess @Marie28002475 It was remarkable how long she was given to rant her very skewed opinions that totally ignored the war crimes being perpetrated by the Israeli rogue state.
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@BelTel Why does the BT continue like Nolan to platform this individual: He has never been elected ;doesn’t represent a political party; has no qualification or experience in constitutional law ; and refers to loyalist paramilitary drug gangs as counter terrorism.
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@ArleneFosterUK Playing sectarian tunes ; singing disgusting songs about dead teachers; snorting cocaine during parades . Have I missed anything ?.
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@News_Letter They didn’t show much restraint when I was growing up. What a ridiculous statement when stories of collusion are emerging almost every week and when is govt is seeking to close down the rights of victims of British security agencies.
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@chrisadonnelly @BBCNewsNI The BBC at its work as it was when Tara Mills asked Leo V was the funding for A5 insensitive to unionism. BBC ni hasn’t changed in 50 years; still a bastion of unionism.
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@irish_news What are the conditions? Publish criteria for public discussion and end the uncertainty!.
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@ArnoldCarton @squinteratn Very imbalanced comparison; a group or individual chanting in no way equates to the organisation and funding that enables a sectarian festival. The media celebrates the building of illegal bonfires and ignores the fact that half the population is hostile & fearful of OO parades.
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