Joe Dwyer
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Sinn Féin London Office. Exile. Socialist republican… “Hungry man, reach for the book: it is a weapon.” - Bertolt Brecht.
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Still reckon this is the greatest written paragraph ever put to paper…
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Branson is a union buster. He’s paid no personal income tax to exchequer since moving to the Virgin Islands 14yrs ago. He sued the NHS. Virgin Healthcare paid 0 corporation tax while being handed £2bn worth of NHS & local authority deals. He deserves 0 sympathy. He’s a parasite.
Virgin Atlantic's survival depends on government support - Richard Branson
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Massive demonstration outside the Westminster Parliament - speaking with one voice:
#CeasefireNOW
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Mary Lou McDonald doing superb work this morning setting the record straight…
“The Tory party consistently abuses language in a way that is mesmerising…”
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“We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English.” - attributed to Winston Churchill
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Remember how quick Church leaders were able to react to an RTÉ sketch?
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The year is 2022… and a BBC presenter and someone from the British Army are explaining why “micks” actually isn’t an offensive term for Irish people… 🙄🤦♂️
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I prefer a head of state that waits in line to use a cash machine like any other citizen…
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Perfect reply to a daft question trying to make an issue out of Mary Lou McDonald opening the press conference in Irish… leadership once again from Michelle and Mary Lou where others seek to manufacture division…
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The Orange Order launching an internal inquiry into sectarianism… the Orange Order.
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“Self-recrimination and wetness”
"I think it's time we stopped our cringing embarrassment about our history."
Boris Johnson says we need to "stop this general bout of self-recrimination and wetness" amid suggestions that songs like 'Rule, Britannia!' may be replaced with orchestral versions by the BBC.
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Catching up on
@JeremyCorbyn
’s speech in Derry… few British politicians have stood up for the Irish community in Britain as well as Jeremy - shameful how he’s been treated in the media & by his own party…
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The new Rector of
@UofGlasgow
@GhassanAbuSitt1
finished his address with the immortal words of Bobby Sands MP…
“Our revenge will be the laughter of our children.”
🇵🇸🤝🇮🇪
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@MaryLouMcDonald
delivering the perfect ‘au contraire’ to the idea that the people of the north of Ireland voted for Brexit 😚👌
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“Well isn’t it democracy in action?”
Bizarre line of questioning from the BBC. Suspect it wouldn’t be asked of any other party.
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Those condemning the violence in Gaza *now* but who’ve been silent about the 4 Palestinians killed in the West Bank yesterday, or the 6 Palestinians killed in the West Bank last week, or the countless settler attacks & raids on Al-Aqsa in recent times… your hypocrisy is on show.
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U2’s ‘Sunday Bloody Sunday’ is much like The Cranberries ‘Zombie’ - both present the north from a southern perspective of standing idly by. The conflict is mindless hate rather than a product of societal injustice. Little is said of the State as the greatest purveyor of violence.
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Kris Kristofferson & Sinéad O’Connor - “Help Me Make It Through The Night”…
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Jeremy Corbyn being criticised for merely mentioning ‘the Hume-Adams accord’ in his tribute to John Hume 😖 - just demonstrates how little understanding there in Britain is of what the Peace Process actually was. Corbyn is probably one of few British politicians who does get it.
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Those who ‘lived through the Troubles’ - by watching it on television - ultimately didn’t have armed men from a foreign country patrolling their streets…
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For full disclosure: not a dig at astronauts, accept it’s generalising, and recognise why you would want to send pilots instead of poets 🙄. Solely think it’s a great piece of writing & is all I said - it has a great build up and the *perfect* last line. Smile whenever I read it.
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Any other politician on these islands & there’d be widespread outcry from every quarter of politics & media… but because it’s a Sinn Féin representative it’s tolerated *annually* as a novelty of ‘culture’… why are Dublin & London silent when it comes to such hatred & violence?
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Will never tire of this clip… directly calling out the blind eye turned towards violence of the British State.
As further state papers are released it's beyond time to put to rest the media narrative that the British Army operated as "the forces of law and order" in the conflict
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Michael D. Higgins publicly slapping down John Bruton is something to behold.
“I was also referred to as the President of the Republic of Ireland. I am the President of Ireland.” 👏👏👏
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Just told the BBC re-aired the very first London Marathon, in 1981, earlier today … memorable for this finish-line protest by the ‘Smash the Prevention of Terrorism Act Campaign’ - “Victory to the Irish Hunger Strikers” ✊
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Leo Varadkar has almost turned hypocrisy into a high art-form by this point…
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This Labour Party welcomed Dan Poulter and Natalie Elphicke - and discarded Jeremy Corbyn and Diane Abbott. That should tell you all you need to know.
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Wondering how British political landscape became so bleak and dire... but then recall that this was the level of scrutiny we got during the election campaign...
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@johnfinucane
MP: “When those who championed for Brexit - like the DUP did - and for those who rejected every manifestation of Brexit - the way the DUP did - I think it’s a bit rich to then complain about the out-workings of a political movement which you backed…”
#bbcqt
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When told by a British soldier to go back to his own country - he replied “Why don’t you go back to yours?”
⚫ April 1988 Joseph Patrick Kennedy has a run in with the Brits in the Divis area in Belfast accompanied by Fr Matt Wallace.
His son Joe will be the new US Special Envoy to the north.
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The DUP: one of the all-time worst led political parties - ever.
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@MaryLouMcDonald
on
@GMB
: "We have no business in your parliament… I've watched the sometimes strange & exotic antics at Westminster - & I am not convinced & you won't convince me that by being in the middle of the melee we would be well positioned to protect Irish interests."
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@MaryLouMcDona14
tells Kay Burley at Breakfast: “Irrespective of who is in 10 Downing Street, the rule book is written…”
Adding, “The Agreement is very clear, Irish people North and South will make that call without coercion or impediment…”
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Sammy Wilson saying Irish language speakers seek to “build an Empire”… I think you’ll find they’re actually dismantling one…
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Missing Ireland… remembering time I landed in Knock & had to get bus to Castlebar… driver asked “Student?” - “Nah just adult single will do.” - replied “Well, we’re all students in the eyes of the Lord, aren’t we?” & charged me student fee 😂… would never get that over here 😔
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Blueshirts👏only👏care👏about👏the👏north👏when👏it👏can👏be👏used👏as👏a👏political👏football👏against👏Sinn👏Féin👏
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“During our long march we have had real friends in Ireland who have given us unlimited support in difficult days when many others would not even listen to us… they have supported us on many occasions and on many levels.”
- Yasser Arafat
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Can we stop with ‘underlying health condition’ & ‘would have died anyway’- the Mum works in palliative care- there’s lotta work, care & attention that goes into treating people in their final days… gasping for air with no family allowed near you isn’t a death anyone should face.
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“Brandon Lewis is talking through his hat, and not for the first time.” 🎩
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Actually saw this happen live once in a ‘Irish Studies’ seminar at Liverpool uni- discussing 1920 Bloody Sunday- & fellow student said they were confused because from their reading it sounded like the Army had just shot civilians- actually asked if there were differing accounts🤯
British kids in schools if they finally change the history curriculum to feature colonialism:
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“Everyone else present at the time is now dead”… especially John Pat Cunningham. Because Mr Hutchings shot him. In the back.
It was Dennis Hutchings 80th birthday yesterday, and he chose to spend it at a rally in Westminster. He is due to stand trial in September for something that happened 46 years ago in Northern Ireland. Everyone else present at the time is now dead.
At some stage, this will end.
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Ruth Dudley Edwards on
#Newsnight
is a great excuse to revisit that time that Eamonn Mallie spoke for the many of us who have had to endure listening to her ...
#SatelliteCommentator
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This entire ceremony is essentially a polite-‘up the ra’ from those who routinely lecture republicans in the north…
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My 4 grandparents were immigrants. Arguably they didn’t integrate as some might’ve wanted. They solely socialised in Irish clubs, went to Irish music. They faced hostility, suspicion, & prejudice. But they helped build Britain.
The Irish should be very last to object to migrants.
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@conormurphysf
on
#PoliticsLive
yesterday delivering some truths and busting some myths for the Westminster bubble…
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Mood following daily updates of chaos inside the British government…
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So on planet-DUP… is ‘sectarian’ to *prematurely* light a bonfire. But lighting one on the 11th night, bedecked in Irish tricolours and songs about fenians, is ‘culture’ 😌
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“We are in government with unionists because we want to be; they are in government with us because they have to be.”
- Martin McGuinness
Words that still stand true today.
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Under terms of Good Friday Agreement he’s not in a position to rule anything out.
Border poll ruled out by Sir Keir Starmer if he becomes PM.
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Joe Mahon was 15 years old - a child - when he attended an anti-internment march on 30 Jan 1972. Shot by a Paratrooper he lay motionless on the ground & played dead. The Para passed him & fired 2 shots into the wounded James Wray. Killing him. *That’s* how brutal murder unfolded.
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"If I had two hundred thousand Irish, I could overthrow the whole British monarchy.” - Friedrich Engels
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“We believe in a united Ireland. We always have. But give it a break for Christmas.” - Micheál Martin
👆 if any quote summed up Fianna Fáil’s brand of ‘republicanism’ this is it 😂
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Meanwhile newspaper columnists in Dublin are wringing their hands about a mythical growth in “Anglophobia”… 🙄
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So glad Mary Lou was given the space to call-out Micheál Martin for his cynical posturing when it comes to the legacy of the conflict in the north.
"With Micheál Martin this is entirely party-political posturing - because, you see, we are an all-Ireland republican party."
#GE2020
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Because what else would you expect from the man 👏…
@jeremycorbyn
taking time out of today - of all days - to address a room full of Kurdish activists in London. Why? Because politics is more than just a career for him.
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Bernadette Devlin having to endure 'Tansplaining' way back in 1972 ...
Q: "... why is it a problem to have a lot of Irish in a particular country?"
A: "Well Mr Buckley, they don't seem to behave like the English somehow..."
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Soldier A stated he and his colleagues were told the night before the march that they were "going to Londonderry to get some kills."
Today another Member of Parliament claimed British soldiers deployed to Northern Ireland not to keep the peace, but to ‘murder’ civilians.
The Nation is rightly proud of our Northern Ireland veterans, so I stayed behind to make sure his childish wittering was not unanswered. 👇
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RIP Rosaleen Sands - the pain she endured as a mother is unimaginable
"Lord thou art hard on mothers
We suffer in their coming and their going
And tho I grudge them not, I weary, weary
Of the long sorrow - And yet I have my joy
My sons were faithful, and they fought."- PH Pearse
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@johnfinucane
MP: “I actually was very surprised to hear Emma speak about how important cost-of-living is. Because if it was that important - we would have an executive - we’d have Ministers round the table - and money would be released and going in people’s pockets.”
#bbcqt
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In a moment you couldn’t write… as Gerry outlines the partitionism of RTÉ’s commentary on the anniversary of the British withdrawal from Dublin Castle as “the day that the British left Ireland”- a Fine Gael TD interrupts presuming that Gerry is referring to the Treaty Ports 😖…
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Mary Lou is right to remind Leo that Ireland is partitioned & that the north has suffered a decade of Tory austerity from London ... maybe instead of pretending he was on 'Love Actually' - he should have raised this with the British PM directly!
#GE2020
#LeadersDebate
#rtept
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Emma Little Pengelly has some luck. Special Advisor. Co-opted into Assembly. Lost seat. Elected to Westminster. Lost seat. Special Advisor. Left following Poots coup. Received settlement. Said no intention to run in May election. Denied 'DUP representative' label. Co-opted again.
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To be fair Derry Girls does reflect some British culture and tradition… like the part where armed British soldiers step onto a school bus in a part of Ireland 🤷♂️
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Not a Fianna Fáil councillor telling ‘young people’ to watch The Crown for history 🤦♂️… that’s embarrassing lads…
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Fianna Fáil lost 6 TDs. Fine Gael lost 14. How many of them were elected without reaching the quota? … The public wanted change in
#GE2020
. Any 'FF/FG grand coalition' will be seen for what it is: a bid to exclude the most popular party from Government. That isn't a good look.
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Due to become first Sinn Féin TD in Galway since 1923! … that’s how historic today is!
Mairead Farrell arrives to applause, as the first count is about to be announced
#GalwayWest
#GE2020
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My Nanny was from Roscrea, it was her 13th anniversary only last Saturday. She emigrated to England & raised a family in face of hostility & prejudice. She was an economic migrant. Not an asylum-seeker or refugee. Scenes from Roscrea are unedifying & shameful. She’d be mortified.
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Ireland is an island. The virus doesn’t see the border. It doesn’t care about the north’s constitutional status. That should be all that need be said.
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Powerful articulation of the desperate need for peace & dialogue from
@JohnFinucane
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The Irish Peace Process shows that there is a way to resolve even the most bitter & intractable of situations. To stop the cycle of violence, there needs to be a ceasefire & renewal of dialogue.
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“Every man or woman who takes up a stand for liberty is our comrade, and their cause should be our cause.” - James Connolly
Solidarity to
@RMTunion
on day two of
#ToryRailStrikes
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Fine Gael; no issue with ‘sharing’ confidential government documents with mates - while simultaneously insisting that Mother and Baby Home records remain sealed for 30 years… welcome to Irish politics 🙃
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Strong Irish contingent out today on the streets of London in solidarity with Palestine 🇮🇪🤝🇵🇸
An injury to one is an injury to us all
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Simon says “SF doesn't show respect for unionist identity”…
SF Reps have
-Entered Stormont
-Met British Royalty
-Attended WWI commemorations
-Attended ‘NI football’ matches
Meanwhile DUP Reps have
-Held their noses
-Mocked Irish language
-Cut Líofa
-Lit bonfires
-Renamed boats
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Just in case anyone forgot … Fine Gael wanted to commemorate the Black and Tans. The *Black and Tans*. Yep, those guys. The Tans. They wanted to commemorate them. Fine Gael did. The Black and Tans. Really. They did. Don’t believe me? Google it. A commemoration. Mad stuff.
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@JohnFinucane
extended the solidarity of the Irish people in front of a half a million strong Palestinian Solidarity March through centre of London today… 🇵🇸🤝🇮🇪
“We know we are right - as we stand on the right side of history & on the right side of humanity.”
#CeasefireNOW
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For years I’ve heard activists in British Labour tell me it’d be inappropriate to advocate for Irish unity because of need to maintain ‘rigorous impartiality’ re the north. Starmer has blown that outta the water. It’s legitimate for those within Labour who seek unity to speak up.
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In case anyone ever thought that the shameful ‘NI Legacy Act’ was about getting at the ‘truth’ or assisting ‘reconciliation’… from the horses mouth hear it - it’s about getting “our boys” in the British Army off… that’s all they care about… not victims, not survivors…
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How to answer the question… “Ultimately, it’s for the people of Ireland to decide their long term future. Not anybody else.”
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Conor Murphy delivering some home truths to the DUP benches earlier today… now is time for grown-up, serious politics & delivery not theatrical walk-outs & manufactured crises…
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This isn’t about a funeral. And it’s not about the Protocol. Like Drumcree & the Flag protests before, this is about a loss of supremacy. There’s no two-tier policing against unionism & the protocol doesn’t infringe constitutional position - where are there ‘legitimate concerns’?
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@GerryAdamsSF
outlining abstentionist position for anyone still in any doubt- Sinn Féin will never take seats inside Westminster Parliament
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Andrew Marr: "If you have tears to shed, you might consider shedding them for the DUP." 😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂
"We are beginning to see … an Irish economy which is a united Irish economy more-or-less inside the EU rules while the rest of us are outside."
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To avoid doubt, is entirely possible to feel complete sympathy with the EuroSpar member of staff- who was victim of a horrific attack & will undoubtedly require care & support- & still believe that it’s a tragedy that a young man also lost his life. The 2 ain’t mutually exclusive
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Tribute I wrote for my friend Dawn on
@An_Phoblacht
. But in short, she was just class.
Dawn Foster – A tribute
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