Martina Anderson Sinn Féin💚
@M_AndersonSF
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Former POW/Jr Minister/MEP & MLA. 1st Class Honours. Ar scáth a chéile a mhaireann na daoine Under the shelter of each other, people survive
Derry, Ireland
Joined September 2010
In Derry we are extremely proud of Derry man James McClean who without hesitation purchased a significant amount of Personal Protection Equipment PPE & sanitisers for our front line workers in Altnagelvin Covid-19 Centre. Thank YOU James - you are a remarkable man. 👏
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In many countries we are witnessing ruthless & chauvinist campaigns by the right against strong progressive women leaders. As minister Irene Monterey told Spanish Congress, “we will only stop the far right & the reactionary forces by giving people more rights”. #YoConIreneMontero.
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Delighted to meet my Catalan friends @KRLS & @toni_comin in the Strasbourg chamber today . Long Live International Solidarity.
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My granny was born into a colonised Ireland.My mother was born into a partitioned Ireland.I was born into a sectarian, discriminatory state . Today changes all that.Today history is made. Tomorrow is about equality & rights for All, led by a Irish Republican 1st Minister for All
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Final Rally tonight in Barcelona.A request from Catalans 2retweet far & wide as 140 sites closed down & more every hour tweet early & often
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I have never stood with colonisers:.Not in Zimbabwe.Not in Vietnam.Not in India.Not in Kenya.Not in Yemen.Not in Syria.Not in Iraq.Not in South Africa . Not anywhere & certainly NOT in my own country Ireland. The good people will prevail. #PalestineWillBeFree . #CeasefireNOW
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Today is International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People . I repeat the call for MEPs in the European Parliament and European Governments to stop allowing Israel to act with impunity . Long Live International Solidarity
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When Ireland is United - We will be back . Mark My Words. Tiocfaidh An Lá Sin . That Day will Come
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This is what democracy looks like. Catalans 2gether after Spain injured 885 for voting or trying 2 vote. Self-determination must b respected
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Tiocfaidh ár lá - Our Day Will Come - is the last sentence of “One Day in My Life” the diary of hunger striker Bobby Sands which he kept of the 1981 hunger strike. It is known as “the battle cry of the blanket-men”. I will always use it with Pride . Tiocfaidh ár lá
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I stand in Hebron in Palestine calling on the international community to stop allowing Israel to act with impunity . @sinnfeinireland .@DerrySinnFein .@nadplo .@USPalAffairs .@CMcGin2006 .@EmmaMcGinley_x .@PalestineCenter
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The girl who looked the Israeli aggressor in the eye and confronted it . Courageous & Proud #Palestinian . Ahed and her mother Nariman Tamimi free after 8 months in Israeli occupation prisons
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This is barbaric . The silence of the EU is equally outrageous . Oppression will always be meet with Resistance. Spain has been doing its utmost to antagonise the Catalans to react so that the “no” good doers can blame those being oppressed and not the oppressor . #ShameOnSpain.
The Spanish Home Minister Refuses to condemn the Violence in spite of thousands injured and celebrates those who has lost their eyes saying it has been an “impeccable job”
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I stand with James McClean . Today James has criticised the football authorities, his so called team-mates and the media over their lack of response to the racist & sectarian abuse he has endured. @DerrySinnFein .@sinnfeinireland .@FOSFUSA .@FIFAcom
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I’m like the Joan of Arc of Unionist bonfires.
Sorry Scotland youv made the bonfires this year. you join the likes of us Irish, Palestine, ivory Coast, the EU, Celtic, the GAA, the pope & nationalist.
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Arlene will you please step up to the plate. These are the “real law breakers” call it out and show some degree of leadership before someone is seriously injured or killed.
This is not protest. This is vandalism and attempted murder. These actions do not represent unionism or loyalism. They are an embarrassment to Northern Ireland and only serve to take the focus off the real law breakers in Sinn Fein. My thoughts are with the bus driver.
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32 yrs ago today Paul & I got married in Full Sutton Jail in England . Over those years, our love has grown deeper & stronger . As 2 solid Irish Republican ex prisoner love birds, we have always put this struggle in front of everything in our lives. #HappyAnniversary2Us . #LOVE
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33 yrs ago today Paul & I married in Full Sutton Prison in England. The view from our cells back in the day is very different to the view we’re so lucky to have now & forever. There is only 1 guarantee in life, nothing ever stays the same. #LifeAfterLife. #Happiness. #Anniversary
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“Let our revenge be the laughter of our children”. 42 years ago today Bobby Sands began his hunger strike. We will always remember him with pride
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This was on day that I did not mind being in an English Jail. Screws faces were in pleats - They would have had to chisel the smile off my face!.
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A true orange woman tonight! . Com’on Netherlands!
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History made in Ballymena .@BreanainnLyness Sinn Féin elected above the quota. First SF councillor to be elected in Ballymena. #proud . #sinnféin
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1/ Your hypocrisy knows no bounds. The deafening faux outrage begins, over the Falls Park Feile concert. Equally deafened by the silence over the vile sectarian behaviour at the Apprentice Boys' Relief of Derry parade which is accommodated in #Derry on August 12th.
A final weekend drenched in squalid, vile sectarianism. Divisive, hurtful, with glorifying of terrorism. This isn't progress- it is the shame of Belfast. There must, must be those who support the festival who are embarrassed by this cringe sectarian ending every year? 🤷 #Féile.
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“We microwaved Catholics in Northern Ireland to make them sick” . Barrie Trower - British Royal Navy microwave weapons “expert”
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Confirmation that I do not intend to stand at the next Assembly Election. There is a privilege in being a public representative standing up for people. I will miss not doing that . #LoveDerry
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As former MEP who chaired the EU Parliament Palestinian delegation, I again call on MEPs to stop Israel acting with impunity. Israel has murdered 724 Palestinian children in Gaza in the last 7 days, yet disgracefully no EU/UN/US condemnation! All are providing cover 4 war crimes
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34 years ago today I married the love of my life - in Full Sutton jail, England. Not quite the wedding that My Younger Self envisaged - walking down an aisle in a long dress, but I wouldn’t change it. Whilst we hit a few bumps along the way.🎼Looks Like We Made It🎶.#ILoveYouPaul
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DEMOCRACY JAILED . The Catalan Government imprisoned today . I was on the ground in Barcelona during the referendum. I witnessed the Spanish Police steal votes and traumatise voters . The Catalan ppl needed your help then & need your help today . #OUTRAGEOUS
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So - we did it!!! I topped the poll. We sent a message back to Europe that the DUP does not speak for us, and that we do not want Brexit! . THANK YOU to each and every person who put a '1' or '2' beside my name. I will work hard for you!
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If true that British Minister David Frost has resigned - I’m glad I took the opportunity to look him in the eye and tell him a few home truths.
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Sinn Féin is now the largest party in both Stormont and in Leinster House . The Times They are a changing! . #Time4Unity . #Think32.
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My final warning to MEPs in the EU Parliament. “Beware of Perfidious Albion, a country (Britain) that you cannot trust and never keeps its word. Britannia will always, always waive the rules”. Today Britannia, the Rogue State, did just that - AGAIN. Europe, SF tried to warn you!
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Today in Tipperary we’ll bury an Irish Rebel . My comrade and best friend Óglach Ella O’Dwyer . Ar dheis Dé go raibh a hanam. RIP 💔
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My Heart is Crushed 💔. My Comrade Ella O’Dwyer RIP 💔💔💔💔
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Honoured to carry Irish Republican Rebel - Rita O’Hare. We will never see the likes of her again . A soldier, a rebel, a strategist, a comrade & a friend - #Rita
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This is what Spain called reasonable force . I was there . I witnessed the Spanish brutality. #ShameOnSpain
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Locked-Down Anniversary . Better than Locked-Up Anniversary! . 31 Years Married Today . A couple of bumps along the way but we’re still going strong
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No borders in Ireland. Borders Communities Against Brexit BCAB In Brussels this evening . Getting out the message in different ways. #Time4Unity . #Upandatit
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Bloody Sunday!. Ballymurphy!. 14 Loyalists Bombs & 6 people killed by Loyalists before the IRA fired its first shot!. People in the north abandoned by FFG - the parties that have managed partition for 100+ yrs. Vote for change, vote for SF the party that’ll end partition.#voteSF.
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Irish Republican mother Birdie O’Reilly was buried today. Willie McKinney, shot by Paras on #BloodySunday, ran into her garden & whilst Paras were still firing, Birdie bravely opened her door trying to save him. Willie McKinney died in her living room 💔. RIP Birdie O’Reilly 💔🇮🇪
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The end game of the border partitioning Ireland will enter the #3Arena today. Together We Can unite Ireland & build a society where all traditions and none feel wanted, welcomed, secure & equal in this tiny beautiful spot in the world that we all called home #Ireland #IrishUnity
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Ireland . No British Border . No Clouds. And a beautiful sea between us & our nearest neighbour . United, Green with shades of Orange. #Class
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2/The Famine song & “Fuck the Pope” was shouted out + a business man in #Derry was brutally assaulted by a sash wearing Apprentice boy, after he bleached & hosed an area where marchers urinated. Enough of the rank hypocrisy. Call it out #Secretarianism .
A final weekend drenched in squalid, vile sectarianism. Divisive, hurtful, with glorifying of terrorism. This isn't progress- it is the shame of Belfast. There must, must be those who support the festival who are embarrassed by this cringe sectarian ending every year? 🤷 #Féile.
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I am humbled GRMA . What a privilege. What a country. The occupation of Palestine is cruel. The apartheid Wall is cruel. Illegal settlements are cruel. The silence of the political international community is equally cruel - bunch of hypocrites. Long Live International Solidarity
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The leader of Sinn Féin is @MaryLouMcDonald, the leader of the largest political party in Ireland . Perfidious Albion won’t be putting the SF President to the back of the bus. If the British Government wants to talk to Sinn Féin, then they talk to Mary Lou!
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It was a privilege to do guard of honour at the heartbreaking funeral of Irish Republican Derry man.Donncha Mac Niallais. We will miss you more than words can say . Go raibh suaimhneas síoraí ar a anam uasal. I measc laochra na nGael go raibh sé
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The Brexit disaster has one very obvious solution - Irish Unity 🇮🇪 .The island of Ireland shouldn't suffer because of a Tory/DUP Brexit, who don't care about the majority in the North who voted to Remain #Brexit #think32 #irishunity
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“No one is born hating another person because of the colour of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.”.– Nelson Mandela
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Who is he?!!!!.
Northern Ireland Minister Shailesh Vara quits saying he cannot support Theresa May's Brexit deal
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“The violent offensive by Palestinian forces has occurred against a sustained intensification of the Israeli state’s occupation and apartheid in Palestine since 2022”
Sinn Féin spokesperson on Foreign Affairs and Defence, Matt Carthy TD, has appealed for an urgent end to hostilities in Gaza and Israel. @mattcarthy .
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This is unacceptable anywhere in the world. As a Irish person, I am particularly embarrassed this happened in #Ireland. This does not represent the majority of the people in Ireland. #Racism #outrageous.
Welcome to Ireland where people get away with racism! This little black girl broke my heart. Don’t skip this post without leaving a million heart for her. Make her famous…
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BREAKING . Director of United Nations New York office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights Craig Mokhiber, has resigned . He has labelled Israel’s actions in Palestine as genocide & said it was “painfully clear” that the UN had failed in its duty. #GENOCIDE . #CeasefireNOW
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Call it out . James McClean has been abused for over 9 years and the silence is deafening . Give James McClean the support he so rightly deserves . James McClean is a Proud Derry man and a fantastic soccer player and Derry is Proud of James . #IStandWithJamesMcClean.
“I’m seeing this support for McGoldrick, Zaha, Sterling and that - rightly so.”. “But I’ve been abused for the last nine years - where has my support been?” . “I’ve had police at my door taking finger prints because bullets were sent.” . Must listen from James McClean.
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If this were happening in Hungry or Poland there would be outrage - where is the voice of the EU? #ShameOnSpain
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“It lights the dark of this prison cell,.It thunders forth its might,.It is ‘the undauntable thought’, my friend,.That thought that says ‘I’m right!” . #BobbySands
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Big Bob. A Rebel.A Radical.A Revolutionary . An Inspirational Republican Leader who was a comrade and friend . Proud to play a part in his funeral today . A big loss . #BobbyStorey. #heartbroken
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I’ve been asked to ‘tone it down’ all of my life. Tone down my Republicanism . Tone down demands 4 equality. Last 3 words Bobby Sands wrote in his prison diary were “Tiocfaidh ar la”. Our Day will Come & will have a new Ireland. The Tiocfaidh ar la generation won’t tone it down
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“If 50+1 is good enough to maintain this union with Britain, then it’s good enough to end it”. #ItsCalledDemocracy
#BorderPoll : United Ireland referendum should need ‘super majority’ in NI & Republic to carry, says Minister @SteveBakerHW.
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“Dr Ella O'Dwyer (RIP) was more than a loyal Irish Republican solder; she was a beacon of hope & strength…We endured horrors together, surviving on sheer willpower & the bond we forged in that forsaken place…The years we shared; our spirits intertwined, unbowed and unbroken”💔
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#cblive should have treated @JoeBrolly1993 the same way she treated other guests . @MaryLouMcDonald was not in the room to respond to John Bruton & @ClaireByrneLive did not stop him!
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There we are 💪. Resistance was our childhood. The Real Derry Girls.
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Not bad for my last contributions in Stormont as a MLA - this clip has now reached "1 Million" views.
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Today the Republican family is burying one of Ireland’s GREATEST Rebels . #BobbyStorey . #Heartbroken
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With @MaryLouMcDonald & @moneillsf in Dublin this morning . I said to ML “they’re weighing your votes”. Thank you for your leadership ML & MON . AND. ,. THANK YOU Voters for putting your trust in Sinn Féin - we won’t let you down
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Can I remind anyone who may needs reminding - especially Journslists & media outlets - the border in Ireland is a “British” border partitioning Ireland, its not an “Irish” border. #justsaying
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Awful news of the shocking murder of the brilliant Palestinian journalist @ShireenNasri, who has shot dead by Israeli occupation forces. The International community has shamefully allowed the Israeli establishment to get away with murder . Unjustified and unjustifiable
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Jailed former minister Jordi Turull is transferred to prison infirmary on his 14th day of hunger strike. Heart sore thinking of @jorditurull, his family & Catalan people. Recently SF MEPs visited him & other jailed political prisoners. This injustice needs international attention
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Doing a clean up and came across some great photos and documentation . Ella O Dwyer & I in Durham Jail . #ProudRepublicans
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Me likes her a lot 👏👏👏👏.
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I am heart broken. The slaughter of @ShireenNasri must be condemn by world leaders and Israel must be held accountable. The bravery of the Palestine man in the white T-Shirt has overwhelmed me: Rescuing Shireen’s body as a murderous Israeli snipper fires at him #BravePalestinian.
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RIP John Hume . He will be fondly remembered in Derry, across Ireland, Britain and abroad. Deepest Smypathy to his wife Pat & immediate family plus all of those in his SDLP Family. Owen Mór nursing home cared lovely for him during his time there. Ar dheis de go raibh a anam dílis.
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Met her. Inspired by her back in the day and now - . Mairéad Farrell is still with us at every meeting we do, every step forward we take. Gone but never forgotten . Comrade Mairéad Farrell birthday would have been today. x
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It’s been a privilege being a SF elected representative for 14 yrs. I thank all of those who put their trust in me to represent them as an MEP & MLA. It’s equally a privilege being a SF activists tasked with an international responsibility to help secure support for a #UnityRef.
Sinn Féin Uachtarán @MaryLouMcDonald has today paid tribute to Foyle MLAs Karen Mullan and Martina Anderson who are stepping down from the Assembly and taking on new roles for the party at a national and regional level
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Sinn Féin support across Ireland . SF is the largest party in Ireland. In the 26 Counties 535,573 people voted for us on Saturday. In the 6 Counties 181,853 . Sinn Féin total support across the 32 counties stands at: . 717,426. What a time to be a Republican. #Time4Unity
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Our hearts are shattered beyond words as we say goodbye to our eldest sister, Sheena—the fierce, loving boss of our family. A lifetime of irreplaceable memories now leaves a void that can never be filled. Life for the Andersons will never be the same again. #cancersucks 😡
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It’s disgraceful that on the eve of John Hume’s funeral, the hijacking and burning of postal and delivery vans, by masked individuals across Derry while the city mourns the death of John. Those involved need to give the people of Derry a break. #NotInMyName
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There were no 2 Martin McGuinnesses. Martin McGuinness, the IRA vol & freedom fighter who stood up & defended the besieged community of Derry in our darkest days, was the same Martin who lead our peace process, met the English Queen & called time on DUP arrogance. #IStandByMartin
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BREAKING NEWS .Theresa May outlined her proposals on how to deal with the border dividing Ireland .#Brexit .#RoadtoBrexit #FLUFFandNONSENSE
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Bogside Republicans don’t retire . It’s goodbye Strasbourg - hello.
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Just in case anyone is wondering how Sinn Féin have influenced the negotiations on Brexit & why the backstop is in the Withdrawal Agreement? Why Ireland is in the top 3 priorities in Europe? . Watch & see for yourself 👇👇
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Sinn Féin Councillor @BreanainnLyness makes his first public speech today after being elected SF’s 1st Councillor for “Ballymena”. The times they are a changing!. #WorkingForAll. #sinnféin
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Sinn Féin topped the poll in 24 constituencies . Sinn Féin WON the election with 24.5% . The people spoke.They were clear.They want change. They want a new, united, inclusive progressive Ireland. Parties in Gov must plan, prepare & deliver social, economic & constitutional change
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I was there . RIP Bobby 💔.
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Our Chieftain Martin Mc Guinness is 6 years gone💔. Martin instinctively knew when the right time was, to go in the right direction. Ireland is a better place with a brighter future because of Martin Mc Guinness. Forever remembered with admiration & pride.#ripmartin
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First time Anderson sisters in the one house this year. Usually Sat night is two glasses of the bold stuff - but tonight I could be very very bold and have three! . #TheBestFamily
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During the month of January 2023, 35 Palestinians have been murdered including 8 children . The International community stands ideally by; it’s been wringing its hands for decades. The international Community allows Israel to act with impunity & get away with murder. #Palestine
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Spain making contingency plans for united Ireland. Foreign Minister José Manuel Albares Bueno said that whilst Irish Unity is (currently) hypothetical “the Spanish civil service would nevertheless be sketching out contingency plans for any such scenario” . #MakingTheCase4IUinEU
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The two party system blown away by storm Mary Lou today . So proud of @MaryLouMcDonald agus @moneillsf
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Large turnout at South Armagh commemoration today. We will always remember our fallen Volunteers with dignity and pride. #RIP
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RIP Rose Dugdale 💔. Rose taught me a lot and I will never forget her . Proud to call Rose a comrade and friend . #heartbroken
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Number 11 🇮🇪.Thank You for giving me your jersey to stand up in the EU Parliament with my Irish passport.From Derry to Kerry .“It is the entitlement and birthright of every person born in the island of Ireland, which includes its islands & seas, to be part of the Irish Nation”🇮🇪
The privilege of a lifetime to be by his side for every single cap. It has been an incredible journey, one that our little family will never forget. 🇮🇪❤️ we love you James and are SO proud of everything you’ve achieved in the 🇮🇪 jersey ❤️.
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