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BBC Northern Ireland's weekly politics programme. Presented by @MarkCarruthers7. Also posts on #SundayPolitics & #BBCRedLines ▪️Email: [email protected]
Joined September 2012
"The DUP has had more positions on the Irish Sea border than the Kama Sutra.". Belfast Telegraph's @SuzyJourno . #BBCTheView @MarkCarruthers7
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.@Deirdreheenan : There is an irony here that many of the people complaining that President Higgins won't attend the event, are the very same people who refused to participant in all-island dialogue on brexit & the shared island initiativ. @MarkCarruthers7 #BBCTheView @BBCNewsNI
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"Casement Park needs to be built. I believe some of the opposition to it. smacks of sectarianism.". @Naomi_Long says you can't expect a project to cost the same in 2024 as it did in 2010. #SundayPolitics | @MarkCarruthers7
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"You might aswell ask to refight the Battle of the Boyne.". SDLP MP @ClaireHanna says the Drumcree dispute is in the past. @MarkCarruthers7 #SundayPolitics
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On the day that a new constitutional committee was setup in Downing St to oversee relationships across the UK - here's Cork comedian @TadhgHickey's take on it. #BBCTheview | @MarkCarruthers7
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.@ProfKarolSikora Our health service is going to be stretched over the next few days. That's why it is so important we don't get more & more people infected by meeting on the beach.". #Coronavirus #covid19 #BBCTheView @MarkCarruthers7
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.Is there a good IRA and a bad IRA? @MarkCarruthers7.asks Tánaiste & Fianna Fáil leader @MichealMartinTD. #bbctheview
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Northern Ireland's most senior judge reacts to @Brandonlewis' comments that the UK "will break international law.". Watch the full interview with Sir Declan Morgan - on @BBCTheView tomorrow night on @BBCOneNI .@MarkCarruthers7
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"There is nothing to say that I will vote to remain part of the UK or that I will vote for a new Ireland.". Former loyalist politician Davy Adams says he'll make any decision on a border poll based 'solely on where he thinks the best future for his grandchildren lies. #BBCTheView
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"A gutless government.".@SuzyJourno tells @endamcclafferty that the Labour Government tried to "bury the bad news" over Casement Park.
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.@SuzyJourno says the problem for the DUP is that days after Gavin Robinson talked about a new approach - the Education Minister met the LCC. "That doesn't look like a new approach.". #BBCTheView @MarkCarruthers7
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"She lacked humility, she was passive aggressive, she was very uncomfortable, she was sometimes quite rude, but at no point was there empathy or compassion". @deirdreheenan talks to @MarkCarruthers7 about former First Minister Arlene Foster's appearance at the Covid Inquiry
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"Now is the time" for the Irish government to call a "citizens' assembly" on Irish unity, says Sinn Féin leader @MaryLouMcDonald . #SundayPolitics | @MarkCarruthers7
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#BBCRedLines . "It's just alienate, alienate, alienate,". Joe Brolly accuses the DUP of "short-term opportunism" .rather than attempting to creating a viable & flourishing Northern Ireland. Listen to the interview in full:
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"A coalition government run by numbskulls.". Hotelier Bill Wolsey - on the Stormont Executive. #BBCTheView | @MarkCarruthers7
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Why are 40 grammar schools & a fee paying prep school eligible for funding from a new scheme to tackle underachievement - but schools in west Belfast are not?. @MarkCarruthers7 asks Education Minister @paulgivan
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Coming up on #SundayPolitics at 2.30 on @BBCOneNI .@SuzyJourno tells @MarkCarruthers7 .👇."It will be a shame if people in NI are collateral damage in some game of blackmail between the Tory government and the @duponline "
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.@MarkCarruthers7 challenges DUP leader @J_Donaldson_MP about social media postings from one of the party's council candidates.
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"I think I'd say get stuffed,". Professor Diarmaid Ferriter - on what he'd say if the NIO called and ask him to help write an official history of The Troubles. @MarkCarruthers7
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On #SundayPolitics, @MarkCarruthers7 asks @MaryLouMcDonald for her view on 'murderous IRA criminality during the Troubles':
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Senator Ian Marshall says remarks by @J_Donaldson_MP that agri-food industry leaders haven't fully read the UK-EU Brexit deal are "very disappointing" "completely disrespectful" and that Sir Jeffrey has got it "horribly wrong".
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"We need to remember that unionism needs Stormont more than nationalists do.". Noel Doran, @Irish_News Editor. #SundayPolitics | @MarkCarruthers7
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"Disturbing pile on.".@ClaireHanna tells @MarkCarruthers7 that criticism of SDLP candidate Cara Hunter has been "deeply sectarian".
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"This notion it is discrimination is ludicrous." @EoinTennyson disagrees with the DUP position on Covid vaccine passports.
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"Unless this Protocol goes, then this Union is over.".@JimAllister tells @MarkCarruthers7 he wants rid of the "Windsor Whitewash".
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"The DUP approach has always been a sideshow." @ClaireHanna tells @MarkCarruthers7 that it will be talks between the UK and EU that will resolve the NI Protocol.
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"Right across this bill you see a spine of political interference". @annacbryson tells @MarkCarruthers7 historians are wary of the government’s official history on the Troubles
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Lord Trimble reflects on his last visit to see Seamus Mallon . #SundayPolitics | @MarkCarruthers7
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"That's a job for fruits & fenians." - what writer Gary Mitchell's careers teacher told him when he said he wanted to be a writer. @MarkCarruthers7 | #BBCTheView
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Kingsmills murders: "It was wrong when it happened. It's wrong today. As a republican I'm shamed by it" says @JohnODowdSF as he also reveals three relatives of his were murdered the night before.
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"You couldn't but be a little bit disturbed with the way they (FF & FG) handled this situation, that is 'Get Sinn Fein', rather than come with a narrative around the future". Denis Bradley, ex co-chair of the Consultative Group on the Past. @MarkCarruthers7 #BBCTheView | #GE2020
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"There has been a substantial shift towards Irish Unity. that has been driven by Brexit". @JonTonge - on his research of Alliance party members. #SundayPolitics | @MarkCarruthers7
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"I don't see what's to celebrate or commemorate about an event that is fundamentally divisive". PBP's @fiona_ferg - on the upcoming Church service marking the partition of Ireland & the centenary of NI. #SundayPolitics @MarkCarruthers7
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"Completely disrespectful". "He's got it horribly wrong" Reaction to @J_Donaldson_MP comments last night that agri-food business leaders don't fully understand the EU-UK withdrawal agreement deal. Former UFU president Ian Marshall and FSB NI chair @tinamckenz hit back
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Coming up tonight. PUP Cllr John Kyle tells @MarkCarruthers7 that the protocol needs fundamental change but it also offers significant economic opportunities for Northern Ireland. Watch the full interview on @BBCTheView at 10.35pm on BBC One NI
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"I would far rather travel extra miles to have treatment in a timely fashion.".@naomi_long tells @MarkCarruthers7 that more people should be prepared to travel to access healthcare.
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"This is a result of decisions the UK government has made." @ClaireHanna has little sympathy for @eastantrimmp and others opposing the NI Protocol.
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.@NewtonEmerson says the DUP's humiliation has only started. "How on earth can they knock on doors and say defend the union, effectively from what we have done to it.". #BBCTheView
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"Decades down the road the union as we know it will come to an end.". @wallyt53 tells @MarkCarruthers7 that unionists should prepare for what’s coming? . ⏰11pm | BBC One NI.#BBCTheView
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"Those who have most to lose from us all having to consider an alternative to Stormont are those who are refusing to go back in". @chrisadonnelly tells @MarkCarruthers7 that Unionists are in a difficult position if Stormont doesn't return. #BBCTheView
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The @SJAMcBride 'state of NI' article at the weekend kicked off a debate about how broken is NI and can it be fixed. He opened tonight's show with these thoughts
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"We could get Windsor Park up to scratch.".@CatharineHoey tells @MarkCarruthers7 that the legacy of the European Championships coming to Northern Ireland should benefit football not GAA.
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"The NI Protocol is a gross assault on our constitutional position. The protocol is not just about economics, it is about something much bigger." @JimAllister . @MarkCarruthers7 | #SundayPolitics
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Direct rule ". is out of the question". Sinn Féin leader @MaryLouMcDonald tells @DarranMarshall what she thinks 'Plan B' should mean if Stormont doesn't return. #BBCTheView | @MarkCarruthers7
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"There is now no real emotional bond between the political establishment and N Ireland." .The former Alliance leader @AlderdiceLord talks to @MarkCarruthers7 about the change in attitudes to N Ireland from London. #BBCTheView | @MarkCarruthers7
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"We have no alternative. Education is in crisis in Northern Ireland.". "If I was now 28, I couldn't afford to be a teacher". @liam_mcguckin_ from the National Association of Head Teachers. @NAHTnews . @MarkCarruthers7
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". Even the Grand Orange Lodge is an all Ireland institution.". @chrisadonnelly talks to @MarkCarruthers7 about the cultural and institutional connections across the island. #BBCTheView
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"As Irish republicans we should be big enough to say that we're not going to be part of celebrating partition" @PearseDoherty tells @MarkCarruthers7 .#bbctheview
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"I want to see bonfires that represent the very historic nature - when the were lit to welcome King William to Northern Ireland.". DUP MP @carlalockhart - on last night's bonfire in Dungannon which had an Irish tricolour & an image of the Taoiseach on it. @MarkCarruthers7
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.@moneillsf : "There appears to be a double standard within the policing service. There appears to be an ethos or culture that turns a blind eye to UDA / UVF thugs on the street but a disproportionate attempt to target nationalist communities.". @MarkCarruthers7 #SundayPolitics
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How much are Sinn Féin MPs paid?. @MarkCarruthers7 asked @johnfinucane. The North Belfast MP said he doesn't have permission to provide that information. #SundayPolitics
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A bet's a bet. On @bbctheview tonight the ballad of the Green MLA and the commentator in the purple dress.
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"I'm glad we have most of the Game of Thrones stuff out of the way. It is maddening that we are all in this crazy waiting room, and that the DUP's internal psychodramas are allowed to set the pace.". @ClaireHanna . @MarkCarruthers7 #SundayPolitics
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"In any other city they'd just be called a crime group.". Belfast Telegraph's @AllisonMorris1 says questions need to be asked as to why loyalists paramilitary groups continue to recruit young people. #BBCTheView | @MarkCarruthers7
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"It was the Real IRA who detonated the bomb that day.".Kenny Donaldson from @SEFFLisnaskea tells @MarkCarruthers7 that people shouldn't forget who caused the Omagh bomb.
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"Of course I'd vote for him." @columeastwood knows who he would support if he lived in north Belfast. #bbctheview
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"I am tired of Sammy Wilson desperately running around trying to seek a headline. He has been continually irresponsible throughout this pandemic.". Minister @NicholaMallon says Sammy Wilson's comments about Dr Tom Black were "outrageous" & "reckless". @BBCTheView #BBCTheView
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"More people will turn away from the union in my view" . @LeoVaradkar tells @MarkCarruthers7 the UK government's bid to unilaterally change the protocol was a "strategic mistake" and a "peculiar policy"
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"The people of Derry have taken me into their hearts.". Incoming Mayor of Derry City & Strabane @Lseenoi says her new job is about representing the people who elected her. #SundayPolitics @MarkCarruthers7
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"We need reasons to live, reasons to have joy.".@garysnowpatrol tells @MarkCarruthers7 that the lack of arts funding in Northern Ireland damages the chances of younger artists making it. The interview in full on Sunday Politics on @BBCOneNI at 10:15am.
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.@naomi_long says the 'DUP didn't just look the gift horse in the mouth, they shot it in the head', about negotiations on Monday.
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"I predicted there would be these problems " Former Brexit Secretary @DavidDavisMP tells @MarkCarruthers7 .#bbctheview
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"I think Brexit itself will accelerate the debate about a united Ireland," Dominic Grieve MP says Northern Ireland's "identity and status" is being "churned up" as a result of Brexit.
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"We are not going to be bribed by money.". DUP MLA @little_pengelly . #BBCTheView | @MarkCarruthers7
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"The people of Northern Ireland are now being asked to accept bad governance or no governance". @deirdreheenan talks to @MarkCarruthers7 about what the Covid Inquiry showed about our political institutions. #bbctheview
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Message to the politicians from @ManufacturingNI 's Richard Hogg "Get over youselves - let this deal run.".
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“I was standing saying no surrender…but it has got us absolutely nowhere, it has put us into reverse.”. @MarkCarruthers7 asks @wallyt53 if unionist leaders need to learn the lessons of history? . ⏰11pm | BBC One NI.#BBCTheView
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Is MLA pay an issue for Jeffrey Donaldson? @MarkCarruthers7 asks @SuzyJourno ."There is resentment among some MLAs that the people stopping the deal are the MPs who have nice big, fat salaries."
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'Planning for constitutional change needs to start now,' says @MaryLouMcDonald on #bbctheview
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"There's a bus that goes to town at 10am and one that comes home at 6pm". @ShaunaReports - on public transport in rural NI. "I grew up in Tyrone. The first thing you do when you turn 17 is get your driving licence because there's no other way to get around.". @MarkCarruthers7
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"Utterly irrelevant". @BobbyMcDonagh1 says the size of @BorisJohnson. majority carries no weight internationally. "It won't stop the US insisting on exporting chlorinated chicken to the UK. It won't affect the resolve of the EU to defend its interests.". @MarkCarruthers7 #Brexit
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"The Celtic Symphony is widely played and widely sung" @MaryLouMcDonald tells @MarkCarruthers7. #sundaypolitics
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"You cannot burnish your credentials as a victim one day and tarnish the memory of victims the next" @GRobinsonDUP tells @taramillstv .@johnfinucane should withdraw from commemoration event. #SundayPolitics .Catch the programme tonight at 23:05 on @BBCTwoNI or on @bbciplayer
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"Nationalists and republicans are so far ahead of unionism when it comes to organising". What's the unionist version of Ireland's Future?@NewsDeclan asks @Saraita101 . #BBCTheView
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From small 'u' unionist party to a small 'u' unity party? . #SundayPolitics understands research presented to the Alliance Party suggests its base is more in favour of a United Ireland than the status quo. @MarkCarruthers7 asks @naomi_long about the findings.
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.@GabrielScally says NI & the Republic need to coordinate their policies when it comes to lifting restrictions - "otherwise we'll get infections spilling back & forth across the border.". #Coronavirus #covid19 #BBCTheView @MarkCarruthers7
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"Westminster has never acted in our interests.".@moneillsf tells @MarkCarruthers7 that @sinnfeinireland wants to tackle "underfunding" here.
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Brian Feeney from @IrelandsFuture says "Reconciliation and reunification are not mutually exclusive.". #BBCTheView | @MarkCarruthers7
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"Everybody is using (The Past) in their own way." . Denis Bradley says the Stormont parties, the UK & the Irish Governments "have been using it for their own particular needs". @MarkCarruthers7 | #BBCTheView
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"We are not talking about some sort of detox programme" for paramilitaries. @allianceparty MLA @NualaMcAllister "We are 25yrs on. If these people wanted to stop being paramilitaries they'd stop being paramilitaries" . @MarkCarruthers7 | #BBCTheView
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Has #brexit changed your mind on the constitutional position of Northern Ireland?. 📊NI results @BBCSpotlightNI poll. #BBCTheView @MarkCarruthers7
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"It is a very sad day. that Orange feet are still not welcome on a particular stretch of road.". DUP MP @carlalockhart says calls for mediation over the Drumcree / Garvaghy Rd dispute. #SundayPolitics | @MarkCarruthers7
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"Some in the DUP might hope that it has built a good personal relationship with @JamieBrysonCPNI and that may mean his criticisms of the deal will be managed." . @SuzyJourno says "that may be a very unwise calculation for the DUP to make." . #SundayPolitics @MarkCarruthers7
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"My vision of a united Ireland does not involve a takeover. It is everyone on the island coming together to initiate a new country.". Fianna Fáil's @OCallaghanJim - outlines some of his proposals for uniting Ireland. #SundayPolitics @MarkCarruthers7
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.@BorisJohnson is "talking about a £30bn bridge - that in all likelihood is never going to happen - when @NicholaMallon doesn't have enough money to maintain the roads & fill in the potholes.". @LouHaigh says spending priorities should be set by Stomont ministers. #BBCTheView
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"Thirty pieces of silver" and "nothing to show to their electorate" says @ChrisHazzardSF. #bbctheview
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"The notion that they're doing it for the benefit of NI is completely spurious" @StephenFarryMP on UK government's Brexit tactics.
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"The South has never been wealthier. and the North's is in a ha'penny place in terms of economic productivity & output. Clearly the South is better off". @PaulColgan says there is a clear divergence between the economies of Northern Ireland & the Republic. @MarkCarruthers7
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Sinn Féin's @ChrisHazzardSF says the there is no good #brexit deal - only degrees of pain. He says the ultimate solution is Irish unity. #BBCTheView
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"Many of us saw this coming. ". Gardaí "were not prepared because they've been minimising the far-right movement in this country.". SDLP cllr @Lseenoi on the #DublinRiots
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Unionists are 'angry' that @sinnfeinireland brought down Stormont but haven't been criticised as heavily as @NIOgov ministers have criticised unionists in the current suspension.@BenLowry2 talking to @MarkCarruthers7 on Sunday Politics
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"Cold, hungry and no hope for the future." @C_Fitz_ tells @MarkCarruthers7 that the "political pantomime" at Westminster helps no one.
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"It is beyond unacceptable that we should be governed by laws that we don't make, cant change, and cannot even influence." . @TUVonline leader @JimAllister . #BBCTheView | @MarkCarruthers7
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