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Comghairdeas to our Executive Committee for 2024-25 - elected following our AGM this evening
We’re looking forward to a big year ahead! 🌹☘️
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Heartbroken at the news that John Hume has passed away
As a Civil Rights leader, John dedicated his life to fighting injustice. In the darkest of hours he was a light of hope
He’ll always be remembered as the man who made peace possible. Our thoughts with SDLP & John’s family
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Raab on
#Marr
just said: “One reason I resigned over previous WA was I felt it threatened... the Good Friday Agreement”
Keep it credible, Dominic. You hadn’t even bothered to read the GFA!
A reminder of your shocking appearance at NI Select Committee
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Anyone else remember this absolute shower on the whole “technological solutions to the border” thing?
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Polite reminder to Labour MPs this morning - you cannot support this deal & claim to be opposed to a hard border. They are completely irreconcilable
Tory Gov may have absconded on responsibility to people of NI & upholding GFA. Labour definitely has not!
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“Who’s your hero?”
“James Connolly… he started non-sectarian Trade Unionism in Ireland” 🌹☘️
Mick is the son of Irish immigrants who moved to London & the Trade Union movement in Britain is led by the Irish in Britain
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Some hardliners euphoric at one mistake from EU miss the point
The fact friends were open, honest, listened to each other & it’s now been resolved is a good thing
If this had been from ERG or No.10, they’d have doubled down, told lies & denied it all. That’s the difference!
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☘️🌹We are proud to nominate
@Keir_Starmer
to be the next Leader of the Labour Party
Keir has always stood with the Irish in Britain & consistently defended the Good Friday Agreement. We wish him the very best, ádh mór ☘️🌹
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Labour MPs should be writing to PM Johnson & UK Gov, not EU
“We do not stand in judgement on UK proposals... re: NI border” - completely unacceptable
These proposals create a hard border & undermine GFA
You should oppose them and stand with ppl of NI
I & 18 Labour colleagues have written to Jean Claude Junker & Donald Tusk urging the EU Commission, EU27 with the U.K. Goverment to work night and day to agree a deal. An orderly Brexit is better than a No Deal Brexit. The public are tied of deadlock and want
#Brexit
resolved.
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Baroness Claire Fox of Buckley, on
#PoliticsLive
now, putting forward mad climate change scepticism
Her CV: member of the Communist Party, apologist for Warrington Bomb, Brexit Party MEP & friend of Farage, awarded peerage by Boris Johnson
Always on the wrong side of history
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All you’ve shown here
@benhabib6
is ignorance on Brexit & NI
There used to be a border
There were only 20 crossings w/ roads blocked & traffic redirected 👎
Customs posts came down on creation of Single Market in ‘93
Today = 208 crossings 👍
Wise up
I am on the border between NI and ROI. Travelling in a straight line, one enters and exits the RoI a number of times. There could never be a hard border here. The UK has declared it would never seek to impose one. The whole thing is a red herring.
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Today we’ve written to 19 Labour MPs in response to a letter they signed y’day
Labour MPs must be clear they will not vote for any proposals which lead to the return of a border
Peace in NI cannot be the price to pay for Brexit
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Customs posts in Newry were ALWAYS 5-10miles from the line on the map
Before customs posts came down in ‘93 there were 20 crossings. Today - 208!
Roads closed to redirect traffic, and would be again today. We’re not going back
☘️No Brexit, No Border🌹
BREAKING: the UK has proposed a string of "customs clearance centres" on both sides of the Irish border as a key part of its plan to replace the backstop, RTE News understands. The "centres", effectively customs posts, would be located between 5-10 miles "back" from the border.
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So insulting & hurtful. Claire Fox is an apologist for the brutal IRA murders of two small children in Warrington.
They were 12 & 3yrs old. Two mums woke up the next day, on Mother’s Day, without their children.
Fox never apologised,
@BorisJohnson
has made her a Baroness.
Utterly disgraceful to see Claire Fox sworn into the House of Lords today.
@BorisJohnson
had the final say on her peerage and did nothing to block it, despite all the hurt it has caused in Warrington
#ForFoxSake
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“A kind friend, a great Labour man, and a giant of the Irish community in Britain”
Our statement following the sad passing of Jack Dromey
Ar dheis Dé go raibh a anam. May he rest in peace.
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Seamus Mallon tells Jeremy Corbyn to “stop vacillating” and start providing leadership over
#Brexit
, adding a new public vote on the issue is now “absolutely essential”.
#peoplesvote
Labour must 'stop vacillating' over new referendum, says SDLP veteran
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“No test is better than a bad test” - Matt Hancock
Thankfully for the people of the south of Ireland, there’s been a hard border on approaches to testing
Ireland was following WHO advice at same time PM Johnson & Tory Gov were shaking hands with people in hospital. Wise up!
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And a perfect description it remains ☘️🌹
The word ‘Tory’, commonly used to refer to a member of the UK Conservative Party, comes from the Irish Gaelic word ‘tóraidhe’ meaning outlaw or robber.
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Everyone hearing they’ve put Kate Hoey in the Lords
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The Good Friday Agreement is about relationships & respect. It’s how it was achieved & is defended
In
@JoeBiden
&
@KamalaHarris
we have two leaders who will help bring people together, listen to and respect others - and work with
@UKLabour
to defend what both helped achieve
Congratulations to
@JoeBiden
&
@KamalaHarris
.
In
@UKLabour
we value President Elect Biden’s firm commitment to protecting the Good Friday Agreement.
It’s something we hold dear and we look forward to working with you on this and so many other issues
#Election2020
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In all the outrage from the Brexiter elites this eve, let’s not forget that blocking No Deal Brexit would:
1. Prevent a hard border in Ireland
2. Maintain the GFA (which Brexit has NO mandate over)
3. Protect workers rights (which they want to dismantle)
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Very proud of our Labour Irish Community Officer, Muhammad Al-Hussaini, here signing beautiful trad Irish sean nós
Muhammad is a Muslim Imam & academic, fluent in Gaeilge, works with Irish community in Britain & sits on Labour Irish Society Exec ☘️🌹
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Rather than attacking
@LouHaigh
- Tories & others could listen to her and another great Labour woman, Mo Mowlam
Louise’s position here is Labour’s long-standing position - as Mo set out in this interview with CBS’s Charlie Rose in July 1999 ⬇️
WATCH: Labour’s Shadow NI Secretary tells me that if there was a referendum on a united Ireland that the British government and British political parties should not campaign for the Union “if there is a border poll, we should remain neutral”
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In 2017, John Kilclooney made the below racist comment about
@LeoVaradkar
. He later retracted it & said it was “shorthand for an Indian name I could not spell”
Today he’s made a similar racist comment about Kamala Harris - urgent action should be taken by House of Lords on this
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Today the third time Nancy Pelosi has made this unambiguous statement
Brexit has NO mandate over the GFA
The Irish-American caucus in Congress is strong, and Ireland holds a special place in the hearts & minds of the American people
Brexiters take note
#Brexit
cannot be allowed to imperil the Good Friday Agreement. The peace of the Good Friday Agreement is treasured by the American people and will be fiercely defended on a bicameral and bipartisan basis in the US Congress.
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It’s all a game for egomaniacs like Dominic Cummings
But history will not remember him as some “genius misfit”
It will record how he poisoned our public life with populism & lies, preyed on people’s fears - and played fast & loose w/ the progress we built across these islands
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In NI tonight, DUP stand isolated supporting new “proposal”
In Britain, Tories stand isolated too
But in the US, Congress has proposed a motion in support of the GFA
Across the world tonight, the people of NI don’t stand alone
☘️No Border, No Brexit🌹
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“I quote Irish poetry not just because I’m Irish, but because Irish poets are the best in the world” ☘️
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By “this” you mean deny justice & closure to the family of John Pat Cunningham
John was a young man with learning difficulties, shot three times in the back - that’s what your friend here is due to stand trial for
You continue to show no compassion to victims or their families
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Congratulations to
@claire_tigher
, newly elected Councillor in Ealing with a big increase in the Labour vote!
Claire grew up in Co. Mayo, is a board member of
@MyICCLondon
, a Vice Chair of
@labourirish
& one of the best of the Irish in Britain
Thanks to all who campaigned! 🌹☘️
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☘️☘️☘️ Happy St Patrick’s Day ☘️☘️☘️
To everyone celebrating the best of Irish community and culture in Britain, Ireland & around the world - have a great day!
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10 April ‘98 - 22 years ago today - the Good Friday Agreement was signed
It was the most progressive political act of our time & seemed impossible only a few years before
It defined new relationships between communities in NI, and British & Irish Gov. Above all, it gave hope!
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Today is a very different & difficult St Patrick’s Day, but it’s more important than ever that we come together
The 14,000 Irish NHS staff & all health workers around the world are the best of us. Let’s give them the support they need.
☘️Lá Fhéile Pádraig sona duit🌹
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🌹☘️WORKERS RIGHTS ARE HUMAN RIGHTS☘️🌹
We are DELIGHTED to announce we’ll be joined by friends from across Europe on Saturday
Ireland, Britain, Germany, France, Italy, Netherlands, Spain, Portugal
European socialists. United we stand. Join us.
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Good luck to every
@UKLabour
candidate standing tomorrow
And to every volunteer helping to get them over the line
#LabourDoorstep
If you have any time to spare, get involved & make a difference:
#VoteLabour
🌹
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Sad to hear of the passing of Jack Charlton - won the World Cup with England & then managed Republic of Ireland at first World Cup
So many iconic moments & quotes because of Jack. A huge character loved across Britain & Ireland
☘️ Ar dheis Dé go raibh a anam ☘️
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An “Irexit” party, led by a man who worked for Farage, ran at the Irish GE & polled 5,500 votes in total. Not happening.
Recent rush from so many in Britain trying to validate their own political agendas from Irish politics is both tiring & concerning
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“There will be no US-UK trade deal if the implementation of Brexit imperils the Good Friday Agreement.”
Another incredibly clear statement from
@JoeBiden
. Johnson, Cummings & ERG should start listening. 15 days. ☘️🌹
Joe Biden has a long history of support for the Irish people, Irish America, and peace in Northern Ireland, including advancing human rights while also staunchly opposing terrorism. Learn more about
@JoeBiden
’s record on Irish-America and Ireland ☘️⬇️☘️⬇️
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Fecking great news! Leave means Leave - take yer circus somewhere else! 🙌
Did the Irish government just shut us down? 🤣🤔
FULL STORY ⬇️
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Thank you
@patmcfaddenmp
for paying tribute in the House of Commons to the families of those killed in
#Creeslough
and the wider community in Donegal
They continue to be in our thoughts
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BREAKING NEWS: MPs vote for
#equalmarriage
in
#NorthernIreland
Congratulations to
@ConorMcGinn
,
@Love_EqualityNI
& thanks to every MP who has voted for
#equality
.
If the Executive isn’t former by 21st October, then Westminster has agreed it can act. 🏳️🌈👬👭🏳️🌈
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5min clap for carers rings hollow when you undermine & underpay them
14,000 Irish NHS staff in Britain, more than any European country. Immigrants make HUGE contribution to public services
Labour’s
@nicktorfaen
calling for decency, fairness & respect
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Abortion & LGBT right to marry will become law in North after today
It’ll help bring an end to secrecy & shame for women, and make society a little more equal, kinder & fairer
In particular thinking of Lyra McKee today - she helped things get better
#TheNorthIsNow
#LoveIsLove
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In 2000, Gove wrote a Centre for Policy Studies pamphlet called “The Price of Peace”
He described the GFA as ‘a denial of our national integrity’, ‘a moral stain’ & ‘a humiliation’
Internal Market Bill is a wrecking ball, not a “safety net” as he says
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IT’S OFFICIAL! NI has just had its first ever same-sex wedding
Sharni & Robyn got married this afternoon on their 6 year anniversary
Their beaming smiles & love for one another is what everyone fought for - and it’s beautiful!
#LoveIsLove
🌈
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☘️☘️ Happy St Patrick’s Day ☘️☘️
To everyone celebrating in Britain, Ireland & beyond - have a great day!
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Might be worth clarifying
@CatharineHoey
in your Sunday Express article that you’re not a Labour peer
Your peerage came with thanks from
@BorisJohnson
- for supporting what you now oppose
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This “EU making NI the price to pay on Brexit” is an insidious lie
They’re saying the *opposite*. That the peace & prosperity of NI won’t be the price to pay!
Not just EU. The US Congress too! Unlike Johnson & ERG they’re acting in people’s interests!
We'd like a deal. We'd like to end up in a relationship of the character the EU offered us last year. For the whole UK. But the EU has been encouraged by our weak and incompetent Parliament to think Northern Ireland is the price. That's wrong. Boris is right to defend our Union.
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Devastated to hear of the passing of Pat Hume. Alongside John, Pat dedicated her life to the cause of peace. We owe her so much.
Our thoughts are with her children Aine, Therese, Aiden, John & Mo, and to all of the
@SDLPlive
family
Ar dheis Dé go raibh a hanam
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Congratulations to Irish jockey Rachael Blackmore on a making history as the first female jockey to win the Grand National at
#Aintree
☘️
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Congratulations to
@LabourIrish
member Mairéad Healy, the newly elected Councillor for Romsey, Cambridge
Originally from Derry, Mairéad authored the first ever UN submission on GRT Rights in the UK, works in Human Rights & will be a fantastic Councillor! 🌹☘️
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Huge
@SocialistSocs
team in Wakefield today for
@simonlightwood
& great to be joined by
@LouHaigh
Thanks to everyone who came - we’ve spoken to thousands of people with a great response! 🌹
#labourdoorstep
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Congratulations to
@LabourIrish
member Ruairi Leonard, the newly elected Councillor for Stepping Hill in Stockport, a Labour gain!
Originally from Limerick, Ruairi is a music teacher in Stockport. He’ll be a fantastic Councillor & fingers crossed for
@AndyBurnhamGM
too! ☘️🌹
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Symptomatic of an arrogant, untrustworthy Gov who think they can abuse power & break rules
They should heed the words on record from
@SpeakerPelosi
& others: risk a hard border or undermine GFA and there’ll be no trade deal
Unlike Johnson & Co, they will hold true to their word
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Margaret’s funeral today was a fitting celebration of an extraordinary life
The daughter of an NHS nurse from Carlow & a builder from Galway, she smashed more than a few glass ceilings, and made
@UKLabour
& the country a better place
Go well on your final journey, Margaret 🌹☘️
We are deeply saddened that one of our greatest champions &
@LabourIrish
President, Baroness Margaret McDonagh, passed away this morning.
Our thoughts and love are with her sister
@Siobhain_Mc
, her family and friends.
Ar dheis Dé go raibh a hanam. May she rest in peace.
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Britain and Ireland have shared interests - from trade and the economy, to supporting the incredible contributions of the Irish community in Britain
After years of Tory antagonism, it’s great to see a British Labour Government working hard to rebuild these relationships
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On the 50th anniversary of Bloody Sunday, our thoughts are with the victims’ families
They were thirteen innocent, unarmed civilians on a peaceful march organised by the NI Civil Rights Association. Their families still await justice today.
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We are deeply saddened that one of our greatest champions &
@LabourIrish
President, Baroness Margaret McDonagh, passed away this morning.
Our thoughts and love are with her sister
@Siobhain_Mc
, her family and friends.
Ar dheis Dé go raibh a hanam. May she rest in peace.
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Wishing a very happy 90th birthday to one of our greatest champions,
@AlfDubs
🌹☘️🥳
A Minister with Mo Mowlam at time of the GFA & a tireless supporter of the Irish in Britain esp his work with
@MyICCLondon
. Have a great day, Alf!
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Huge fáilte roimh to Claire & Colum today
Not mentioned yet is what their historic victories mean for the millions of Irish in Britain who care deeply about the relationships between our islands
After years of silence, they’ve already inspired hope for the Irish diaspora! ☘️🌹
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Famously nobody questioned credibility of Tory Gov when they were proposing “technological solutions” to borders...
Breaking: a new post-Brexit IT system is holding up lorries in the EU, as the latest wave of red tape kicks in 1/
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Border Facts
- 208 crossings along 310-mile frontier
- 110m person & 45m vehicle crossings p.a
- 30,000 x-border workers
- Open Border facilitated GFA, peace & prosperity in NI
Ppl of NI support the backstop because they know the human cost of a border
#NIConservativesHustings
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In 2021,
@LisaMMcGee
wrote: “A special thanks to Channel 4 - the channel I grew up watching, that made me want to write comedy & the only channel that could have made our show”
#DerryGirls
is one example of the value & joy
@Channel4
brings, which
@NadineDorries
wants to trash…
ONE WEEK TO GO! 🎉
#DerryGirls
will *finally* be back in your life next Tuesday at 9.15pm. Who’s excited?
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A huge happy 50th birthday to
@SadiqKhan
!
Irish diaspora in London & across Britain couldn’t ask for a better champion & someone who gets the emigrant story. Lá breithe shona, Sadiq! ☘️🌹🎉
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“We are brothers”
The powerful moment that two veterans, ordered into battle from opposing sides, come together
Courage and compassion in equal measure
We remember and pay respect to all
#DDay75Anniversary
veterans today
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“Living through 30yrs of open violence in NI, I know impact of splintering on a spurious nationalism” Avila Kilmurray, 1st Women’s Officer
@unitetheunion
EU built on cooperation & solidarity - values of the Labour Movement
It’s why we must now unite behind a campaign to Remain
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Congratulations to the brilliant
@SadiqKhan
, re-elected Mayor of London
Sadiq is the biggest champion of London’s Irish, a great friend to
@LabourIrish
& throws an almighty St Pat’s Parade! Well done to everyone who got out & campaigned for this result!🌹☘️
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Completely heartbroken to hear this news. Seamus Mallon was one of our greatest champions of justice, equality and peace
Co-signator of the Good Friday Agreement, Civil Rights Campaigner, NI Deputy First Minister. A much loved husband, father and friend
Former Northern Ireland Deputy First Minister and civil rights campaigner Seamus Mallon has died aged 83
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Tomorrow we say goodbye to John Hume, one of Ireland’s greatest sons
🕯Please join us at 9pm tonight to Light a Candle for John🕯
#RIPJohnHume
#JohnsLight
Always loving, forever loved, never forgotten. Thank you for everything. Ar dheis Dé go raibh a anam ☘️🌹
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Amazing time with our brilliant Labour MPs & sister parties from across Europe - special thanks to the SPD from Germany!
Clear message from us at
#PeoplesVoteMarch
today - stand up for workers rights, for our place in Europe - and Feck Brexit
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“Derry Girls is really important - it’s a history lesson in itself”
@Djllewellyn
&
@clbleakley
capture this point so well
The weaving of history & humour by
@LisaMMcGee
makes
#DerryGirls
even more special, inc. appearances from Mo Mowlam & John Hume this series
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“I walked among their old haunts, the home ground where they bled,
And in the dirt lay justice like an acorn in the winter
Till its oak would sprout in Derry where the thirteen men lay dead”
- Seamus Heaney
Thoughts with Bloody Sunday victims & families on 51st Anniversary today
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This is horrendous & a clear breach of the Equality Act 2010:
“As well as using a blacklist, the EHRC said Pontins had been monitoring calls to its contact centre and refusing or cancelling bookings made by some people with Irish accents or surnames...”
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Raab meeting Congress later where he’ll face Qs on border & GFA
Last time he was asked about it he gave this complete shocker of a response & said it was a “reference tool”
It’s an international peace treaty registered at the UN! Also only 35 pages.
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Over 280,000 ppl in Britain have applied for Irish passports since 2016
Undoubtedly it’s because of Brexit & because people want the right to live, work & and love across the EU
If you are a citizen of Ireland, you are a citizen of the world ☘️🇮🇪💚
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Immensely proud of Fiona O‘Farrell for brilliant speech at
#Lab19
We have a moral duty to stand w/ ppl of NI against Brexit, in support of the GFA & by having a clear Remain position
Tories & DUP are never going to stand up for ppl of NI. Labour must & it must pass
#Composite13
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Majella O’Hare was shot in the back & killed unlawfully by a British soldier in South Armagh in 1976. She was 12yrs old
Her brother
@MichaelOHare02
addressed our AGM this year & is one of hundreds who these horrific Tory proposals would deny justice to
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“His dad was of that incredible generation of Irish workers who built Britain & Jack was as proud of where he’d come from
Being Irish was important to Jack, and Jack was important to Ireland & the Irish community in Britain. We will miss him”
Beautiful tribute from
@karinsmyth
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Great to see
@Keir_Starmer
visiting
@LDNIrishCentre
centre today & as the local MP has supported them for years!
London Irish Centre have done vital work during COVID, esp. important as Irish are London’s oldest ethnic group by median age & have been particularly vulnerable ☘️
We were delighted to offer a warm Irish welcome to
@UKLabour
Party leader
@Keir_Starmer
today.
Pictured with our CEO
@ellenryanlic
and team.
In recent months we have distributed 5,000 hot meals and 2,000 food parcels.
Thank you
@Keir_Starmer
for highlighting our work.
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Lá Fhéile Pádraig Sona Daoibh! Happy
#StPatricksDay
This year, as well as celebrating the Irish in Britain & relationships across these islands, we stand in solidarity with the people of Ukraine 🌹☘️🇺🇦🇮🇪
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Irish passport is ahead of British passport in index tracking most powerful passports in the world 🇮🇪
Tory Brexit means restricting freedoms to travel, live & work abroad whilst battling fuel & food shortages at home. “Global Britain” they say... 🤔🤷♂️
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Problem with a ‘time limited backstop’ is simply this - ensuring no hard border on the island of Ireland isn’t a time-bound aspiration!
Proposing time limits to the backstop won’t solve anything. Need workable, & legally-binding alternative arrangements
DUP leader Arlene Foster says they would consider backing a time limited Irish backstop - but Leo Varadkar refuses to
#CPC19
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Congratulations
@damienegan
on a stunning victory! 45% of the vote & a 16% swing!
The first time
@UKLabour
has won Kingswood in 18 years!!!
Change is coming 🌹
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On accepting his Nobel Peace Prize, John Hume said the EU was the inspiration for the Good Friday Agreement
As
@TheresaMEP
says here, thats what it’s always been about: making people’s lives better. Thanks to every Labour MEP, we’re all proud of you ☘️🌹
We will miss
@LabMEPs
, and their staff, so much. We will never forget your contribution to improving people's lives all across Europe.
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Delighted to see
@Keir_Starmer
become Leader of the Labour Party
Proud to have nominated him for Leader. Grateful for his support to us & to Irish community here. Most of all - hopeful for the future!
Thanks to all other candidates for engaging with us over the past months ☘️🌹
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Thanks to
@MayorofLondon
@SadiqKhan
, Imelda Staunton and
@gloriahunniford
for leading this year’s celebration of London's Irish community 🇮🇪
#StPatsDayLDN
#StPatricksDay
#LondonIsOpen
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The Good Friday Agreement is one of our greatest achievements as a Party
But we must now work as hard to defend it as we did to achieve it
That’s why this is so important & we’re proud to be supporting this brilliant new initiative announced today by
@LouHaigh
The Good Friday Agreement is one of our proudest achievements.
Our training programme tells the story of peace, the women and trade-unionists at its heart, and why the work to deliver on its promise goes on.
If you’re a Labour member, sign up today 👉🌹
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Best of luck to the wonderful
@claire_tigher
in the Ealing by-election tomorrow!
As
@deirdrecostigan
says “Ealing has long had a welcome on the mat for Irish immigrants” & Claire will be a great voice for all 🌹☘️
(Mayo are overdue some good news too 😉)
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Happy
#StPatricksDay
to the Irish and friends of Ireland in Britain & around the world!
Today we’ll be celebrating the best of the Irish community, inc. the 14,000 Irish staff in the NHS in Britain🌹☘️
Beannachtaí na Féile Pádraig oraibh!
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An egregious breach of the principles of the GFA, and fundamental right of victims’ families to truth & justice
Thoughts with 1000’s of families affected - they continue to campaign with immense courage & dignity
We’ll continue to support them & challenges made to overturn this
BREAK: Commons passes Bill to end historical prosecutions in Northern Ireland.
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Spot on from
@peterkyle
- Tory Gov are failing to listen to & work with NI in all its diversity
And when DUP walked out of NI Executive,
@BrandonLewis
’s response is to go on a jolly to the US rather than to Belfast
"The Good Friday Agreement is under huge pressure".
@PeterKyle
accuses the govt of playing "hard and loose" with the Good Friday Agreement and all the measures that have delivered "peace, stability and economic growth" in Northern Ireland.
#Phillips
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Tragic news that NHS nurse Aimee O’Rourke passed away today in Kent. A mother of three aged 39
Her daughter, Megan Murphy, said: “You’re an angel and you will wear your NHS crown forever”
NHS staff are the best of us, please give them the right support
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Happy birthday
@SDLPlive
- founded 50yrs ago today! The party of Hume, Mallon, Civil Rights, cooperatives & workers’ rights
No party across these islands has done more to take the gun out of Irish politics & promote the cause of peace. Lá Breithe Shona dhuit to you all 🎉☘️🌹
This day 50 years ago - 21 August 1970 - the Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP) announced its formation in Belfast.
Gerry Fitt was its leader, John Hume deputy leader.
Though supporting unification, Fitt said:
“We do not believe that Ireland can be united by violence.”
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Hypocrisy of
@BorisJohnson
to condemn IRA apologist Roy Greenslade having ennobled
@Fox_Claire
As a leading Revolutionary Communist Party member, Baroness Fox of Buckley was an apologist for the killings of 12yr old Tim Parry & 3yr old Jonathan Ball - and remains unrepentant.
Following Boris Johnson's comments yesterday regarding the journalist Roy Greenslade, I have written to him regarding the peerage of Claire Fox which he made no attempt to block when it was entirely within his gift to do so.
Warrington still awaits its apology for his inaction.
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Mo is hugely missed. Her determination, skill, humility & ability to unite people in hope is so needed today!
“Mo certainly wouldn’t be sitting back. She’d be reminding everyone how important their vote was... to get out there & speak out, march, stand up for what’s right” ☘️🌹
My amazing, jigsaw-obsessed stepmum Mo Mowlam, died 15 years ago today, 19th August 2005. What would she make of where we are today? 1/6
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Former CEO of Stonewall described Kate Hoey as the least gay friendly Labour MP he’d ever met
It’s sad but no shock to see she’s voting DUP. She’s spent past few years on tour with Arlene Foster
Our politics & public life will be better off without her
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Another self-aggrandising statement which fails to mention ‘victims’ or their families once, or acknowledge their legitimate grievances
All victims & their families ask is to have their cases heard, to seek truth and move forward. That’s their right & one which should be upheld.
I’m sorry to have been relieved of my responsibilities in Government tonight.
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