Tony Doherty
@tonydutchdoc
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Published author of trilogy of Derry & prison memoirs. Proud Chairperson of Bloody Sunday Trust/Museum of Free Derry. Views me own
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A beautiful rainbow across the river Foyle where my young nephew Conchur was found this afternoon
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The man facing the camera is Paddy Walsh, coming to to the aid of father in his final moments. He took a bullet through his collar from Soldier F. A vote for this front page is a vote for the bravery of both Paddy Walsh and Paddy Doherty
The Derry Journal Bloody Sunday 50th anniversary edition is on the final shortlist of the HoldtheFrontPage Front Page of the Year award. The 'Journal' is the only Irish paper on the shortlist. You can vote here:
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The late great Hugh McMonagle. In any other country he'd have received the highest honour for bravery under enemy fire. Instead his courage was criminalised for decades. We've lost one of Derry's finest sons, but a hero he'll remain for ever.
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While full credit is due to all
#derrygirls
I have never heard of a single Derry republican family who were ashamed of their son or daughter being sent to prison. Had to be said, so I've said it
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Sectarianism is the Irish for racism. It is incubated within the Kick the Pope Up to our necks in Fenian Blood marching band culture. Just this week it was vindicated and rewarded by royalty. Needs uprooted and criminalised.
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Hey
@U2
your silence is deafening as genocide takes hold in Gaza. Your silence condemns you as an apologist for apartheid and war crimes. In the name of love and humanity get your bloody act together
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I think you’ll find it’s the other way round; the English for Doire is Derry
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Many good people in Drumahoe and Newbuildings are affronted by Para flags going up in their neighbourhoods. The Bloody Sunday families welcome ALL the people of the city to come with us at 9.15am on Sunday 30th January for our Walk of Remembrance. No flags, banners. Just people!
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Is this what we’ve come to? Scrawling nonsense on one of Ireland’s most poignant, revolutionary monuments? Leave the Wall alone!
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We are appealing to activists and supporters of all hues and persuasions throughout Ireland and abroad to organise remembrance events in your own neighbourhoods, villages or townlands to mark the 50th anniversary of Bloody Sunday
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I see someone has defaced one of the most famous monuments to civil rights struggle. This is no place for personal angst or grievance. It never has been. Please come back and remove it. Leave the wall alone!
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This is what occurred in the north of Ireland in the 1970s and 80s. British troops fresh from Aden and other colonies of the empire
This video keeps getting Deleted, watch it before it's taken down.
It is about the British atrocities in Kenya.
What are your thoughts on this?
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Good man James. You’ve done the city proud. You really have
James McClean speaking truth to the British.
‘There’s an arrogance & an ignorance. They are taught one side of history. They speak about the IRA as terrorists. We’ve got the
@BritishArmy
as Terrorists as well because of what they inflicted on my home city!’
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Walk of Remembrance - Sunday 30th January 9.15am Creggan Shops. The Bloody Sunday Families invite you to join us in following the footsteps of our murdered loved ones 50 years ago. Proceeding to Bloody Sunday Monument.
#oneworldonestruggle
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Before the IRA fired a single shot, in 1969 the northern state had become openly murderous and hopelessly sectarian. This is not to suggest that every Republican action during the ensuing conflict was justified.
Thankfully John Hume and the large majority of nationalists kept working for the alternative, which always existed.
SF revisionist history directly stands in the way of reconciliation and building bridges.
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Look what happens in Derry during the year of the 50th anniversary of Bloody Sunday. This is unacceptable and, coming after similar provocative events in 2019, simply inexcusable. Answers are needed and will be sought from Apprentice Boys of Derry
@PSNIDCSDistrict
@dcsdcouncil
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Gives me great pleasure to announce that
@jeremycorbyn
will the deliver the 50th Anniversary Bloody Sunday Lecture on Saturday 29 January in Derry. Please follow for updates and booking details. Can't wait!
@columeastwood
@MaryLouMcDonald
@conormurphysf
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Members of the Bloody Sunday Trust and the Apprentice Boys of Derry had a cordial and constructive meeting this evening to discuss the events of 10th August and to continue to work to restore relationships in the city
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Splendid act of solidarity from our Scottish cousins
Well done .
@CelticFC
fans
“Scrap the Legacy Bill”
Worth remembering that the Scottish Gov refused to give the bill legislative consent through Scottish Parliament
Alba Abú
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Freedom for Palestine from the people of Free Derry. Beir bua - venceremos
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Sorry but this report plainly whitewashes the nature and role of the RUC in subjugating and terrorising nationalist communities for decades. Collusion is not a claim,it is fact. Belfast service marks 100 years of formation of RUC via
@rte
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This is a proud day for Ireland as Blinne takes the stand and throws the book at Israel. Blinne was a legal observer during the Bloody Sunday Inquiry. A proud day for Ireland indeed!
A shame the Irish Government didn't see fit to support South Africa exposing genocide.
Today, at such a defining moment for humanity, justice & the upholding of international law, Blinne Ní Ghrálaigh represents Ireland & our people with supreme authenticity.
Can Leo Varadkar, Mícheál Martin & Eamonn Ryan, Fine Gael, Fianna Fáil & the Green Party say the same?
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The Bloody Sunday Trust will seek to meet both the PSNI and Apprentice Boys following the disgraceful display of pro-Parachute Regiment regalia in Derry. This must never happen again
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A candle lit to remember Paddy The Skelper Doherty and all those murdered on this day 49 years ago
#bloodysunday49
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Well done
@madden_finucane
this morning at the High Court in overturning a premature and erroneous Public Prosecution Service decision to halt the prosecution of Soldier F
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Derry Ireland
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Solidarity at its best! Derry is very very thankful for your kind and inspirational words. Venceremos!
“In the dirt lay justice like an acorn in the winter, till its oak would sprout in Derry where the thirteen men lay dead…”
It was an honour to deliver the keynote speech marking the 50th anniversary of Bloody Sunday at Derry Guildhall.
#BloodySunday50
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A very special word of thanks to all those who attended rallies and vigils across Ireland and beyond as part of
#bloodysunday50
. An Bun Beag go Pórt Láirge and everywhere in between!
#oneworldonestruggle
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This is so evidently biased.
@IrishTimes
should be ashamed of themselves for serving this nonsense up to the Irish people
Here are the last four photos of Irish political party leaders posted by
@IrishTimes
on Instagram: Micheal Martin, Alan Kelly, Leo Varadkar & MLM. Notice anything? Three friendly faces and then suddenly! Yup, how pathetic.
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Important clarification: those behind do not speak for the vast majority of Bloody Sunday family members. They have not spoken to us nor invited us to their march. So, while indeed There Is No British Justice, it doesn't follow that it abounds here either
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Northern Ireland is a failed statelet left in economic drift by our forced union with Britain. The closer we move towards unity, partitionists will try every con-trick in the book to prevent it - like Brexit in reverse
The initial cost of a united Ireland would be at least €8bn (£6.86bn) a year rising to potentially €20bn (£17.15bn) a year, a new study from Dublin think tank
@iiea
has estimated
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That’s a hell of a lot of deceit Evelyn. My great grandfather was killed in ww1. His grandson (my father)was murdered by the British army on Bloody Sunday. The poppy celebrates the history of that army in the north. There’s nothing deceitful about that
Most Irish people had relatives who fought in ww1. My grandad did. The poppy is in remberance of that war. Why Irish people continue to lie about its origins is obvious but deceitful
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Signing the ex-prisoners roll in the Republican Museum in Cionn Mhálanna this afternoon
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A thoughtful and poignant tribute to the memory of the dead from my perfect cousin
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Bloody Sunday Trust will not call upon people to converge on Derry Courthouse in the event of Soldier F being charged there. We will organise in solidarity with the BS families on Rossville Street which will be more appropriate. More details later.
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As Chairperson of
@BloodySundayT
and
@MuseumFreeDerry
I felt privileged and honoured to address such a huge and dedicated crowd in Derry last night. No to genocide. No to apartheid. No Israeli Ambassador in Ireland! Venceremos!
#Gaza
we are with you! The people of
#Derry
will always stand with you. We will strive to ensure
#Israel
is a pariah state.
#NeverAgainIsNow
.
@ipsc48
#Genocide_in_Gaza
🇮🇪❤️🇵🇸
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Lovely altogether. Thanks lads
Under 13s stopping off at Bloody Sunday memorial on route to Slaughtmanus for a game 🇦🇹🏐🇮🇪14
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To be clear, terrorism is a meaningless word in the Irish context. My father was executed by terrorists who were neither republican or loyalist but members of the British army. Civic buildings should light up for all victims including those of the state forces
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You have left out the British state and it’s armed forces who were a protagonist in the conflict, murdering hundreds of innocent people and colluding with unionists to murder hundreds more. This is why they’re legislating to prevent truth emerging
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Bloody Sunday in Croke Park in 1920 and Bloody Sunday in Derry in 1972 were perpetrated by the same army for the same reason; to subjugate true democracy Ireland and to defeat the risen people. Remember, not just with pride, but with determination to establish a nation once again
This Saturday marks 100 years since the Bloody Sunday killings at Croke Park. We can't gather together, so we ask you to remember from afar.
Light a candle at dusk this Saturday evening to remember the 14 people who went to a match and never came home.
#B100dySunday
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40 years ago today I was arrested and bound not to return to Derry until April 85. Below is an excerpt from my book The Skelper and Me describing my entry into Cell 5 on the wans Crumlin Road Prison
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I’ve just installed the No Thanks app to make sure I’m not buying Israeli Apartheid goods. Please do the same
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We gather today In solidarity with
@ballymurphy11
as they are set to receive the inquest report into the murder of their loved ones
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Or you could visit
@MuseumFreeDerry
and explore how we lived through Britain’s military solution to a political problem caused by imperialism and subjugation
Northern Ireland: Living with the Troubles opens at IWM London on 26 May.
IWM’s first exhibition exploring the Northern Ireland Troubles, it will unpack this complex chapter of our shared history through multiple perspectives, objects and testimonies:
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So Nell is gone. The loud and proud Bogsider has left us. With memories of her, bold as brass, taking on conservative Ireland north and south and winning every time. Even if her struggles took their toll she was a modern-day liberator with her words and her banners. Thanks Nell
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Ireland should now expel the Israeli ambassador and staff and shunt off to Dublin airport. No place for advocates of genocide !
BREAKING: Colombia has expelled the Israeli ambassador in response to the genocide being committed in Gaza.
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Proud and honoured to do so
🤍🖤💚❤️Derry March for Palestine 🤍🖤💚❤️
@tonydutchdoc
chairman of Bloody Sunday Trust today speaking at
@ipscderry
rally. 🇵🇸🇵🇸
Marching from the train station to the Guildhall. Brilliant turnout! Proud of the people of Derry ✊
From Free Derry to Free Palestine 🇵🇸
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British Government intentions on amnesty are about creating laws to keep their law-breaking soldiers free from justice. During the conflict they abused the courts system and now in peacetime they make new laws to protect their killers
@BrandonLewis
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This is my conscience speaking as we stare helplessly at the genocide of the Palestinian people. I have been an active supporter of
@sinnfeinireland
for decades: we must go the extra mile and rally for the expulsion of the Israeli ambassador to Ireland. Now is the time!
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Never about justice. Always about protecting those who killed for the state
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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Like me and many others
@johnfinucane
has suffered at the hands of state terrorism. State terrorists are oft celebrated and remembered. What we need is respectful remembrance across the board. Not coercion to follow one conflict narrative. One mans freedom fighter….
Sinn Féin MP
@johnfinucane
faces calls from victims' group
@SEFFLisnaskea
to step away from a commemoration event in south Armagh.
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Very sad that both the Bogside Boy Paddy Coyle and the photographer Clive Limpkin, who made his statement of communal resistance famous, have both passed away within such a short time. Is ollmhór á gcailliúint
@MuseumFreeDerry
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We mourn the death of one of Ireland's greatest poets whose searing verses on the travesty of Bloody Sunday will ring loud and true for ever. Suaimhneas siorai ar a anam uasal
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For the day that’s in it, I just learned that my first book is to be published in Italy this year. How’s that for timing? Bella ciao, ciao, ciao!
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Called in to see the legend
@JohnKel71467937
on his last day
@MuseumFreeDerry
. wishing him a long and happy retirement.
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Here's me in Cell 5 C Wing The Crum setting the scene for the launch of 3rd book of my trilogy in November. Weird! First time back since 1981. Will it be worth waiting for?
@MercierBooks
@conormurphysf
@bbcartsshow
@IrishTimesCultr
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You think that's bad? The MoD destroyed SLR rifles used on Bloody Sunday, killing innocent people, only after the second Inquiry was called in 1998. They got away with it.
Destroying records of messages to keep them from a public inquiry would be a very serious crime.
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Bloody Sunday Trust gives guarded welcome to the very guarded statement from Apprentice Boys. This matter is far from over. We still expect to meet Abod and psni to verify facts and ensure no repeat of Saturday’s parade
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It is totally incredible that the MoD argued in a court of law that the man they murdered couldn't have suffered terror before they executed him because he died instantly. It is a disgrace that his sons and daughters were put through this ordeal. They deserve an apology
Bloody Sunday: Court rejects MoD’s appeal against compensation
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This will be a highly emotive and dignified event dedicated to the memory of the dead. Non-party political, civic and inclusive of many hues and shades of opinion in Derry
Tickets for Beyond the Silence are still available at
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Learned with dismay the woefully disappointing news given to
@johnfinucane
and Finucane family by British gov. The path to justice and peace is the hardest road to travel, but travel we must. The truth will always out - Venceremos!
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A great gift for the museum. One of the best honours of my life was being asked to meet Johnny Walker the following day at Belfast International Airport and escort him back to Doire Cholmcille
A nice little piece of Irish history donated to
@MuseumFreeDerry
, the actual tricolour waved by the Birmingham Six on their release from prison in March 1991. Donated by Maurice Mulvihill, who gave them the flag that day.
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@JohnKelly1948
addressing the crowd in the Bogside regarding the illegal Legacy Bill being driven through Westminister. The rights of families are paramount!
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Clare has been among the most powerful voices in Europe for Palestines freedom and against genocide. I for one will miss her
Asked how she felt after losing her seat, Clare Daly told RTÉ News: "You had no interest in talking to me for five years so I've no interest in talking to you" | Read more:
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Solidarity from the Bloody Sunday Trust and families to the
#BallymurphyMassacre
as they await tomorrow’s inquest outcome. Venceremos!
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Then Ireland should support South Africa's accepted case to the ICJ, and not literally hang around until all the Palestinians are dead
The Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs has said he is in no doubt that 'the continued bombardment on Rafah will constitute a war crime' and 'gravely violates international humanitarian law'
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The man is fluent in blueshirt
Taoiseach Simon Harris has said people of his 'generation' are 'more familiar' with Berlin and Paris than they are with Belfast or Derry in the North.
Harris made the comments as he addressed the British-Irish Parliamentary Assembly. Read more:
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I was deeply honoured and privileged to address you today outside Westminister to say thank you all for your hard work over the years. Solidarity is the order of the day
We stood outside Westminster today to remember those murdered on Bloody Sunday 1972.
Thank to you to our speakers
@johnmcdonnellMP
,
@PaulMaskeyMP
,
@FrancieMolloy
& in particular
@tonydutchdoc
son of Patrick Doherty who travelled all the way from Derry 👏
Stop the Tory Amnesty!!
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I am saddened that former Bloody Sunday Trust chair
@eamonnmccannpbp
has had to stand down from
@dcsdcouncil
for health reasons. We fought many good causes together. Here's one of them with the bold
@christymoore45
Johnny Walker & Paddy Hill of Birmingham Six
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Good man Conor. Time to get the focus on Derry and north west
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Ceann eile of me and the bold John Kelly on his final day working in the Museum of Free Derry
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When this was published in 2017, written in Derry English, Nell held a party in her Dublin house and all the guests had to read an extract in their finest Derry accent. She was wile craic
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Fair play to you Jon. You need no such title to make you the man you are. Stand by your principles
A campaigner for victims of historical abuse in Northern Ireland who witnessed two teenagers being injured on Bloody Sunday has declined the chance to be made an MBE in King's Birthday Honours
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Just like Britain's brutal crime on Bloody Sunday, the crimes of Israel against the people of Palestine are now laid bare. The people of Derry stand with Palestine.
Breaking: new report from
@amnesty
on Israel's crimes of apartheid against the Palestinian people.
#EndIsraeliApartheid
#BDS
Israel’s apartheid against Palestinians: a cruel system of domination and a crime against humanity
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Me and
@decmclaughlin
down in the big smoke for
@IrelandsFuture
bash. New thinking, new ideas, radical concepts for a shared island
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The Ma - the late Ellen Teresa Quigley, married The Da - the late Patrick Joseph Doherty on this day 19th April 1960, had their reception in 26 Central Drive and their first child, Karen, arrived on 31 October same year. The timeline mystifies me.....
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Why is a subsidy, effectively a hand-out, the height of your economic ambition? As an island we can do much better than seek alms
Ben Lowry: Britain can subsidise NI much more easily than the Republic could do, but that is not the only argument for staying in the UK
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Maybe because General Mike Jackson, responsible for the massacre in Derry on Bloody Sunday and many more deaths of innocent people, received his knighthood some time before Peres. This is what Britain does with mass murderers
Help me out here: why did war criminal Shimon Peres who was responsible for the murder of thousands of Palestinian civilians deserve a Knighthood.
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Cover of my new book due in early October
@IrishPublisher
@IrishTimesCultr
@CheckpointDerry
@derrywriters
@DerryDiaspora
@IrishLitTimes
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Excellent new mural in the Bogside, overlooking the site of the Bloody Sunday massacre, commissioned bathe Bloody Sunday Trust
"Saville cannot and will not be the last word on Bloody Sunday." Gerald was innocent, and we will never stop the battle to clear his name.
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My sincere advice to
@BrandonLewis
this morning is to say nothing further in terms of an apology to the Ballymurphy families until you have done the decent thing first: go and speak directly to them! You have already treated these people appallingly; don't make it worse
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Shaking scythe at cannon - my da Paddy The Skelper Doherty, would've been 80 this Saturday 21st September. I'm reading at his graveside for a short while at 12.30pm. Join the Dohertys there.
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This a very brave and honourable decision by a very brave, honourable and respected Derry republican.
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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Here is This Man's Wee Boy now published in Italian as Il Piccolo di Papa
@Nutrimenti
Bella Ciao!
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2022 is the 50th anniversary of Bloody Sunday, when 14 citizens were murdered as they stood for civil rights. As a fitting tribute, I would invite
@sinnfeinireland
and
@SDLPlive
MLAs
@padraig_delargy
@SineadMcL4Foyle
@ciaraf44
to make a university for Derry their top priority
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Deepest respect for the
@ballymurphy11
families and this morning's findings of complete innocence of their loved one. The British Parachute Regiment is stuffed full of murderers, criminals and liars and should be disbanded forthwith. Justice follows truth
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I am deeply saddened to hear of the loss of Pat Hume. A great woman of Derry. I had the pleasure once of walking with her around the Brandywell when she told me of her love for Derry and her pride that she had instilled a love of reading and walking in her children. Simple.
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We now have 28 Healthy Living Centres improving the health of working class communities
@ResurgamTrust
@TOTR_HLC
@ARCHLCLTD1
@centre_oak
@BBHealthForum
@HSCBoard
@publichealthni
@publichealthie
@Bromley_by_Bow
@LoragHlc
@EBCDAHealth
@healthdpt
@SPRINGSocialPre
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And him, one of the chief influencers and opinion-setters on the island, ranting rabid about all things north of Dublin 4, finally exposed as a cheat and a fake, a harasser and a denigrator of talented women who are leaders in their field. Stop the rot
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No it isn’t. But this is what it must feel like as you’re about to commit genocide
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While our hearts go out to the family of Aidan McAnespie, I felt very proud of the dignified manner with which addressed the media after Aidan's killer was able to leave the courtroom a free man. It's not about revenge, it's truth and justice.
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