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Amanda Ferguson

@amanda.ie
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North Belfast woman. Freelance journalist c2010. NUJ member. Writer. Talker. Events. Consultant. Reasonable. A wee bit fancy.✌🏻❣️#BeanUltach Also Director @wimbelfast.bsky.social And everywhere else: linktr.ee/amanda.ie

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Amanda Ferguson @amanda.ie · 09/09/2026
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thedetailtv.bsky.social @thedetailtv.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
More than 93% of unionist parades went ahead without any restrictions over the past decade. Of the 22,679 notified unionist parades that took place between April 2016 and March 2026, only 1,454 (6.4%) had any conditions imposed on them by the Parades Commission. By @lukejbutterly.bsky.social
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More than 93% of unionist parades go ahead without restriction
There were 26 times as many unionist parades (2,507) than republican marches (96) in 2025/26
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Gavin Esler @gavinesler.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Badge of Honour being banned by WhingeUK who want “free speech” for everyone except those they disagree with
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Jack Russell @jackru.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Thanks to @iefni.bsky.social for hosting this event at @stmarysbelfast.bsky.social , @amanda.ie for chairing, and @mrulster.com for this excellent write-up. I was honoured to represent @pfie.bsky.social on the panel for what turned into a very thought-provoking discussion. Thanks again to all!
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Amanda Ferguson @amanda.ie · 01/09/2026
Valuing health workers should be top priority for new Minister belfastmedia.com/valuing-heal...
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Valuing health workers should be top priority for new Minister
VALUING and paying health and social care workers properly should be top of the priority list for new Stormont Health Minister Robbie Butler, a range of health spokespeople have said.
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Amanda Ferguson @amanda.ie · 30/07/2026
A NEW wellbeing programme aimed at tackling the impact of loneliness and isolation on older peoples’ health launches in Belfast next month. belfastmedia.com/with-the-rig...
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'With the right support older people can live full, active and connected lives'
A NEW wellbeing programme aimed at tackling the impact of loneliness and isolation on older peoples’ health launches in Belfast next month.
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Amanda Ferguson @amanda.ie · 30/07/2026
Breastival is back – encouraging support for breastfeeding belfastmedia.com/breastival-n...
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Breastival is back – encouraging support for breastfeeding
BREASTIVAL is back and celebrating a decade of encouragement and support for breastfeeding.
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Amanda Ferguson @amanda.ie · 30/07/2026
NEW: Claire Mitchell: People call us useful idiots, Sinn Féin puppets, self-hating Prods. We prefer ‘happy Lundys’ None of us think that Northern Ireland is working or can be made to work. 100+ years is a long enough experiment www.irishnews.com/opinion/clai...
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Amanda Ferguson @amanda.ie · 28/07/2026
And some wonder why I put together a quality, thoughtful women led, non Jeremy Kyle style, discussion for #feile26. Come join Claire Hanna, Claire Mitchell, Linzi McLaren and I on Thursday. More Claires than men, what?! All welcome.
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Amanda Ferguson @amanda.ie · 17/07/2026
I worked with the BBC Alba team to make this ‘Through Three Nations’ Eòrpa programme exploring the constitutional question in Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland. Check it out. www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
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Eòrpa - Series 34: 4. Through Three Nations
For the first time, nationalist parties lead the governments of Scotland & Wales, while Northern Ireland has a nationalist First Minister. Join Michael MacNeil as he travels through the three nations.
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Amanda Ferguson @amanda.ie · 14/07/2026
My latest byline in today’s Tele. Pressure mounts on DUP to appoint different body to carry out review into paedophile Jeffrey Donaldson www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/crime/p...
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Pressure mounts on DUP to appoint different body to carry out review into paedophile Jeffrey Donaldson
Safeguarding expert echoes concerns of survivors’ group over INEQE ‘conflict of interest’
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Amanda Ferguson @amanda.ie · 24/06/2026
An honour to facilitate a NI Survivor Council ‘Nothing About Us Without Us’ event at Féile 26. NISC co-founders, Michelle Duffy, Amanda Brown, Haileigh Ashton Lamont and Nikella Holmes, presenting their latest research findings and insights on CSA, barriers to justice, reforms, support services.
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Amanda Ferguson @amanda.ie · 22/06/2026
Northern Ireland's Donaldson found guilty of child sex offences www.reuters.com/world/uk/jur...
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Northern Ireland's Donaldson found guilty of child sex offences
The former leader of Northern Ireland's largest unionist party, Jeffrey Donaldson, was found guilty on Monday of historic child sex ​offences against two women when they were children in one ‌of the h...
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Paul Brand @paulbrand.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
EXCL: Hearing from multiple sources tonight that the government is moving at pace to announce the long-promised ban on so-called conversion therapy in the coming days. The ban was first pledged by Theresa May but got caught up in complexities with regards to gender identity.
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Gavin Esler @gavinesler.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
For an on-the-ground insight into the race riots in Northern Ireland I’ve been speaking with @amanda.ie - worth a listen:
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The Bunker podcast – News without the nonsense @bunkerpod.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
What really triggered the horrific race riots in Northern Ireland earlier this month? Belfast-based journalist @amanda.ie was on the ground as violence unfolded, she gives @gavinesler.bsky.social her eyewitness account. ➡️ linktr.ee/bunker_pod
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The Week in Politics @rtetwip.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
@amanda.ie discusses the increase of riots with a racial element in Northern Ireland, saying that concern over immigration policy is "no justification to burn people out of their homes". #RTETWIP repeats at 23:35 tonight on @rteone.rte.ie.
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The Week in Politics @rtetwip.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Speaking with Áine on #RTETWIP today, journalist @amanda.ie discussed the #Belfast riots, the involvement of paramilitaries, and the influence of "online characters". #RTETWIP repeats at 23:35 tonight on @rteone.rte.ie.
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The Week in Politics @rtetwip.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Tomorrow on #RTÉTwip, @aine-lawlor.bsky.social will be joined by Minister of State Seán Canney, Sinn Féin TD @matt-carthy.bsky.social, Social Democrats TD @sineadgibney.bsky.social, and journalist @amanda.ie. Tune in tomorrow at midday on @rteone.rte.ie! #Belfast #EUPresidency #Migration
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Amanda Ferguson @amanda.ie · 20/05/2026
NEW: I was covering Newry court earlier. The judge determined Eleanor Donaldson is unfit to be tried, on medical grounds. She will now to face a trial of the facts. Judge deciding tomorrow the process for this, and Jeffrey Donaldson’s trial. Proceedings on course for next week.
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Amanda Ferguson @amanda.ie · 13/05/2026
Join Roderic O’Gorman TD, Nina Briggs and Maureen Hamblin, for an honest conversation Green Party NI conference about facing down the far right. Chaired by me! www.greenpartyni.org/green_party_...
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Amanda Ferguson @amanda.ie · 09/05/2026
"The rights of one minority should not be curtailed in order to accommodate those of another in a united Ireland.” www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Irish language should not be 'bargaining chip' for united Ireland
A new report says Irish language speakers should be
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Amanda Ferguson @amanda.ie · 08/05/2026
NEW: Divided Kingdom - pro independence parties surge across Britain www.reuters.com/world/uk/div...
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A divided kingdom: pro-independence parties surge across Britain
Three of the United Kingdom's four nations are set for the first time to be governed by pro-independence parties after elections on Friday which nationalists said marked the death knell of the centuri...
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Amanda Ferguson @amanda.ie · 07/05/2026
‘This is harming people’: GP urges politicians to make good on pledge over scandal of ‘conversion therapy’ Read: www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/this-is... Thanks to Dr Gareth Patterson, Eoin Tennyson, Mal O’Hara and Scott Cuthbertson for the chats.
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‘This is harming people’: GP urges politicians to make good on pledge over scandal of conversion therapy
Doctor from Presbyterian background damning of church’s shortcomings when dealing with gay men
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Amanda Ferguson @amanda.ie · 07/05/2026
Fab couple of days working in Dublin. I was speaking at the Royal Irish Academy on a European Movement Ireland panel. www.europeanmovement.ie/press-releas...
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Amanda Ferguson @amanda.ie · 07/05/2026
Sorry for the absence. I got logged out and only logging back in!
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Amanda Ferguson @amanda.ie · 09/04/2026
North Belfast ones. And those who wish they were north Belfast ones. Go visit Matthew (and Keith) at the Parakeet coffee cart beside Iceland on the Antrim Road. Established coffee is the biz and that cinnamon bun was next level. Opening hours here: instagram.com/parakeet.coffee
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Amanda Ferguson @amanda.ie · 05/04/2026
Happy 16th journalism anniversary to me! Look at her. She’s only a child. At 7am on April 5, 2010 I arrived into the Tele newsroom on Royal Avenue/Little Donegall Street for my first day as a reporter.  You can read more here: www.linkedin.com/posts/amanda...
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Amanda Ferguson @amanda.ie · 03/04/2026
Having a creme egg and a cup of tea for breakfast. Not even sorry. Model’s ‘I am Kenough’ hooded top belongs to her boyfriend. Looking forward to fish from Longs at lunchtime and a hopefully news free long weekend. Happy Good Friday. Have a lovely Easter. #goodvibesonly
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Colin Pidgeon @baldypidge.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Fantastic evening mesmerised by the length of @lenniesaurus.bsky.social hair, & her noble, magnificent & unashamedly rhyming #poetry. Part of @imaginebelfast.bsky.social, Len was interviewed by @amanda.ie who was kind enough to let me ask a question. Enjoying the poyums very much indeed.
The inner page of book of poems signed by the author, Len Pennie.
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Amanda Ferguson @amanda.ie · 26/03/2026
Rest in peace, Naomi x www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/norther...
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Tributes paid to Belfast activist after death: ‘I doubt she had a grasp of how much she changed so many people’s lives’ | Belfast Telegraph
Tributes have been paid to a prominent Belfast activist and feminist advocate following her death on Thursday, after a lengthy battle with breast cancer.
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Amanda Ferguson @amanda.ie · 25/03/2026
PSNI Chief Constable Jon Boutcher speaking to a Westminster committee about violence against women and girls in Northern Ireland “There seems to be an acceptance around misogyny the like of which I’ve not seen. We have to draw a line and say this is not acceptable.” #ENDVAWG
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Chris Frazer @cmfie.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
These men think it's just a bit of knockabout fun, but looking down on women, even in this "harmless" way, gives the idea that women are only to be tolerated and not taken seriously. With yet another woman murdered, people with influence should reflect on the societal impact of their attitudes.
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Amanda Ferguson @amanda.ie · 22/03/2026
Someone in the TUV thought a pen mocking Alliance MLA Paula Bradshaw was a good idea. #TUV26 #ENDVAWG
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Amanda Ferguson @amanda.ie · 21/03/2026
REUTERS CITY MEMO Belfast like a local Our reporter’s guide to living history, wearable art, and creamy pints By Amanda Ferguson www.reuters.com/city-memo/be...
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Belfast like a local
Belfast is an inviting city with an edge. It's the capital of a post-conflict society that has built a thriving tourist industry over the last three decades. While there is huge interest in Belfast's ...
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Amanda Ferguson @amanda.ie · 18/03/2026
We’ve been talking about the USA🇺🇸a lot in recent times? So looking forward to interviewing Melissa Butcher about her book - The Trouble with Freedom at The Harrison on March 27, 7pm. Get your ticket! imaginebelfast.com/event/the-tr...
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Amanda Ferguson @amanda.ie · 16/03/2026
Whingers could take a leaf out of Claire’s book.
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Amanda Ferguson @amanda.ie · 15/03/2026
Happy Mother’s Day to Fiona, and all the women who raise and love us x #mothersday
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Amanda Ferguson @amanda.ie · 10/03/2026
Pal of a pal made this. Handy for finding where the cheapest fuel is. fuel.lionadh.com
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Líonadh - NI Fuel Prices
Líonadh - Real-time petrol prices in Northern Ireland
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Amanda Ferguson @amanda.ie · 08/03/2026
Happy Sunday. Today’s office. The patriarchy isn’t taking the day off so neither am I! #IWD2026
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Amanda Ferguson @amanda.ie · 08/03/2026
Happy International Women’s Day. Thanks to the women who inspire me - Maureen, Alice, Fiona, and Natalie to name just a few. Big shout out to my WIMB partners in crime Niamh & Patricia - and to fab student photographers Leagh Donnelly & Katelyn Mallard. #iwd2026
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Amanda Ferguson @amanda.ie · 05/03/2026
Gorgeous day in north Belfast! Is there any other kind? Speaking alongside Eileen Weir to the women at Cliftonville Community Centre. Thanks to Ani for the questions about #IWD2026 and Iman for translating our answers. I sound impressive in Arabic!
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Amanda Ferguson @amanda.ie · 02/03/2026
Talking to women this evening about leadership. Bless Zoom because I have a severe dose of the lurgy! #IWD2026
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Amanda Ferguson @amanda.ie · 01/03/2026
NEW: Read my interviews in today's Sunday Life with William from Bullhouse East, and Holly and Boyd from Free the Night!
belfasttelegraph.co.uk
‘We need to change the system’: Owner of Belfast’s newest bar says licensing laws holding hospitality back
Bullhouse East boss joins growing calls for reform of controversial ‘surrender principle’
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Amanda Ferguson @amanda.ie · 28/02/2026
Public service notice. Sunglasses season starts tomorrow and ends in September. I will be taking no questions at this time.😎
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Amanda Ferguson @amanda.ie · 22/02/2026
My interview with actress Olivia Nash. The 83yo Larne woman has been a household name for decades as Ma from Give My Head Peace. She has been absent from stage/screen due to a serious back injury, and is currently fighting her way back to health & work. www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/sunday-life/...
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Give My Head Peace star fighting her way back to work at 83 after year from hell
Larne star’s love for acting undimmed as she targets return to comedy troupe
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Amanda Ferguson @amanda.ie · 17/02/2026
Notions. Not even sorry. Buttermilk pancakes, white pearl strawberries, pistachio creme! Have a nice #tuesday #pancakeday #shrovetuesday 🥞🍓🫖
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Amanda Ferguson @amanda.ie · 14/02/2026
My interview with Linzi McClaren. Worth reading the whole thing! www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/sunday-life/...
belfasttelegraph.co.uk
Ex-UUP councillor says a united Ireland is ‘inevitable’ and blames unionism for ‘failing to see bigger picture’
Retired PSNI officer Linzi McLaren adamant inability to reach out to moderate unionists will be death of the union
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Amanda Ferguson @amanda.ie · 14/02/2026
You couldn’t beat it with a big stick! Valentine’s date at John Long’s with my man #belfast
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Amanda Ferguson @amanda.ie · 14/02/2026
Happy Valentine’s Day!❤️🌹
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