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David @rebelalliance77.bsky.social · 13h
Incredible turnout on Garvaghy Road today.
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KB @bkeithb.bsky.social · 16h
@jeremyscahill.com via @dropsitenews.com www.youtube.com/watch?si=UuI...
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Massacre at Minab: The School That Became a Grave
YouTube video by Drop Site News
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
It seems very clear to me that all the anti-Iran stuff is being pushed purposefully to make the US/UK accept an Iraq style invasion. Be aware that there is a purpose behind all this BS.
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Irish Unity @irishunity.bsky.social · 17h
Let the Secretary of State know that you oppose the march. Have your say. Let your voice be heard. Sign and Share this petition. www.change.org/p/garvaghy-r...
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Sign the Petition
Garvaghy Road residents must be left in peace.
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Irish Unity @irishunity.bsky.social · 18h
It's vitally important that the Secretary of State is made aware that the vast majority of people in Northern Ireland oppose the Orange Order marching on the Garvaghy Road, and that proceeding with the narch destabilises peace and community relations. correspondence@nio.gov.uk
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Rev Karen @revkarensethuraman.bsky.social · 21h
**OVER 1000 SIGNATURES** Friends, we have reached over 1,000 signatures - we are absolutely blown away! A huge thank you to everyone who has taken the time to sign the letter. We will be closing the link tomorrow evening, so if you haven’t signed yet, there’s still time. Blessings, Rev Karen
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'These men are nihilists Donnie' @culturalfatwa.bsky.social · 18h
"... young people from Protestant parts of Portadown had joined their counterparts from the Catholic parts on the Garvaghy Road. People, especially younger people, from all kinds of Protestant backgrounds took to social media to tell the Orange Order and the DUP to “stop trying to drag us back"
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Irish Republican News @repnews.bsky.social · 21h
An extraordinary wave of support has gathered around the Garvaghy Road, with people from across Ireland and beyond joining residents in opposition to the attempt to force an anti-Catholic parade through the Catholic community. republican-news.org/current/news...
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Portadown community becomes focus of solidarity
An extraordinary wave of support has gathered around the Garvaghy Road,with people from across Ireland and beyond joining residents inopposition to the attempt to force an anti-Catholic parade through...
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Middle East Eye (Unofficial) @middleeasteye-rss.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
LA Times ad promoting Israeli tourism erases occupied Palestinian territories - www.middleeasteye.net/news/la-times…
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LA Times ad promoting Israeli tourism erases occupied Palestinian territories
The nine-day tours are touted while Israel is engaged in wars with several countries in the region
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Paul Eric @pauleric70.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
'Killing children is not Jewish. Ethnic cleansing is not Jewish.' British-Israeli historian Avi Shlaim tells Mohamed Hashem how Israel's genocide deepened his break from the state, and pushed him closer to Judaism.
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bródnodig | an tóin is mó cúailgne @kweenmedb.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
the brits live in an upside-down universe where violently invading, dispossessing & subjugating the local populace is good, actually, but peacefully moving abroad & joining a community is unforgivable
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GylesNaMopaleen @gylesnamopaleen.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
see the vote for those curious.
15% orangement should walk down garvaghy road one last time
60% there should be no further orange order parades on garvaghy road. 
16% the march should resume annually.
9% the residents accept the legal entitlement of the parade and in return orangemen would not walk the road.
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jeninbelfast.bsky.social @jeninbelfast.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Media obsession with "balance" and platforming narratives with zero interrogation has helped create "two sides" centrist balls, even when one of the sides is supremacist sectarianism dressed up as culture and the other side is residents who want to live without being antagonised every week.
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Garvaghy Road: There Are Not Two Sides - REBEL
The clashes in Portadown between Orange marchers and nationalist residents have widely…
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Rev Karen @revkarensethuraman.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
🚨UPDATE WE NOW HAVE 500 SIGNATURES! You can still sign 👇 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Lol Open letter from people of Protestant backgrounds concerning the Garvaghy Road
This open letter to the Rt Hon Chris Bryant MP, Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, and Helen McEntee TD, Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade, was sent at 8pm Thursday 1 October 2026. We will ...
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Rev Karen @revkarensethuraman.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Friends, 👇 Here is the link if you would like to add your name docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Open letter from people of Protestant backgrounds concerning the Garvaghy Road
An open letter to the Rt Hon Chris Bryant MP, Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, and Helen McEntee TD, Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade, was sent at 8pm Thursday 1 October 2026. We will co...
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Cathy Bennett @cathybennetttd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Support is growing every day across Ireland and internationally for the Garvaghy Road residents. Their right of this community to live peacefully, free from fear and sectarian intimidation, must be protected. The Parade Commission got their decision disastrously wrong.
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Conor Kelly People Before Profit @conorkellypbp.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Garvaghy Road: There Are Not Two Sides. The mainstream media present the standoff on Garvaghy Road as a clash between 'two sides' and urge 'calm'. Here Eamonn McCann disputes the 'two communities' approach and explains why the Orange Order is a deeply sectarian organisation. Link to read in comment
rebelnews.ie
Garvaghy Road: There Are Not Two Sides - REBEL
The clashes in Portadown between Orange marchers and nationalist residents have widely…
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Gerard Harbison @gerardharbison.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
An explicitly anti-Catholic organization with a history of violence and bigotry wants to march down a road inhabited by Catholics. What could go wrong? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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Drumcree march standoff: protesters and Orange Order both vow to stay ‘as long as it takes’
As members of Orange Lodge No 1 gather and residents occupy Garvaghy Road, each side speaks of grievances that go back decades and centuries
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Cathal Mac Coille @cathalmaccoille.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Open letter on the Drumcree and Garvaghy Road row signed by people from a Protestant background. Impressive.
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Stephen Baker @stephenbaker.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
You can add your name here. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Open letter from people of Protestant backgrounds concerning the Garvaghy Road
This open letter to the Rt Hon Chris Bryant MP, Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, and Helen McEntee TD, Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade, was sent at 8pm Thursday 1 October 2026. We will ...
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Irish Unity @irishunity.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Please contact the Northern Ireland Secretary of State and encourage him to call off the sectarian and triumphalist Garvaghy Road march. correspondence@nio.gov.uk
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Arrête Mark Carney ⚜️ @lalegault.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Ed Sheeran’s back-up band Beoga 🎵 found a way better gig on Garvaghy road in Ireland 🇮🇪
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mleroi.bsky.social @mleroi.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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Dr. Nick Posegay @nposegay.northsky.social · 01/10/2026
This is the same place in November 2023.
Satellite image of an intact neighborhood in eastern Rafah on 24 November 2023
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The IMEU @theimeu.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
In 2016, an Israeli soldier shot and killed 21-year-old Palestinian Abdel Fattah al-Sharif as he was lying unarmed on the ground. Abdel’s killer served only half a sentence, and last week Israel cleared him of his criminal record. This is Israeli apartheid.
middleeasteye.net
On Yom Kippur, Israel offers forgiveness to the killer of an unarmed Palestinian
Killing Palestinians, whether it’s done by the Israeli army, police or settlers, has become part of everyday life
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goodevil 🍉 🪁 @goodevil0562.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
🚨Most of the victims were children‼️ Among the remains recovered from beneath the rubble of Gaza’s Al-Taj residential square are the remains of children killed in the Israeli massacre in October 2023. (Gaza Notifications) #GazaGenocide #TheyLiedToYou
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
🇮🇱 SMOTRICH: “We need to do in (The West Bank) what we did in Gaza. I am not playing pretend.”🤔 Israel’s finance minister not hiding their ethnic cleansing intentions— Hamas is not in the West Bank Per Grok, 🇮🇱 has dropped the equivalent of 6-13 atomic 💣 on Gaza (made in 🇺🇸 )
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Colin Harvey @cjharvey1.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Anyone in public life who does not understand what the Garvaghy Road means to every strand of the nationalist/republican community in the North does not deserve to be taken seriously.
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Irish News 🇮🇪 @news-flows-ir.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Members of Beoga trad band play alongside musicians protesting on the Garvaghy Road The band said they were “in awe of the wonderful community on the Garvaghy Road”.
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Members of Beoga trad band play alongside musicians protesting on the Garvaghy Road
The band said they were “in awe of the wonderful community on the Garvaghy Road”.
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polifeed @feed.gavreilly.com · 01/10/2026
TheJournal.ie: Members of Beoga trad band play alongside musicians protesting on the Garvaghy Road
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Members of Beoga trad band play alongside musicians protesting on the Garvaghy Road
The band said they were “in awe of the wonderful community on the Garvaghy Road”.
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Louth For Ever 🦋 @louthforever.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
💚💚💚🇵🇸🎻🎶BEOGA live at the Garvaghy Road Fleadh tent tonight!! 🎶🎻🇮🇪💚💚💚 @kneecapceol.bsky.social @unamullally.bsky.social @donmoyn.bsky.social @irlagainstfascism.bsky.social @cjharvey1.bsky.social @andreemurphy.bsky.social @clairemitchell.bsky.social @revkarensethuraman.bsky.social
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Sarah Kay @k-interarma.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
A peaceful bloc of residents sitting on the road across the street from where they actually live and pouring each other cups of tea is more investigated, and on a larger scale (a scale of what?) than perpetrators of actual pogroms for 3 years running.
belfasttelegraph.co.uk
Chief Constable says large scale criminal investigation underway into unlawful protest on Garvaghy Road
Scroll down to read our live coverage
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Colin Murray @colinmurray.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Image manipulation like this only serves to heighten tensions by suggesting more support for forcing this march down Garvaghy Road than actually exists. May such efforts always be this inept...
Altered image of huge crowds at Orange Order protest of around 200 people.
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Victor, underslept @vicmrodriguez.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Didn't expect this level of clarity this concisely about what's going on in Northern Ireland. Uh... it's bad. www.tiktok.com/t/ZTyPRH1ex/
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How did one of Ireland’s most toxic disputes from the 1990s suddenly come roaring back in 2026? Drumcree. Garvaghy Road. One spectacular administrative f*ck-up - followed by a rather generous-looking ...
TikTok video by Peter Ganley
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murchadhfinn.bsky.social @murchadhfinn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
“Whining about their ‘right’ to march along Garvaghy Road being denied is typical of their approach in which they, the oppressors of Catholics, try to present themselves as put-upon, hard-done-by victim” ~Brian Feeney The Irish News ☕️🥐
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Theodore Grunewald @tedgrunewald.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
*This* is how AI will kill us. youtu.be/AWOYoG7HzNQ?...
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Mega Disasters - Hyatt Regency Skywalk Collapse
YouTube video by Documentary Central
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Ireland against Fascism @irlagainstfascism.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The far-right online site 'The Liberal' is shamelessly grifting off the residents of Garvaghy Road. None of the monies raised are going towards the residents. It's going to the owner of the online site Leo Sherlock. He was quick enough to support the Coolock/loyalist rioters in Belfast. Don't donate
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Middle East Eye (Unofficial) @middleeasteye-rss.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
UK police say no explosive devices found in airbase probe - www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/liv…
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UK police say no explosive devices found in airbase probe
<article data-history-node-id="448525" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/uk-police-say-no-explosive-devices-found-airbase-probe" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/uk-police-say-no-explosive-devices-found-airbase-probe" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">UK police say no explosive devices found in airbase probe</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>Britain's counter-terrorism police said on Tuesday that no improvised explosive devices were found as part of an investigation into a alleged&nbsp;plot&nbsp;targeting a British airbase used by US forces to strike Iran.</p> <p>However, they added that a quantity of petrol was recovered from the vehicles on the site.</p> <p>The five men arrested on suspicion of terrorist offences near RAF Fairford were later released on bail, a decision that the UK counter-terrorism police said was "grounded in experience and careful consideration of policing powers".</p> </div> </div> </article>
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Brendan Hark! T'is nearly Halloween. @brendanjharkin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
A crowdfunder has begun to support the people of Garvaghy Road in their resistance against the Orange Order's bullying shite.
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Help raise £5000 to Support the residents, local community centre and the people on the Garvaghy Road – JustGiving Crowdfunding
Iʼm raising money to Support the residents, local community centre and the people on the Garvaghy Road. Support this JustGiving Crowdfunding Page.
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Stuart Bailie @stubailie.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Huartan and friends. Garvaghy Road, Portadown. 28.09.26.
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zOz 🇵🇸 @zozimus.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Chris Bryant and the spectacularly dysfunctional parades commission have called for the Garvaghy Road ‘sides’ to ‘double down on compromise’. They created this needless situation. They can reroute the ludicrous parade. There should be zero compromise to intimidation. #GarvaghyRoad #SpeirGorm
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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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In Gaza, ‘Whoever Survives the Bombing Won’t Survive the Rubble’
A gutting dispatch from Gaza City, where, after last week’s building collapse killed 21 people, Palestinians fear there will be many more similar tragedies unless Israel allows must-needed aid in.
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Paul Eric @pauleric70.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
We live in a world where offending a zionist is illegal, but doing this to Palestinian children isn't. 💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔😪🤬🇮🇱♾️ Our World sucks 😪
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David @rebelalliance77.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
If you were to only get your news from RTE radio one, you’d be lead to believe that the standoff on the Garvaghy road is entirely Sinn Féin’s fault and they’re the ones organising and to blame for the entire situation and are the ones being unreasonable. It’s quite the framing.
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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Israel wiped Gaza from the face of the earth.  Everyone knew exactly what they were doing!  A crime more confessed to as it happened than any other in history. A crime more documented as it happened than any other in history. There are no excuses. None at all
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CAJ @cajni.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The European Court of Human Rights has held that, in certain circumstances, the right to hold spontaneous protests in immediate response to events, where the protest would be pointless if delayed, may override notification requirements. More from our Director here: www.irishnews.com/news/norther...
irishnews.com
Justice group says it’s ‘premature’ to claim Garvaghy Road protesters broke law
Thousands join protest to oppose Orange Order Drumcree march
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Niamh NicGhabhann Coleman @niamhroisin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Disgraceful to hear the dignified people of Garvaghy Road described as a ‘mob’ - they are standing up for themselves as a community and I am sure would prefer to be getting on with their lives.
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Brendan McNally @brendanmcn.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Very odd comment, now deleted, as the Garvaghy road residents are of a Christian background too, and as it happens, Catholic tradition has disobedience to unjust law as a fully orthodox part of its theology.
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Alan Kinsella @electionlit.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Did Israel have a shot on target tonight or is that only for when they're gleefully shooting Palestinian kids?
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