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My son has reached the milestone of “peeling the skin off banana I asked for should be punishable by firing squad” which is nice

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Seána @grantsana.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

My wee cat that was killed last night, she was so sweet, anything new for the children or house she’d gently get into and look at us as if to say, “oh, this? for me? Oh it’s just lovely thank you, lemmie just scoooch right in the middle” Except for the 4 beds I bought her. Cat repellant apparently

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Seána @grantsana.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Moore Homes was citing John Hume’s cry to follow the rule of law from some speech of his, and it made me think of one of my favourite photos, John getting searched, probably post being water cannoned, in suit, socks and sandals. I just love it

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Today, 8 years ago, my friend, Saudi Journalist and Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi was murdered.

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Rev Karen @revkarensethuraman.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

🚨 Open letter from people of Protestant backgrounds concerning the Garvaghy Road 🚨 We feel compelled to speak publicly about what is happening in Portadown. 🚨Over the past few hours we have collected over 140 signatures. @RhonddaBryant @HMcEntee

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Philip O'Connor @philipoconnor.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

One Irish person was refused citizenship recently over the language test after a six-year process despite doing the whole thing in Swedish. The same person teaches at university level in Swedish, and has published academic texts in the language.

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Seána @grantsana.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Later in the afternoon we were waking around a fabric shop Dundalk, he was softly singing ‘Happy Birthday’ to himself and an elderly lady was in beaming at him, she then asked me “is it his birthday today?” and I said no, she replied sharply “ahhh why not?!!!” as if I was being cruel to him

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Seána @grantsana.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Making the objections of Garvaghey Road residents to a parade that 11 people were murdered over, symbolic of the what a United Ireland would be like by those who are rolled out by the state media, over and over - as sensible voices, is some of the worst faith bullshit I’ve seen - & the bar is low

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Seána @grantsana.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

One minute they’re a newborn, the next they’re knocking back babyccino’s and looking like they’re saving for a housing deposit

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Aidan O’Brien @aidanobrien.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Viktor Orban travelled to Belfast yesterday, appearing alongside the Northern Irish anti-abortion group Precious Life, "celebrating" preventing Belfast City Hall from joining"International Safe Abortion Day" Precious Life's former director, Jim Dowson, is a far-right extremist with ties to Hungary.

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Viktor Orban was in Belfast last night at City Hall

Precious Life and other prolife groups were celebrating after successfully preventing City Hall from being lit up to celebrate 'International Safe Abortion Day'

📸 Precious Life

Anti-abortionist resigns from job
Anti-abortion poster The anti-abortion campaign has come in for criticism

The leader of the controversial anti-abortion group Precious Life is reported to have quit his job because of his views.

Jim Dowson, 33, who has admitted previous involvement with hard-line loyalist groups in the west of Scotland, was told he should curb his activities or face dismissal.

Notorious far-right extremist returns to Scotland to fund growing anti-immigration protests
Jim Dowson has spent the last 20 years fundraising for the far-right in Scotland, Northern Ireland, Hungary and the US.

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Kieran Ryan @kieranryan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

We're in a proper Covid wave here in Ireland at the moment with a significant number of hospitalisations each week. Flu cases are ramping up too. For all the recent news coverage of the flu vaccine shortages, there has been very little public acknowledgement of this Covid wave.

A screengrab of Ireland's public health respiratory virus tracker showing a big increase in Covid and flu cases over the past week.

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Colin Murray @colinmurray.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

There was a huge risk that the NI public inquiry into Laundries and Institutional Abuse was not going to get off the ground amid the turmoil of recent months - this is important news, and Langdale has vital experience as Counsel to other inquiries: www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/norther...

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Appointment of Rachel Langdale KC to lead Truth Recovery Public Inquiry welcomed

Probe will cover mother and baby institutions, Magdalene laundries and workhouses

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Seána @grantsana.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

It was always ALWAYS only male colleagues that just couldn’t understand why I’d use annual leave to attend healthcare provision lobbying meetings. They used to ask all the time why I didn’t set up a side hustle charging for it & were confused about the banality of our success - a 24/7 Emergency dept

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Hannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

i worry that men think being A Good Guy is dramatically and heroically intervening on behalf of an endangered woman and then being publicly rewarded on a grand scale when actually being A Good Guy is just usually saying, “hey man that’s not funny” or “wow that’s fucked up” and there is no reward

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Dean Buckley @deanbuckley.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I would urge people to recall, as we hear the government justify their choices in the coming budget, that long before the fuel protests, this govermment gave a massive and economically unjustifiable VAT cut to hospitality, which cost more than half of what an additional child benefit payment would

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Elaine Crory @elainecrory.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

There are two simultaneous anti-choice protests raking place right now outside City Hall, 20 feet apart, one for the Catholics and one for the Protestants. This place has its drawbacks but ypu have to concede there is a rich seam in the comedy mines.

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Seána @grantsana.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

If I have to hear Carla say Gar-VaKey Road one more time

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Cian @codonn.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

beyond the weird catholics-arent-Christians implication here, I take exception to the whole invoking of religion at all for this point. Aren't atheists capable of 'acting for the greater good' too?

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 28/09/2026

"Banter" First line: A senior Northern Ireland nurse who humiliated a junior female colleague by pulling down her scrub trousers has been struck off. He was also convicted of sexual assault but that was quashed on appeal and he was convicted of common assault.

Senior nurse struck off for humiliating colleague in ‘a bit of banter’

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Darach Ó Séaghdha @darach.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I signed copies of both of my books at The Winding Stair bookshop on the quays today so why not support a lovely bookshop and your favourite writer by popping in and treating yourself?

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Seána @grantsana.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Another day of a sector of unionisms aghast dramatic moral injury all over BBCNI & radio.

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Seána @grantsana.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This place is crippled and bloodied by the insecurities of wholly inadequate, insecure small men. Some of them are over 6ft btw, but small, so so small.

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Sarah Creighton @saraita101.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Timmy Mallet is in Portadown this morning doing one his bike tours.

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Brendan Hark! T'is nearly Halloween. @brendanjharkin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Bono should do a surprise gig at Portadown Orange Hall to help ease tensions

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Susan Lanigan @susanlanigan.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The problem with John Self’s post is that he reviews fiction for the Irish Times and that can have a real effect on an author’s career. So when he equates the Garvaghy Road protestors against unionist supremacy with anti-immigrant fash, that’s a real problem for authors writing about these topics.

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Matthew Hodson @matthewhodson.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

HIV cases in Fiji surge with about 1 in 60 of the population now living with the virus. Almost 4 out of 5 are NOT on HIV treatment which not only saves lives but also prevents transmission.

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Fiji declares national emergency as HIV cases surge

One in 60 adults in the tiny Pacific nation of less than a million people are living with the virus.

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Brendan Hark! T'is nearly Halloween. @brendanjharkin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Just to fully underline how spiteful this shit is for those unaware: On the left is the route the Orange Order have been ordered to take for the past 3 decades without trouble. On the right is the route that has brought hundreds of cops to Drumcree. The only motivation is sectarian antagonism.

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Maria Farrell @mariafarrell.eurosky.social · 27/09/2026

I cannot ever forget how the marching bands refused to be silent, as requested, going past the house where the mother of those three murdered boys took refuge in the weeks after her unthinkable loss. A small detail that exposes everything this march is for.

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Seána @grantsana.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Portadown is also a byword locally, for a deprivation - agitators aren’t concerned with the people of portadown. Sickening isn’t the word

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Colin Murray @colinmurray.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I don't want to just dunk on Bryant, who is new in post, but successive UK Govts have been profoundly complacent about the stability of NI even after several summers of rioting. That the Secretary of State is only coming to NI now is jaw dropping.

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decapiKate @katemck.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Are you looking to be outraged, are you? www.theguardian.com/uk/1999/jul/...

So last weekend in Portadown, when Orangemen were receiving plaudits for restraint, an American woman observer on Garvaghy Road was pulled over a wall and hospitalised by marchers. Saturday evening mass at St John's was disturbed by bandsmen who decided that the roundabout was a traditional and, of course, endless route. One of their newer traditions was to shout the name of Rosemary Nelson, along with those of Robert Hamill, who was kicked to death two years ago and Gavin Tennyson, one of several young Catholics who have committed suicide on the estate in recent months. A year under siege has taken its toll on people's spirits.

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Elaine Crory @elainecrory.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

If anyone wants to seriously argue that the PSNI could not have foreseen any of this when giving their assessment to the Parades Commission, I would like to know the name and number of their supplier.

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diaminedave.bsky.social @diaminedave.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

In a political environment that tacitly allows violence to groups of vulnerable people, it is not surprising that at the personal level some feel empowered to engage in their own horrific violent acts.

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Seána @grantsana.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

This speaks to the ‘catholics murderd by the state or loyalists matter less, they were the fault of the IRA and a population who wouldn’t stop agitating they got what they asked for” unspoken mentality that is so pervasive. These deaths do not resonate

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Seána @grantsana.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

11 people murdered to get marching here and it’s reduced to both sides need to behave. We mean nothing to these people and have to pay taxes for the privilege of indifference

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AFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 27/09/2026

🇪🇸 Hundreds of protesters camped out in the heart of Madrid on Sunday to demand better protections for tenants after the eviction of an 87-year-old woman from her lifelong home triggered outrage. ➡️ u.afp.com/S9Yx

Demonstrators camp with tents to protest against evictions and the housing crisis on the Puerta del Sol plaza in Madrid, on September 27, 2026.

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Seána @grantsana.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

We need a health minister to put in place stuff to secure an ailing maternity service that delivers 1700-1800 babies annually, from collapse. When Stormont collapses, women delivering on the roadside will be of no concern to those who picked open a 30 year old wound, just to keep feeling important

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Seána @grantsana.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

It’s illustrative that most of the leftist south is concerned with the Irish football team, while the north sits on a precipice. Can chew gum & clap at the same time and all that, indifference is also grand, but just don’t be cosplaying parts of the conflict here when it comes to election time 👍

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Brónagh 🇮🇪🇵🇸🚴‍♀️ @beebsymca.eurosky.social · 27/09/2026

My heartrate still rises when I hear those drums and see those marches. How can anyone think of the basis of these parades as anything but triumphalism and sectarianism at its most gross. And look who's front and centre of those "law-abiding citizens".

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Stand-Off at Drumcree - View media

Over 129 years of moving images from Northern Ireland, featuring amateur and professional films from 1897 to 2026, brought to you by Northern Ireland Screen.

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Seána @grantsana.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The thing is they need our misery to keep their vote. Because happiness breeds hope, & the political reps of unionism as far as I can see, promise nothing hopefull, just a dream of a return to a much mourned dominance. 11 people were murdered to get marching this route. 3 children burned to death.

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Seána @grantsana.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

My starring into camera face when I state my opinion about the Nolan show on BBCNI/Radio Ulster and caveat it with “in my personal opinion”

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Seána @grantsana.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

We shouldnt be talking about a march that 10 ppl were killed over. A Maternity dept provides for 10s of 1000s of people is set to be withdrawn. A woman was murdered in her own home while 32wks pregnant - beaten to death with a water bottle. Donaldson’s sentencing. All stuff that really impacts lives

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Seána @grantsana.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I feel like ever since the GFA I’ve been listening to endless analysis of variations and screams of “unionist fears” “unionist wants” “unionist anger” I could go on and fucking on. It’s like living as a shadow in the place you pay taxes. I don’t think most have any insight into the self obsession

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Brendan Hark! T'is nearly Halloween. @brendanjharkin.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

"Well, it's Groundhog Day... again."

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Richard @notthathunter.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

the reference is probably lost on anyone not without an interest in the history of NI, but Terence O'Neill's "Ulster Stands At The Crossroads" speech from December 1968 is available in full on YouTube it's not the historical reference i'd be making right now, tbh www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPSe...

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Ulster stands at the cross roads: O'Neill broadcast

YouTube video by David Boothroyd

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