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Lee Hurley

@hleehurley.com
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Belfast writer. He/him. NUJ. I mostly moan about the media, politics & Arsenal. "Big beast transgender activist" [The Telegraph]. The Trans Agenda [on a break] reports on anti-trans media coverage in UK papers, subscribe here transagenda.info

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 6m
Nobody wants this shit anymore. They've totally overestimated the support they'd get, even from their own community. People can't pay their bills or get a hospital appointment. Waiting lists here they'd riot over in England, last thing anyone need is this bollocks.
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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 6m
Nobody wants this shit anymore. They've totally overestimated the support they'd get, even from their own community. People can't pay their bills or get a hospital appointment. Waiting lists here they'd riot over in England, last thing anyone need is this bollocks.
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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 19m
Ffs I'm going to have to pay for a sub now to see what they're up to
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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 20m
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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 21m
That's really good to hear
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Conor @ernekid.bsky.social · 22m
Rodney did a great job at the Impartial Reporter in Fermanagh so hopefully he can drag the Newsletter out of the gutter that Ben Lowry drove it into
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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 22m
David Thompson is going to be devastated if has to write about something else
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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 24m
Well now, this is a thing. As I said, it has been vicious about trans people...
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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 33m
"Immigrants trannies and pedos" was allegedly what he told a prominent person here about their editorial approach.
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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 36m
How did I miss this?! The News Letter is absolutely vile when it comes to trans people and Lowry is right in there with the FSU
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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 38m
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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 42m
She's going to podcast I believe
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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 55m
The bastardisation of words and their meanings in the UK is incessant.
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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 57m
I wonder what makes it a terror attack and not just an attack because I no longer know what is and isn't classified as terrorism in the UK.
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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 1h
I have written 1800 words and, mostly, I don't like them 😄
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Tuatha @tuatha.ie · 1h
This sheela na gig is on display in the Ulster Museum. It is thought to have originally belonged to the church of Errigal Keerogue, Tyrone.
A stone carving known as a sheela na gig. It is classed as a female exhibitionist figure. It has a pained expression with gritted teeth and round staring eyes, and pendulous breasts. The right arm extends forward over the vulva; and the left backwards and under the leg.
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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 2h
What you do? 😄
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Big Immigrant Naturals. @shinery.bsky.social · 2h
If another Irish civil war starts, there will be signs. Mainly my brother calling on the blower to complain about how he can't get into town to buy spice bags.
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Brendan Hark! T'is nearly Halloween. @brendanjharkin.bsky.social · 3h
"This is causing too much trouble guys you should end it" "YOU CLEARLY LOVE POPE GERRY ADAMS AND THE IRA"
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Colin Murray @colinmurray.bsky.social · 6h
I am living to see the people of NI prove this assessment wrong. The Drumcree election is coming, but people who are actively whipping up tensions might well find themselves playing to a diminishing base. V few people believed this march would ever be back on the agenda: www.ft.com/content/9297...
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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 2h
It's been raining all day. We don't even riot in bad weather if we can avoid it. Hard to get fires going properly.
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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 2h
I would just like to confirm that Ireland has not erupted into full blown civil war.
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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 7h
This is actually growth from Kemi. She used to claim she was never wrong.
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cornish person girl @gemma.transwrites.world · 8h
funny how pulling the plug is done so fast while providing the health care we are entitled to takes so long. urgent my transgender arse.
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Dr Mary McAuliffe @drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social · 10h
And again, gender theory, queer theory, critical race theory - all university level subjects - you are not going to encounter them at primary or secondary levels. What these muppets want is to shut down any age appropriate discussion of sex, sexuality & identity in 1st & 2nd schools.
Cornell shows us we cannot keep telling our girls to be careful while teaching boys to be entitle
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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 10h
The reason I've stayed here so long is because it's quiet, the location is great (in general), it's a secure tenancy and the rent is ridiculously cheap. I'm genuinely scared to ever have to go back to private renting.
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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 10h
I have a two bed first floor flat. The bedrooms are a good size. It's about a 20 min walk from the city, five minute walk from a park and river and shops and everything I need. If I told you the monthly rent, inc rates, you'd not believe me. More social housing. Fewer landlords.
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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 10h
I live in social housing. Been here about 25 years. Some of the flats are rented out privately. They cost at least twice as much. In those 25 years, my, rent and rates have gone up every year and the total increase in that time amounts to about £100.
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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 10h
And the police
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Toby Buckle @polphilpod.bsky.social · 23h
once again, they're telling us what they want to do
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 30/09/2026
Don Davis becomes the latest Dem to release an anti-trans ad, praising North Carolina's sports ban. "There's real concerns about fairness and safety, that's why I believe states should decide what's right to protect women and girls. And North Carolina has decided" With a "trans sports ban" banner.
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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 12h
It never fails to astound me how cheap UK politicians are
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Your Ad Here [10 chars] @cooluser354.bsky.social · 15h
"As an adult I was too stupid to read instructions to make tacos... and thats why trans people shouldn't have access to healthcare."
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Samantha Asumadu @samanthaasumadu.substack.com · 13h
The Belgian Equal Opportunities Institute, Unia is to take 'race realist' researcher Nathan Cofnas to court over remarks it believes repeatedly breached the country’s anti-racism law. www.brusselstimes.com/belgium/2341...
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Unia to take 'race realist' researcher Nathan Cofnas to court
Unia said the US philosopher was spreading ideas in Belgium that rank people in a hierarchy on the basis of supposed scientific knowledge.
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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 22h
Now ask why he did that.
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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 22h
Football has been a consistent obsession in my life since I was four. I'm 51 soon. It's my job. It's my friendships. It's my family and memories and joys and pain and everybody I know who loves football is the same. It's a cult. And we love it. This is so fucking massive and he said 'thank you'
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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 22h
I can't see how siding with city will go well for him but I guess we're going to find out
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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 23h
I spend all day watching football, writing about football, reading about football, speaking to people about football, listening to podcasts and radio shows about football. I go to matches. I pay others who know about football. It's how I make my living. I'm good at what I do. I know how things are.
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Rob Corp @robcorp.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The only answer to the question “have you got the key? is “I’ve got the secret”
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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 23h
This is a thread about football corruption.
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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 23h
When we all heard that they'd been found guilty there was a wide range of views on how they should be punished and then the scale of their cheating was published and people who'd been advocating quite lenient punishment wanted the book thrown at them. 'Thank you' 🤬
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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 23h
I promise you the journalists are reflecting the mood of the majority of fans accurately
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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 23h
I have never heard football fans and journalists be so angry at a club that they want them destroyed. But that is the majority view here. Burnham thanked them and threw the club he's supposed to support under the bus by comparing the equivalent of a parking ticket with industrial scale fraud
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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 23h
While much more trivial, he said he wanted pints back in the stands at football and football fans went 'shut up'. Are we sure he actually knows what football is? He said nice things about the City owners after the verdict. Football fans want City obliterated for what they've done.
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Claire Mitchell @clairemitchell.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Add your support here 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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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The woman beside him is the leader of the anti-LGBTQ+ and separatist movement in Canada. Everything from Indigenous rights to protecting minorities goes out the window for the oil and gas lobby
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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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Aidan O’Brien @aidanobrien.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Unlike in the 1990s, there's no popular support for the LOL protests, and the momentum from both sides of the community is with the residents. And the loyalist paramilitaries aren't touching this; they're being paid handsomely *not* to disrupt the peace process.
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Louth For Ever 🦋 @louthforever.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The message from Dundalk’s own MARY WALLOPERS on the a Garvaghy Rd in Portadown is clear: KEEP ‘ER LIT, DON’T TAKE SH1T!!! 🇮🇪✊🏼🇵🇸
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Aidan O’Brien @aidanobrien.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
It's becoming clear the LOL/Bryson were *wildly* over optimistic about the amount of support they'd get from loyalist paramilitaries, or the broader Orange Lodge network and the protestant community in Portadown. Nor did they expect the cross community support for the GRRC protest.
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