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Micheál Smith

@michealsmith.bsky.social
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Rights/advocacy campaigner, socialist antifascist, Dubliner in Belfast. Author of "UDR Declassified" and "The Impact of the Parachute Regiment in Belfast, 1970-1973". He/Him #T1D #SmartRecovery

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Michelle @michelleroy78.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Every woman you know has taken a longer route. Has doubled back on herself. Has pretended to dawdle by a shop window. Has held her keys in her hand. Has made a fake phone call. Has rounded a corner and run. Every woman you know has walked home scared. Every woman you know. --- Harriet E. Johnson
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Loki @lokideburca.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Welcome to the UK. Fascist terrorists are called "activists" and anti-genocidal activists are called "terrorists".
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Philip O'Connor @philipoconnor.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
We are living in a time where we are told that absolutely everything is antisemitic, but absolutely nothing is racist.
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Do you want Israel to be sanctioned? Not their settlements, some meaningless sanction that can be avoided by changing a sticker. But Israel itself, for Crimes against Humanity. Spread the word if you do.
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Just Fair @justfairuk.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Human rights belong to everyone. As far-right politics gains ground, we must reject division, protect the rights we have, and go further to make economic, social and cultural rights real in law and practice. New statement developed by Just Fair & the UK ESCR Network justfair.org.uk/its-time-to-...
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End Deportations Belfast @enddbelfast.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
In recent days, two N. Irish far right groups posted demands for a boycott based on race / ethnicity / religion: ‘Stop using THEIR barbers. Stop eating THEIR takeaways. Stop using THEIR taxis. If you want them out of YOUR town, stop putting money in their wallets. Hit them where it hurts!!’ [1/n]
1933 Nazi Germany to 2026 N. Ireland. 

Newspaper clipping of German ban on Jews: boycott of goods.
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End Deportations Belfast @enddbelfast.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Dover was not a spontaneous protest, or Portsmouth, they've been long in the planning. That the UK PM hasn’t addressed a paramilitary-style shut down of key infrastructure tells you everything you need to know about a cowardly state response. Intelligence services were absolutely across this.[1/n]
Danny Thomas in Belfast. A Masked man in Dover. And text: Danny Thomas, architect of dover paramilitary-style monilisation flew to Belfast for June 9 pogroms.
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End Deportations Belfast @enddbelfast.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Sunday World covered Yvan Bendetti’s red carpet treatment from loyalist far-right, Jim Dowson. We’ve been highlighting the flood of international far-right extremists to N. Ireland - particularly after paramilitary-backed pogroms in June. Here they network with loyalists & paramilitary reps. [1/n]
Jim Dowson in Knights Templar outfit with headline Holocaust denier welcomed at Knights Templar HQ.
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Claire Mullaly @clairemullaly.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
NI was the canary in the coalmine, where UK Gov allowed 1930s-style pogroms without a COBRA meeting in Ballymena 2025 & Belfast's June pogroms. MI5 clearly assess loyalist paramilitaries & far-right as useful coercive tools to secure territory, suppress resistance & protect British interests. [2/2]
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Claire Mullaly @clairemullaly.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
No COBRA meeting for Dover's paramilitary-style shut down on Saturday was a green light for Portsmouth's orchestrated attack yesterday, Andy Burnham and his entire cabinet failed their first test of government. They are clearly operating on the premise that far-right militias are pro-state. [1/2]
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Micheál Smith @michealsmith.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
I’m doing well, thank you. I became a grandad in December. Life is good! Always appreciate your posts here 🥰
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Micheál Smith @michealsmith.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
This is beautiul, Cris, I'll carry it with me: “Ko au te waiora o aku whakaaro” - “I am the wellbeing of my thoughts”
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Micheál Smith @michealsmith.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Thanks Conor
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Katie @rebelrouser1962.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
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Claire Mullaly @clairemullaly.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
It’s 2 months to the day since the Belfast pogroms. It was a terror act carried out by two proscribed terror groups: UDA & UVF. Use the language: pogrom, ethnic cleansing, paramilitary attack, terror. Minimising it to ‘rioting’ or ‘violence’ lets UK Gov off the hook and facilitates whitewashing.
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Micheál Smith @michealsmith.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
An awful day. “Grief is the price of love”. Sorry Leif 😪
Photo of a middle-aged man lying with his dog - a miniature schnauzer- on a sofa. Both are looking directly into the camera
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Micheál Smith @michealsmith.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
I've signed the open letter calling on Infrastructure Minister Liz Kimmins to introduce free travel for Disabled people in Northern Ireland - just like in the rest of UK and Ireland. Will you sign too? @actnowcampaigns.bsky.social my.actnowni.org/petitions/op...
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Sign the Open Letter: Introduce free travel for Disabled people in NI
I've signed the open letter calling on Infrastructure Minister @lizkimminssf to introduce free travel for Disabled people in Northern Ireland - just like in the rest of UK and Ireland. Will you sign t...
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Micheál Smith @michealsmith.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
Thís is lovely, Chris. I’ll take lessons from it
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Micheál Smith @michealsmith.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
Happy Christmas Leif 🥰
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