murchadhfinn.bsky.social @murchadhfinn.bsky.social · 19h“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 ☕️🥐 0117
murchadhfinn.bsky.social @murchadhfinn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026“‘Croppies lie down’ has always been part of that mindset and always will be” ~Tom Collins The Irish News ☕️🥐 093
murchadhfinn.bsky.social @murchadhfinn.bsky.social · 28/09/2026“A gesture at kick-off cannot undo the choice they made” ~Colin Sheridan Irish Examiner ☕️🥐 030
murchadhfinn.bsky.social @murchadhfinn.bsky.social · 26/09/2026“If an industry has made you extraordinarily rich, you owe more than a shrug when it punishes somebody with less power for speaking” ~Colin Sheridan Irish Examiner ☕️🥐 12210
murchadhfinn.bsky.social @murchadhfinn.bsky.social · 25/09/2026“A homegrown uprising is what the US appears to be counting on. But if the intention is to encourage Iranians to turn against their own state, the war may be doing the opposite” ~Hossein Hamdieh Irish Examiner ☕️🥐 000
murchadhfinn.bsky.social @murchadhfinn.bsky.social · 24/09/2026“Our nation's soul is at stake, not six points.” ~Andrée Murphy The Andersonstown News 021
murchadhfinn.bsky.social @murchadhfinn.bsky.social · 23/09/2026“You’re not dealing with a normal legislative assembly here, or indeed normal political parties who owe allegiance to the toytown assembly or have any respect for it or its procedures” ~Brian Feeney The Irish News ☕️🥐 030
murchadhfinn.bsky.social @murchadhfinn.bsky.social · 22/09/2026“Oh dear, Ed. Not a good look. Not very Irish at all” ~Suzanne Harrington Irish Examiner ☕️🥐 020
murchadhfinn.bsky.social @murchadhfinn.bsky.social · 21/09/2026“Kraft did not take politics out of Gillette Stadium. He established that only the owner’s politics were guaranteed admission” ~Colin Sheridan Irish Examiner ☕️ 000
murchadhfinn.bsky.social @murchadhfinn.bsky.social · 21/09/2026“when you ground any comment you make about the genocide in Gaza or the ethnic cleansing and apartheid in the West Bank as if it is in response to one awful incident, then you propagate the false “two sides” narrative” ~Patricia MacBride The Irish News ☕️🥐 111031
murchadhfinn.bsky.social @murchadhfinn.bsky.social · 20/09/2026“Remaining silent, as Sheeran has continued to do, when atrocities are being carried out against an entire race, is complicity. Don’t try to spin it as anything else, Ed” ~Elaine Loughlin Irish Examiner ☕️🥐 042
murchadhfinn.bsky.social @murchadhfinn.bsky.social · 19/09/2026“This is an opinion column. It usually runs to 1,000 words. Eight hundred of them have been spent naming ordinary things Israel has illegally denied the people of Gaza. I could fill another column and still not exhaust the list.” ~Colin Sheridan Irish Examiner 021
murchadhfinn.bsky.social @murchadhfinn.bsky.social · 18/09/2026“Sitting beside his American guest, the famously unity-averse Taoiseach looked like a boy who had swallowed a gobstopper” ~editorial Andersonstown News ☕️🥐 130
murchadhfinn.bsky.social @murchadhfinn.bsky.social · 17/09/2026“For us in Ireland, shackled to Westminster misers who see us in 2026 in the same light as Trevelyan in 1846, responsible for our own partitioned misfortune, this is a statement of intent and disruption to prevailing right wing economic theology” ~Andrée Murphy Andersonstown News 040
murchadhfinn.bsky.social @murchadhfinn.bsky.social · 17/09/2026“People are no longer, given the evidence available to them, willing to accept neutrality as a legitimate stance in the face of these unjustifiable horrors” ~Kelly Given 💚 The National ☕️🥐 020
murchadhfinn.bsky.social @murchadhfinn.bsky.social · 16/09/2026“The truth is this: Burnham is an English politician who is unthinkingly committed to the union… He knows nothing about Ireland or Scotland and a little bit about Wales” ~Brian Feeney The Irish News ☕️🥐 14420
murchadhfinn.bsky.social @murchadhfinn.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Robert Hamill, returning home from a night out, was murdered by a unionist mob for being Catholic while police watched and refused to intervene - a crime that epitomises the northern statelet. Irish News Editorial ☕️ 030
murchadhfinn.bsky.social @murchadhfinn.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Ní neart go cur le chéile Hamish Morrison The National ☕️🥐 000
murchadhfinn.bsky.social @murchadhfinn.bsky.social · 13/09/2026 It’s always helpful, if not essential, for members of the British cabinet to have read the GFA before giving comment. Understanding it is a different ball game. Sunday National *there was NO civil war, as much as the UK govt would like to relinquish its role in the conflict. 030
murchadhfinn.bsky.social @murchadhfinn.bsky.social · 13/09/2026“Instead of leading the EU in line with the ICJ, the European Commission now has 10 members of its single market taking independent trade action” ~Shona Murray Irish Examiner ☕️🥐 010
murchadhfinn.bsky.social @murchadhfinn.bsky.social · 12/09/2026“Many of humanity’s worst crimes occurred beyond the gaze of the people who might have stopped them…If only we knew! Gaza, and Israel’s genocide there, has destroyed that self-congratulatory myth” ~Colin Sheridan @colinivan Irish Examiner ☕️🥐 023
murchadhfinn.bsky.social @murchadhfinn.bsky.social · 11/09/2026“When Northerners bring home a haul of Irish medals from the Olympics they are hailed as national heroes, but heaven forfend we might let them vote for our president” ~Justine McCarthy The Irish Times ☕️ 062
murchadhfinn.bsky.social @murchadhfinn.bsky.social · 11/09/2026“isn't it odd, so many people commenting for and against a topic that nobody's interested in?” ~Jude Collins Andersonstown News ☕️🥐 072
murchadhfinn.bsky.social @murchadhfinn.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Burham has now, intentionally or not, united New Irelanders and Scottish independence around a single issue - the criteria a colonial governor will use to inform their ‘whim’ for a poll. Pretending the elephant in the room isn’t sitting on the table - The flood gates are open. 010
murchadhfinn.bsky.social @murchadhfinn.bsky.social · 10/09/2026“So if the question is should we try for something better, they are the ones whose answer matters the most” ~Stephanie Chase The Irish News ☕️🥐 010
murchadhfinn.bsky.social @murchadhfinn.bsky.social · 09/09/2026“To complete the tribal array, even poor, lost Doug Beattie, in a pitiful attempt to save his political skin next May, declared his support for Orangemen marching on Garvaghy Road” ~Brian Feeney The Irish News ☕️🥐 171
murchadhfinn.bsky.social @murchadhfinn.bsky.social · 08/09/2026“I do have an understanding of how political agreements come about, and they don’t come about by saying it’s our way or the highway or no-one’s way” …says Michéal Martin as he tells people ‘it’s my way or the highway’ on reunification Cillian Sherlock The Irish News ☕️🥐 031
murchadhfinn.bsky.social @murchadhfinn.bsky.social · 07/09/2026“By treating discussion of a border poll as essentially Sinn Féin sloganeering, Martin is turning a legitimate, strategic debate into a battle against an imaginary enemy” ~Patricia Mac Bride The Irish News ☕️🥐 030
murchadhfinn.bsky.social @murchadhfinn.bsky.social · 05/09/2026“If only the British state and press had shown as much curiosity about the man it was sending to Washington as others displayed about how quickly Jason Arday ran a marathon” ~Colin Sheridan Irish Examiner ☕️🥐 072
murchadhfinn.bsky.social @murchadhfinn.bsky.social · 04/09/2026“Between the placards and the prawn sandwiches we should be willing to sit in doubt. Not cynicism, but the healthy scepticism that asks for compelling evidence even when the conclusion is presented as obvious” ~Colin Sheridan Irish Examiner ☕️🥐 020
murchadhfinn.bsky.social @murchadhfinn.bsky.social · 03/09/2026“We know the source of our ills, and we know what is required to fix it.” ~Andrée Murphy Andersonstown News ☕️ 173
murchadhfinn.bsky.social @murchadhfinn.bsky.social · 03/09/2026“We need to be prepared” says Helen McEntee “We know so get on with it” says the rest of us Irish Examiner ☕️🥐 150
murchadhfinn.bsky.social @murchadhfinn.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Burnham’s whistle stop ‘listening tour of the UK’ has wielded for Scotland an ‘off limits’ and Ireland an ‘off the table’ when it comes to self determination. Steph Brawn The National ☕️ 020
murchadhfinn.bsky.social @murchadhfinn.bsky.social · 01/09/2026“Britain has been a bad actor in Ireland since long before Lloyd George connived with sectarian bigots to bring Northern Ireland into being against the wishes of the Irish people” ~Tom Collins The Irish News ☕️🥐 031
murchadhfinn.bsky.social @murchadhfinn.bsky.social · 31/08/2026“The British government cannot simply declare a provision of the Agreement “off the table”. The commitment to a border poll is part of the constitutional settlement” ~editorial The Irish News ☕️🥐 86726
murchadhfinn.bsky.social @murchadhfinn.bsky.social · 30/08/2026“We are remembering the children of Srebrenica while Palestinian children are still being targeted and killed as you read these words. We are condemning the destruction of Sarajevo while Gaza lies in ruins” ~Colin Sheridan Irish Examiner ☕️ 000
murchadhfinn.bsky.social @murchadhfinn.bsky.social · 30/08/2026The criteria used to decide whether the threshold has been met to trigger a border poll is secret, if it even exists - hidden behind a wall of political cowardice and patronising condescension Sunday Life ☕️🥐 051
murchadhfinn.bsky.social @murchadhfinn.bsky.social · 29/08/2026“A poisonous six months beckon. Into all this steps our new proconsul” ~Brian Feeney The Irish News …a proconsul now frantically trying to extinguish flames caused by his ‘Inspector Clouseau’ leader nonchalantly walking around a tinderbox with a lit torch. ☕️🥐 031
murchadhfinn.bsky.social @murchadhfinn.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Didn’t take Andy Burnham long realising that he’s not King of the North afterall 040
murchadhfinn.bsky.social @murchadhfinn.bsky.social · 28/08/2026 How to rejuvenate a campaign for reunification - get an English prime minister to tell us you can’t have it. …because historically that really was a winning formula for them. Xander Elliards The National ☕️🥐 24615
Reposted by @murchadhfinn.bsky.socialIrish Unity @irishunity.bsky.social · 27/08/2026UK national debt is growing at a staggering rate. Andy Burnham says we must remain shackled to the UK, and we can't have a Border Poll to determine our own future. www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/market...thisismoney.co.ukNational debt 'will hit £4tn by 2033' in borrowing bingeOfficial data last week showed government debt is just below £3trillion - a milestone it looks set to hit in the coming months - having been £350bn at the turn of the century. 1112
murchadhfinn.bsky.social @murchadhfinn.bsky.social · 27/08/2026“only someone blind to the cesspool of bigotry that Drumcree represents could hail as a victory the possibility that the route to our shared future lies through one of the most dismal events of our painful past” ~editorial Andersonstown News ☕️🥐 041
murchadhfinn.bsky.social @murchadhfinn.bsky.social · 26/08/2026“If Israel was to get its way, they would eradicate the Palestinians from the Gaza Strip. I don’t think they’ll stop unless they’re really seriously forcefully stopped” ~Adam Doyle (Spicebag) Marc O’Sullivan Vallig Irish Examiner ☕️ 000
murchadhfinn.bsky.social @murchadhfinn.bsky.social · 26/08/2026“All strands of political unionism are united in endeavouring to set our society back a generation if needs be in order to secure an Orange parade on the Garvaghy Road” ~Chris Donnelly The Irish News ☕️🥐 071
murchadhfinn.bsky.social @murchadhfinn.bsky.social · 25/08/2026“While liars, rapists, thieves, and crooks remain in positions of unimaginable power, media outlets are used to divert scrutiny from their own myriad deeds and misdeeds” ~Suzanne Harrington Irish Examiner ☕️🥐 000
