murchadhfinn.bsky.social @murchadhfinn.bsky.social · 11h“Allowing their suffering to be the defining influence over how we understand them is not solidarity; it’s further injustice” ~Kelly Given 💚 The National ☕️ 000
murchadhfinn.bsky.social @murchadhfinn.bsky.social · 16h“Imagine if the Irish government, which abandoned this region after partition, but has since Brexit promised to do better, decided to protect Irish citizens and their rights meaningfully” ~Andrée Murphy Andersonstown News ☕️🥐 071
murchadhfinn.bsky.social @murchadhfinn.bsky.social · 07/10/2026“Successive governments — including this one — have shown themselves to be functionally illiterate on defence and security matters” ~Tom Clonan Irish Examiner ☕️🥐 000
murchadhfinn.bsky.social @murchadhfinn.bsky.social · 06/10/2026“Calling out the illegal occupation of the West Bank nearly 60 years after it started is not the pace of change this government promised...” ~Steph Patton The National ☕️ 000
murchadhfinn.bsky.social @murchadhfinn.bsky.social · 06/10/2026“Martin sees himself as a champion of the Irish people. Champion my foot. Martin’s view of the world is seen entirely through the prism of his own self-interest” ~Tom Collins The Irish News ☕️🥐 020
murchadhfinn.bsky.social @murchadhfinn.bsky.social · 05/10/2026“The Parades Commission decision has galvanised thousands across Ireland and the diaspora to rally under a singular, definitive mandate: there is no going back” ~Patricia Mac Bride The Irish News ☕️🥐 0102
murchadhfinn.bsky.social @murchadhfinn.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Brian Feeney The Irish News It will take meaningful actions to convince anyone that cabinets loaded with lobbyists are willing to deliver beyond their meaningless public utterances. 010
murchadhfinn.bsky.social @murchadhfinn.bsky.social · 04/10/2026“Even the safest and warmest of arms feel unsafe to her now - her body simply doesn't know the difference” ~Kelly Given 💚 The National ☕️🥐 000
murchadhfinn.bsky.social @murchadhfinn.bsky.social · 03/10/2026“Apparently fundamentalism becomes considerably less alarming when the preacher has a US flag behind him” ~Colin Sheridan Irish Examiner ☕️🥐 011
murchadhfinn.bsky.social @murchadhfinn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026“What the latest Drumcree standoff proves is not that a united Ireland must be put back on the shelf, but that the reunification of this island is the North’s best bet” ~Justine McCarthy The Irish Times ☕️🥐 091
murchadhfinn.bsky.social @murchadhfinn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026“There is a consensus quickly developing that loyal order parading through the centre of overwhelmingly nationalist Derry would be an early casualty of the aggressive Garvaghy Road campaign” ~Chris Donnelly The Irish News ☕️🥐 062
murchadhfinn.bsky.social @murchadhfinn.bsky.social · 01/10/2026“Sectarian hatred has been exposed as a fresh and active threat” ~Andrée Murphy Andersonstown News ☕️🥐 0126
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 ☕️🥐 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
