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anliathanach.bsky.social @anliathanach.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The NI Secretary rocking back and forth and sobbing after just over 2 months in the job.

Maria Ní Fhlatharta @nifhla.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The only reason this is necessary is a small group of extremists have painted themselves as representing all Protestants in the North. And the media, particularly in the Republic, has mostly let them get away with it.

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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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Maria Ní Fhlatharta @nifhla.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

People find my last name terrifying so no need to change it.

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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...

belfasttelegraph.co.uk

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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Wendy Lyon @wendylyon.eurosky.social · 01/10/2026

Once again it needs to be stressed that this is something happening across the board in Irish immigration- changes in practice leading to refusals that would not have occurred in previous years. We are in a very dark time for the rights of people migrating to Ireland and their families.

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Maria Ní Fhlatharta @nifhla.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Secretary of State calls border poll in an attempt to never have to engage with the DUP ever again.

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Maria Ní Fhlatharta @nifhla.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I know Kerry to Armagh is quite the distance...but still

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Sarah Creighton @saraita101.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Day 4 of the Garvaghy Road dispute

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Maria Ní Fhlatharta @nifhla.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Pillow Queens absolutely delivering. The anam/wairua needed that this week.

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I sometimes think about the time when someone I love very much and who loves me very much was so discomfited by the fact that I had taken out and put my emergency meds in their orange pill box next to me at a party. "Don't do that," she said. "It calls attention to it (my epilepsy."

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Maria Ní Fhlatharta @nifhla.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

It is really exhausting to be an Irish disabled person. It feels like the entire island is immune to ever talking about us as full people who deserve rights and full lives. But it is made much easier by having a @suzybie.bsky.social to cut through the crap.

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Laura McAtackney @lauramca.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Across the political divide do WM govts specifically look for people who know nothing about NI and are tone death to its history to hold the position of SoS? Because they’re amazingly consistent if they aren’t trying.

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Maria Ní Fhlatharta @nifhla.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

A couple of suggestions for international mediators have included the New Zealand Government as an option... ...not right now.

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Cat Says Nope: Disagreeing Feline

Alt: Cat Says Nope: Disagreeing Feline

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Brendan Hark! T'is nearly Halloween. @brendanjharkin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Stopped to talk to a resident for a minute who was alone in her home who was obviously massively nervous about petrol bombs getting lobbed right outside her house. With any luck the landrovers will draw any aggro away.

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Brendan Hark! T'is nearly Halloween. @brendanjharkin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I've been advised to keep to one side of the road and move quick to reach the station as petrol bombs had been thrown at landrovers parked along the road here. Small fire still smouldering in the park and landrovers pulling further back.

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Maria Ní Fhlatharta @nifhla.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I am not convinced the protest in Garvaghy would be considered illegal if challenged, but even if it we're, the idea that the most senior nationalist politician in the North should have been anywhere other than standing with residents is ludicrous.

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Niamh NicGhabhann Coleman @niamhroisin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Disgraceful to hear the dignified people of Garvaghy Road described as a ‘mob’ - they are standing up for themselves as a community and I am sure would prefer to be getting on with their lives.

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CAJ @cajni.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The European Court of Human Rights has held that, in certain circumstances, the right to hold spontaneous protests in immediate response to events, where the protest would be pointless if delayed, may override notification requirements. More from our Director here: www.irishnews.com/news/norther...

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Justice group says it’s ‘premature’ to claim Garvaghy Road protesters broke law

Thousands join protest to oppose Orange Order Drumcree march

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PAT FINUCANE CENTRE @finucanecentre.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Remember folks-at times of high community tension and re-traumatisation as is the case this morning with Drumcree/Garvaghy Rd there is one small step you can make for your own mental health and well being-do not listen to the toxic Nolan Show on Radio Ulster...

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Brendan Hark! T'is nearly Halloween. @brendanjharkin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

As far as I'm aware there is nothing either in the PC structure or determination document that says "if obstructed you should sit on a hill for a few days and try to sneak down at 4am". Cause that would be ridiculous and draw out the risk of disorder. As it has done.

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Brendan Hark! T'is nearly Halloween. @brendanjharkin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Also on a point of "lawful": The date for the parade has passed. They now need to re-apply to reschedule it. They can try and pursue whatever legal actions they want over yesterday's being blocked but it's monday now and if they want to march again "lawfully" they need to submit an 11/1 form.

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

Some chat about Rosemary Nelson on the other site. She was in my Dad's year at the IPLS. They're both in this picture here in the High Court (my Dad is the grumpy one who looks like he's in Good fellas)

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alt-DUP @duponline.eurosky.social · 28/09/2026

And right on cue...

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Belfast Telegraph @belfasttelegraph.co.uk · 28/09/2026

Footage has been circulated on social media showing what appears to be raw faeces running through the streets of a residential area in Newry after a period of bad weather.

belfasttelegraph.co.uk

‘This is quite literally a s**t problem to have’: Residents furious over sewage pouring down street

NI Water calls for residents to be mindful of what they flush

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Maria Ní Fhlatharta @nifhla.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Any chance Stephen Nolan is on holidays this week?

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

Jamie Bryson furiously tweeting "ENFORCE THE LAW" each hour as he commands the PSNI to go in and batter a load of taigs off their own street so the Orangemen can march through. Eternal 1969 of the spotless mind.

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Sarah Kay @k-interarma.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Children being burned in their home is not a “quaint heritage event”. It’s sustained and repeated collective trauma.

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Maria Ní Fhlatharta @nifhla.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I've been non stop complaining about the peelers and the commission and herself is non stop complaining about the failure of Republicanism to respond to the loyalist playbook and the ahistorical coverage of Drumcree and the orange order. And I'm quite glad we didn't have guests this weekend.

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jeninbelfast.bsky.social @jeninbelfast.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Someone should tell Bryant there already was a compromise. It was the alternate route that's been taken for nearly 30 years and has worked pretty well despite the regular antagonising applications from Portadown Orange District LOL 1 to parade down Garvaghy Road where they're not wanted.

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Laura McAtackney @lauramca.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

For people of my age (old) and my background (CNR) who grew up in NI during the 90s, Drumcree was the nadir of community relation & differences in our perceptions of ‘rights’. We just could not conceive how a group of snarling, angry men thought their ‘right to march’ surpassed our ‘right to exist’.

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Maria Ní Fhlatharta @nifhla.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Must be quite weird for the Irish UNIFIL peace keepers who saw themselves or their mates targeted by the IDF to watch the game tonight.

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Maria Ní Fhlatharta @nifhla.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Like a gathering of a small group of annoracks who think women should have rights have been known to get higher risk designations than an orange parade on the Garvaghy road.

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

It remains insane to me that we're watching the PSNI and Parades Commission entertain the prospect of sending riot police in because they refuse to admit they fucked up

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

Given the trouble today already will they resume blocking the parade after today? Do they need a few skulls cracked first so they can tick their boxes to say no next time?

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Maria Ní Fhlatharta @nifhla.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

We absolutly need accountability from the PSNI on this. It will be hard given that the Executive surviving the week is about as likely as me having a successful dance career but Boutcher needs to be hauled in front of someone to explain the low risk assessment for an orange march on Garvaghy Road.

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Maria Ní Fhlatharta @nifhla.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Marchers must disperse by 9:30am seemed to be a pretty clear condition of the parade...

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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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Maria Ní Fhlatharta @nifhla.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Partitionist I'm alright jack gobeens galore.

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

I guess they'll just have to apply again for another march with fresh police intelligence that it will in fact cause major disorder ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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Maria Ní Fhlatharta @nifhla.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Peelers response to the Garvaghy road residents would be shameful regardless but it is rage inducing given failures around the Belfast pograms & a complete police failure to respond to far right violence across Ireland and Britain. But this "low risk" parade seems to have all the police resources.

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

It was caused by them being caught issuing rejections on autopilot so a legal action forced them to do a full assesment. Some thick as pigshit Peeler seemed to advise them the risk of disorder wasn't significant. And so here we go.

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

It is clear as day to me there's an easy option where this morning ends peacefully for all involved but instead this is Northern Ireland so we have to wait and see if the stupidest thing possible will happen instead

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

The DUP and SF have been in a staring contest over who will collapse stormont first and I don't see how that won't happen when a load of people get battered off the road by the PSNI so 35 pricks, who've been using an alternative route for 28 years, can march down a road full of taigs.

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Unofficial BBC News NI @unofficialnewsni.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Jeffrey Donaldson victim describes 'profound impact' of child sex abuse [ From BBC News NI ]

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Jeffrey Donaldson victim describes 'profound impact' of child sex abuse

BBC News - Northern Ireland

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

Arriving late to the "new flag for Ireland" debate to say given a UI at the moment is technically a hypothetical surely the more practical discussion is what are Unionists and Britain doing to make sure the Irish feel welcome in the UK in other news 200 cops are coming from Scotland to Drumcree

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