Reposted by Stephen O'NeillPriyamvada Gopal @priyamvadagopal.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Let me make this easy. No nation-state, including my own natal land, has the right to exist based on religious or racial requirements for belonging, by dispossessing or excluding others, or having different classes of citizenship. 622265
Stephen O'Neill @oneillsb.bsky.social · 09/10/2026I still don't understand how they can say the march would go ahead peacefully and then when it is permitted, immediately ask for 200 or whatever extra police from Scotland 230
Reposted by Stephen O'NeillSarah Kay @k-interarma.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Boutcher made an absolute balloon of himself deciding to launch his “large scale criminal investigation” - the chances of the march being banned were high enough that using a huge amount of public resources to stop a peaceful rally by residents was a complete failure. And he’s the one who referred! 231
Stephen O'Neill @oneillsb.bsky.social · 09/10/2026an utter farce from start to finish, and we had to put up with a commentariat telling us that we're so sectarian because we don't like a sectarian organisation, and we don't deserve a United Ireland. 0111
Stephen O'Neill @oneillsb.bsky.social · 09/10/2026going to be a pretty bizarre situation if anyone is prosecuted for protesting against a march that the PSNI belatedly decided to make Chris Bryant cancel. Which is to say nothing about the fact that the PSNI have spent public money well upwards of £3m for a march that never should have been allowed 2160
Reposted by Stephen O'NeillSarah Kay @k-interarma.bsky.social · 09/10/2026The Secretary of State, under his power granted by the 1998 Public Processions Act, has banned the Orange Order from walking the Garvaghy road. That, Gavin Robinson, is the rule of law. 14213
Reposted by Stephen O'NeillPhilip O'Connor @philipoconnor.bsky.social · 09/10/2026With the notable and singular exception of Gavin Bazunu, the FAI made us all complicit in this, and we just forgot about it and ignored it. 22815
Stephen O'Neill @oneillsb.bsky.social · 09/10/2026it's of course okay to chip away at it if you are a fuel protestor 0151
Reposted by Stephen O'NeillOliver @oliver48.bsky.social · 09/10/2026'The most telling thing about the backlash against the Greens’ “Zionism is racism” motion is the refusal of the media to platform Palestinians. We’ve had wall-to-wall coverage centring the feelings of Zionists, but we’ve heard almost nothing from their victims.' www.facebook.com/CouncilEstat... 10320175
Reposted by Stephen O'NeillAndrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 08/10/2026they did the thing 253161953705
Reposted by Stephen O'NeillIrish Studies@LivUni @irishinstitute.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Congratulations to our Prof Frank Shovlin, whose authorised biography of John McGahern is published today: "John McGahern: A Writing Life" @faberbooks.bsky.social The official launch is in McGahern's hometown of Carrick-on-Shannon tomorrow (www.thedock.ie/whats-on/joh..., sold out). #booksky 171
Stephen O'Neill @oneillsb.bsky.social · 07/10/2026got me through some of the darkest days of lockdown 010
Stephen O'Neill @oneillsb.bsky.social · 06/10/2026also, I honestly think anyone who refers to a Schools system as 'apartheid' and then says that we cannot make baseless comparisons is utterly, utterly, at it 010
Reposted by Stephen O'NeillMargaret Ward @marg50.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Excellent article by @paddyzemia.bsky.social exposing the obstacles that still exist in finding out the whole truth behind the murder of Pat Finucane. 095
Stephen O'Neill @oneillsb.bsky.social · 06/10/2026the person who had a year-long public meltdown over a Wolfe Tones song is now telling republicans that we are being histronic 082
Reposted by Stephen O'NeillDónal Hassett @donalh.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Fintan O'Toole in the Irish Times today once again banging the drum for infantilising communities in the North and ascribing political conflict to atavism and an almost congenital backwardness. Of course, this view is shared by so many of his readers... 5174
Stephen O'Neill @oneillsb.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Today's Fintan O'Toole article should permanently disqualify him from commenting on anything to do with the six counties, yet alone a united Ireland. Unrestrained cliché and non-analytical nonsense filtered through the absurdly outdated 'MOPE' lens of Liam Kennedy 2172
Stephen O'Neill @oneillsb.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Of course this doesn't mean that they are the same, or that all Orangemen saw or see themselves this way. But the self-made comparisons clearly suggest that in the epoch of partition it was and is an instrument of domination for the state and loyalists 000
Stephen O'Neill @oneillsb.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Or, for example, this comparison of the logic for its foundation with the Ku Klux Klan, a decade earlier. 'An Orangeman', "The Origins of the Orange Order", Ulster Review 1.2 (July 1924) 111
Stephen O'Neill @oneillsb.bsky.social · 04/10/2026People are far happier to understand Orangeism through both sidesism rather than understanding how it has been constructed by its greatest proponents. James Craig in 1934 explicitly linked the police, the orange order, the state, and fascism 234
Stephen O'Neill @oneillsb.bsky.social · 04/10/2026The way some people are talking about the Orange Order, they must think 'The Orange State' refers to some kind of fruit-driven agricultural policy pursued by the six county state from 1921-1973 121
Reposted by Stephen O'NeillStephen C. Rea @stevierea.bsky.social · 03/10/2026The “ceasefire” will be one year old next week. Since then, Israeli strikes have killed more than 1400 Gazans 71230556
Reposted by Stephen O'NeillIreland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign @ipsc.bsky.social · 01/10/2026We have given Lansdowne Road an upgrade. 💚 010724
Stephen O'Neill @oneillsb.bsky.social · 30/09/2026There should be a large scale investigation into why the PSNI advised the parades commission that there would be no trouble at the parade and then drafted 200 additional cops from Scotland for the weekend 22312
Stephen O'Neill @oneillsb.bsky.social · 30/09/2026I mean I am a Tyrone man after Antrim are knocked out, but stil feel it's slanderous 010
Reposted by Stephen O'NeillLuke Butterly @lukejbutterly.bsky.social · 30/09/2026The public inquiry into the murder of Pat Finucane is being prevented from access to millions of intelligence documents. Government funding for a secure computer system has yet to be agreed, more than two years after the investigation was first announced.thedetail.tvFinucane inquiry blocked from secret files over funding delayThe inquiry is still waiting for secure infrastructure to handle sensitive intelligence documents 065
Stephen O'Neill @oneillsb.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I do wonder whether as many op-eds would be in favour of the GAA as there have been defences of the Orange Order in the past few days if the slogan was 'No Casement No Stormont' 040
Stephen O'Neill @oneillsb.bsky.social · 29/09/2026to be fair to Fionnán, this is even worse archive.is/IIZfc#select...archive.is 000
Stephen O'Neill @oneillsb.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Nice to get a shout out from Joe Brolly on the Free State podcast for the best quote about Tyrone ever made. Also Aontroim Abu 141
Reposted by Stephen O'NeillStuart Bailie @stubailie.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Huartan and friends. Garvaghy Road, Portadown. 28.09.26. 0144
Reposted by Stephen O'NeillDocuments on Irish Foreign Policy @difp-ria.bsky.social · 29/09/2026If on Dawson St tomorrow afternoon Nora Moroney of DIFP will be talking about Ireland's 1975 EEC presidency in @ria.ie as part of Dublin Festival of History #DFOH Booking link 👉https://www.ria.ie/events/ireland-and-europe-the-first-eec-presidency-1975/ 033
Stephen O'Neill @oneillsb.bsky.social · 28/09/2026The worst thing about living in a neo/colony is that people take the whims of a visiting power figure like this seriously, as if he isn't just saying the equivalent of Go Birds when visiting Philadelphia 020
Stephen O'Neill @oneillsb.bsky.social · 28/09/2026This is framing a United ireland as an impossibility, seemingly in order to stick it to Trump and making it seem like the US colonising Greenland. It is also pretty obtuse about the origins of partition. The phrase 'Even Micheál Martin' is used as if he is some kind of arch anti-partitionist 130
Reposted by Stephen O'NeillAlejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 27/09/2026The before and after it's even more haunting. 3529091647
Reposted by Stephen O'NeillLaura McAtackney @lauramca.bsky.social · 27/09/2026For 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’. 29523
Reposted by Stephen O'NeillLiam Carson @liamcarson.bsky.social · 27/09/2026'A Song for the North': poem for our Ciaran by daughter Eithne. 191
Stephen O'Neill @oneillsb.bsky.social · 27/09/2026'we don't anticipate trouble but we are all doing overtime and drafting 200 policemen in from Scotland' was quite the argument in the first place 060