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Colin Harvey @cjharvey1.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Anyone in public life who does not understand what the Garvaghy Road means to every strand of the nationalist/republican community in the North does not deserve to be taken seriously.

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Fiona McLaughlin @speccymcspec.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Gavin, Carla, Jamie & Co are threatening to bring down Stormont, as if we care 🤷🏻‍♂️ It’s their prize, not that of the nationalist community. We want public services that work more than we want the house on the hill. Shooting themselves in the foot every time

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Conor @ernekid.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

There’s an entire generation of British politicians who’s entire worldview is made up of buzzwords and corporate jargon and that really doesn’t translate to places like Northern Ireland where politics is actually real

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Paddy Joe. @paddyjoe73.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Here's Carla's opinion on a peaceful march for Palestine in Scarva, why can she not apply her own words to Garvaghy Road?

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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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Fiona McLaughlin @speccymcspec.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Bryant thinks he’s calming the situation??

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Fiona McLaughlin @speccymcspec.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The nonsense is probably a result of how successful the Fleadh was

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Fiona McLaughlin @speccymcspec.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Again? We’re doing #Drumcree again/ still?? People died. The region ground to a hault. Why are we doing this decades later? #Portadown

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Fiona McLaughlin @speccymcspec.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

So we’re all ok with the #Drumcree nonsense again??? Children died because of this triumphal shit.

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Max B 💙 🔶 🇺🇦 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 @maxbrockbank.com · 24/09/2026

Bloody French, saying what we're all thinking ...

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Fiona McLaughlin @speccymcspec.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

How is this less profitable than old folk holding signs???

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Lizzie Dearden @lizziedearden.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

While Piddington dominates the news, at Leicester Crown Court this man was sentenced today Ivan Jennings, a former Conservative councillor, called for terror attacks on small boat migrants and Muslims and shared target ideas, telling fellow white supremacists to kill as many “subhumans” as possible

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Count Cormacula @cormacos.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Having super secret feelings about genocide ain’t it, chief.

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 14/09/2026

Your regular reminder: If the Russians stop fighting, the war ends. If the Ukrainians stop fighting, their land will be occupied, their leaders will be killed, their history and language will be erased, their children will be kidnapped to serve Russia.

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Dr Matt Lodder @mattlodder.com · 14/09/2026

You will be hearing literally nothing about this horrific Lancashire rape gang from any of the usual suspects, because only one of them has a Muslim name. BBC News - Man admits drugging and raping wife for 20 years www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Ms. Rachel: "Ed Sheeran had an opportunity…Instead he caved to people who refuse to accept what the world knows." "If more than 20,000 white children were killed…everyone would be shouting…Treating some children's lives as less worthy of outrage is racist. Silence during a genocide is not neutral."

Ms. Rachel post:
"Ed Sheeran had an opportunity show that we won't be bullied into punishing people for supporting Palestine. Instead he caved to people who refuse to accept what the world knows. A genocide is happening in Gaza. We all need to speak out against it.

"If more than 20,000 white children were killed in another part of the world, everyone would be shouting about it at their concerts. Treating some children's lives as less worthy of outrage is racist. Silence during a genocide is not neutral."

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Oisín McGann @oisinmcgann.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

If you remember this ad, that music is now playing in your head. For anyone who wasn’t there, it would be hard to describe what a phenomenon this daft ad was. It had the kind of success every oddball ad aspires to achieving.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

this is the kind of design costume designers make to tell you who are the bad guys in a space movie

Donald Trump posts an image on his Truth Social account. It shows a new uniform for US Space Force members, comprising of an all-black outfit with knee-high black leather boots, black cap, and minimalist looking suit.

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Charles Fourier @charlesfourier.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Bill Bryson’s words seem appropriate to post right now

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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 09/09/2026

This is insane and also I think we should start doing this very specifically to politicians who profess Christianity and use it to justify their policies

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Fiona McLaughlin @speccymcspec.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Burnham behaved exactly as expected. British PM behaving as the state want him to is not surprising, but it’s worth noting what that really means in NI. Remember, loyalist paramilitary groups are not seen as terrorist, just helpful

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Dreadnought Holiday @dreadships.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

And I'll say it now: more kids have grown up as readers thanks to Dolly than any amount of Harry fucking Potter.

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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 25/08/2026

The world will mourn her because she made the world better in so many ways.

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Harry Burton @hbtoons.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

My cartoon in today's @irishexaminer.bsky.social.

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Fiona McLaughlin @speccymcspec.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

In surprise news, Julie Burchill has got worse

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Martin Doyle @martindoyle.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

This is a great piece of writing on a grim subject

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Richard Sambrook @sambrook.eurosky.social · 16/08/2026

BBC’s coverage of Reform’s welfare plans is frankly bizarre. Headlines in Ten, leading on some radio networks. Reform are not even the official opposition and the plans have less credibility than Count Binface. Will BBC News do the same for Lib Dem and Greens policy two years out from an election?

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Lindsey Rachev @lrachev.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

There it is.

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Louth For Ever 🦋 @louthforever.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

A million people through Belfast for a festival nobody asked permission to hold. Ards Comhaltas taught children to hold a bow for 50 years, then opened a door and the city came. The half that builds and the half that waits. 💭✍🏼🎶🕊️ #Fleadh26 #Spéirghorm #Belfast forlouth.medium.com/catching-up-...

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Catching Up: A Million People And Nobody Asked Permission

Our Own Ground • No. 2

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Fiona McLaughlin @speccymcspec.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Prisoner release as part of dealing with a societal issue is not new. We’ve had the debates, & the hierarchy of victims before. GB media continues to ignore anything that’s ever worked in NI

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Patrick Freyne @patrickfreyne.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Furious on Disney is really good. The cast are amazing.

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Des Fitzgerald @desfitzgerald.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

I think we're generally much too chill about how mainstream and normal this weird, obsessive anti-Irish stuff is in the UK. #speirgorm

Richard Tice quoting a telegraph headline about Ireland being Europe's most ridiculous country.

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Ian McLaughlin @ianmclaughlin.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

I think it needs more gold plated Rorschach tests, and more toys

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Northern Ireland Screen Archive @niscreenarchive.eurosky.social · 30/07/2026

We've gathered together a collection of all things Fleadh and Trad. Featuring many of the legends of Irish music including Sean Maguire, the McPeakes, Sarah Makem and John Doherty. Hours of the best music Ireland has to offer.

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The Fleadh Collection - Collections

Over 129 years of moving images from Northern Ireland, featuring amateur and professional films from 1897 to 2026, brought to you by Northern Ireland Screen.

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Richard M. Nixon @dicknixon.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Larry laid his mouse in front of the press to be photographed. Lest you ask, this is a real photograph via the Press Association.

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Claire Mullaly @clairemullaly.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Shabana Mahmood staying on as Home Secretary is everything you need to know about Andy Burnham and continuity far-right appeasement.

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Fiona McLaughlin @speccymcspec.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

What are they making the Muppets do now?

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🦋 Frankie 🦋 @frankiemillie10.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

We laugh in the face of cattlegrids 🐑

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spookily scarily pitt girl 👻🎃👻 @opg.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

coming home status: isn’t

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Fiona McLaughlin @speccymcspec.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Ballymena politician on local news horrified & shocked that murders happened in a residential area that’s “mostly owner occupied…” Must only be poor people who kill their wives and daughters

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Fiona McLaughlin @speccymcspec.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

I’m sure this will be a charming vignette in an upcoming series of Peelers

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Michelle says: Be kind. Always. ❤️ @snarkysillysad.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

RIP Sam Neill: 🔊 #AGoodPlace Source: www.reddit.com/r/MadeMeSmil...

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Fiona McLaughlin @speccymcspec.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

So now it’s fireworks. After midnight. Across a region where many don’t want this. Any of this. How do we keep explaining the unpleasant, the unwelcome, the nonsense?

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alt-DUP @duponline.eurosky.social · 12/07/2026

Imagine you were waking up to this, knowing that your local political reps will do absolutely nothing to avoid the same thing happening to your home next year and every year after that. The triumphalism of hoods and thugs are put above the rights of everyone else.

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Darach Ó Séaghdha @darach.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

For my #calling353 piece for @thejournal.ie this week I explain why we all should celebrate the 12th of July every year. It should be a bank holiday! www.thejournal.ie/twelfth-july...

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Calling 353: Why we should celebrate the Twelfth of July

It is not for the reason you might think – but it DOES involve another bank holiday.

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