Come on @England we are owed this ! 🏴 yes I held a grudge because I honestly believed we were the team that would of won the @FIFAWorldCup in 86
We were cheated by both goals if VAR was about then both goals would not of stood !
I’ve put the beef to bed but still believe @England deserves a win tonight- good luck lads give it everything you’ve got 🏆🏴
@reid6peter@GaryLineker@FIFAcom
ROSEMARY NELSON REPORTED DEATH THREATS FOR YEARS THEN A CAR BOMB PROVED HER RIGHT
Rosemary Nelson was a solicitor in Lurgan, Co Armagh. Mostly she did ordinary legal work. Then she started taking the cases other lawyers avoided.
She represented republican suspects.
She represented the family of a Catholic man murdered by a loyalist mob.
She represented a nationalist residents group fighting Orange Order marches through Garvaghy Road.
None of that made her popular with everyone holding a uniform.
By the mid 1990s she was telling anyone who would listen that RUC officers were threatening her during client interviews. She kept reporting it. The system kept noting it down and moving on.
On 15 March 1999 a loyalist car bomb killed her outside her own home.
She was 40.
She left three children.
A later public inquiry found the RUC (replaced in 2001 by the PSNI, @PoliceServiceNI) and the Northern Ireland Office (@NIOgov) failed to warn her of the danger and failed to offer her protection.
It found leaked police intelligence had raised the threat to her life. It found threats from officers helped mark her out as a target for loyalist killers. Standard stuff for the era, apparently.
Here is the shocking detail..
Just before her murder, the NIO offered protection to two of her male clients who were campaigning against the same Orange Order parades. They did not offer it to her. The reason given was she had not asked, she was not a councillor, and she was not officially part of the residents group.
So the system had a protection scheme sitting right there and decided a solicitor getting death threats simply hadn't filled in the correct form.
Documents released from the Irish national archives in December 2024 add the finishing touch. The NIO's top official at the time, Joe Pilling, later told Irish diplomats that with the benefit of hindsight the NIO probably should have sought her out anyway.
Hindsight. Twenty five years and one murder later, hindsight turned up right on schedule.
Her case sits next to Pat Finucane, another Belfast solicitor shot dead by loyalists in 1989 after similar threats.
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@irish_news@BBCNewsNI@UTVNews@NIOgov
Everyone needs to hear this.
The UN didn't print the names of Palestinian children murdered by Israel.
Why?
Because they feared Israel would respond by murdering their families.
Israel is a threat to everyone on earth.
@1968Tv RTÉ for years had the classic line-up of Eamon Dunphy and Johnny Giles. Had a top host in the late Bill O'Herlihy as well. Here's Eamon tearing apart talk of Terry Venables being a candidate to be Ireland manager https://t.co/qr0hOwLwEd
Pico Lopes answers the call from his club manager Stephen Bradley after a historic night for Cape Verde
"Would you believe I got called for doping"
Watch all 104 games from the #FIFAWorldCup on RTÉ
Amazing video sent to us via Jack Hennessy who was in Houston last night to see Cape Verde make history and reach the World Cup Round of 32.
Jack had a tricolour with him and got it to Pico after the game. Here's what he said happened;
"I live and work in Houston. Sat front row with a tricolor. We made friends with one of the photographers there and asked him to throw our flag to Pico"
Fair play to Pico for copping the flag was the wrong way around as well😅
As Pico himself said, he's playong for two countries at this World Cup.
A very powerful BBCNI Spotlight on Jeffrey Donaldson which raises many questions for the DUP. This story is far from over. Many of the party's voters will be horrified - along with the entire community - by what they've heard. These are extremely dangerous times for the DUP.
This individual, whose relentless promotion on a public service broadcaster we pay for, states that the presenter knew of this secret arrangement with now-convicted Donaldson and the presenter confirms it.
Did others in the BBC know? Why weren't BBC listeners told?
No canta, no baila, no se mueve ni un centímetro. Lumumba Vea llegó a Guadalajara para apoyar a la RD Congo y permanecerá inmóvil durante 90 minutos.
Algunas formas de amar a un país no hacen ruido.
BREAKING: Protests in Albania are escalating, with demonstrators now calling for the resignation of the entire government amid growing anger over the proposed Kushner-Ivanka Trump development project.
What began as opposition to a luxury development is rapidly turning into a broader political crisis.