Ad Hoc Committee to Protect GFA

Bipartisan committee of over 80 American experts dedicated to protecting the Good Friday Agreement & maintaining open Border.

[Colum Eastwood @columeastwood]

It is ridiculous to say that the British Army should be at a Council jobs fair in Derry this week - this is a made up row for the DUP and it’s incredibly insensitive in the week that the Bloody Sunday families are heading to court to seek justice.

[Newton Emerson @NewtonEmerson]

It's not necessary to leave the ECHR over immigration because its authority is collapsing anyway. It's been effectively suspended by Germany and Greece and partly suspended by almost everyone. Nine member states are demanding it be re-written.

[LucidTalk @LucidTalk]

..Just in case you missed it - Here again are the main NI Political-Party poll scores from the ✅ @BelTel LT Summer25 NI 'Tracker' poll (3,028 responses, NI representative) ✅...

[Freya McClements @freyamcc]

Former BBC reporter Peter Taylor on a lifetime reporting on war and peace in NI: ‘People forget how we got to Good Friday – how precious it is’

https://t.co/bXfaLW9RUm

[Emma DeSouza @EmmaCDeSouza]

Majority support in NI for extending Irish presidential voting rights.

It is a disgrace that I, as an Irish citizen, living on the island of Ireland, can not vote for my president.

Long past time for the Irish government to correct this historical wrong https://t.co/EwvLXDEKuH

[Newton Emerson @NewtonEmerson]

There are only 5,000 full-time farmers in Northern Ireland, and many of them accept things need to change. Why are the stubborn remainder so politically sacred?

[Sam McBride @SJAMcBride]

While denouncing David Trimble, Jeffrey Donaldson secretly presented himself as far more moderate than the hardline image he cultivated, suggesting he might enter government with Sinn Féin without full IRA decommissioning, according to declassified files.
https://t.co/XFvD53QGdf

[Ireland Votes @Ireland_Votes]

POLL/POBALBHREITH - President

Humphreys (FG): 19%
Connolly (IND): 18%
McDonald (SF): 14%
Ahern (FF): 14%
Sheridan (IND): 3%
Others: 5%
Unsure: 28%

Via @Ireland_Thinks/@TheSundayIndo
D: 16 August/Lúnasa 2025
S: -

#Ireland #Poll

[Mark Carruthers @MarkCarruthers7]

Colum Eastwood turns down knighthood and reveals the cost of a life in politics… #BBCRedLines https://t.co/z0MF4sjQE1

[LucidTalk @LucidTalk]

The LucidTalk Summer25 Belfast Telegraph NI 'Tracker' Poll runs tomorrow (8/8) to Mon 11/8. Here is the poll tracker of all political-party poll scores since the 2022 NI Assembly election. Who'll be up or down this time? Results & reports will be in the @BelTel from Sat 16/8...

[Chris Donnelly @chrisadonnelly]

Worth pointing out- again- how remarkable it remains that this loyalist parade is hosted by an overwhelmingly nationalist city. As an example of generosity & tolerance in our divided society, it has no equal. Akin to 120+ Republican bands parading through centre of Bangor/Lisburn

[Suzanne Breen @SuzyJourno]

"Burn, burn, burn the traitor!" DUP supporters shouted at David Trimble for compromising. Now we know it was talking secretly to SF for years. The DUP owes the mother of all apologies to the UUP for the venom & vitriol it unleashed at the party for years.
https://t.co/hgOelsYNpY

[Sam McBride @SJAMcBride]

Flattery, deceit, a financial bung, MI5 briefing and a secret back-channel to Sinn Féin: Buried in thousands of pages of newly-declassified Downing Street files are secrets which lay bare how the DUP misled its voters after it overtook David Trimble's UUP.
https://t.co/1oGEVu18Ed

[Etain Tannam @EtainTannam]

Excellent article by ⁦@TrinityRTPS⁩ alumnus, Abie Philbin Bowman: ‘Whether we’re moving towards a united Ireland or a shared island, we need to face questions about identity’

[Sam McBride @SJAMcBride]

The DUP “did the dirtiest ever you seen”, says one of two ex-DUP MLAs who've quit the party...followed by a constituency branch which has folded. He says: “They’ve finished themselves — they’re not being straight and honest with the public.”
https://t.co/dk9x0rA0Y4

[Sam McBride @SJAMcBride]

Some old certainties relied upon by our ancestors are now outdated. If we are to take a decision which could reshape the island of Ireland for centuries to come, we need to base that decision on robust analysis of facts, not flabby tribal thinking.
https://t.co/RxhbB38ORT

[Chris Grey 🇺🇦 @chrisgreybrexit]

So it's now 9 years since the vote to leave the EU. For a detailed account & analysis of what happened from the day after that, see my book, "Brexit Unfolded: How no one got what they wanted (and why they were never going to)" (2nd, updated, edition 2023): https://t.co/80TRsbtqoa

[Brian O'Donovan @BrianOD_News]

Billionaire Michael Bloomberg has told an audience in Dublin that Brexit was “the single stupidest thing any country has ever done” @rtenews https://t.co/L7BYzJMGIM

[Council on Foreign Relations @CFR_org]

Progress for women’s political leadership is stagnating around the world, alongside global democracy's decline.

Linda Robinson, senior fellow for women and foreign policy, and Cynthia Richie Terrell, executive director of RepresentWomen and co-founder of Fairvote, discuss how electoral rules and systems impact women’s political representation.

https://t.co/5TsA5JHhH7

[Sam McBride @SJAMcBride]

The embedding of paramilitaries within certain NI communities is now so deep - and so accepted by officialdom - that it has become like the situation in Animal Farm, with the supposedly respectable and the supposedly illegal are formlessly entwined
https://t.co/diQPFIzfvK