neal.rey

From East London to East Belfast. A travel junkie, a puffing cyclist, a philosophical dabbler, a wild swimmer. Music & Football ⚽️ = GFC🐓 WHUFC⚒ HMFC❤️

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@_quincey 6 months after the Treaty and Collins sends the IRA on a murderous sectarian rampage through Altnaveigh, Down, to kill constables in Derrynoose, Armagh, assassinate Henry Wilson MP and kidnapping dozens of border Protestants at gunpoint...so copper fastening partition for 100+Yrs

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@TheGlensVoice Home kit is very 'meh', like how hard is it to get two of our three colours prominent? The away kit would be a nice Dundela kit. Overall, they're just AI slop.

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@JamTarts 🐓Glenman-Jambo ♥️ here just to say well done @JamTarts getting MJ on board, he’s a great centre half and a good signing.

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@BBCNewsNI Retail hours are brutal on staff and their families, forced to work every w/e & every BH, for their sake having one single morning where they’re not forced into work it should stay. There’s a peaceful beauty about Town on a Sunday morning

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@jonnyrmitch The Coral, The La's, The Beatles, Echo & The Bunnymen Teardrop Explodes.

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@CaptainFalke @PamphletsY British Relief Association 1847: Ordinary Brits emptied their pockets & raised £70m in today's money for their Irish cousins. This wasn't the government but miners, dockers & railway workers. 100's skipped meals to donate & it dwarfed every other charity on Earth.

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@Awaydays23 Points deduction?

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@belfastbhoy1961 1918: 22 of the 29 seats in what became Northern Ireland were won by a Unionist landslide. That is why partition happened. 1924: SF used the Westminster GE in NI as a referendum on partition and got 9%. 1998: NI voted 71% in favour & RofI voted 95% in favour of partition...

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@IrishLeagueOTD @Glentoran @footyheritage @amcleanbookies @GallahersBlues @GlentoranFanCam @IFBMedia @Mitchell_GFC @Glentoran_1690 @1882_glentoran Greatest Cup Final goal on film? Who beats it? ⚫️🟢🔴🏆

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@IrishCentral And in 1970 The Roman Catholic hierarchy in Ireland officially lifted their ban on Catholics attending Trinity College Dublin.

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@brenwalsh66 @irelandbattles Lots of evidence if you choose to look for it. Gaelic culture & language arrived circa 600-500 BC supplanting the Bell-Beaker culture. There is no 'Irish' DNA btw, just clusters of similarities with Munster & Ulster prominent and clear Iberian, NW French & West Norwegian origins.

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@brenwalsh66 @irelandbattles Circa 500BCE, pushed the indigenous population to the margins and grafted their culture on top.

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@tsrunseen Should have been much bigger. 'Hollow Heart' was exceptional.

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@ireland_society "The City Toilet Club"? Am I reading that right?

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@Stadium_Dreams @theballisround @Glentoran @GlentoranFanCam @saveglentoran @3089c786bc2c4d6 @GFCfancast @GlentoranF @GlensUnofficial @GlentoranH @GlentoranL @glentoran_daily Home of the first ever European Champions from the UK. 🏆🔴🟢⚫️1914

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@JohnMar90718642 @BBCNewsNI My family on both parents sides were forced from Leitrim and Donegal. The non-catholic minority was decimated, through intimidation, violence, ostracisation and boycott as the FS slid into quasi-theocracy.

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@SenecaQuote Leo Tolstoy's The Death of Ivan Ilyich (1886) - A powerful death bed meditation on the pursuit of a "proper" life based on societal expectations being hollow and often crass.

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@Glentoran @FBAwayDays Glentoran at Cliftonville tonight

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@rory_donaghy @irelandbattles Nationalist myth #26

My family on both parents sides were forced from Leitrim and Donegal. The non-catholic minority was decimated, through intimidation, violence, ostracisation and boycott as the FS slid into theocracy. Home Rule did mean Rome Rule, the unionists were right.