FGAU

Proud Unionist from Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom. (Not the magazine)

[OnThisDayTheIRA @OnThisDayPIRA]

#OnThisDay in 1991 the IRA murdered Stephen Lynn, 30. Married father of 2. Coal merchant. 1 of 2 brothers shot as they worked renovating bungalow, Ballysillan. 3rd brother in house with his 2 children survived & raised alarm. Believed to have been shot through kitchen window #OTD

[John Cleese @JohnCleese]

A lot of people are becoming very sceptical about our police and our judiciary

How is this possible ?

[FGAU @PurpleStandard]

Remembering Sammy Mehaffy, murdered by republicans 35 years ago today.

Lest We Forget

[FGAU @PurpleStandard]

@chrisadonnelly He’s spot on!

[jim rainey @sbelfastman]

Come on Gerard ffs!

[Adam Brooks AKA EssexPR 🇬🇧 @EssexPR]

You know who isn’t going to worry about energy bills or being freezing cold in their homes this winter ?

Those that broke into this country illegally and claimed asylum.

[Henry Wilson @1stBaronetDSO]

Same law. Will there be different treatment?
The Unionist and Loyalist community will be watching closely.

[Zac Goldsmith @ZacGoldsmith]

Unbelievably, Iran (yes, Iran) has just been elected to the UN Committee that sets the priorities for women’s rights, counter-terrorism and peacekeeping. This, the country with an almost uniquely violent record of brutalising women, executing peaceful female protesters and of course sponsoring very widespread terrorism.

Equally unbelievably, the UK nominated Iran and although the voting is secret, we must assume it subsequently voted for Iran in the General Assembly. This is the same UK that is nominally run by PM Andy Burnham who declared only a few weeks ago that “we will always stand with the underdog and take what action we can to support them.”

If the young women of Iran who dare to remove their headscarves, or sing, or engage in peaceful protest to press for basic democracy aren’t the underdog in their battle with a vicious and murderous regime… who then is an underdog? 

I can’t exaggerate how ashamed I am of my country. I’m sickened and repulsed by what it has become. I barely recognise it. Burnham should hang his head in utter shame.

And as for the UN, it has come to embody institutional corruption and gaslighting on a global scale. 

It put China, Qatar and Cuba in charge of the body charged with protecting human rights worldwide.

It put China, Cuba, Nicaragua, Saudi Arabia, and Sudan (all of which crush/ban NGOs in their own countries) in charge of the body that decides which civil-society groups and NGOs get UN accreditation and access. 

It put Syria (under Assad) in charge the body that promotes education, culture, and press freedom.

How long must this continue? The UN has no credibility whatsoever and should be stripped back to the basics- a debating chamber for the big global issues of the day. And nothing more. 

How can anyone defend this?

[Mark @markbtuk]

Northern Ireland is screaming for more integration & an end to segregation with its duplication of costs.
Sinn Fein is sponsoring an Irish Education Bill that creates third strand of segregation & leads to triplication of budgets.
Utter madness & parties are right to block it.

[Moore Holmes @mooreholmes24]

𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐑𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐎𝐧 𝐁𝐞𝐡𝐚𝐥𝐟 𝐎𝐟 𝐆𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐥 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐢𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐞 - 𝐀𝐩𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐞 𝐁𝐨𝐲𝐬 𝐀𝐬𝐬𝐨𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 🚩

"A false statement cannot be allowed to stand unchallenged.

The Apprentice Boys did everything possible in advance of Saturday’s Remembrance Parade in Belfast to focus on the day and to the solemn honour of the Fallen at the city’s Cenotaph.

Our members and engaged band would never do anything that would diminish the meaning of that occasion.

It is deplorable that the Irish News carried a video and story that made outrageous allegations with respect to our members and engaged band travelling on a bus along the Ormeau Road. No evidence was offered to the truth of allegations made.

As a precaution, open to the possibility that the heightening of tensions by those opposed to the parade in the week preceding might encourage an attack on the bus, video footage was taken as the bus proceeded along the road between Ormeau Bridge and Havelock Bridge.

The accompanying video shows clearly that not only would the person making the accusations not be in a position to have observed any untoward behaviour as described, nor was anyone else.

The comments to the press were false, indefensible, irresponsible and clearly intended to excite community tensions, without cause.

As an Association it is impossible for such egregious allegations to be allowed to rest without challenge.

This matter will rest with the appropriate authorities and there will be no further comment at this time."

𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐄𝐧𝐝𝐬

[FGAU @PurpleStandard]

After shooting dead a 17 year old petrol pump attendant, and leaving a bomb in the petrol station, they opened fire on a group of Boy Scouts outside a Mission Hall with a machine gun.

Read that again and let it sink in!

[OnThisDayTheIRA @OnThisDayPIRA]

#OnThisDay in 1974 the IRA murdered Joseph Taylor, 17. Protestant, Petrol attendant shot at work. W Circular Rd, Belfast, N Ireland. Bomb left then IRA fired on Scouts at nearby hall. Murder intended to draw RUC/Army to bomb #OTD. Foster parents unable to bring body home -Article

[OnThisDayTheIRA @OnThisDayPIRA]

#OnThisDay in 1974 the IRA murdered Joseph Taylor, 17. Protestant, Petrol attendant shot at work. W Circular Rd, Belfast, N Ireland. Bomb left then IRA fired on Scouts at nearby hall. Murder intended to draw RUC/Army to bomb #OTD. Foster parents unable to bring body home -Article

[FGAU @PurpleStandard]

@BillSmyth3 @impongo22 He was hanging off Brendan’s coat tail on the Garvaghy Road!

[FGAU @PurpleStandard]

Gerard Rice claims to have seen gestures from a bus with tinted windows, stopped outside the bookies, from the Ormeau Bridge 😂😂😂😂

[The Irish News @irish_news]

Loyalists involved in a parade banned from walking along the Lower Ormeau Road in south Belfast have been accused of taunting the victims of the Sean Graham bookmakers atrocity.

A spokesperson for the Lower Ormeau Concerned Community group claimed a five finger taunt was made by a passenger on a private hire Translink coach that carried loyalist bandsmen past the memorial to five Catholics murdered by the UDA in 1992.

Read more: https://t.co/o2e4pk1ndL

[ThePurpleStandard @UlsterWillFight]

Don’t let the facts get in the way of a good scandal!
The lust for relevancy and headlines runs deep in Rice, but the camera never lies…

[Henry Wilson @1stBaronetDSO]

0:37. Gerard Rice standing some distance from bookies at bridge filming.
0:2.32. Bus passes bookies with no one to be seen outside.

So, who were the occupants of the bus supposed to be waving at on an empty road and how did Rice see it?

Retraction required methinks @irish_news

[Jamie Bryson @JamieBrysonLLB]

Nationalist fury as it emerges
Unionists have had jobs.

[FGAU @PurpleStandard]

@irish_news Will the person who made a complaint to @PoliceServiceNI be charged with wasting police time?!

[FGAU @PurpleStandard]

@bealfeiriste @BelTel @callumgrayni It’s because I know Wes is a loner!

[Basil the Great @BasilTheGreat]

Safeguarding Minister for Women and Girls btw