Arvo McPart

Interested in current affairs, politics, science, history and archaeology. Shamelessly plagiarising, re-cycling and sharing others' ideas - in a good cause.

[Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy]

A reminder that our Northern Irish colleagues have Erasmus...

If you think the Scottish, Welsh & English should have it too, sign here 👉 https://t.co/QE8UxihnB9

[Arvo McPart @Seanaid1]

@welovedonegal Inishbofin

[Allison Morris @AllisonMorris1]

These new figures along with other recent @BelTel @LucidTalk polls would indicate that the criteria for calling a border poll has been met and will happen in this decade

[BBC The View @bbctheview]

"There has been a substantial shift towards Irish Unity.... that has been driven by Brexit".

@JonTonge - on his research of Alliance party members.

#SundayPolitics | @MarkCarruthers7

[Duncan Morrow @duncan_morrow]

The Protocol was not foisted on anyone but was Boris Johnson’s proposal. When it came to a choice between no deal or a special deal for NI, Johnson was clear. (Not that his Brexit worked either). But for the avoidance of doubt or revisionism👇

[Arvo McPart @Seanaid1]

@welovedonegal Lenankeel and Lehanbay

[Chris Grey 🇺🇦 @chrisgreybrexit]

As ever with Brexit, this is more complicated than it appears. 1/9

[Tom Hickman @TomRHickman]

Anyone who thought that UK constitutional law had moved beyond the era of statues being disapplied for conflict with EU law, and the whole Factortame issue was confined to legal history, was wrong. This week the High Court (NI) disapplied 10 sections of an Act passed last year …

[Darran Marshall @DarranMarshall]

Farming: Celebration as Irish grass-fed beef gets all-Ireland EU status https://t.co/zZu409fID2

[Chris Grey 🇺🇦 @chrisgreybrexit]

How the failures of Brexit feed Radical Brexitism. New post on my Brexit & Beyond Blog. Truss, Braverman & Anderson illustrate how as Brexit continues to fail to deliver its promises a more radical Brexitism feeds off the politics of nostalgia & grievance: https://t.co/PjFkwhrT0b

[Arvo McPart @Seanaid1]

@SuzyJourno “If SF needs to throw border poll dates to the republican base, let’s not all get caught up in that game" (J. Donaldson)
Is this from the DUP who cynically in their election 2022 manifesto mention the poll 5 times in the Introduction on page 4 in order to scare up some support?

[Arvo McPart @Seanaid1]

More cross-border collaboration as Irish government funds 50 medical student places in QUB.
https://t.co/c9O0Xmq9RY

[Gareth Noble @GarNob]

May ⁦@PresidentIRL⁩ fully recover as soon as possible.
President Higgins taken to hospital after feeling unwell via @RTENews https://t.co/CmsnZr93jQ

[Kevin Doyle @KevDoyle_Indo]

President Michael D Higgins taken to hospital after feeling unwell at Áras an Uachtaráin
https://t.co/YVw2l6nwgP

[Fergal Bowers @FergalBowers]

President Higgins taken to hospital after feeling unwell via @RTENews https://t.co/8K5UIC5knH

[Stephen Murphy @SMurphyTV]

President Michael D Higgins has been taken to hospital for some tests, after he reported feeling unwell earlier today. The 82-year-old was checked out by a doctor at the Aras, but was taken to hospital as a precaution. It’s not yet known if he’ll be kept in overnight

[President of Ireland @PresidentIRL]

President Higgins last night presented the 2024 Volta Lifetime Achievement Award to film director Steve McQueen at the @DublinFilmFest

[Arvo McPart @Seanaid1]

@CRGMurray @colmocinneide Or referring back to the GFA in 1998...
https://t.co/HLfJUxaO7k

[Arvo McPart @Seanaid1]

@JohnOBrennan2 "... the Good Friday Agreement requires the ECHR to be enforceable directly in the courts of Northern Ireland. There is no obvious way that the ECHR can be enforceable directly in the courts of Northern Ireland if the UK is not a party to the ECHR."
https://t.co/SDye7msa6N

[Colin Murray @CRGMurray]

Where to begin? How did the DUP buy into the idea that Article 2, the Protocol/WF provision on the non-diminution of rights, "does not apply to rights-based issues"? Sure, accuse the UK Govt of mis-selling, but probably best not to do so at the cost of your own credibility.