A message from Liam Óg:
"A massive thank you to my legal team.
Darragh, Jude, blinne, Brenda, Gareth and to all at Phoenix law.
A special thanks also to my interpreter Susan.
This entire process was never about me, never about any threat to the public and never about "terrorism", a word used by your government to discredit people you oppress.
It was always about Gaza.
About what happens if you dare to speak up.
As people from Ireland we know oppression, colonialism, famine and genocide.
We have suffered and still suffer under "your empire".
Your attempts to silence us have failed, because we are right, and you are wrong.
We will not be silent.
We said we would fight you in your court and we would win.
We have.
If anyone on this planet is guilty of terrorism, it is the British state.
Free Palestine!
Tiocfaidh ár lá."
SACKED BBC Star Nadia Hussain has sparked outrage over her comments on the death of Charlie Kirk:
“why is it that when white men die, the world mourns, and when 20,000 children do, silence fills the streets?"
The joy of captaining your county and the family impact captured brilliantly👇👇👇Congrats to Orlagh and all the Phelans it couldn't happen to a nicer crew 👏👏👏👏
We don't care what religion anyone is...or if they've one at all.
We love all sound cunts.
Smiling and signing bombs dropped to murder kids and other people's families just makes you a straight up cunt.
Simple as.
Free Palestine 🇵🇸
remember the burning of Bombay Street
remember that over 3000 catholic families were forced out of their homes / made homeless between August and September 1969
remember how the Northern state was initiated and sustained by pogroms against the minority Catholic population (1920-22, 1935, and 1969) and remember how those pogroms were orchestrated and encouraged by unionist politicians who used Catholics as scapegoats for the rampant poverty and social inequality suffered by working-class people across the six counties
mostly importantly, remember how the broader political and media establishment spent the best part of 50 years (leading up to the beginning of the conflict) portraying Catholics as belligerent, distrustful, lazy, base, and perpetuated the idea that our place in society was conditional, provided our parents and grandparents were accepting of and subservient to the structures of power that oppressed and discriminated against them in every facet of their daily lives
nothing about what we’re seeing in Ballymena and other areas across the six counties has anything to do with protecting women and children, it’s the natural outgrowth of a reactionary ideology based on fear and hatred of ‘the other’
that fear has been redirected away from Catholics (for the most part) and on to people of colour, and the blatant racism we’re seeing isn’t happening in isolation, it has been stoked and facilitated by figures within loyalism and unionism (and the media, under the cloak of ‘genuine concerns’) and compounded by far-right agitators across the 32 counties who have preyed upon and exploited peoples fears and insecurities in the face of deepening inequality
(important to keep in mind that since covid, we’ve seen the biggest transference of wealth from the poorest to the richest people in society in decades)
all this is to say we have a responsibility towards our history and understanding the structural forces behind the racist attacks we’re seeing today
our neighbours are our neighbours, they are our people regardless of the colour of their skin or their religious beliefs, and they have as much a right to be here and make lives for themselves as anybody else
@pol_o36989@DawgJay100@AllisonMorris1 this is true. although it seems @BelTel removed and stopped comments just after that. i guess standing against the professional isn’t tolerated