This is not Andy Burnham's call to make. No British Prime Minister has any right to rule out a unity referendum.
The Good Friday Agreement is clear: the people of the island of Ireland alone must determine their own future.
@HMcEntee We are residents in Doha wanting to get home with a 1 year old daughter, not enough is being done to secure a Qatar to Dublin route. We do not feel safe traveling 10 hours to the Saudi border with a baby.
"Mo Charaโs real problem is that the message he put out landed. Working-class people arenโt meant to speak like this, organise like this, or connect struggles across borders like this. Thatโs what scares them.
While Mo Chara stands in the dock for allegedly waving a flag, those complicit in a genocide walk the streets untouched. Since October 2023, over 60,000 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza โ entire families erased, journalists targeted, children bombed in their beds.
More than 300 officials at the Foreign Office raised their concerns about Israelโs โstark โฆ disregard for international lawโ. And yet, the UK government continues to greenlight arms deals and offer diplomatic cover. Thatโs not a performance. Thatโs a conscious policy decision. Made in Westminster, paid for by the taxpayer, and buried beneath silence.
Theyโve tried this before. Give Ireland Back to the Irish โ banned. Christy Moore โ detained. The Poguesโ Streets of Sorrow โ silenced for decades. And now, it seems to be Mo Chara โ for turning protest into poetry, politics into art.
So hereโs the question โ the same one Pete Seeger asked, the same one Mo Chara asks now: Which side are you on?
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Israel will close its embassy in Dublin in light of 'the extreme anti-Israel policies of the Irish government', Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar has said in a statement https://t.co/Nyz0dl656R