Alan Burnside

semi-retired PR/Public Affairs consultant... now free to comment on local and national political issues.

[Alan Burnside @alanburnside]

@nmdcouncil Priceless!!!

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@AhmadIsmail1979 @ShaykhSulaiman Maybe he thought if he shot him it would put him out of his horrific pain?

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@JamieBrysonCPNI @columeastwood Bet he says it was a private conversation and none of your business.

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@SeanUlidia A godawful interview Tara.

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@EmmaCDeSouza No mention of unionists involvement?

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@William13643334 @chrisadonnelly You didn’t reference the cost of living or the high level of personal taxation in Ireland. They are much higher than in NI.

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@jurgen_nauditt Will Ireland do the same?

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@PeterShirlow @JamieBrysonCPNI @unionist_voice And what’s wrong with that?

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@brendanbelfast @TheSundayLife My point is that because a polled majority would vote to rejoin the EU as indeed did a NI majority vote to remain in 2016 it should not be presumed that that same majority would vote for a UI. There is no polling evidence that UI is remotely in sight.

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@GordonBrown Quite right Gordon. How do you propose to arrest him?

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@williamcrawley Here’s hoping!

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@brianjohnspencr Corrrct. Ulster unionists wanted to avoid being subsumed in a Catholic Ireland and they were right as Ireland came under the thumb of McQuaid and only DeValera’s intervention stopped McQuaid enshrining in the 1937 Constitution that Catholicism was the only religion in the State.

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@bigkenreid His show at one time included an Elvis impersonator whose voice was so close to being authentic. They had hilarious spoof conversations which left me in stitches.

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@3000Versts Meanwhile the rest of us have moved on in the hope that public services can rescued by this Executive.

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@BelTel Maybe it’s only one way?

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@PeterShirlow @JamieBrysonCPNI Nor has Stephen Nolan whose hysterical delivery simply whips up nonsensical debate.

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@TomSyvret The weather must have been warmer then.

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@cahillbooks @Independent_ie That’s what everyone thinks.

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@51Batman @duponline Your problem is that you’re trapped in 1912. Unionists can’t win a border poll without the support of non-unionists. Secondly, UK cares more about EU relationship than it does about NI. UK would ditch NI if it decently could but wants Scotland.