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[Mandy McAuley @mandy_mcauley]

Katie Simpson: Showjumper's death exposed 'institutional misogyny' in PSNI - BBC News https://t.co/yf6gYZ984r

[Ciarán Dunbar @CiaranDunbar]

Sliabh na gCloch / Rocky Mountain completely burned and blackened - fire now at Liatroim Lodge beauty spot - and about to hit some of the last native trees in the Mournes 1/2

[Jayne McCormack @BBCJayneMcC]

Free sign language classes to be offered for deaf children in UK first

A big moment today for the deaf community in NI when the Sign Language Bill passes its final stage in the assembly https://t.co/8djtzknNlU

[Larry the Cat @Number10cat]

We've reached the point that they're using the Epstein files to cover up Iran

[Jayne McCormack @BBCJayneMcC]

Breaking: The civil case against Gerry Adams at the High Court in London has been withdrawn by the claimants

[Channel 4 News @Channel4News]

Marco Rubio admits that Washington was aware Israel was going to attack Iran, and that Tehran would then retaliate, so US forces struck “pre-emptively".

[Séamus Dooley @Seamusdo]

Counsel for PSNI had accepted that description of @vincekearney as a suspect was wrong and "clumsy". Agreed with IPT there was no justification for what was an incorrect description in official document. @NUJofficial

[Kelly Bonner @KellyBonner]

Listen on ⁦@BBCSounds⁩ - A tearful 999 call made by the man accused of the murder of Natalie McNally was an act and part of his plan to "get away with it", a court has heard https://t.co/SycrUKupsN

[Suzanne Breen @SuzyJourno]

ICE are modern day Brownshirts or Black & Tans. With a glove compartment stuffed with toys, Renee Nicole Good was shot in the face. She'd visited NI on youth missions. Yet our religious parties are silent on this brutal execution of a young Christian woman
https://t.co/Uo7EJfFsUB

[Stephen Dempster @dempster7]

Must watch: breakdown analysis of Minnesota shooting.

[Shaun King @shaunking]

Thank you to Brenna Perez for giving the single clearest, smartest breakdown of the murder of Renee Nicole Good.

This is clearly murder. Period.

But as we’ve said for a generation, in America an officer just has to say “I feared for my life” to get away with murder.

[Mark Carruthers @MarkCarruthers7]

🚨The first #BBCRedLines of the year discusses the race for the leadership of the Ulster Unionist Party & asks if it’ll end up being a contest or a coronation?
Talking to @BBCGarethG @dmcbfs @JohnMcCallister & ⁦@mclaren_linzi⁩…

⁦@BBCSounds⁩ https://t.co/wtkWHkvUwi

[BBC The View @bbctheview]

A Christmas truce" between Executive parties.

"Like a squabbling family that knows the festive season is approaching. They have to spend some time together but will go back to fighting with each other in the new year."

@SuzyJourno

[BBC The View @bbctheview]

"I honestly don't think the penny has dropped with our politicians..."

Grant Thornton Chief Economist @AndrewjudeWebb says a good week cannot undo a bad decade.

#BBCTheView

[Daractenus @Daractenus]

Theres a very long list of US products that cannot be sold in the EU thanks to EU regulations. Since the favorite pastime of the Trump regime and every US oligarch is now to demonize EU regulations, I thought it would be very much worth going through some of those products.🧵

[BBC The View @bbctheview]

"It's almost impossible", Dr Michael Perry, Vice President of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine, describes the daily toil of helping patients in emergency departments

[BBC The View @bbctheview]

"We are broken", Dr Clodagh Corrigan, deputy chair of the BMA in Northern Ireland, says it will take "a miracle" to bring back emergency care to an adequate standard.

[BBC The View @bbctheview]

"There's an unusually big gap" in NI between the care people are expecting and the care the system is able to give them, according to Mark Dayan from the independent health think tank, the Nuffield Trust.

[BBC The View @bbctheview]

"The Minister ...is saying the right thing but not following up with resources", the chair of the Stormont health committee Philip McGuigan says primary care needs investment and social care workers need their wage increase