Brogan

Welsh in Northern Ireland. 🇬🇧
Wife and Mummy. 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦
Pro-Union, pro-free speech, anti-woke. ✊️
Purveyor of finest low-status opinions. 💅

[Nina Power @Nina_Power_]

As their material and social standing decline, the middle class cling onto their melancholy. The worst thing of all would be to slip into the great morass of plebian populism, of a lack of taste, of local pleasures. One cannot believe the proles, because then one's superior sadness would be revealed to mean nothing at all.

[Elaine Mullally ☘️ @mullallyelaine]

Absolutely, it is not “far right” to react with revulsion to medieval savagery on Irish streets! One of the very few mainstream journalist calling it out! Brenda Power.

[David Frost @DavidGHFrost]

Why does it seem that the only land border in the whole of Europe that can’t be policed is the land border on the island of Ireland?

My @Telegraph column today on the weaknesses of the UK / Ireland Common Travel Area.

https://t.co/GAGK0P5tfI

[DUP @duponline]

The Common Travel Area is important and needs to be protected - that means protecting the borders of the Common Travel Area. It also means ending the farce of individuals being able to travel through three safe countries before claiming asylum in the United Kingdom.

[Brogan @broganmcclean]

@WrecklessGamer Noted for future reference😋

[Angelina Reagan 🌸🌺🌼 @AngelinaReagan7]

FYI to us Americans.

Northern Ireland remains a constituent country of the United Kingdom, having been created in 1921 when the island of Ireland was partitioned under British rule. While the rest of the island eventually achieved full independence as the Republic of Ireland, Northern Ireland stayed within the UK due to a historic, predominantly Protestant unionist majority.

[Lucy Hunter Blackburn @LucyHunterB]

Come back to me in 10 minutes, when I've decided whether I'm laughing or crying.

Her views on being a llama may have changed in the last 10 years. But she was 43 when she wrote that.

With thanks to @EmmJayYardley for sharing this with the class.

[Maitiu 🇮🇪 ☘️ @BelfastBatmann]

Morning all,

So hopefully some of you seen the interview and things I discussed

Gonna apologise about me on that’s my first ever TV appearance so was nervous,

As you know from Niall who started the GoFundMe for myself for a few pints we’ve actually made a GoFundMe directly for the victim Stephen. @SavvytheRumGod has also got something going on contributing towards this,

My GoFundMe has surpassed any expectation what we all seen and at least £10k is going directly to Stephen and his family we’re just trying to make sure you have the right people to set up as a beneficiary for this

Can’t thank you all enough for the support

Take care

[Tom Harwood @tomhfh]

The Home Office (with a sense of suicidal empathy) set up a fast track migration pathway for people from some of the most violent and war torn parts of the world.

This allowed the Sudanese Belfast stabbing suspect to be granted right to stay without an interview.

We somehow constructed a migration system making it incredibly hard for productive people from peaceful developed parts of the world to come here, while incredibly easy for non-contributing people from undeveloped violent parts of the world to be granted leave to remain.

This is insanity.

[Jennifer 🟥🔴🧙‍♀️🦉🐈‍⬛ 🦖 @babybeginner]

This woman is so brilliant. So articulate. So educated. She’s a joy to follow. This post about how silence isn’t consensus is spot on. I loved it.

[Susanne Delaney @SuzieD755164]

The little girl (then 5, now 8) cannot sleep. She cannot talk. She blinks to communicate. She got to use her voice for all of 3 or 4 years of her life before it was stolen. She cannot articulate a single word of her trauma and therefore heal, at least psychologically. Perhaps he stalks her in her dreams. She is trapped in her own mind. No way to share her worries, memories, dreams or thoughts of any kind. Her tears must be silent too. Her laughter as well. If indeed she laughs any more. She has to be sedated at times.

If all this isn't enough for you to say "enough" then I am afraid you are both inhuman and inhumane. She is just a little child. This was done to her because of the government and because of a grown man's minor grievance. A man who never should have been here. A man who still requires an interpreter after 26 years. A man who was reported to have seemed "cheerful" and "jocular" when it was put to him that what he did was gravely serious. He has shown no remorse. The victims and family are subjected to a trial. Not that the child can ever give testimony. 40 mins deprived of oxygen to the brain will produce that effect. Will silence your voice. Potentially forever.

[Fatima Gunning @fatima_gunning]

There's an image circulating online purported to be of the Belfast attempted murder victim, which shows a man with severe lacerations to his face. This image appears to be from a previous unrelated incident.