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[Stephen Morrison @Stephen63224725]

@SimonHarrisTD has essentially had himself written out of the scoliosis inquiry.
Convenient, isnt it? When accountability comes knocking, he seems to have made sure he wont be answering the door.
What an incredibly brave individual.

[Orlaith Maher-Lalor @LalorMaher33771]

Do not use privacy as an excuse @CarrollJennifer!
We were in the room with you when you tried to push a Commission & we refused & told you nothing other than a ‘Public Statutory Inquiry’ was acceptable & that was eventually agreed.
This is what u want, not us!
#JusticeForHarvey

[Eamon Melia @EamonMelia]

This inquiry is behind closed doors which is not what was promised and the timeline they are inserting covers up for Simon Harris because it is only starting from 2019.
Harris is a liar and a coward and must resign.
#JusticeForHarvey

[Aneta Safiak @AnSafiak]

As a mother of a child with complex needs I'm beyond words watching what's being done to @Stephen63224725 @GillSherratt23
Ppl responsible for Harvey's death are currently covering up for each other in a manner designed to break these two. Let's stay behind them.
#JusticeForHarvey

[Gillian Sherratt @GillSherratt23]

The absolute irony of @CarrollJennifer saying they want to protect children’s privacy. So many of us have not had the luxury of privacy as the failures in care and the harm they have been caused has forced up to already speak publicly to get this abysmal government to even pay attention!

#JusticeForHarvey #ResignHarris #PublicInquiry

[J.K. Lunden @Jklunden]

RESIGN HARRIS. #JusticeforHarvey

[catherine @catheri48786381]

@Stephen63224725 @marywallace07 #ResignHarris

[Stephen Morrison @Stephen63224725]

If we are not getting the only thing we asked for after Harvey’s death a proper Tribunal of Inquiry then we have no choice but to demand an end to the political career of the man who promised our children reform and failed to deliver it.
#JusticeForHarvey

[catherine @catheri48786381]

Exactly!

[Stan Myers ☮️❤️🌱 Punk Rock Vegan @StanzoMyers]

It’s no coincidence that just as Irish reunification is gaining traction and is getting widely supported, that for the first time in 30 years the parades commission allows a march down Garvaghy Road.
Causing tension and anger.
The british state playing its usual games.

[JM🇮🇪🇵🇸 @redoctoberirp]

Here’s another major point that the media haven’t particularly highlighted when it comes to Drumcree.

There is another route available to the Orange Order to return “home”, but they refuse to take it because it doesn’t provide the same element of triumphalism.

[MTB Mayo @MtbMayo]

@Niall_Boylan At least in the UK they get BBC ad-free for their licence fee.

Here, we pay 3 times:

Licence fee
Ads
Product placement

[Border Ireland for a United Ireland @border_ireland]

Has been 10 Irish Presidents, 2 were Protestants.
That’s 20% return from group that makes up just over 4% of population of South.

That statistic suggests it was more about Heather Humphreys than religion

Irish Times subtle campaign by insinuation against Irish Unity continues

[Owen Buchanan #StopTheGame 🇮🇪🔻☭⁴ @EireGalloglaigh]

Calm reminder that at the very height of the Cold War, at it's most dangerous, at its most hostile... Russia never once remotely threatened Ireland in any meaningful way.

Any notion that Ireland is under threat and must surrender its neutrality is pure shitetalk.

[The Irish Political Analyst @AhernHerbe8277]

I have always known that Mícheál Martin, along with most Irish middle class liberals of his age, are not only opposed to a United Ireland, but will also do anything in their power, by fair means or foul, to see it never happens.
No matter what the opinion of the public, north or south, is on the matter.
But I never thought he would come out and openly renege on the Good Friday Agreement.
A breathtakingly brazen disregard for democracy and the rule of law.

[catherine @catheri48786381]

Brilliant! 🎉🎉🎉

[Terry Rickard @terryrickard]

Incredible simultaneous video of commentary and race of #MarkEnglish Gold Medal win. @gregallen

[John003 @john003]

@rtenews Blue Shark

[John McKeown @irelandresource]

What a breathtaking exercise in selective self-reflection.

You spend an evening in West Belfast and somehow emerge qualified to diagnose an entire community as resentful, toxic and sectarian , yet where is this forensic concern when hatred and paramilitary glorification appear within loyalist culture?

More “do what we say, not what we do” politics.

We’ve just come through another July in which UVF/UDA flags and emblems, paramilitary memorials and bands associated with commemorating loyalist gunmen were visible in loyalist areas and across cities, for the victims of those terrorists to see.

Did you attend those events, scrutinise the crowds and write sweeping essays about loyalist children being exposed to the romanticisation of terrorism and sectarian division?

And the language is revealing: 10,000 people become Kneecap’s “Fenian Family,” conveniently allowing an entire predominantly nationalist crowd to be portrayed as hostile and radicalised.

Imagine the outrage you would have if someone attended the Twelfth, picked out its ugliest elements and declared that they represented Protestant and unionist society.

You say young people deserve better than being taught that political opponents are enemies. Absolutely. Perhaps start applying that principle to your own commentary instead of continually presenting nationalism as the source of Northern Ireland’s problems while treating loyalism’s very obvious history of sectarianism, intimidation and paramilitary glorification as somebody else’s fault.

Condemn sectarianism wherever it occurs. Condemn glorification of the IRA. But have the integrity to condemn UVF and UDA glorification with exactly the same enthusiasm.

Otherwise this isn’t bridge-building. It’s the same old “our culture good, their culture bad” politics dressed up as concern about reconciliation and trying to appease the sectarian bandwagon

[Paul Madden @paulmaddendotie]

Stop putting your bottles in the recycling bin. ♻��

We'll charge you 15 cent per bottle instead which you can recoup if you drive to a shop and put them in a different bin, which may or may not even function properly when you get there.

This is to save the environment.

It has nothing to do with private profiteering.

[Brian McDonald @BrianMcDonaldIE]

RIP Glen Hansard, one of the leading figures in an unusually rich generation of Dublin-based musicians who seemed, in the late 1990s and early 2000s, to have established an informal republic of song between Wexford Street and the Rathmines Road.

They included Gemma Hayes, Paddy Casey, David Kitt, Damien Rice, Lisa Hannigan, Dave Odlum and the late Mic Christopher, along with many others who possessed the talent but never received the luck, or chose the wrong themes. Such as the guy who once handed me a demo tape filled with strangely sympathetic songs about the Dublin crime boss Martin “The General” Cahill. A great many emerged from the city’s busking tradition, learning their craft in public, and making the city sound better than it smelled or looked.

Dublin was different then, it was poorer, rougher around the edges, but with room for young people to be ambitious and half-broke while they discovered whether they had a song or a story in them, and it was also much more fun. Today’s eye-watering rents and prices would scatter such a scene before it had time to form.

Cities often boast about the culture they produce while their officials set about destroying the conditions that made its production possible and Hansard and his contemporaries belonged to a Dublin that has largely vanished, and mores the pity.