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[charlie mc laughlin @charliemac53]

320 jobs for Belfast yesterday , 20 for Derry and Stabane . Invest Belfast . SF looking after the North West again . Shameless shysters.

[Derry Journal @derryjournal]

Business case approved for ‘jewel in the crown’ Invest NI Derry office. “I cannot announce just yet where the new office will be, but it will be in Derry. It is going to be a very modern, future-focused office."
https://t.co/Ezynd4OxwZ

[Steve Bradley 🇺🇦 @bradley_steve]

@CircleLineBT How would it physically get to West Belfast? Sounds like an absurdly expensive way to do what ordinary rail could do almost as well for tiny fraction of cost. And that's before we get onto the absurd East-West imbalance in NI's transport infrastructure, which should be priority

[Garrett Hargan @GAHargan]

And excuses can be thrown out about the court case etc.

That doesn't explain why a government allows drinking water & public health to remain at risk for a quarter century.

A government should take action to remediate an environmental disaster in parallel with legal action.

[Into the West Rail @Into_The_West]

Pressure is growing over the blatant timetable discrimination against Derry & the West on Derry-Belfast rail line. It's the most outrageous example of NI's Two Tier Transport - where the East gets over-investd & West gets largely neglectd. Time 4 @LizKimminsSF & @DeptInfra to act

[Scotland’s Story @80_mcswan]

If you want Baroness Michelle Mone removed from the House of Lords and to repay the £136,000,000 owed to taxpayers, please RT!

[Mickey Deehan @MickeyDeehan]

@GAHargan And One Line In And Out

[Into the West Rail @Into_The_West]

Our Annual General Meeting (AGM) is being held tomorrow (Sat 23rd). Full Derails below. NB : It & the tour beforehand are for members only - so please join & attend if you want to see better rail across #Derry, #Donegal, #Tyrone & #Fermanagh.
To join = https://t.co/JSe8ymBfNc

[Garbhán Downey @Garbhan_D]

Handled properly, this could be the saving of Derry.
The @RIAdawson blueprint - of a cross-border NWU, independent of Belfast - is now firmly on the agenda.

[Ronan Campbell @RCampbell88]

@derry_group @CArchibald_SF @ColeraineChron "And the government's insistence on expansion in Derry are contributing to ‘continued financial strain posing ‘risks for the medium to longer-term financial viability’ of the University." What utter bollox! So it's not because of the ridiculous spend on the new Belfast Campus?

[Garrett Hargan @GAHargan]

And it's because I state facts and figures that UU has me on an exclusive blacklist.

A higher education institution refusing to even acknowledge any query from a journalist.

They get hundreds of millions from the public purse and think they can avoid scrutiny.

[Garrett Hargan @GAHargan]

Reminder:

Unis are a primary reason that investment is disproportionately concentrated in Belfast.

Our politicians allowed 84% of students to go to one city - absolutely scandalous decision-making.

Belfast is then positioned to suck up health, infrastructure, arts funding...

[Garrett Hargan @GAHargan]

'Private capital investment in NI over £380m last year'

Interesting.

But, is this another case of NI being a codename for Belfast...

I'd like to know how much was spent outside Belfast.
I'd guess very little.
Stormont decisions ensure that's the case.
https://t.co/8u2u2a0HLY

[Damien McKane @DMcKane33]

@derryjournal Min @LizKimminsSF has prioritised both the Derry Rail Upgrade and A5.

The lack of connectivity and infrastructure has been missing for decades, and under various parties - so let’s see both commenced ASAP!
#Rail #A5 #Infrastructure #Derry #Donegal

[Derry University Group @derry_group]

Our turn next.
Time to dissolve UU into the NWU and the GBU.

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

When Junior Doctors are on £16 an hour and MP's are on £46 an hour.

And raising the Junior Doctors pay by £4 an hour is unaffordable, even though they just raised MP's pay by £5 an hour.

It's hard not to see the lie.

RT if Junior Doctors NEED paying.

[charlie mc laughlin @charliemac53]

Try Santander Steve . What a set up there . 👏👏

[Steve Bradley 🇺🇦 @bradley_steve]

On a Basque Country footballing tour, & packing the games in 👍 Got 3 under my belt today. First up was @RealUnionClubIrun B Team in the Basque regional league (Tier 6), hosting the football team of the Basque institution that is @MondragonCF. Real UnionB hav a hell of a stadium!

[James Hogg @JamesAHogg2]

I was watching a few episodes of Michael Bentine's Potty Time over the weekend, and my favourite was this one about King Arthur. It features a French knight riding a dog, a very Welsh wizard, simese twins with several screws loose, and a dragon that doesn't like rain.

Good morning.

[Garbhán Downey @Garbhan_D]

Important article by Tom Collins in the @irish_news today, arguing the case for the root-and-branch restructuring of higher education in the North and a better deal for Derry.
https://t.co/vAt1PPP9kq

[Derry University Group @derry_group]

It will happen – but not under UU.
The Minister is, rightly, unable to entrust further funding to UU, which hasn't the capacity (or oversight) to develop campuses in Derry and Belfast concurrently.
It will happen when we implement the RIA report and establish a cross-border NWU.

[Garrett Hargan @GAHargan]

I emphasise that point in the piece below.

Investment in Derry is outsourced for others to handle, whether it's through the Irish Govt, EU or City Deal.

Very little by the way of major capital investment comes from Stormont.

Shocking & unacceptable.
https://t.co/rBMPOYHvNw