Mark Forker

Journalist currently based in Dubai. Big sports fan. Former Heart of Midlothian and Finn Harps player.

[Owen Jones @owenjonesjourno]

As Israel massacres a hundred Palestinians in a school:

Never get used to this. Never normalise this. Never stop being shocked.

[Sen. Bernie Sanders @SenSanders]

My colleagues gave repeated standing ovations to Netanyahu yesterday.

I hope they remember the starving children of Gaza who will carry the scars of this disaster for the rest of their lives.

[Owen Jones @owenjonesjourno]

Israel bombed this school while kids played football.

At least 29 have so far been reported killed, many of them children.

Don't look away.

[Mark Forker @forker_mark]

@OwenJones84 God help him ❤️❤️💔💔

[Owen Jones @owenjonesjourno]

There are 20,000 Palestinian kids in Gaza estimated to be “lost, disappeared, detained, buried, under the rubble or in mass graves.”

That’s on top of the 14,000 kids who are officially classed as killed.

That’s according to a new Save The Children report.

Genocide.

[Mark Forker @forker_mark]

I don't like putting too much pressure on any young player but Gavin McAteer is outstanding.

He completely changed the game and was at ease in that environment.

Great to see talent like that coming through the Academy - and credit to Darren Murphy for playing him.

[The Time Out Podcast @TimeOutPodcast7]

A piece from my latest podcast with former Finn Harps player @forker_mark.

The topic of conversation was in relation to Harps' player Gavin McAteer who had impressed Mark during the 1-1 home draw v Athlone Town in early June.

Full podcast
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https://t.co/Gkw2dvuGky

[John Cusack @johncusack]

Staggeringly brutal

[Owen Jones @owenjonesjourno]

He watched two fisherman in Gaza shot dead in front of him.

That's while trying to deliver aid for 10,000 children in northern Gaza - which Israel then denied permission for.

Please listen to UNICEF's @1james_elder. Don't let Gaza be forgotten.

[Mark Forker @forker_mark]

A big thanks to @Tonymac07 for having me on his Time Out Podcast.

Tony is a gentleman and had to listen to me chat some mince. 😂

Subscribe to his channel if you can - the old podcast game as I know from experience is hard work!

[The Time Out Podcast @TimeOutPodcast7]

NEW PODCAST NOW AVAILABLE
EP 91

Feat @forker_mark.

I chat to Mark about his work as a journalist, and much more including his soccer story, which saw him sign for Hearts as a teenager. He also played over 100 times for @FinnHarpsFC.

Full podcast
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https://t.co/Gkw2dvu8v0

[Lowkey @Lowkey0nline]

Long live Mick Wallace and Clare Daly. Champions.

[JonnyUtd @Fx1Jonny]

I think Clare Daly is right, who agrees?

[Paddy Bradley @PaddyB14]

Hard to believe what we are watching here. There aren't enough words to describe this

[Joe Brolly @JoeBrolly1993]

The major world powers have supported and enabled this. They have lied pathologically, supplied the weapons, savagely censored criticism, and worst of all pretended to be concerned about the Palestinian people, all the while allowing their annihilation.

[Mark Forker @forker_mark]

@OwenJones84 Can @JuliaHB1 and @EylonALevy spin this?! 🧐

[Mark Forker @forker_mark]

@muhammadshehad2 @EylonALevy

[Mark Forker @forker_mark]

@EylonALevy And hundreds celebrated on the beaches in Tel Aviv.

But I thought Israel was at war?

I thought the country was in a desperate fight for its survival.

Looked like good fun at the beach and anything but a country at war.

Please stop murdering innocent women and children.

[Mark Forker @forker_mark]

@ShaykhSulaiman @EylonALevy @JuliaHB1

[Sulaiman Ahmed @ShaykhSulaiman]

CHILDREN ON GAZA REPORT 2015

IT DIDN'T START ON OCTOBER 7TH

[Mark Forker @forker_mark]

@OwenJones84 @JuliaHB1