Maddens Bar Belfast

The BEST traditional Irish music bar in Belfast!!

[Seán Uladh🍉 شون من أيرلندا @SeanUlidia]

FUCKING STINKS.

[Dónal O'Connor @doconnormusic]

North of Here by Mary Dillon, Neil Martin & Dónal O’connor https://t.co/8moBPOXNl3

[An Dream Dearg 🅾️🦸🏽‍♀️🦸🏻‍♂️ @dreamdearg]

Journalists will rightly ask: "Why has the UUP applied different logic to the use of the Petition of Concern against legislation for Integrated Education in 2022, and legislation for Irish Language Education in 2026?"

We all know the answer. 🐊

[Pádraig Ó Tiarnaigh @potiarnaigh]

Ag caint le @RTERnaG luath ar maidin maidir le veto aontachtóirí ar Bhille reachtúil Gaelscolaíochta sa Tionól.

[John Finucane MP @johnfinucane]

Unionist parties have blocked a Sinn Féin bill aimed at ensuring Irish language schools have enough teachers & staff to meet growing demand.

Children learning through Irish deserve the same rights & opportunities as every other child.

That shouldn’t even be up for debate.

This anti-Irish bigotry has no place in our society.

There is no going back to the past.

[The Irish News @irish_news]

A human rights advisor to the Policing Board has said nationalist protesters did ‘not act unlawfully’ by blocking the Garvaghy Road.

Read more: https://t.co/anDxtxE26X

[Siobhán McConville. Craigavon Two #JFTC2 @siobhan1916]

#JFTC2

[An Dream Dearg 🅾️🦸🏽‍♀️🦸🏻‍♂️ @dreamdearg]

🚨 NEW: An Coimisinéir Gaeilge Pól Deeds setting out his opposition to the use of the sectarian veto to block support for Irish Medium students and schools 👇👇👇

[An Dream Dearg 🅾️🦸🏽‍♀️🦸🏻‍♂️ @dreamdearg]

🚨CONFIRMED:

The DUP & UUP will not deploy the Petition of Concern against free school meals.

The DUP & UUP **WILL** deploy the Petition of Concern against Irish Medium Schools.

😡A minority protection being turned into a sectarian veto to block support for Gaelscoileanna😡

[Think32 @think__32]

The man who said this just signed the DUP's Petition of Concern to block Sinn Fein's Irish Medium Education Bill

Listen not to watch they say, just watch what they do.

#JoinTheConversation
#think32

[John Finucane MP @johnfinucane]

40 years ago, Ulster Resistance was established with the involvement & public support of senior DUP figures.

Today, I spoke at the launch of a report examining Ulster Resistance’s establishment, the weapons it acquired & the devastating consequences that followed.

Those families whose loved ones were murdered with weapons imported by Ulster Resistance are still waiting for answers. They deserve enormous credit for refusing to give up.

Between 1988 & 1994, at least 98 people were murdered using Ulster Resistance weapons, including in sectarian loyalist attacks on Catholic & nationalist communities.

Will the DUP leader Gavin Robinson help these families get answers about the DUP’s involvement in Ulster Resistance & the imported weapons?

That means answering serious questions about the roles of senior DUP figures at the time, including Ian Paisley, Peter Robinson, Sammy Wilson & Jim Allister, among others.

[Piarais Mac Alastair @piarais91]

DUP blocking a bill to help Irish-Medium school children is pathetic, we all deserve better than this nonsense.

[An Dream Dearg 🅾️🦸🏽‍♀️🦸🏻‍♂️ @dreamdearg]

This time last week the DUP UNANIMOUSLY agreed £100,000 for dual-language signs in Belfast & a monthly pack of around 50 street signs.

This week they are vetoing Irish Medium Education legislation.

Why the change of heart? 😬👀

[Henry Joy @DiscipleElland]

These are some of the school children of Gaelscoil Éanna who have today become 'legitimate targets' of The DUP, The UUP and the TUV.

Wonderful Irish Medium pupils who are tonight at the forefront of a disgusting and co-ordinated sectarian attack by @JonBurrowsMLA @little_pengelly @timothygaston and all of their respective Party's at Stormont.

Tonight is a new low for Unionism on this island.

Shame on everyone single last one of them...

@duponline @TUVonline @uuponline @GRobinsonDUP @JimAllister @JonBurrowsMLA @DianeForsytheNI @paulgivan @little_pengelly @gordonlyons1 @RobbieButlerMLA @JBuckleyMLA

Photo credit @ATownNews

[An Dream Dearg 🅾️🦸🏽‍♀️🦸🏻‍♂️ @dreamdearg]

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[Irish Unity 🇮🇪🇵🇸 @IrishUnity]

🚨 BREAKING - Incredible United Ireland results in Lucid Talk poll!

55% either support a United Ireland now, or may support a United Ireland sometime in the future

The next election will be a huge opportunity to send a strong message that change in the North is unstoppable

[An Dream Dearg 🅾️🦸🏽‍♀️🦸🏻‍♂️ @dreamdearg]

The mask slipped.

It's smells like anti-Irish sectarianism.

The UUP, 2022. The UUP, 2026.

[An Dream Dearg 🅾️🦸🏽‍♀️🦸🏻‍♂️ @dreamdearg]

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[Declan Kearney @DeclanKearneySF]

The DUP has now destroyed any chance of passing the Good Jobs Bill into law.

It has turned its back on every working family in the north.

It has exposed itself to be anti-worker, anti-trade union, & fundamentally opposed to progress

#workersrights #equality #fairpay

[Conradh na Gaeilge ⭕️ @CnaG]

“Today’s announcement that the DUP will deploy the Petition of Concern in the Assembly this week to block and veto the Irish Language Workforce Planning Bill is scandalous. History tells us that when the DUP is faced with an intense internal crisis, they turn to attacks on the Irish language. In 2016, they removed the cross-community Líofa Gaeltacht bursary to deflect from their RHI scandal. A decade on, and the same DUP Ministers seek to block and deny legitimate Irish Language legislation designed to support the staff and teachers in Irish Medium Schools amidst the amazing growth of that immersive education sector. There is nothing radical about legislating for equitable and equal treatment for Irish speaking schools. The basis for this bill has come directly from schools themselves, who have lobbied tirelessly for a very modest statutory process to ensure they have the staff to meet the demands of their ever-growing classrooms and staffrooms. No party should be supporting this attempt to misuse the Petition of Concern as a sectarian veto against 7,000 Irish speaking students. That will punish every school and every child in the Irish language sector. The Petition of Concern was conceived as a mechanism to protect minorities. Using it in this way is an outrageous abuse of that mechanism. We will support our schools, teachers and young people in anyway we can as the campaign to achieve genuine equality from the state continues.”