nah not today

[Billy Boys Art @Albertz_55]

💥Spare Me the Lectures on “Weaponising Children”💥

I’ve seen Eoin Tennyson’s comments. The DUP has used a Petition of Concern on a Sinn Féin bill about Irish-medium education, and suddenly it’s “a new low,” “punishing children,” and “playing politics with education.”

Let’s cut through the moralising.

This is not about children learning Irish. It is about a political party that spent weeks defending and participating in the obstruction of a lawful Orange parade now expecting unionists to nod through every piece of legislation they bring forward as if nothing has happened. Gavin Robinson has been clear: this is part of the response to Sinn Féin’s conduct over Drumcree. That may be blunt politics, but it is not some unhinged attack on schoolchildren.

Alliance love to present themselves as the reasonable middle. Yet every time unionists use the mechanisms available to them under the current system, it is framed as chaos, stunts, and fragility. When nationalists push cultural and language measures, it is presented as progress and rights. That double standard is wearing thin.

Irish-medium education already exists. It receives funding. Parents who choose it have that choice. A workforce plan may or may not be necessary. What is not necessary is the pretence that any resistance to a Sinn Féin private member’s bill in the current climate is an assault on children. That is emotional blackmail dressed up as principle.

If Tennyson and others are genuinely concerned about children being used in political battles, they might also look at the broader pattern of cultural assertion that treats unionist identity and British culture as something to be managed, diluted, or apologised for. The Irish language has become heavily politicised. Pretending otherwise does not make it true.

I have no objection to people learning Irish. I do object to the constant framing that any unionist pushback on related legislation is bigotry or a culture war. The Petition of Concern exists for a reason. Using it when trust has collapsed is not the outrage it is being painted as.

If Sinn Féin want cooperation on education bills, they might start by showing some regard for the rule of law and for the other community’s rights and traditions. Until then, lectures from Alliance about “weaponising children” will continue to ring hollow.

The real low is the selective outrage.

#IrishLanguage #DUP #Alliance #Stormont #Drumcree #PUL #NorthernIreland

[Mark Wilson @MarkWilson1980]

Thought of the day

Sinn Fein NI have been very vocal recently regarding the DUP and Ulster Resistance....the same bunch of scummy PIRA supporters go very quiet each time they are asked about Sinn Fein and the PIRAs activities during "The Troubles" when they murdered 1704 people!

[Willow Brown @UKing1690]

@moneillsf

[nah not today @nah_not_today79]

🤣😂🤣😂😂🤣😂🤣 get this 👇 Not in anybodys lifetime is this going to happen. Get off that crack pipe ya cunt yee🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣

[Chud Chuddinson 🇮🇪 @GaelicChudsRise]

After the vote for reunification passes, you people will probably run around and have a riot or two, maybe you’ll even hold a protest outside of stormont while banging on a drum or something.
However kicking and screaming like you’re a toddler having a temper tantrum isn’t going to change anything.
Ireland will eventually reunify, and you people will either integrate into our society, or perhaps a bunch of you will decide to start leaving the 6 counties altogether for the UK, either way a bunch of people from the republic will also start moving up north, further reducing your share of the population.
Eventually the entire “Ulster-Scot” identity will cease to exist and will become nothing more than a relic of the past.
Maybe if you’re lucky you’ll get a small section in Ulster museum about what was once ‘Northern Ireland’ and how it came to an end 🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪

[Jack of Hearts @Jack_of_Hearrts]

This is a tough watch...

Stephen Parker was 14. When he spotted an IRA bomb in a car on Belfast’s Cavehill Road on Bloody Friday, he ran from shop to shop shouting a warning.

He was killed trying to give other people a chance to get away.

His father, Joseph, went in to identify his body while his mother, Dorothy, waited outside. He said he couldn’t recognise his own son.

Dorothy remembered how Stephen could never sit still. She used to tell him to be quiet. “Now I just wish he was here making all the noise again.”

The Provisional IRA took a brave boy from his parents. Whatever they thought that bomb would achieve, listen to his mother and ask what could ever have been worth that.

[Jack of Hearts @Jack_of_Hearrts]

The Provisional IRA used the cover name Direct Action Against Drugs to claim killings of alleged dealers AFTER their ceasefire.

Now Sinn Féin MPs turn up in support of @KNEECAPCEOL , a group that raps about MDMA and cocaine.

Quite a journey from execution to putting them on the guest list.

[FGAU @PurpleStandard]

They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old

Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn

At the going down of the sun and in the morning

We will remember them.

[Unitedulsterman @Unitedulsterman]

What has Ulster's budget got to do with this foreign non-British citizen!

[Jack of Hearts @Jack_of_Hearrts]

😂 Ah Gerry, how convenient. A history lesson on terrorism with half the history missing.

IRA, PIRA, OIRA, CIRA, Real IRA, New IRA, INLA, IPLO, Saor Éire, Óglaigh na hÉireann, Arm na Poblachta, RAAD, DAAD, Republican Action Force, Republican Defence Army, People's Republican Army, People's Liberation Army and Catholic Reaction Force.

Quite the collection of republican organisations, splinter groups and aliases, isn't it?

And here's the awkward bit: republican paramilitaries were responsible for more deaths during the Troubles than loyalist paramilitaries.

Loyalist murder was terrorism. Republican murder was terrorism. No amount of selective statistics changes that.

But do carry on, Gerry. It's fascinating watching someone demand the full history while conveniently leaving half of it out. 😂

[Bart Lad @BartLad69]

@BelTel Current members 🤔
So they exist... Against all the lies we're told

[Jack of Hearts @Jack_of_Hearrts]

Ah, Pat, the sarcasm is priceless. A former Provisional IRA member, twice jailed for IRA activity, now lecturing everyone about the use of lethal force.

Remind us, Pat, what rules of engagement did the IRA operate under when it was planting bombs and shooting people? Or was accountability only ever meant for the other side?

That’s that then. 🙄

[nah not today @nah_not_today79]

Question. What da fuck has any of that got to do with the DUP? And i think its alot more serious when the FM and others in SF/IRA are breaking the law and their pledges of office than your average joe on the street throwing stones. You wouldn't get away with it in any other job.

[Brehon_is_Best (Paul Larkin/Pól Ó Lorcáin) @Brehon_is_Best]

Poisonous race riots in Unionist areas, widespread attacks and intimidation of 'foreigners', alleged far right terrorism being planned, and the DUP spouting about the rule of law and pledges of office.

[nah not today @nah_not_today79]

We have our identity. We are proud to be NORTHERN irish and part of the UNITED KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN. 🇬🇧

[Celt_Bhoy_1888 @1888_CelticBhoy]

Ulster Scots has a long history tracing its roots all the way back to 1998 when it was made up to give unionists an ethnic identity because they aren't Scottish, English, Welsh and they don't want to be Irish!
#MadeUpShite

[Willow Brown @UKing1690]

@DeclanKearneySF Are you literally having a laugh, we’ve seen exactly how we’d be treated in a any new Iraland

[Marley @FightHypocrisy1]

Sinn Fein: ah, unionists won’t condemn this type of terrorism.

Unionists: nah, we’re happy to condemn this and all terrorism. Can you do the same?

Sinn Fein: *tumbleweeds

[Phillip Brett @PhillipBrett21]

I condemn the discovery of these weapons without hesitation. No place for terrorism or extremism.

Is Sinn Féin trying to distract from the recent BBC documentary on Robert McCartney’s murder and the IRA’s involvement?

Condemnation must never be selective.

[Jack of Hearts @Jack_of_Hearrts]

Bloody Friday (Part 1) brought devastation to streets across Belfast. The IRA’s bombs killed and injured Catholics and Protestants alike—ordinary people going to work, catching a bus or doing their shopping.

Behind those words were families torn apart, survivors left with lifelong injuries, and ambulance crews, firefighters and police facing scenes they would never forget. The people who rushed to help did so without knowing whether another bomb was waiting.

You cannot plant bombs across a crowded city and pretend to care whose lives you destroy. Those caught in the explosions had no choice, no protection and no warning they could necessarily act upon.

There was nothing noble about it. Nothing to romanticise. It was indiscriminate terror, and neither the passage of time nor political success can sanitise it.

Michelle O'Neill said there was no alternative...

[Bart Lad @BartLad69]

Unionist leaders should ask "I seen naffin" Hargey to condemn the McCartney murder and come forward with all the information she may hold.

[Cate✝️🇬🇧🌺💙 @shankill_heart]

We Will Remember Them 🌺