paul

Yorkshire man sampling the Guinness in Dublin since 2001 Leeds fan Ex Coal Miner ✊

[paul @northcider]

@Postvox my delivery is saying delivered but it has not been delivered CM113274142DE

[paul @northcider]

Trump and his tech CEOs are trying to make our government SLASH their tax. But @TaxJusticeUK has shown that cash could train 100,000+ NHS nurses! If you want our government to stand strong and say no, join me and sign the petition: https://t.co/C1Zsy4KdKQ

[BUCHANAN: Dublin Time Machine @RobLooseCannon]

On the night of the 9th of September 1982, thirty-one-year-old Declan Flynn left a pub in Donnycarney and walked toward Fairview Park. He was a young man from Whitehall who worked for Aer Rianta. Flynn was sitting on a bench in Fairview Park when five local youths, aged between fourteen and nineteen, descended on him. They were out, as they later put it, to “clean up the area of queers.”

They chased him, beat him unconscious, robbed him and left him for dead on the grass. Flynn was found and brought to Blanchardstown Hospital, but he died within an hour of admission.

When the case came to court in March 1983, it revealed as much about Irish society as it did about the attackers. Justice Seán Gannon gave the five suspended sentences for manslaughter, insisting that “this could never be regarded as murder” and praising the young men for coming from “good homes.” None of them would spend a day in prison for murdering Flynn. Its worth noting tragically in 1992 one of the five who had walked free broke in to a flat in Ballymun and brutally raped a woman. She was seven months pregnant.

The verdict sent a chill through Dublin’s gay community, but also sparked fury. Activist Tonie Walsh later recalled, “Pride grew directly out of the gay-bashing killing of Declan Flynn. There was such a sense of anger at the killing and disbelief that the thugs who killed him would get off scot-free that gay people started to mobilise in a concerted way.”

That mobilisation began almost immediately. After the suspended sentences were handed down, seven hundred people marched from Liberty Hall to Fairview in an event organised by the Dublin Gay Collective. It was not only a protest against Flynn’s killers but a demand for an end to violence against both gays and women, groups equally subject to everyday abuse and indifference.

The visibilty of so many LGBT people on the news, in broad daylight as it were was itself shocking to Irish society. Bonded by their outrage and desire for change, a community was formed.

The event lit the fuse on the Irish Gay Rights movement and that summer the first Dublin Pride took place, more protest than parade. Two hundred brave vanguards of equality marching from St Stephen’s Green to the GPO. Irish Pride was born.

[Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn]

This is genocide denial.

[Irish Unity 🇮🇪🇵🇸 @IrishUnity]

180 years ago today, the first effects of An Gorta Mór are reported.

To call this period in Irish history a famine dishonours the pain and untold suffering our ancestors endured.

British warships took the food of our land for profit while our people starved.

It was genocide.

[lozzyloz @lozzylozboz]

Irish people are great at forgetting things. This CANNOT be forgotten. #JusticeForHarvey

[Stephen Morrison @Stephen63224725]

This day last month me and @GillSherratt23 said our final good bye to the most amazing human being, Harvey. Never to be forgotten. #JusticeForHarvey #ResignHarris

[Tadhg @TadhgHickey]

This is my boat.

I don't fear the illegal, immoral, despicable entity. My only fear is that I'll be killed, and @rtenews and other craven western media will ignore irrefutable video evidence like this about the perpetrators, and continue to side with the serial killer's narrative.

[Harry Eccles @Heccles94]

The British establishment have all ready covered this new Banksy up.

Can we get it Retweeted 10,000 times to show that they can never cover up their complicity in war crimes??

Protect the right to protest! RT!

[paul @northcider]

@yousef_ki1 . 🇵🇸

[LUFC Trust @lufctrust]

Best of luck to @Patrick_Bamford for the future. Two title winner 👏 legend 💙💛

[paul @northcider]

Should the world’s richest man, Elon Musk have a slice of the UK energy market? I don’t think so, which is why I added my name to the petition to @ofgem demanding they reject Tesla's application to supply energy in the UK. Join me and add your name too? https://t.co/jOaZXGesLB

[Barry Malone @malonebarry]

Mariam Dagga, killed by Israel today, was an incredibly talented photographer. She relentlessly and courageously documented the genocide. I'm going to share some of her images. Graphic content included.

[paul @northcider]

@LailaPalestini1 Free Palestine 🇵🇸

[paul @northcider]

https://t.co/BqDXfDXcE4

[paul @northcider]

@Victoriamary @ShaneMacGowan 🇵🇸💚

[Ian Prowse @IanProwse]

This real life Nazi bastard Nick Tenconi (this is him throwing a sieg heil last week) tried to march through Liverpool today with his Union Jack bearing fascist followers.
We stopped them at every turn though with a big mobilisation of decent Scousers.

[JIM FITZPATRICK @jimfitzpatrick]

Time to reclaim Michael Collins from these cynical @FineGael @FiannaFail neocons who want us in NATO to feed their egos.
Every poll ever conducted show Irish people are 80% against joining this EU-NATO army to fight their endless arms industry wars, usually for Israel only.

[Leeds United @LUFC]

Milan 🛬 Leeds

[PuNk and Stuff @PunKandStuff]

Remembering the #Legend 'Joe Strummer" who was born on this day in 1952 #MissYouJoe