Paddy Matthews / Pádraig Mac Mathúna

Weary rural cynic viewing the world through a fog of snark.

Get Vaccination Done.

[Paddy Matthews / Pádraig Mac Mathúna @PaddyMatthews]

@mjc0ughl4n They could have done that at any point over the last 28 years. Better still, they could have done it after the murder of Michael McGoldrick during Drumcree '96. They and their confederates Bryson and Lockhart are not interested.

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@MeathGuerilla @marwood_lennox I'm thinking here of one very loud pro-Likud-bordering-on-Kahanist poster who was RTing Tommy Robinson's Belfast UVF pogrom schedules back during the summer.

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@marwood_lennox It's quite noticeable that Independent Ireland and Aontú, both domiciled in the real world, have taken quite a different stance on Drumcree from the Online Likudniks. (Although both of those are considerably more moderate than the Online Irish Right to begin with.)

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@namesnotkrindy Go to the south-east via Rosslare. Wexford, Waterford, Kilkenny all have lots of medieval stuff and Wexford has very nice beaches (Curracloe).

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@anspailpin

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@newhandlehun @Dli_ODoir The only word of caution I would put in here is that Paisley Sr. was similarly viewed as a buffoon in the mid-60s but successfully caused a lot of damage and (indirectly, while keeping his own mitts clean) a lot of lost lives. And this is the 60s Paisley playbook being rehashed.

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@anspailpin It may well be all that, but the pot-stirrers will try to replay the strategies of the late 60s to hold off the evil day a little longer and are capable of doing a lot of harm in the process.

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@anspailpin This is viewed as being the foot in the door, which once granted, will allow them to barge through on a permanent - and larger-scale - basis given precedent. The pot-stirrers have been given their chance by the stupidity of the PC.

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@anspailpin Gavin Robinson has already said that "the Garvaghy Road is no longer closed to Portadown District". The people who have been pushing for this (Bryson, Lockhart, et al) do not view this as a once-off for half-an-hour on a random Sunday morning.

[Paddy Matthews / Pádraig Mac Mathúna @PaddyMatthews]

Jerusalem Post, (British) Daily Telegraph, Times of Israel.
Not much of a fan of either the Journal or the Examiner but singling them out for covering this story is every bit as deranged as the StopTheGame loons who spent the last week trying to harass and intimidate our players.

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@marwood_lennox Loving You.
Una Paloma Blanca.
Mississippi.

You have now idea just how awful the 70s were.

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@marwood_lennox Seasons In The Sun.
I've Never Been To Me.
One Day At A Time.

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@aigne_aighne Netanyahu fandom is not so much a niche as a crevice constituency.

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@aigne_aighne There's been a pro-🇵🇸 protest going on locally for the last year or so on Friday evenings and the numbers have notably dropped off in recent months, so you might argue that it's low *salience*. But the balance of opinion even among low-engagement voters is strongly against him.

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@marwood_lennox @leap_dog The figure among the independents who probably has been the most publicly hostile to immigrants - other than O'Flynn - has been the ex-PD and current junior minister Noel Grealish.

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@marwood_lennox @leap_dog (e.g. Philip Sutcliffe and Aisling Considine respectively)

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@fitzr1189 @MeathGuerilla I think you underestimate Harris's cynicism and FG's underlying ideological (pre-Garret, Bruton) base. If he thought he could sell anti-foreigner sentiment without losing the Yummy Mummies and Centrist Dads in SoCoDu, he'd do it in a heartbeat.

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@marwood_lennox Prijedor/Omarska rather than Srebrenica but yes.