Ronan Quinn

Pointy birds, oh pointy-pointy, anoint my head, anointy-nointy Tyrone native Belfast blow-in, studied in Dublin

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Illuminate your human nature

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@JonBurrowsMLA @Kilsally_Redux Why bother with any response? They said unity would be a leap in the dark cos there’s no plan. Once a plan is announced they dismiss it with empty nonsense like this. Nobody has EVER explicitly voted for the union so why is it the status quo?

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@AngelinaReagan7 Worth considering - how could there have been a Protestant majority before partition? Unionism was a minority that had a border drawn for the purpose of inventing a majority. 2 of the 6 counties included had Irish nationalist majorities and now, 4 of them do

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@EdwardThomasAd2 @chrisadonnelly We’ll never know if the British settlers would’ve been welcomed with open arms as immigrants because they literally did come as conquerors with replacement as the overarching project. Because they have this in their hearts they think all foreign immigrants must be the same

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@JonBurrowsMLA NI was invented because the UVF threatened violence if Home Rule was passed - ergo partition was always wrong too

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@51Batman @SuzyJourno @BelTel

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@danielmgmoylan @drphilipdixon Nothing but evidence for it. NI did not exist at the point which many claim the majority of its population didn’t want to be in the republic. Since there was no NI at the time, there was no such majority until a gerrymandered line invented one out of a minority.

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@fesshole

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@Glinner @football_ie Because you don’t understand the difference between criticism of genocide and antisemitism

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@licensetonotice @PearceEmly98400 @Lewis_Brackpool Is it because “Northern Irish” is a colonial identity that distinguishes the coloniser from the natives in a way that also precludes white peoplemof British descent from being Nigerians? Colonialism and racism. That’s the name of the game

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@licensetonotice @PearceEmly98400 @Lewis_Brackpool So why aren’t “Northern Irish” people just Irish? And since they patently are, how is Northern Irish anything other than just a feeling?

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@Lewis_Brackpool So then Northern Irish *is* just a feeling. Irish people have been native to Ireland for millennia. The “N Irish” identity has been cooked up in the past few decades & hasn’t really even been a thing for as long as that gerrymandered joke has. Where exactly are your goalposts?

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@SRAikenUUP @SageDespatches In the sea with you

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@dleighton91 Belfast has far stronger and more meaningful links with the rest of Ireland than it has with GB. Its name is Irish for one thing, but where’s your support for the Irish language? Nollaig shona

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@Matt_Pinner Reversing into a space designed for a car to fit into is less likely to present issues than reversing into an open space with people, moving cars, carts, whatever. Also, it just gets the more difficult manoeuvre done earlier. Why don’t people back into parking spots

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@irish_news Unionism doesn’t seem capable of understanding that the invention of their NI state was and still is the basis for fear and concern by Irish Nats in the 6. Our country has been split in two for a century and we have been held apart from our hinterland against our will since then

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@akpritchard_ @chrisadonnelly If the UK monarch needs to take administrative action in order to make a token gesture to global Catholicism, perhaps the UK isn’t the open, welcoming, progressive society it thinks it is 🤷🏻‍♂️ I’m personally agnostic but then so is the office of Uachtarán na hÉireann

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@PaulWil38543502 @chrisadonnelly Nothing done by the UI movement is done for the purpose of “turning the screw on unionism” The aspiration for a united Ireland is widely endorsed as wholly legitimate and the logical outworking of that is advancing an all Ireland agenda. It’s up to you to simply get over it

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@MichaelPalmerNI @StephenNolan UI supporters are told they don’t do enough to convince unionists such as yourself? It’s a constant criticism that UIers will try to address only to have suggestions scoffed at. If a UI come to be after these circumstances how would we as a society address that?

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@JamieBrysonLLB But you were born in Ireland and you live in Ireland. Belfast, Donaghadee, Bangor, Shankill. They’re all Irish words not English

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@JamieBrysonCPNI Any goon in the world can buy a GAA shirt in the high street without therefore representing the GAA. I don’t think you can buy orange sashes or band uniforms that easily