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Seán MacBrádaigh retweeted
BREAKING - High Court has granted interim relief to the Garvaghy Road residents, stopping the Orange march down Garvaghy road tomorrow, Sunday. #TeamPhoenix
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Seán MacBrádaigh retweeted
In Killarney today,in solidarity with the residents of Garvaghy Rd:
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Seán MacBrádaigh retweeted
The Irish govt. @GovIE Is fence-sitting again.
There is no proper democratic response to a sectarian Orange Order exercise in coat-trailing, using the threat of loyalist violence, except solidarity with those who lost their lives last time & the local community in Garvaghy road.
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Seán MacBrádaigh retweeted
Now that the bizarre decision to allow the sectarian Orange Order to triumphantly parade through the Nationalist #GarvaghyRoad, it behooves the @GovIE to fully support that community in their opposition to this fascist coat-trailing exercise.
This parade is designed to offend.
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Seán MacBrádaigh retweeted
Garvaghy Road was just too peaceful for some and residents needed to be reminded that supremacy and naked sectarianism is alive and kicking.
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Seán MacBrádaigh retweeted
My heart goes out tonight to the families of the innocent people who lost their lives to loyalist violence of Drumcree parades of the past.
This is a clear attempt to try to poison a peaceful society & bring sectarianism and supremacism to the fore again.
Orange Order Drumcree march opposed on ‘behalf’ of loyalist murder victims irishnews.com/news/northern-…
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Seán MacBrádaigh retweeted
How many children will have to die before unionism stops pushing the Drumcree parade?
More or less than the last time?
The irresponsible rhetoric from Sinn Féin and SDLP politicians does not go unnoticed. Predictably, that so-called ‘inclusive, accommodating new Ireland’ exists only as a fabricated hoax. Thirty-five Orange men walking along a road in silence is a threat to no one.
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Seán MacBrádaigh retweeted
This is what the Parades Commission approved.
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Seán MacBrádaigh retweeted
This is what the supremacist and most regressive elements of unionism want to see a return of.
Because they have nothing to offer anyone, in particular their own communities, other than the evaporating imperial delusion that they are better than you.
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Seán MacBrádaigh retweeted
🚨 Linzi McLaren speaking at The Lyric Theatre event organised by Ireland’s Future
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Seán MacBrádaigh retweeted
“If it’s a defence of Protestantism, why is it not needed in other countries where Protestants live side by side with Catholics…”
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Seán MacBrádaigh retweeted
‘Ireland’s behind us. Ireland’s standing for justice today.”
Breandán Mac Cionnaith, of the Garvaghy Road Residents' Coalition, addresses a huge crowd of Garvaghy Road residents and supporters who have gathered outside the Courts in Belfast again today.
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Seán MacBrádaigh retweeted
Sinn Féin’s John O’Dowd addresses a huge crowd outside Belfast High Court in support of Garvaghy Road residents.
People from right across Ireland stand fully with the Garvaghy Road community.
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Seán MacBrádaigh retweeted
A huge crowd again outside Belfast High Court this morning in solidarity with the residents of Garvaghy Road.
Sinn Féin stands fully with the Garvaghy Road community.
We stand resolute in defence of their right to live free from sectarianism and intimidation.
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Seán MacBrádaigh retweeted
Next up. Burnham appeals for calm in Brixton as 35 KKK get the go-ahead to parade through with just one burning cross
Prime Minister Andy Burnham has appealed for "calm" after the Parades Commission ruled that an Orange Order parade at Drumcree can go ahead this weekend.
He said it was a matter that had been “independently determined”.
Read more here: bbc.in/4hcwnJI
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Seán MacBrádaigh retweeted
In any other European country (including Britain), the Orange Order would not be a mainstream organisation that commands the support of multiple political parties
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Seán MacBrádaigh retweeted
Chris Bryant knows what he must do to avert an impending crisis. The Commission has buckled in the face of a loyalist onslaught & destroyed the credibility of the regulatory process.
He might be spared by the judicial review but, if not, he has a very serious problem.
Secretary of State @RhonddaBryant ‘a statement on the Drumcree ruling.
“It’s up to all of us in positions of political and civic leadership across Northern Ireland to do everything
we can to lower the temperature.”
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Seán MacBrádaigh retweeted
There is an issue at court. At present they aren’t letting journalists in. Please share widely. @NUJofficial #garvaghyroad
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