Politics views my own. Irish but 46 years in UK now retired to Ireland 🇮🇪

Mayo, Ireland
Don't take anything this clown says seriously. Not only does he follow @VintageUVF but he reposts & engages. I remember when he posted about me over a picture I didn't understand the context & I apologised for but cos of these two I got death threats 🤷🏻‍♀️
𝐈𝐑𝐀 𝐝𝐢𝐠 𝐮𝐩 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐢𝐫 𝐩𝐞𝐧𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐛𝐫𝐢𝐠𝐚𝐝𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐚 𝐛𝐮𝐬 𝐫𝐮𝐧 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐧 𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐝𝐞𝐬- 𝐚 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐚𝐜𝐥𝐞, 𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐩𝐢𝐧𝐧𝐞𝐝 𝐛𝐲 𝐥𝐞𝐠𝐚𝐥 𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐲 The latest Sinn Fein stunt is digging up a load of IRA pensioners to take them on a bus run to the Garvaghy Road to start threatening other parades. Firstly, our community will never be threatened or bullied. They couldn’t achieve it via a 30 year terrorist campaign, they’re hardly going to achieve it with a load of pensioners hobbling around. Secondly, they are legally illiterate and fail to understand the current ECHR landscape. If they reopen parading ‘accommodations’, it’s they who will lose out. The presumption now is in favour of traditional routes, unless an exceptionally high bar is met to justify interference, and when you apply that test, what the pensioner’s brigade are actually going to do is reinstate traditional routes they thought they’d eradicated.
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I will never get my head around how the Orange Order who see themselves as a proud organisation have allowed themselves to get mixed up with Jamie Bryson, everything he touches turns to shite & he's not even allowed on the Shankill🤦🏻‍♀️
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james fahey retweeted
Replying to @JonBurrowsMLA
I see you follow this @VintageUVF account Jon. A Twitter account that glorifies the terrorist organisation that your RUC colluded extensively with throughout the troubles. I guess old habits die hard eh.
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If you give it, you can take it and don’t shout victim
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Not a vote between them 😂 The First Minister on the otherhand supported by 10,845 Irish citizens 🇮🇪
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RTE used to play our national anthem, "Amhrán na bhFiann" (The Soldier's Song), on telly every night at the close of broadcasting. This started when Telefís Éireann (now RTE) launched in 1961. It likely sounds bizarre to the younger generations but the station would sign off for the night and the Irish national anthem was played dramatically by the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra, over a majestic montage of local nature and history as the official closing message. This tradition wasnt unique to Ireland. Many countries used their state run broadcasters as powerful tools for fostering a sense of national identity. In an Ireland, which had only achieved independence a few decades earlier, this was particularly significant. Playing the anthem was a way to reinforce national pride and sovereignty in a medium that was increasingly influential. It created a collective nightly ritual for the viewing public, a kind of reflective, communal moment like the Angelus only secular and before bedtime. The tradition eventually faded away for several reasons. The main one was the advent of 24 hour broadcasting so the concept of "signing off" for the night became obsolete. Another factor was the increasing commercialisation of media as RTE and other broadcasters faced more competition from private channels. The ceremonial act of playing the anthem felt increasingly anachronistic in a rapidly changing media landscape. The practice was eventually discontinued in the late 1990s. Personally, I miss it. I think in a country where multiculturalism is rightly celebrated, maybe we could all do with a symbolic nightly reminder that we are actually in Ireland and our uniqueness is equally worthy of unabashed celebration.
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Garvaghy Road Residents Coalition's Linda O'Neill demanded the Parades Commission explain how it reversed nearly 1,500 parade bans over 28 years. She said the community had "no other choice" but to stand up, adding that the dispute was "no longer just about the Garvaghy Road."
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RT @UTVNews: Residents groups gathered this afternoon on the Garvaghy Road as the Drumcree parade dispute continues. The message after tho…
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Brian Guthrie, principal of Ebrington Primary School in Derry, tells North West Today asking children to sit in a class wearing extra clothes is "ridiculous". "I'm not going be asking children and staff to put coats and hats on during the winter. We will be running the heat."
Staff and pupils at schools across NI told to "wear more clothes" to cut heating bills. bbc.in/4hKllu2
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james fahey retweeted
Replying to @Erudite4Unity
This is too funny, David, you literally wrote that the island of Ireland contains “people of two countries, the United Kingdom… and the Republic of Ireland.” Now you’re telling me the UK is a state. Exactly. That was my point. You’ve gone from “superior in every facet” to correcting your own argument and pretending I made the mistake. 😂 Maybe climb down from that intellectual pedestal before you hurt yourself.
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Replying to @Erudite4Unity
😂 😂 “Superior in every facet.” Jesus, David, imagine. actually typing that about yourself. All that supposed intellect and you still haven’t rebutted a single point, just insulted me for being Irish and a Nationalist You’re not demonstrating superiority, David. You’re demonstrating insecurity with a thesaurus. Off you pop, champ. You’ve embarrassed yourself enough for one evening. 😂 Slan
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Replying to @Erudite4Unity
Oh dear, indeed. That’ss quite the tantrum from someone who imagines himself intellectually superior. You’ve managed to write an entire paragraph without challenging a single argument or disproving a single point. Just a string of childish insults dressed up as intellectual superiority. And there’s the real giveaway. The moment you run out of anything remotely intelligent to say, you retreat into the tired old stereotype of the angry, stupid Irish nationalist. How very predictable. You seem to confuse condescension with intelligence, arrogance with authority, and your own opinions with established facts. For someone so desperate to portray himself as the cleverest person in the room, you’re doing a remarkable job of demonstrating the exact opposite. slán a chara
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📍The Doolough Valley winds between the Mweelrea Mountain & Sheeffry Hills along the Wild Atlantic Way between Leenane (Galway) & Louisburgh (Mayo) 🇮🇪 The scenery from start to finish is out of this world 🏞️ 📸 Visit Ireland #Mayo #Galway #Ireland #Doolough #Wildatlanticway
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james fahey retweeted
Replying to @Erudite4Unity
You’ve literally written “the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland” and still missed what the words mean. 😂 If Northern Ireland were simply “a country within Great Britain”, why does the official name distinguish Great Britain AND Northern Ireland? Great Britain is the island containing England, Scotland and Wales. Northern Ireland is not part of Great Britain; it is part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. So after trying to give everyone a geography lesson, you’ve managed to confuse Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom in one paragraph. The clue was right there in the name you typed.
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I replied to him thinking he was a councillor from Ireland. It does explain why I've never heard of him.
Replying to @ToddFergusonNAA
Cllr Ferguson,you may or may not want to look at this and see if you can't find a long enough line to fish out,from the bottom of that pit of supremacist hypocrisy,the bones of your settler ancestors' "God given"delusion that they are above the native Catholic people of Ireland.
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Replying to @Greenwytch3
The young lad forgets, that not too long ago, loyalism had a seriously close relationship with combat 18 and the national front who hated Jews, this fella is so far gone 🤦‍♂️
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Replying to @little_pengelly
Fair play, that's a fantastic investment and Jesus, it's great news for the manufacturing sector in NI, but come on lads 😂 Take some credit by all means, but at least tell the whole story. After Theresa May's disastrous 2017 election, the Conservatives were left with 318 seats and no majority. Suddenly, the DUP's 10 MPs were extremely valuable because May needed them to keep her failing government alive And that's where the Confidence and Supply deal came from. The DUP backed May's government and negotiated a financial package for NI worth around £1bn, alongside the commitment on City Deals. Nothing wrong with that either. You had leverage and used it. Fair play. But let's not rewrite history nearly a decade later and pretend the DUP personally delivered a £100m factory. Queen's, the NI Executive, UK Government, councils, universities and plenty of others might have something to say about that. Take the win lads, just don't take everybody else's as well. 😂
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A nice stroll along the river in Castlebar today.
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