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Among rushes, lakes & drumlins
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Seán MacBrádaigh retweeted
Astonishing and dishonest for Helen McEntee to claim government has mandate to remove Triple Lock – @Donnchadhol
"The Irish people only passed the Nice and Lisbon treaties on the back of explicit guarantees that Irish neutrality was protected – the Triple Lock was at the heart of those guarantees. That position has not shifted one inch."
sinnfein.ie/news/astonishing…
Seán MacBrádaigh retweeted
No. 10 knowing back in 1973 that the UDR was hopelessly infiltrated by the UVF and UDA, and actively engaged in murder, remains one of the most existentially shocking facts to emerge from the conflict. IMHO.
👉NEW -- Detective: Murder gang got guns from British army
by @AnneCadwallader
Sean Farmer was shot dead by off-duty soldiers and police in Northern Ireland during the Troubles, court told
declassifieduk.org/detective…
Seán MacBrádaigh retweeted
GOVT MISINFORMATION ALERT - If Ireland deploys DF to proposed ‘EU Support Mission’ to Lebanon without Triple Lock -It will NOT be a Blue Helmet Peacekeeping Mission -It will be an EU (Von Der Leyen ‘We Stand With Israel’) Peace Enforcement Mission to Disarm Hezbollah -A CIVIL WAR
Seán MacBrádaigh retweeted
Independent Dublin Bookstore "Books Upstairs" has agreed to donate all funds from the sales of books by Sally Rooney to the humanitarian organisation Medical
Aid for Palestinians. 🇮🇪🇵🇸
Books Upstairs is the oldest independent bookstore in Dublin.
#sallyrooney #palestine @sally_rooney
Seán MacBrádaigh retweeted
The question Fianna Fáil won’t answer in their push to abolish the Triple-lock neutrality protection.
Why are they afraid to put it to the people?!
Seán MacBrádaigh retweeted
Micheál Martin has finally met his toughest opponent on the triple lock: Micheál Martin.
Well, he did invite us to go back over his record
Seán MacBrádaigh retweeted
My open letter to Conservative Party MP David Davis regarding his dangerous & disgraceful IRA lawyer comments.
Seán MacBrádaigh retweeted
As the Dáil debates removing the triple lock on overseas troop deployments, Lord Martin of Cork South-Central offers the nation some reassurance:
Seán MacBrádaigh retweeted
Through an accident of birth, Micheál Martin enjoys the freedom won by generations across Ireland
Yet for decades, he has told citizens in one corner that his freedom is not for them
History will judge him harshly
If the approach to the failed talks to resolve Drumcree had been followed by those who negotiated the Good Friday Agreement, “nothing” would have been agreed, the Taoiseach has said. belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/…
Seán MacBrádaigh retweeted
This was Lockharts constituency, one of her constituents, a young Catholic mother under sectarian attack by 2 loyalists. She never raised it in the House Of Commons, with the CC, said absolutely nothing...🙄
#Garvaghy #Drumcree #OrangeOrder
Seán MacBrádaigh retweeted
Unionism's former leader - the most self-rightous of them - has been jailed for child rape. Of course they're going to throw dead cats on the table. Cynical. Disgusting. Sin é.
Seán MacBrádaigh retweeted
The only guns on the street in the last few weeks were the UDAs in Coleraine. The DUP and UUP said nothing.
DUP leader Gavin Robinson has called for the “full picture” over any potential threats to police officers or Orangemen, which could have contributed to the decision to ban the Drumcree parade, to be made known.
itv.com/news/utv/2026-10-17/…
Seán MacBrádaigh retweeted
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The DUP has displayed considerably more indignant passion about a single act of civil disobedience on the Garvaghy Road than it has about three decades of post-GFA murder, extortion, human trafficking and drug-dealing by the UVF/UDA. The same UDA/UVF that provided the muscle
Seán MacBrádaigh retweeted
Can we expect Carla and the DUP to take the same line with PSNI risk assessments on loyalist paramilitaries? Riots, bonfires, paramilitary flags, have been left in place due to loyalist paramilitary threats. The garvaghy road protest was entirely peaceful.
Seán MacBrádaigh retweeted
The characterisation of the large numbers of people - from diverse backgrounds - who exercised their human rights to protest peacefully and to free expression - in relation to the Garvaghy Road - remains highly problematic.
A pause for reflection may be wise.
Seán MacBrádaigh retweeted
Dozens of masked militant Israeli settlers have burned olive trees and thrown rocks at Palestinians in a coordinated attack on a West Bank village's annual harvest. At least two people were injured in the incident, including a journalist
rte.ie/news/middle-east/2026…
Seán MacBrádaigh retweeted
“Media exposure was critical to aiding this campaign by sustaining the pressure cooker atmosphere within which the commissioners were operating during this critical time period”
~Chris Donnelly
The Irish News
☕️🥐
Seán MacBrádaigh retweeted
The Parades Commission met the UVF/UDA to discuss the Garvaghy parade. Both organisations are active, armed and engaged in a wide range of criminality, from murder to trafficking; from extortion to ethnic cleansing.
The DUP has asked the Chief Constable for a report on the IRA.
