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Retweet≠endorsement. British/Northern Irish. Pro integrated education. Pro choice.

Belfast/London
Joined December 2012
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So if @duponline calls for O'Neill and others to, minimum, step aside pending investigation of unlawful conduct on Garvaghy Road, how can they possibly claim it's an unreasonable position?
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🤣🤣🤣🤣 10/10 for combining an impressive amount of ridiculously contrived garbage and disingenuity into a single thread.
The fall out from Drumcree is really similar to what happened when apartheid fell in South Africa. Some, who couldn't deal with the new equality, even cited "human rights" but were actually arguing their "supremacy" was being oppressed. quick 🧵 1/5
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Replying to @JamieBrysonLLB
SF knows what it must do to avoid this crisis. I mean, they wrote the book on it. @duponline @PhillipBrett21
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Hearing a lot of commentary that Sinn Fein will be a big winner out of Drumcree. Bottom line is SF has shown it hasn't left threat of force & disorder behind. If people who decided to vote for them on the basis they have changed aren't concerned by that, we have a problem.
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Hearing a lot of commentary that Sinn Fein will be a big winner out of Drumcree. Bottom line is SF has shown it hasn't left threat of force & disorder behind. If people who decided to vote for them on the basis they have changed aren't concerned by that, we have a problem.
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This obviously landed square on Dermot's chin. He blocked me 🤣🤣🤣
Replying to @dermot_fin61165
The sisters have a legitimate grievance against your movement and have an incontrovertible right to truth and justice. (Both of which your movement continues to deny to them.) Your effort to what-about their cause is loathsome.
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Replying to @dermot_fin61165
The sisters have a legitimate grievance against your movement and have an incontrovertible right to truth and justice. (Both of which your movement continues to deny to them.) Your effort to what-about their cause is loathsome.
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This obviously landed square on Dermot's chin. He blocked me 🤣🤣🤣
Replying to @dermot_fin61165
The sisters have a legitimate grievance against your movement and have an incontrovertible right to truth and justice. (Both of which your movement continues to deny to them.) Your effort to what-about their cause is loathsome.
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Replying to @markbtuk
It’s Anarchy . Always has been . Violent Anarchists in ‘government’ is a perfectly conflicted model . It cannot work It will not work It never did work Anywhere on Earth . SinnFeinIRA are an agglomeration of anarchic gangsters & motor mouthed molls - serving themselves
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I actually can't believe O'Neill had the brass neck to include the highlighted 5 words.
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I have little inclination to get agitated about an orange parade. But it's reasonable to be agitated about a party in Govt, SF, openly & proudly declaring it's so superior to everyone else that it can decide laws don't apply to them whenever it suits. That's obscenely dangerous.
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The Garvaghy Alliance & commentariat have totally misread the impact 'Drumcree' has had on the middle ground of NI. Those with no affinity or sympathy with Orangeism for the first time recognise a venom exists against ALL who do not travel with Irish Republicanism & Nationalism
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Due to a significant incident outside of our control, there are currently no Heathrow Express services running. We are actively working to resolve the issue as quickly as possible. Current service information can be found here: heathrowexpress.com/service-…
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How is it possible for the speed limit on M2 countrybound - one of NI's busiest carriageways - to be slashed by 20mph with no announcement whatsoever? Bound to be people blind-sided by high vehicles who will miss a sign and get caught.
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A statement on yesterday….. Everything I said in that interview was true. However, rest assured I’m doing my best to turn things round. I have been in a mental health clinic for the last 10 weeks, finally discharging so I could attempt to play in Belfast I owed that to my family, in particular my daughter to see me play for what could be the last time….. I also owed it to the fans who have supported me throughout my 21 years on tour I also owed that to World Snooker who have been amazing from day on in all this, in particular Simon Brownell and Neil Tomkins who have remained in touch regularly, even Simon paying me a visit in the clinic itself I’m not ok, but I’m ok in that itself. I’ve been much worse in the last few months than you saw yesterday. I literally didn’t see a future in anything….. My daughter kept me going, the therapists, staff and all the other patients were amazing and helped me through some really dark days I see the light now that I couldn’t see before but I do now. I also know it won’t happen overnight. I’m a work in progress!!! My fight and determination on the table has always been there for ones to see. I need to show those same fighting qualities off it now for a while Please don’t detract anything from Jordan yesterday, he’s been aware of my struggles and that can’t have been easy to play in but he handled it with grace and skill as I knew he would. Im proud to call him a friend I hope the rest of the event is a success and I will continue my treatments going forward and then see what’s ahead Thank you to every single message I have received on here, instagram, Facebook, text messages and WhatsApp’s, I’ve seen them all but a bit overwhelmed to reply right now. Just know that they have helped me a lot but I’m not going anywhere just yet!!!! I have so much to live for and this is only the beginning of my new journey Also, I was not made to do any interviews, I was simply given a choice and felt I owed it to everyone to speak. The media team at WST have been incredible through all this too Thank you all x
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Genuinely one of the most heartbreaking interviews I’ve seen of a sportsman at rock bottom. The interviewer gives a perfect example of how to be there for someone struggling. The compassion shown. The hug. The kindness. Hope Mark gets the help he needs.
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Mark retweeted
Replying to @markbtuk @mgtruth
I have too busy a day to spend any part of it engaging with your disingenuous cherrypicking to deflect from the uncomfortable position you've placed yourself in here. Here's what you used to tell us. I wonder what changed. Have a good day.
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Replying to @DeclanKearneySF
We reject your attempts to drag us back to the bad old days of governance by crowds on the streets. There can be mo more of this dangerous nonsense and your party should pay a price for inciting it.
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