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The SDLP wants to shut down Stormont and move the Assembly to a “more appropriate and more accessible” building in Belfast city centre. The party argues that its plan will “bring democratic decision-making closer to the people it serves”. Read more: tinyurl.com/2knmnzym

1,019 adults, surveyed online between 9 and 26 October. Views taken across 17 days. How people felt at the beginning may differ from how they felt at the end. 3% margin of error. While the trend is most certainly accurate, I would treat the precision of these figures with caution.

That's the irony klaxon sounding.....

Jamie, you're some buachaill. The gift that keeps on giving, thank you..... BREAKING NEWS: Jamie Bryson has discovered that the police possess intelligence. Evacuate Stormont and somebody get the man a documentary series on Netflix. You've gone from “the PSNI has intelligence concerning the PIRA” to “the police are under republican influence and covering it up” faster than it usually takes you to comment on here about something FFS, Jamie. Intelligence isn't proof of operational control, and refusing to disclose sensitive information publicly isn't automatically evidence of a conspiracy. But here's where the comedy really starts. The PSNI also raised concerns about potential loyalist paramilitary violence around Drumcree. Yet strangely, that didn't trigger one of your keyboard meltdowns. Not a peep about loyalist influence. No demands to bulldoze Stormont. No emergency declaration that democracy has collapsed. Meanwhile, the UVF and UDA haven't exactly packed their bags and moved to Bundoran. Loyalist paramilitary gangs are still intimidating communities, dealing drugs, extorting businesses, and exercising gangster-style control over the very people they claim to defend. But sure, why worry about actual families living under paramilitary intimidation when you can spend another afternoon chasing the ghost of Gerry Adams around Stormont? And Jamie, here's the bit that really deserves its own comedy special. You spend half your waking life demanding that the Shinners answer for its historical relationship with the IRA, yet you've had your own well-publicised associations with loyalist figures and have previously defended the UVF as “counter-terrorists”. And how's the self-appointed role as loyalism's great saviour going? You told everyone that either the Orange Order would march down Garvaghy Road or the Executive would fall. Well, the Executive is still standing, the OO didn't get its march, and you're still on X announcing the collapse of civilisation every time somebody opens a court file. We can slowly see people within unionism starting to ask whether this constant sectarian bile is helping them or is it making unionism and the OO look increasingly incapable of accepting that other communities have rights. Because what exactly are you offering society? All you are offering is another grievance? Another history lesson from a book? Another thread explaining why everybody except Jamie Bryson is responsible for the latest crisis? I am sure in your head, you think you are saving Loyalism/unionism, but there's a perfectly reasonable question of whether your brand of endless rants is doing the Orange Order and wider unionism more damage than any nationalist protest ever could. And being the loudest fella in the room doesn't make you the voice of a community. Sometimes it just makes you the reason everybody else has a headache. Now, before the next BREAKING NEWS announcement, perhaps have a cup of tea, put the phone down, and remember that not every police document is the beginning of the fall of Stormont.

Calling millions of people “uneducated morons” while complaining about abuse. The irony is staggering. You want facts? Try the ICJ, ICC, UN investigators and human rights organisations documenting Israel’s conduct in Gaza. Condemning war crimes isn’t antisemitism. Demanding accountability isn’t hatred. For someone lecturing others about facts, you’ve offered nothing but insults, sweeping generalisations and breathtaking hypocrisy.

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What an absolutely disgraceful and ignorant accusation to make about an entire nation. Ireland's opposition to the Israeli government's actions in Gaza is not hatred of Jews. Criticising a state, condemning the killing of civilians, and demanding accountability under international law is not antisemitism. Jewish people are not collectively responsible for Israel's actions, and suggesting that they are is itself a deeply troubling conflation. Ireland has a long history of opposing oppression and supporting human rights. That includes the rights and safety of Jewish people, Palestinians, and everyone else. Antisemitism is real; it is vile, and it should be confronted wherever it appears. But casually accusing an entire country of hating and banning Jews, without a shred of evidence, does absolutely nothing to combat it. You live in Los Angeles, yet apparently feel entitled to lecture an entire nation about its identity. Perhaps start by learning the difference between criticism of a government and hatred of a people, and maybe stop listening to bad actors who use Ireland as a scapegoat to cover for what's happening in Gaza, shameful.

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Jesus Christ, what fecking century did you crawl out of? Are you for real? You could have challenged Amanda Ferguson’s reporting, maybe even questioned her journalism or offered a single intelligent argument. But Instead, you launched into a pathetic, misogynistic rant about an entire generation of women apparently having the audacity to speak their minds. Who the feck appointed you the authority on what women are allowed to say or do? Amanda Ferguson is perfectly entitled to express her views, challenge people and ask uncomfortable questions without some self appointed guardian of male authority throwing his toys out of the pram. The irony is also off the charts . Here’s a man exercising his freedom of speech to complain that women have too much freedom of speech. You genuinely couldn’t make it up. And the most embarrassing part? You actually typed that rubbish, presumably read it back, and thought you’d delivered some devastating intellectual blow. It’s 2026, not 1926. Women don’t need your permission to have opinions, and Amanda Ferguson certainly doesn’t need your approval to do her job. If you’ve evidence of poor journalism, have the balls to produce it. Otherwise, spare us the prehistoric bullshite lectures about women knowing their place. You’re revealing considerably more about your own attitudes than you ever will about Amanda Ferguson. Absolute Muppett

I’d love to explain, but eye witness accounts and the photographers own testimony wouldn’t be enough for someone as thick as a bull’s Walt like yourself. When eyes & ears deceive you - when your judgement is that blindly clouded it’s best just to sit back and spectate.