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Bo Diddley Dobbin retweeted
This video of Charlotte Church calling out Chris Moyles shows just how normalised this shit obviously was. One of the BBC's biggest stars at that time could brag about it, the audience would simply laugh and he’d face zero consequences.
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We are regularly told by the DUP & political unionism that we are better off in the UK. How on earth are we better off in a place where there apparently isn’t enough money to make sure kids don’t go hungry?
Let’s be very clear - the issue is the desperate and impossible position the education budget is under - the Education Authority is £150m in the red and drowning with the demand that there isn’t money to meet.
This legislation will add at least mandatory cost of £25million plus per year on the Education Authority - that money simply isn’t there. A SF MLA grins at putting the cost on EA all while his Sinn Fein colleague Finance Minister refuses to guarantee the money for it.
So who will be paying for it? The parents who are already squeezed and having to pay more, while Sinn Fein add more and more cost that needs to be paid for.
Shocking financial irresponsible. It is deeply unfair on those parents struggling to pay for school meals and other costs.
Utterly reckless by Sinn Fein - and deeply unfair.
Bo Diddley Dobbin retweeted
Stormont can’t keep collapsing.
Every time a party walks away, ordinary people pay the price.
Today, @ClaireHanna asked Andy Burnham: Would this be tolerated at Westminster?
The SDLP has proposed reforms to end the deadlock. Better politics now. Towards a New Ireland.
Bo Diddley Dobbin retweeted
I’ve wondered why there isn’t a ni programme highlighting, covering the questions asked and the work done by our MPs in WM.
As always, a great and eloquent contribution from Claire.
The strength of debate v a PoC is a powerful point.
Reform is needed asap.
Stormont can’t keep collapsing.
Every time a party walks away, ordinary people pay the price.
Today, @ClaireHanna asked Andy Burnham: Would this be tolerated at Westminster?
The SDLP has proposed reforms to end the deadlock. Better politics now. Towards a New Ireland.
Bo Diddley Dobbin retweeted
One of the greatest and most haunting poems ever written, by Wilfred Owen:
Bo Diddley Dobbin retweeted
Exceptionally clear views of Islay and Jura from Inishowen Head this afternoon.
Bo Diddley Dobbin retweeted
Oh, look! Free advertising for his own new show outsourced to his very own production company.
Marvellous.
Today @StephenNolan interviewed Constables Anna and Adam about the new season of 'Peelers' - available to watch on BBC iPlayer now! @BBCnireland
If you want more behind the scenes on policing in Northern Ireland, then check out our podcast at orlo.uk/pdZ11
ALT Constables Anna and Adam taking part in an interview with Stephen Nolan discussing the new series of Peelers.
Bo Diddley Dobbin retweeted
Garvaghy Road protesters ‘did not act unlawfully’, says Policing Board expert
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Bo Diddley Dobbin retweeted
I could understand this if there was an attempt to amend the bill. But there wasn’t.
The UUP simply rolled in behind the DUP again.
Opportunity to attract people to unionism lost.
⛔️🗣NEW: 'I don't have a sectarian bone in my body. I've family learning the Irish language, I've no hostility to it' - Jon Burrows
⁉️@uuponline Leader @JonBurrowsMLA explains why his party is supporting a Petition of Concern against proposed Irish-medium education legislation brought forward by Sinn Féin.
🎤 When asked by Chief Reporter @jamesgould23 if he was anti-Irish, he replied 'absolutely not', insisting his concerns relate to 'duplications' within the proposed legislation.
He added that he felt it was important to explain his party's decision to support the Petition of Concern today.
Mr Burrows described the proposed legislation as a 'bad bill and electioneering by Sinn Féin.'
More on-air and online.
Bo Diddley Dobbin retweeted
Feb 12 2025 Stephen Nolan did a softly softly (omg, how are you keeping) interview with the Lisneal College principal after the outcry over the £700k+ award from DUP for a football pitch.
So when is he going to have an Irish medium school principal on for the same support?
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The Good Jobs Bill, the proposed package of employment law reforms in Northern Ireland, is not happening before the election Sinn Fein have confirmed. MLA Declan Kearney says ‘the DUP has destroyed any prospect of the Good Jobs Bill becoming law within this Assembly mandate.’
Bo Diddley Dobbin retweeted
when the lucid talk poll shows the situation is on a knife edge but you need the lucid talk poll to collapse stormont
EXCLUSIVE | The gap between support for Irish unity and Northern Ireland staying in the UK has narrowed in the past year.
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EXCLUSIVE | The gap between support for Irish unity and Northern Ireland staying in the UK has narrowed in the past year.
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📌 Keeping the Lines Open: The Story of the Peace Trains
📅 28 Oct-27 Nov
This exhibition at @thelinenhall explores the story of the Peace Train movement, using posters, photographs, correspondence and archive materials .
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