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Marcas Mac an Tuairneir. Gaelic Editor @northwordsnow / Polaris, Cruinneachadh, Speactram OUT NOW / #Gàidhlig #Gay #Genderqueer / My views, here (he/him/e/esan)

New Album - Speactram - 29/07
Joined January 2012
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WHY IS THERE CONTINUING LOCAL MEDIA INACTION AROUND THE DUP'S LONG OVERDUE 'INTERNAL REPORT' INTO JEFFREY DONALDSON? I have highlighted this previously, but local media outlets still remain virtually silent in terms of questioning the DUP Leader Gavin Robinson to explain why his publicly launched 'internal report' into Jeffrey Donaldson has still not seen the light of day. The Report which is being conducted by @JimGamble_INEQE was due to be completed in July 2026, but it is now over four months late. No definite date has yet been provided as to when this report will be published. (Or even if it will definitely be published by the DUP). There have to be very serious questions asked to @duponline about the reasons for this delay: 1. Why have details of this report not been made public, particularly when further serious police investigations continue into Jeffrey Donaldson? 2. Has Jim Gamble actually even completed this report, and if not, why not...? 3. Have any DUP Members raised any concerns or incidents regarding Jeffrey Donaldson to date in this enquiry, and if so, have the DUP referred them to the PSNI and any other statutory agencies? Local Media should really be pressing DUP Leader Gavin Robinson about this continuing & unexplained delay. HENRY JOY. @duponline @BBCNewsNI @UTVNews @bbcradioulster @BBCgmu @bbctheview @BBCTalkback @BelTel @irish_news @News_Letter @williamcrawley @UTVNews @MarkCarruthers7 @PaulClark_UTV @GRobinsonDUP
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What's conveniently left out here is the fact dear old Mr Hutchings was on trial for murdering an unarmed man with learning difficulties by shooting him in the back There's no crime so barbaric and heinous that British "patriots" won't defend if it was committed by a soldier
Dennis Hutchings was 80, in a Belfast dock, on dialysis between hearings, answering for a shot fired in 1974. Forty-seven years. He died of Covid before the case finished. The 2023 Act was meant to stop anyone doing that again. Conditional immunity for those who cooperated with the truth body. A line drawn, finally, under men in their eighties. On 21 January 2026, Division 417, 373 to 106, Phillipson voted to take it away. Eighty-eight Conservatives went the other way. Two hundred and fifty thousand served in Northern Ireland. The Northern Ireland Secretary says prosecutions have been “very, very small.” Correct, and beside the point. Small is not the same as closed. Here is the thing about the ultimate sacrifice. The dead are finished. Nothing further can be done to them. It is the survivors who get fitted for courtrooms at eighty, and the post is written as though a poppy settles it. She voted to reopen it, then remembered them.
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Scarva? The Palestine march passed on a towpath, not through town, it was actually unlawfully blocked, trailers etc were place blocking the route & slurry spread on the route. Then masked men intimidated the march with Carla Lockhart with them, chatting. irishnews.com/news/northern-…
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All of this. Ross knew the lot and it's time for everyone else in their circle to squeal too.
Yesterday, over 550,000 people read my post exposing the carefully managed PR statements hiding the David Walliams scandal. Today, the cowardice of the British media establishment has reached an entirely new level. Jonathan Ross just released a public statement claiming he is horrified by the allegations against Walliams and the crimes of Russell Brand. He actually expects the public to believe he spent two decades sharing green rooms and VIP parties with these men while remaining completely blind to their behavior. Look at the exact historical record they are trying to erase right now. In 2004, Ross stood on a live stage at the British Comedy Awards and explicitly joked that the 15-year-old award was drunk and probably going home with David Walliams. There is literally a photograph from 2003 showing Ross and other elite broadcasters smiling for the camera while Walliams sits right next to them with his arm draped around a teenager he is now accused of pursuing. You do not broadcast jokes about 15-year-olds going home with a television star to millions of viewers unless the entire industry already knows exactly what the punchline means. The British entertainment industry operated as a closed protection racket for twenty years. They turned predatory behavior into profitable television ratings and laughed off the abuse as cheeky celebrity banter. These presenters are not releasing statements today because they are shocked by what Walliams and Brand actually did. They are releasing them because the expensive legal injunctions are finally failing, and they are terrified the public is coming for the enablers next.
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Why is it that every time there's footage of one of these well-heeled, institutionally-protected media nonces, there's @wossy alongside, cracking jokes about underage sex and other forms of rape. Absolutely minging. He has two daughters who were teenagers at the time.
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Just 4% in it now. Still too soon for ''unity poll'' as there is no stable majority for unification in the North just yet. But it is coming. Time to prepare - north and south. The FG blueprint published at the weekend sets out some of the next steps that should be now be taken. It is timely and welcome 🇨🇮☘️😀
More results from the LucidTalk Autumn26 NI 'Tracker' poll (3,989 sample, NI rep. sample) as reported in the @BelTel today (9/11) - Q6: If there were a referendum (i.e. a ‘Border poll’) on the constitutional position of Northern Ireland today, - How would you vote?
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Minority language signage is only 'divisive' if you are observing it from a position of xenophobia, or perceive the use of that language to be a threat to your own. The fact is that multilingualism is normal across the world. People will still speak Engwish tomorrow.
The same people who present themselves as Rosa Parks for standing as part of the Garvaghy Mob, are seeking to force the imposition of unwanted and divisive Irish signage down the throats of unionist communities. These people are the true sectarian supremacists. I can’t imagine such signage will have a long shelf life, but who knows.
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This is pure gold! Abdul El-Sayed trolling Trump and JD Vance after winning Michigan’s Senate race: “JD, habibi, there is this delicious irony in the fact that you’re constitutionally obligated to swear me in, in January.” “Donald, look, I know you struggle with my name, so after JD swears me in, you can just go on and call me Senator.”
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In 2022, history was made when the people gave me a mandate to be their First Minister. And I stand here today every bit as much First Minister as I was on that historic day when I took office. The DUP’s efforts to disrupt me in my role as First Minister are undemocratic, supremacist, and rooted in their inability to accept a nationalist First Minister.
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I'll be honest: I don't care. And I'm not alone. This place has no Budget and my constituents are fed up being told that DUP psychodrama is more important than their public services.
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Mark Spencer Turner retweeted
I grew up in Lagan Valley and I've had a front row seat to the DUP my whole life. Over the last decade, political unionism led by them made a number of grave miscalculations. At the heart of this is the fact that they claim to care about Northern Ireland, yet have taken many decisions that have damaged it. They want things their own way. Not the way that makes NI prosperous or cohesive, not with all communities in mind, no- it's about what they want. In doing so, they have actually consistently harmed the union. And they hate me pointing it out. But I think people deserve to know. 1/
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Séamus thinks if he says 'mob' enough times, it becomes true and the images of Carla in Scarva and Big Gav in Dundonald disappear one by one. Of course, they don't, and nobody anywhere in the UK or across the world buys this tosh outside their loyalist echo chamber.
John Finucane apparently believes in the rule of law. This would be the same John Finucane who stood in defiance of the law as part of a terrorist inclusive mob.
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**Gaelic Celebration Evening in London** Come along to hear from Gaelic poet Marcus Mac an Tuairneir and the London Gaelic choir. 21 November, as part of this year's London St Andrew's Book Festival. London Gaels assemble! gaelicinlondon.net/events/ga…
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My brother was killed at Coagh in 1991. Soldiers were referred to the PPS over operational planning and destruction of evidence. Calling them “brave veterans” answers nothing. Does your rule of law apply to British soldiers, or only to everyone else?
The IRA were terrorists, not soldiers. Their campaign of murder and bombing was not a war of equals, and no amount of historical revisionism will ever make it so. Labour’s Northern Ireland Troubles Bill risks allowing the IRA to rewrite history while British veterans face the prospect of being dragged through investigations decades after serving their country. Where is the accountability for the IRA? Where are the answers from the Irish Government about those who fled across the border, the support they received and the supply of weapons? I served in the British Army. My friend, Captain Robert Nairac, was murdered by the IRA. His body has never been recovered. His family still deserves to know what happened to him and where he lies. The IRA cannot be allowed to portray its campaign of terror as justified by the Good Friday Agreement. Peace does not retrospectively legitimise murder. There is no moral equivalence between terrorists and those who served to uphold the law. This Bill is a betrayal of our veterans and of families still waiting for the truth.
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His brother was IRA terrorist Pete Ryan killed en route to assassinate an unarmed part-time UDR soldier at his workplace. SAS fired after an AKM rifle was aimed at a decoy. Coroner ruled lethal force justified bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northe… en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coagh_amb… Belfast Court of Appeal dismissed judicial review as "ludicrous" telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/04/1…
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The case of Stephen McConomy was raised at Westminster as Colum Eastwood reminded MPs how 26% of children killed during the Troubles died at the hands of British soldiers or police. trib.al/CjAZwNL
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To put all of the recent discourse from Unionist Political Parties about the "Provisional IRA" into perspective:- Can anyone point me to the "outrage" from ANY of the main Unionist Political Parties, when over 1,000 (current) members of the UVF lined the streets of the Newtownards Road in East Belfast in June 2024 in a "show of strength" ? The hypocrisy from the DUP, the TUV and the UUP is breathtaking. All of these Parties who preach from their political pulpits about "law breaking" have indulged the continued existence of Loyalist Terrorist organisations. All of them... @duponline @uuponline @TUVonline @GRobinsonDUP @JonBurrowsMLA @JimAllister @BelTel @BBCNewsNI @UTVNews
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Across the UK and the rest of the world it's clear to see a United Ireland is only reasonable closure to all of this. The Westminster occupation of the north becomes a bigger albatross daily. The only people hanging on are a minority in loyalism and the football terraces.
Sinn Fein want to destroy Northen Ireland and unionism should be very wary of those who want to assist them. They’re very quick to identify the first step – but then what’s the plan? Don’t be led down an alley by someone who doesn’t know where they are going.
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If you're going with a literary reference, at least get it right. Yeats didn't blame either side, but the fanaticism carried by all - a poem about owning your own intemperate speech. She need look no further than Lockhart, Robinson and Bryson, who started the whole sorry affair.
Today is the day that any concept of a “New Ireland” died. The lies, spin and promises. It was always nonsense, and that had been laid bare. I never want any discord. I want to build a brighter future for Northern Ireland - for all of us. I work to that every day. I believe every person in this place I serve sees that. When others, including the First Minister and her party, have behaved with utter recklessness and disregard for stability and our institutions, I believe in responsibility. I have always embraced those who are different from who I am, and endeavoured to show respect. I have witnessed the tradition I come from treated with such utter contempt and hatred. “Little room, Great Hatred” that is what I’ve seen. That is what we have all saw with our own eyes. I come from the Orange tradition. I am deeply proud of the warmth, compassion, depth and richness of that tradition. All of our traditions come from particular aspects or “sects”. By its very nature, they are “of “something and not “of” something else. They are exclusionary by the very nature of it pertaining to the particular tradition, beliefs or views of some, but it is not exclusionary by experience or engagement. Every religious order or community is exclusionary by doctrine, but not by outreach. We all deserve respect. That respect and tolerance threatens no one. It is hard to believe I have to explain the basics of this so many years after the principles of the Glorious Revolution and our human rights and civil rights frameworks, but here we are. I have been deeply, deeply offended by the way my traditions and culture have been described, treated and expressed. The behaviour, and jubilance tastelessly and appalling shown by some tonight only shines a light on their intolerance, hatred and ignorance. I will never be goaded into punishing the people of Northern Ireland for the reckless of Sinn Fein. But I am disgusted and furious of those who have played to their base and not for what is for everyone. In this election you have a choice - choose those who want Northern Ireland to work, and those who do all they can to make it so.
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So let's look at what Jim Alister said when talking about Sanitizing the Garvaghy Road. 'In sociology, history, and political science, the act of using medical, hygienic, or sanitary metaphors to describe human populations is a common mechanism of dehumanization'
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'What's yours?' is the operative question. Guarantee that gimp Bryson hasn't read any of these. Or Lockhart Do they think anyone alive 80s, 90s, 00s didn't watch the news week in week out? That we've never visited? That our own ancestry doesn't matter? We exist because of it.
As i commented on the Garvaghy Road and relief that 'common sense' had prevailed. I was then regaled by the bigots and knuckledraggers with 'What do you know about Ireland and Irish history . Let me help you out there 🤣🤣🤣 @IrishUnity @Fni_film @NorthernIreland @mancirish
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