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There aren’t any regular immigration checks between Northern Ireland and Great Britain nor between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland. UK and Irish governments have an agreement to carry out intelligence based checks at sea ports, airports and the NI /RoI land border.
Replying to @b_judah
How does this work in practice? You can travel freely across the border between NI and the Republic of Ireland and only have to pass thru an immigration/customs check when you travel from NI to the main island?
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Have you seen this.
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@elonmusk Its time Northern Ireland had its own emoji Let's make it happen. Reshare if you agree ! 📲🔄
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A massive increase in those with a united ireland as a priority. Last month that number was so low it didn’t even register!!
Irish citizens mainly focus on housing affordability and availability, the rising cost of living, access to healthcare, and immigration policies. These issues and many others require urgent attention. A united island ranks low on their list of priorities for FG to promote as a significant event. It is all a distraction to divert attention from matters that truly concern the country’s citizens, which are not being addressed. It also makes the party appear as if it has run out of ideas.
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HOW BRITAIN REWARDS PEOPLE WHO TRY TO SAVE TAXPAYER MONEY: FIRE THEM Mike Kiely spent 22 years inside BT (@BTGroup). He knew how the telecoms industry operated. So when the government hired him as a consultant to oversee the £2.5 billion rural broadband rollout, he knew exactly what he was looking at. BT had won all 26 government contracts. All of them. Kiely did the maths. Installing a street cabinet in Northern Ireland cost around £13,000. On the mainland, BT was charging the government between £61,000 and £80,000 per cabinet. Public money covered roughly 77% of every single one. He suspected BT was simply inventing tasks and inflating charges to absorb as much public funding as possible without doing more work. So he shared his analysis with local councils. The people whose job it was to negotiate these contracts and spend public money responsibly. Then his document leaked to a broadband blog. The Department for Culture, Media and Sport trawled his internal emails, found what they needed, and sacked him. The man who tried to protect public money. Margaret Hodge (@margarethodge), chair of the Public Accounts Committee, told the Guardian (@guardian) she was getting increasingly concerned at the way whistleblowers were being bullied. She pointed out that hiding behind commercial confidentiality was denying the public the right to know how their money was being spent. Her committee later confirmed what Kiely had warned all along. Taxpayers had been ripped off. £1.2 billion had gone to BT shareholders. Kiely was eventually vindicated when a community in Oxfordshire paid £28,000 per cabinet. Exactly in line with what his numbers predicted was fair. He lost his job for telling the truth. BT kept every contract. This is what accountability looks like in Britain. The consultant who raises the alarm gets sacked. The company he raised the alarm about gets the cheque. Support whistleblowers. They are the only audit most public spending ever gets. SOURCES @BBCNews @TheRegister @guardian @margarethodge
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“Sinn Fein sought to portray the Manchester bomb as the work of hardliners…In fact, we now know, according to four separate security sources on either side of the Irish Sea, it was approved by the IRA Army Council” Special reporting from the great @tobyharnden — what a glorious commission by the Mill
It's always a pleasure to hear from a reader, and in this instance, a few months ago, the reader in question was @joshi. He's the founder and editor of Mill Media, an exciting and innovative enterprise that focuses on deeply reported, long-form journalism in the UK. It's showing us the future of news. Would I be interested in revisiting the Manchester bombing of June 1996, which he'd read about in my book Bandit Country: The IRA and South Armagh? Specifically, could I complete the story of who ordered, planned, and carried out the bombing? Anyone who knows me will not be surprised that I could not resist such a challenge. I didn't know at the time that it would involve returning to South Armagh, visiting the cattle shed where the bomb was mixed, and knocking on the doors of the IRA suspects in the case. The result is two articles (the link to the second one is in the comments) published by The Mill, the Manchester arm of Joshi's empire, this weekend. For the piece, I worked with investigations editor @cameronbarr, formerly of the Washington Post and one of the great editors of our time, and ace Mill reporter @jackdulhanty, riding shotgun with me as we crisscrossed the Irish border. The story is close to my heart because I grew up in Manchester. My father and brother were on their way to the Arndale Centre that sunny Saturday morning. Miraculously, no one was killed by the bomb—the largest detonated in Britain since World War II—but 212 people were injured, 13 of them seriously. No one has ever been prosecuted for the attack, and Manchester police, with exquisite timing the week before the 30th anniversary of the blast, just announced that their investigation has closed. But that doesn't mean that the story of who was behind the bombing cannot be told... manchestermill.co.uk/the-ira…
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FG is dancing to SF’s tune. It’s all about preening their republican credentials. However, they can publish as many greenprints as they like on Irish Unity - it won’t move the dial that matters. More likely, it will strengthen unionist resolve to neither be coerced or cajoled out of the United Kingdom!
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The Tartan Army are a credit to Scotland. Here they are in full voice singing ‘Loch Lomond’ in Boston Stadium last night for the World Cup match between Scotland and Haiti. Absolutely glorious.

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Has Rupert Lowe changed his mind on splitting the vote - in his own words every leaflet you deliver is a leaflet for the Labour candidate.
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If it stops this, even once, I couldn't give a shite what they label me.
Cormac on Brendan O’Connor @RTERadio1 claiming Northern Ireland is a racist society clearly missed the huge anti racism (20k ) rally yesterday in Belfast.
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Is it to be relocated at the Balls on the Falls, next to his favourite colonel?
Belfast City Council denies request for documents about Bobby Sands statue planning row irishnews.com/news/northern-…
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Can you read? Can you comprehend? The answer in NO! So why do this?
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Funny how some politicians in Northern Ireland now lecture everyone about protests, disorder and “responsibility” when they publicly backed and funded the Minnesota Freedom Fund during the George Floyd riots in 2020. This wasn’t simply support for peaceful protest. It was a bail fund for those arrested during the riots. A fund later heavily criticised after individuals accused of violent offences, rioting and weapons charges were bailed out. No responsible politician should support violence. But people are entitled to question the double standards from politicians who supported this in America, yet take a very different tone when unrest happens closer to home. The hypocrisy is staggering.
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For the day that we’re in. This seems appropriate. H/T @pete_porcupine
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Mass immigration is destabilising societies everywhere, but those in charge believe that pretending it isn't will make the problem disappear. Putting a lid on the volcano does not mean that it won't explode. This week's column on what happened in Belfast independent.ie/comment/opini…
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(PLEASE SHARE) I’m not exactly sure when police were allowed to start punching people in the face especially while handcuffed and detained! That’s assault #police #policebrutality
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RT @PoliceServiceNI: We made five arrests tonight, Saturday 13th June, in Derry/Londonderry after officers responded to reports of spontane…
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This is why there'll NEVER be unification #Ireland At exact same time as it was officially announced that the survivor of the attempted beheading Stephen Ogilvy was blinded. Traitors @sinnfeinireland and @pb4p were gathered having a singsong to let Islamists know they're welcome
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