Journalist. Lecturing @CityJournalism. Fan of legally complex stories.
Joined November 2009
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Jun 11
Butt out of Belfast Elon! @SFaoite @PatrickCorrigan and other brave volunteers spoke to me about the chaos, fear and loathing on the streets of our city for @bureaulocal thebureauinvestigates.com/st…
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Jun 10
Anyone monitoring Belfast violence: were any women spotted among the crowds of those enacting the pogroms of minority families? Or was it all men?
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Jun 9
RT @CarlJWhyte: I’ve spent this morning at Kinnaird Terrace and spoke to residents & witnesses of last night’s attack who are in complete s…
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Jun 1
Northern Ireland: Martin O'Hagan Family 'Fobbed off' as police ombudsman blocks publication of murder report - amnesty.org.uk/knowledge-hub… -
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RT @mehdirhasan: Solidarity with @NiallStanage, a great journalist asking important questions, something not enough people do that WH brief…
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19 Nov 2025
Just a reminder. It was the courts that found your Legacy Act unlawful. Any government would have had to legislate because so much of it was unlawful (and unworkable). There’s so little evidence-based analysis in the current debate. Here is a small plea for some, please.
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4 Nov 2025
Whatever your views on Israel/Palestine, Paul Givan went to an illegal settlement and used government resources to promote his visit.
The settlement is illegal under international and UK law.
Ignore all the noise, that’s what happened.
He’d be gone in any other jurisdiction.
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6 Oct 2025
One advantage of scrapping AS levels - it would give grammar schools one less excuse to kick students out to fiddle their league table place.
6 Oct 2025
AS-levels could be abolished in new plans that could change how Northern Ireland school pupils are graded irishnews.com/news/northern-…
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5 Oct 2025
We’d to force an emergency meeting of our local Policing and Community Safety Partnership just to get the PSNI to make actual arrests for illegal vigilante behaviour on Belfast streets, yet here they are in London cracking down on those campaigning for peace. Madness.
4 Oct 2025
BREAKING: Officers from the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) are policing the protest against the Palestine Action ban at Trafalgar Square, London.
Wouldn't it have made more sense to not arrest peaceful protestors, like other forces have done? Or lift the ban?
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This is interesting because in Northern Ireland, even though the UDA & UVF are both banned terrorist organizations, the police will not intervene if you erect flags supporting the UVF or UDA.
UK law is not applied equally across the UK or by the PSNI.
4 Oct 2025
BREAKING: Officers from the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) are policing the protest against the Palestine Action ban at Trafalgar Square, London.
Wouldn't it have made more sense to not arrest peaceful protestors, like other forces have done? Or lift the ban?
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30 Sep 2025
It would be really good to see video of Keir Starmer's conference address instead of just the sneering commentary. As the mother of a Covid baby who spent many days of my life trying to get my kid a dentist appointment and waited actual years to get her seen, 700,000 new dentist appointments since Labour have been in power would have had me cheering! It would have had me in tears thinking new parents wouldnt have had to deal with what absolute nonsense
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30 Sep 2025
Newspapers online still aren't optimising their video to at least show a decent edit. Im certain they have the talent to do this.
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22 Sep 2025
Met the son of jailed Palestinian leader Arab Barghouthi on Friday in Belfast where he unveiled a new mural calling for his father's freedom
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18 Sep 2025
protecting women and girls latest
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8 Sep 2025
One officer sexually assaulted her.
Another wrote her 4600 (!) text messages.
She reported it, more than once.
And the Army kept protecting the men who abused Jaysley Beck, not her.
It's very hard to believe that NOW the Army has "zero tolerance".
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5 Sep 2025
Right wing media has had it in for @AngelaRayner from the start - they couldn’t bear a working class woman being so powerful & dynamic. She made a mistake & has paid heavily for it. Hope she’ll return at some point in the future - our politics needs more voices like hers
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5 Sep 2025
Thanks to Angela Rayner, zero hours contracts will be banned, no-one will be subject to fire at will, no-one will be able to be fired and rehired, and no-one will lose their private rented home just cos their landlord wants them out. That's quite some legacy. Thank you Angela.
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4 Sep 2025
If only Angela Rayner had followed the Telegraph’s advice. Then they might not call her a hypocrite.
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5 Sep 2025
Because he is widely and deservedly loathed.
Conor McGregor wants to be Ireland’s next president — his campaign might not get off the ground time.com/7314824/conor-mcgre…
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5 Sep 2025
Absolutely loving the great people of England not accepting the fleg loonies taking over their country...and could we here in Belfast take some inspiration as our beautiful city is forced to resemble a BNP supporters club all the summer months
Have just witnessed the England flag bombers on the high street of my middle class, wealthy south east commuter town
I’m not going to lie. I lost it
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