Mingling among the Belfast rioters, I saw a child being led by his father’s hand to get a better view Sam McBride 🖊️ belfasttelegraph.co.uk/comme…

You can hear the full unedited audio of loyalist paramilitaries (unsuccessfully) ordering me out of 'their' area, with film footage shot by the Sky News helicopter capturing part of the incident. These are the people we need to reject - not foreign nurses. belfasttelegraph.co.uk/video…

Today I am announcing that @FineGael will develop a new blueprint for a Unified Island for our Ard Fheis this November The work will be led by the Fine Gael Northern Ireland Engagement Group and facilitated by the very excellent, academic Professor Deirdre Heenan.

somehow managed to get both the Belfast pogroms in 1920 and the burning of Bombay Street into an 800 word article for the Independent i wanted to make a very clear connection between what we’re seeing happening to ethnic minorities in Belfast and across the six counties with the experiences of our parents and grandparents living under the repressive auspicious of the orange state mostly because I wanted to remind people who might be lured into the traps of racist ideology that our history, and the history of our people, is very much structured by an opposition to those same mechanisms of oppression i knew when all this kicked off that people in West Belfast wouldn’t take the bait, that the anti-colonial, anti-racist politics that runs through the collective consciousness is too firmly ingrained (also fuck the loyalists and their bigotry etc)… but that’s not to say that this can’t change, that the very marginal voices sowing hatred in the community won’t find a foothold (they already have, in all sorts of ways) i basically wrote this article for the people of West Belfast, to reassert our radical opposition to the bigotry and racism that underpins loyalism and make sure that the people who have come here to build lives for themselves know they are not alone, that they won’t be abandoned the way our parents and grandparents were, and that we stand by them in love and solidarity independent.co.uk/voices/bel…

A real Pilgrimage to the World Cup in the USA to see Scotland thanks to the incredibly generous hospitality of the @carmelitesisters4aged

Jack Chambers urged every major Irish sporting body to use their "influence and authority" to enforce bans on Russia and Belarus after the invasion of Ukraine. Yesterday government defeated proposals calling for the Ireland-Israel match to be stopped. ontheditch.com/jack-chambers…