Andytown News diarist with an eye on the week just gone, or indeed the one just ahead
Joined April 2011
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Every bar me and the big son went into in Dublin (6) did excellent pints of Heineken 0-0. You need a search party to find draught 0-0 in Belfast. Pints are rank in what few places you can get them. Only place I’ve got a good pint in nearly three years was the Parador.
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Tyrone officials refuse to sell matchday programmes at Healy Park due to Allianz involvement ereader.irishnews.com/2026/0…
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Jun 13
Cara and Matt (with dog Brio) have just got married at Belfast City Hall.
When the ceremony ended they headed out to join the anti-racism rally.
Cara told us if it hadn’t been her wedding day, she would have been in the middle of it. @BelTel
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Jun 12
This was tweeted by @GBNEWS presenter @Alexarmstrong.
He deleted it. He’ll face no consequences.
The most extreme, unhinged opinions are being mainstreamed.
If that carries on, this country will fall into the abyss
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SQUINTER: DUP plays a different kind of blame game belfastmedia.com/squinter-du… via @ATownNews
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Belfast ranks 32nd per capita for asylum seekers in the UK.
Northern Ireland hosts 2,379 in total. That’s 0.1% of its population.
NI is 97% white.
Asylum seekers are not “illegal migrants”; they’re going through a legal government process.
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Belfast houses more asylum seekers per capita than almost any other place in the UK.
One in 200 people in Belfast is an illegal migrant.
Who could possibly have foreseen civil unrest?
It’s the immigration, stupid.
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Jun 13
There is something transcendental about an early pint in a Dublin bar. The order, the stillness, the sun slanting in the window. The unspoken camaraderie. It’s so quintessentially Irish it’s almost a sacrament.
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Jun 13
This manhole in Haifa is older than the state of Israel 😆
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ROBIN LIVINGSTONE: Online balaclavas can be a problem as well belfastmedia.com/robin-livin… via @ATownNews
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RT @newbelfast: Getting these everyday from American tourists. Telling them all it is as safe as houses but suspect Belfast is seeing hundr…
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Shels-Rovers. Tolka Park. The heady smells of a Dublin soccer summer evening: Weapons-grade Skunk and curry chips.
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‘Should the police not have used plastic bullets earlier?’ asks @StephenNolan
Not a thing learned from the tragedy and heartbreak of the past.
Deeply, deeply shocking.
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Jun 11
Danny is the world’s greatest authority on the geography of Jerusalem as it relates to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. If he has come to the conclusion that Israel is engaged in ethnic cleansing in East Jerusalem and elsewhere in the West Bank, people of goodwill should listen.
Jun 11
For many years, I took barbs for refusing to call Israel's policy in East Jerusalem "ethnic cleansing". After all, there were 60,000 Palestinians in East Jerusalem in 1967, and 400,000 today. Occupation sucked, and included war crimes, but it wasn't ethnic cleansing.
That has changed now.
There are 3 Palestinian neighborhoods, all of whose residents are being or are about to be displaced: Batan al-Hawa and al-Bustan in Silwan, and Um Haroun in Sheik Jarrah. The latter two are being razed, or will be razed in the near future.
And immediately to the east, the Bedouin hamlet of Khan al-Akmar, adjacent to E-1, is about to be expelled, part of an attempt to "cleanse" Area C between East Jerusalem and the Jordan River valley of its Palestinian residents.
Regrettably, I can think of no other term to use other than "ethnic cleansing".
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We really need to talk about the continued insistence of sister papers the BelTel and Sunday Life in portraying unionist paramilitaries as both thugs and potential heroes.
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