Paddy Shanks
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NIR ❌ 1921-2025 ⛅ "Ardens sed Virens"
Northern Ireland
Joined November 2018
RT @DanielJHannan: The dwindling proportion of Brits still in work will, on average, contribute an entire month's wages simply to pay for d….
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Drama in Deutschland,,,, star of the show "activist" "agitator" Kitty O'Brien. Oscar nominated. Refusing to leave the area. Initially was one half hearted gloved slap, not a fully fledged punch, O’Brien can be heard shouting “you are acting like a fucking Nazi, are your.
Irish woman ‘repeatedly punched in the face by police’ during Gaza protest in Berlin
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RT @afneil: It is one of the great scandals of our time. Drax, which generates electricity by burning trees imported as pellets from North….
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RT @BaconLick: @BelTel No, Fionola, it's not. I say that as someone who works in uniform. It instills respect and authority. Although I bau….
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RT @Kilsally: "I've advised them [Reform] on this, that really a government with a sufficient majority can do what the Conservatives did wi….
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Since 1950, how effective is the ECHR? [46 member states]. ➡️As of January 2024, 51% of leading judgements from ECHR have been implemented by member states. That means 49% remain pending with 1,326 cases still unresolved. ➡️For pending leading judgements the average.
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Higgins has not only rubbed Israel and the America up the wrong way, but now is trying to win friends in Palestine by criticising fellow Europeans. Negative economic repercussions of his strategies will come home to bite Ireland after things settle down in Gaza. People have long.
President Michael D Higgins has said the European Union has suffered reputational damage through its "lethargic" response to the daily horror in Gaza.
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RT @CatharineHoey: Complete hypocrisy. They have changed the Belfast/GFA when it suited them with no consultation just to get the Windsor F….
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RT @mooreholmes24: The Belfast Agreement is already in tatters. The cross-community consent principle was shredded by the Protocol, and tho….
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Start of a new term yesterday at .Campbell College.
The next generation has arrived at Campbell College 🤩. This morning we welcomed our new Year 8 pupils to the College and in traditional Campbell style, the Friends of Campbell College Pipe Band piped them in! . We wish them all a successful and enjoyable time at the College.
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RT @GHFUpdates: Today's GHF Operational Update:. ➡️ More than 140 million meals distributed to date. ➡️ Over 1.5 million meals delivered to….
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RT @GHFUpdates: Palestinian women and children are receiving medical care at our aid sites. 🩺. After initial treatment, children with infec….
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Irish Government should come clean on this atrocity and that the detonation location was on its territory, and the two suspects were released without charge.( but were only charged with motoring offenses).
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A clumsy attempt at a cover-up is how Ulster Human Rights Watch is describing Irish Government documents relating to the massacre of soldiers at Narrow Water forty-two years ago. Official papers...
Today we remember the men of 2 PARA and The Queen’s Own Highlanders who lost their lives or were wounded in a terrorist attack at Warrenpoint in Northern Ireland on 27 August 1979. We will remember them 🇬🇧. Ready for anything 🆎.#Paras.#BritishArmy
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RT @afneil: The government is always blaming the wholesale price of gas for high energy bills without ever explaining that wholesale prices….
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RT @ireland_society: York Street, Belfast, June,1935. Photograph taken at the time of the 1935 Belfast riots. h….
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Hopefully a larger memorial to our murdered soldiers will be placed near the new (2027) Narrow Water Bridge as part of the Irish/UK funding package:
27th August, 2025, marks 46 years since 18 British soldiers were killed by 2 PIRA bombs in the Narrow Water Bombing, Warrenpoint . Lest we Forget these brave men murdered by cowardly terrorists 🇬🇧
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RT @afneil: She was Presbyterian Ulster Scots (or Scots-Irish in US context) — and thought of herself as such. As did her husband.
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What did unionists ask for in 2019. The spirit of Belfast Agreement has already been altered, through surreptitious re-negotiation and illegitimate Governement diktat, the Ireland/NI Protocol, rubber stamped by the Windsor Framework, thus undermining the de facto constitutional.
Need unionists to have a wee think about what nationalists and republicans might ask for if a Reform government intends to renegotiate the Good Friday Agreement.
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Judging by CSO 2022 figures of 20% being non-Irish born citizens, it is quite likely that this figure based on net immigration could now be 23% not born in the ROI. (CSO) Unemployment rate in ROI is now (July) 4.9%, compared to 2.4% in Northern Ireland.
The big news here is that more Irish people are leaving this country than coming back. With >13% youth unemployment and no prospect of owning a home, it's easy to see why. That this should be happening while we have record GDP numbers is unforgivable. We are failing our young.
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RT @Absolutehero69: 26 August 1976.Heaney, James (20) .Royal Ulster Constabulary.Off duty. Shot outside his mother's home, Andersonstown Gr….
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