Paul Gosling
@PaulGosling1
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Author 'Lessons from the Troubles & Unsettled Peace', 'A New Ireland', 'Fall of the Ethical Bank', co-author 'Abuse of Trust'. Freelance writer.
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June 14, 2016. Who can't foresee the future?
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I've travelled to many of the world’s most beautiful places - fjords; Greek Islands; Scottish, Welsh, Spanish, French mountains; central America - but never been anywhere more beautiful than Donegal.
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Surely the only reason to fly the Para flag in NI is to cause offence and upset people.
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Macron: Irish reunification 'would solve the problems, but it is not up to France'
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I didn't live in Derry in 1972 and I don't remember Bloody Sunday. But I do remember 1984, marching against internment and Sean Downes being killed by a plastic bullet a few feet away. The injustices of the past live on in the memory.
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Those crowded Donegal beaches, such a challenge on a public holiday in mid summer.
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Would anyone in DUP like to tell the truth and explain that its support for Brexit has brought us to this point.
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What is the DUP long term strategy around the Protocol? What if they got their supposed objective of scrapping it - leading to job losses, lower incomes, a smaller economy. How does that make their case with UK membership?
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Anyone who believes that NI loyalist working class dissatisfaction with the political system is based on the lack of fundamentalist creationism, insufficient animosity towards gay rights and access to abortion may not have spoken with many working class loyalists.
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Let's remember who in NI gave us Brexit and all the problems it causes - the DUP, TUV and People Before Profit. Strange that none of them is quick to accept their responsibility.
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Why do some MLAs repeatedly say Northern Ireland has the best education system in the world, when it repeatedly fails large numbers of working class kids? We have unacceptably large numbers of pupils leaving school without basic skills.
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3 Brexiteer parties in NI must accept responsibility for this mess: DUP, TUV, PBP.
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'I just want things to stay the same', is a phrase I hear often about NI. We have an NHS that collapsed before Covid; an education system that fails maybe 30% of kids; high levels of inequality & social tension; poor integration; and a very weak economy with low employment rate.
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I did a detailed analysis of the damning report on Invest NI for BBC Ulster and Foyle this morning. The social media response? Complaint that I said 'the North' a couple of times when talking of NI. Sums up our problem. Identity over practical challenges.
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It is utterly depressing that there are people - no idea how many - who oppose reconciliation & actually want to create tension between communities. No justification for putting up Para flags for Bloody Sunday.
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I bought garden seeds: no problem, delivered in two days to NI with great efficiency. The solution? I bought from the South.
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Especially for English followers. How the Brexit negotiations are seen from a Northern Ireland nationalist or republican perspective.
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Now for the good news - the Protocol is actually working positively for NI businesses, says Norbrook, Derry Chamber and an increasing number of firms here.
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Am I going too far in thinking that the appropriate response to the 50th anniversary of the Ballymurphy massacre would be the disbandment of the Parachute Regiment?
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In case there was any doubt, we now have proof that the DUP does not care about anything or anyone other than the DUP.
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In case anyone is interested, Derry is four times the size of Coleraine. There are at present about a thousand more students attending the Coleraine campus than the Magee campus in Derry.
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Can anyone recommend a study on how Italy reduced the role of the mafia? As I live in Northern Ireland the reason should be obvious.
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My description of Northern Ireland as 'a failed state' has annoyed some unionists, which was not my intention. Perhaps there could be consensus of 'dysfunctional state'? Stormont; segregation; subvention; NHS; RHI; paramilitary crime; infrastructure; skills; HE; productivity.
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However much I hear the DUP anger at the Protocol, I can still never understand why it is not directed at Boris Johnson and his government.
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Some personal news. I submitted my resignation as
@SineadMcL4Foyle
Parliamentary assistant after the election results. The campaign left me exhausted; I'm 69 in a few weeks; & if there is no politics in the Assembly there is no role for a political adviser to an MLA.
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NIO minister Lord Caine says if DUP does not go back into government soon then UK government will propose 'alternative' structure for running NI.
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A defeat for Trump is also a defeat for Farage, Johnson, Sammy Wilson, Ian Paisley Jnr, Banks, Bolsonaro and the rag-tag of ultra right wingers.
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NI is in crisis because of the stupidity of the DUP, which hates the result of its own actions.
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Jim Allister outing himself on
@Channel4News
tonight, saying EU should create border infrastructure on its own border. Can we now lose this rubbish that no one wants a hard border in Ireland.
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The DUP are 'among the most consistently witless in recent politics' says Robert Shrimsley in FT.
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Anyone else think the underlying shift in Northern Ireland politics is from religious to secular?
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Donegal beach on an Irish Bank Holiday. Still a thrill to live here. This glorious beach is 30 mins drive from home.
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There is just one month left to get Derry's proposed Medical School over the line for next year. It needs approval from ministers in 3 key departments - health, economy & finance. Time for social media power to kick in. Please tweet support using hashtag
#MedicalSchoolforDerry
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Why isn't the UUP more effective in destroying the DUP over the Brexit mess the DUP has caused?
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I've watched cricket in Magheramason and Donemana, GAA in Celtic Park and regularly took my son to watch football together at Derry City. Can't we move on a bit? Sport is positive.
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Vaccinated! (First dose, second in April.) Very impressive. Packed at Foyle Arena, with large numbers being inoculated. In and out in an hour, having booked last night when the arrangements opened online for the over 65s.
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What Kate Hoey and Jamie Bryson could usefully talk about is why the two big NI parties are so useless, or uninterested, in providing pathways out of deprivation & discrimination for so many of their own voters.
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I see some interest for once about what can be done to reduce poverty in Derry. 1, expand Magee. 2, create decent infrastructure. 3, excite more kids into learning skills for when the jobs do come. 4, incentive employers to locate here.
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A message to the person on my timeline who says 'screw unionism', let's get Irish unity by 50% + 1 - this is naive, bound to fail, incredibly divisive & would be rejected in South. Do the work instead to reconcile society.
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Don't forget there is a solution to the problem of the 'anti-democratic' Northern Ireland-only backstop. Have a Northern Ireland only-referendum and ask us if we want it.
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I can't stop crying. I didn't know Lyra McKee personally, but make no mistake, the murder of any journalist is a terrible wound to all of us who are journalists. A free media is central to democracy. This is just awful, awful and such a waste.
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Not only do I have Covid, get locked in a small hotel room in Greece for 5 days, with only BBC World News on TV, but I have to self isolate from Twitter as you buggers seem determined to tell me what I missed in Derry Girls.
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Queue for Derry to Belfast train this afternoon was the length of the train station. Only a short train though. Heaven knows what the crush would be like when it gets to Coleraine. Translink needs to recognise the success of the Derry train line.
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Have I missed some media? DUP no longer largest party in Assembly. Now same number as SF. Has no one else noticed?
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This is absolutely disgusting. Damien is a highly respected and hard working shop owner, kicked in the head by someone who confuses culture with getting drunk and being violent. What will ABOD & PSNI do about this?
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Wilson and Allister have upped their demands. It is essential, they say, for NI to leave EU single market. This would be unacceptable to majority in NI, never mind the implied requirement for a hard border within the island of Ireland.
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TV news shows London carrying on, with apparent disdain for warnings. Meanwhile in Derry - where I believe there is as yet no confirmed case of Covid-19 - virtually nothing is open bar supermarkets, pharmacies and hairdressers.
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DUP power and influence ebbs away every day, bit by bit. North of Ireland steadily becoming more socially liberal. Today was a good day for my boss - well done
@SMcLaughlinmla
.
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Editors of dictionaries will now have an extra problem. The RHI inquiry has told us that leaking confidential government papers to family, friends and business leaders that they can benefit financially from is not corruption.
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I don't wear a red poppy bc I can't abide the militarization of commemorations, but i will remember my grandfather, imprisoned in a German concentration camp; in 1918 walked his way home to England, survived on scraps of bread, then when back sold matches on street corners to eat
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I was stopped by 'customs officers' on the border yesterday. I assumed they were SF supporters pulling a stunt. So I demanded they show ID. She actually was a customs officer & seemed a bit offended that I doubted her.
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Can Derry council please, PLEASE do something about the preacher with the very loud PA at Guildhall Square. This is just wrong. No one is willingly listening. It is merely an unlawful imposition & noise pollution. He can preach, but NO PA!
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Does anyone have confidence in health secretary Matt Hancock? I don't.
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@C4Dispatches
So MPs have to declare earned income - but don't have to declare unearned income! I never realised. This is sort of feudal, completely inappropriate, anachronistic.
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Tubridy. Nolan. Perhaps we are nearing the end of the mega salary deals in broadcasting. If so, past time.
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@paulwaugh
The perfect riposte to anyone who claims the UK is not still a class based society, with the Conservative Party representing the toffs and the wealthy (the nouveau toffs).
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'The bigoted ignoramus who has taken over the White House'. Where did Sammy learn his diplomatic skills?
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Can people just calm down a bit. We can disagree without hating each other.
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Listened to Tory MP on
@BBCRadio4
arguing that DUP will vote with them on Internal Markets Bill to protect GFA. If Tories are going to make it up as they go along on NI they need to understand NI. DUP always been opposed to GFA.
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@PoliticsJOE_UK
The Guardian is not a left wing newspaper. It is economically and socially liberal.
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Can we please now begin a conversation about what type of renewed & changed society & economy we want as & when we emerge from this crisis. It obviously begins with better & better funded collective health services.
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Congratulations
@StephenNolan
on his increased annual salary of £390,000 per year. My fee for being on his show was £60 a go & for Radio Foyle £35 a time (which could involve an hour's research). Not complaining, just saying. Can't do much BBC now anyway because of conflict rules
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Graham Gudgin has repeated his misleading claim that living standards are higher NI than RoI in today's FT. The claim was debunked by other academics who are rigorously careful in their use of data. Will one of them be responding?
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Heard
@eastantrimmp
Sammy on RTE radio 1 this evening (I didn't know he did those). Arguing for Trump & against masks. God! One point was Trump had not done badly on Covid as UK govt was worse! Wow! Low point for DUP! An embarrassment for them.
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Former UUP leader: Unionism must realise it is no longer a majority in Northern Ireland
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I would have liked Emma de Souza and Ian Marshall in the Seanad. Disappointing that neither is.
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@SamCoatesTimes
@StevieMcCaffery
Keeping the Conservative Party together seems to be Theresa May's main priority.
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It is clearly a really bad deal for anyone who doesn't want a deal and actually wants a hard border in Ireland, while pretending they don't.
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Some personal news - I'm committed to getting university expansion in Derry.
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Really important story in today's
@BelTel
by
@MargaretCan
which is being missed. InvestNI reports significant interest by global investors in NI because of dual markets membership. This is what we should be focusing on.
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@Orlaodo
@tgeducation
@rtenews
Are we all just free in the future to use the phrase 'absurd and offensive' when Gemma O'Doherty or John Walters is mentioned? And without even the threat of libel! A great day.
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Is it just me that believes that UK government attempt to remove rights protections - eg right to protest in England - adds to arguments for Scottish independence & Irish unity?
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My Brexit prediction. Johnson will exit with no deal, nearly coinciding with a General Election. He will win a majority without DUP support. Will then go back to EU seeking an agreement based on NI only backstop. Thoughts?
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@RishiSunak
@JulianSmithUK
@MichealMartinTD
It sounds a bit patronising for one sovereign nation to thank another sovereign nation for its support for a third sovereign nation. Ukraine isn't a UK province.
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@MatthewdAncona
It is a wonderful book. Its publication had a part in the end of my role as a politician. My condemnation for Keith Vaz's support for radicals opposed to Rushdie led to Vaz ensuring I was removed as a councillor. History shows who was right and who wrong. My thoughts with Rushdie
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Passed through a few Co Antrim towns and villages today. Several had big Parachute Regiment banners up. Seems lots of people do not want our society to be reconciled.
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Let me be clear in response to criticisms of the Beyond Brexit event - I am very happy to engage with unionists, I am keen to do so and if you read my book 'A New Ireland: a ten year plan?' you will see very important, valuable and progressive contributions from unionists.
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Congratulations to
@SJAMcBride
for the biggest queue at a book launch I have ever seen in Derry! (It went in two lines to nearly the back of the shop.)
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Thanks to
@Channel4News
for broadcasting the voice of young Palestinians. The treatment of Palestinians by Brirain and Israel has been, and is, awful.
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When I moved to Derry 24 years ago I was astonished how few people walked along River Foyle - partly because there were car parks where there should have been walkways. Today I walked from Rosemount to Bay Park & back. Dozens walking, running & cycling. A measure how city changed
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Such a beautiful evening light, shining on Derry's walls.
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Just occasionally in NI a political leader says something which reveals what they really think about the 'others'.
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Brendan O'Connor on RTE just now explaining €500m for Cork is to make it a world class counter balance to Dublin. That is the type of vision needed for Derry, to make the North more balanced.
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@RGiles89
@M_AndersonSF
Is Arlene really saying that none of the business leaders is a unionist? Because I don't know one leader of a business organisation that does not back the backstop.
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FT reports today that Norrhern Ireland economy has become 4% smaller than it would have been had Brexit been defeated.
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Widely reported that Theresa May is considering another general election. If true, it is possible that she is seeking to avoid reliance on DUP support in HoC, enabling her to do a Brexit deal that gives Northern Ireland a special status. But clock is ticking.
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Any political party standing in the Irish elections and genuinely in favour of Irish unity needs to include in their manifesto a funded commitment to full implementation of Slaintecare within a decade - to create an all-island NHS.
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Proof that Northern Ireland transport infrastructure is geared to the east. Train destination board in Belfast this evening.
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Martin McGuinness risked his life condemning dissidents as traitors - surely Gavin Robinson could condemn those loyalists fomenting trouble with Parachute Regiment banners? His votes may be at risk, but not his life.
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Fruit and veg shelves in Buncrana packed - even dill, which I haven't been able to get for weeks. Fruit and veg shelves in Tesco Derry almost empty yesterday.
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I'm English and I didn't leave England until my late 40s. I believe NI would be much better off as part of a united Ireland. But that doesn't stop me feeling that what is happening now to English politics and governance is tragically sad. It will now get even worse.
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Derry's economic situation and statistics compared to Great Britain have not improved since the signing of the Good Friday Agreement. This is scandalous, yet has been ignored - including by most Northern Ireland politicians.
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Compare & contrast. Yesterday it was announced Ireland has liberalised divorce laws by an overwhelming majority. Meanwhile, Northern Ireland was only part of UK where vote counting did not take place because of extreme Christian sensitivities. Where is the future, where the past?
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For the sake of my mental and physical health I am now going to log off from social media, before I either explode or implode. Bye.
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@stephen_cass_
I could do with an extra frog. We only have one I think - though it's difficult to do a census as it turns up in various places in the garden and if it's the same one seems to have grown a bit in recent weeks. It might be lonely.
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