Paul Butler
@PolDeBuitleir
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Former political prisoner, councillor and MLA. Tweets are strictly my own personal views. Is liom féin iad na tuairimí.
Joined February 2010
Celtic Park today in memory of those murdered by British Army on Bloody Sunday Derry
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Disgraceful Irish fans booing the anthem of the country who colonised subjugated starved Ireland and forced them to speak their language.
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Celtic supporters in solidarity with the people of Gaza 🇵🇸.
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Bogside Derry new mural depicting British Army General Mike Jackson as a war criminal over his role in Bloody Sunday
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IRA volunteer Bobby Sands being laid to rest this day 7th May 1981
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I started this Celtic Cross when I was in one of Her Majesty's prisons but then I decided to escape so never got to finish it lol. I later learned that my prison comrades finished it and sent it out of the jail to my family
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I designed and started to make this celtic cross when I was a prisoner in one of Her Majesty's jails. I didn't get to finish it as I decided to escape from jail but my comrades finished it and sent it out of Long Kesh to my family 😁
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Ireland’s native language banned at Ireland’s newest bus/train station.
NEW: Irish language protest at the new Grand Central Station in Belfast
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Celtic fans are on the right side of history 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸.
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Think about how many winter fuel payments for pensioners that would pay for 🤔. King Charles III's Coronation cost taxpayers £72m - BBC News
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In reponse to Bloody Sunday in January 1972, when British troops murdered civil rights demonstrators in Derry John Lennon said he would rather side with the IRA than the Army
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Oh really I always thought it was the Royal family who had a soft spot for the Nazis
Understood. But then you always had a soft spot for the Nazis and were even in cahoots with the Abwehr, German military intelligence, in 1938/39 as World War Two approached.
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Ireland should boycott the Eurovision Song Contest unless Israel is banned from participating in the contest .
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Wow €1.5 million legal costs + €250,000 damages that’s what I call a great result!. Conor McGregor has been ordered to pay the entire legal costs, estimated around €1.5 million, of Nikita Hand who was awarded almost €250,000 damages.
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Michael D on the right side of history when it comes to Israeli Genocide in Gaza
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Thinking of Bobby Sands elected MP Fermanagh-South Tyrone first republicans to become involved in electoral politics it set in train a journey for me and other prisoners to become involved in politics right up to today when a republican is elected as First Minister in Stormont
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Expel the Israeli ambassador to Ireland now! 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸
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Stand in solidarity with the people of Gaza 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸
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General Mike Jackson who has died tonight will be known in the North of Ireland as being involved in the Ballymurphy massacre and Bloody Sunday and trying to cover up his notorious Parachute Regiment involvement in the deaths . Source: The Telegraph
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100,000 mourners walk behind Bobby Sands funeral cortège as he begins his journey to his final resting place in Milltown Cemetery Belfast . May 1981
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An inspirational Bobby Sands quote amidst the rubble of Gaza 🇵🇸
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IRA volunteer Francis Hughes who died on hunger strike this day 43 years ago in the H Blocks of Long Kesh. RIP Francis
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One of the worst miscarriages of justice by the British judicial system. Rest in Peace Paddy . Paddy Hill, one of the men wrongly convicted of IRA attacks on pubs in Birmingham in 1974, has died at the age of 80.
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I first met Kevin in H3 1979 on the blanket protest. I was in the cell next to him and we'd talk to each other day and night about our lives before prison, the protest we were both on and what the future would hold for us. Remembering my comrade and friend Kevin Lynch today
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Amidst the rubble of Gaza the Palestinian people will always have the support of the people of Ireland 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸
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Michelle O'Neill on her way to become First Minister applauded by Martin McGuinness great photo!
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Support for the Palestinian people of Gaza at tonight's Ireland versus Greece Euros match Aviva stadium Dublin
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A visit to Bobby Sands grave to recall 40 years ago when I was lying in a cell in the H Blocks and woken to hear the news that Bobby had died. He started his hunger strike in my wing can still recall the day he left to go to the prison hospital
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In memory of Bobby Sands and the other hunger strikers
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Christmas greetings from republican prisoners Long Kesh concentration camp 1975
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IRA volunteer revolutionary hunger striker Bobby Sands in Long Kesh concentration camp 1970s
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An iconic figure of the republican struggle in Belfast 1970s
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For most Irish citizens Joe Biden will be forever known as the genocide enabler of Palestine supplying the bombs and weapons and political support that has killed nearly 50,000 Palestinians 70% of whom were women and children. This ultimately will be Biden’s legacy
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Ireland will always stand in solidarity with the people of Gaza 🇵🇸
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This is what passed as policing during the North of Ireland conflict
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Bobby Sands MP. Poet. Gaeilgeoir. Revolutionary . IRA Volunteer
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The origins of modern day Sinn Féin electoral successes began with the election of Bobby Sands as MP for Fermanagh South Tyrone 9th April 1981 one month before he died on hunger strike. Remember Bobby when you cast your vote in tomorrow’s election . Vote Sinn Féin
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A genocide is being carried out on the Palestinian people of Gaza tonight. Ireland should make a stand and the Irish government should immediately expel the Israeli ambassador to Ireland #expelisraeliambassador
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On being told holidays this year will be in Portrush not the Maldives 🫣🥲
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Seems like the future Queen Elizabeth II was how should we say ‘cosying up as well’ 🤔🫢😳
Even a second rate historian would know today’s Sinn Fein, which tweeted, was only recently the political arm of the IRA, whose predecessors cosied up to the Nazis and worked with Nazi military intelligence.
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Restored harp made in the H Blocks of Long Kesh by republican prisoners
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100,000 mourners attended the funeral of hunger striker Bobby Sands
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Next year can Irish people please refer to the 26th December as St Stephen's Day or Lá Fhéile Stiofáin 'as gaeilge' from now on. Go raibh maith agaibh 🙂.
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Under the Foyle Bridge Derry City Ireland steps painted in Palestinian colours in solidarity with the people of Gaza 🇵🇸
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IRA volunteers carry the coffin of IRA volunteer and hunger striker Bobby Sands to his final resting place the republican plot Milltown cemetery Belfast
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As a former republican prisoner and escapee out of one of your prisons I'm quite proud of my escape to freedom and certainly have no regrets or shame.
This is disgraceful. Such shameful and gratuitous incitement makes it harder for all communities in Northern Ireland to move forward. It is right to expect so much more from elected representatives.
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A reset in British Irish relations we were told . No Casement.No Public Inquiry into Sean Brown murder .No NI City Deals.No Winter Fuel Allowance for Pensioners . The sooner Britain gets out of Ireland the better!.
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Protesters in America take to the streets in support of the hunger strikers 1981
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Mural wall West Belfast Ireland in support of Palestine 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸
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Republican prisoners Long Kesh cages 1970s commemorating Easter Rising
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Bobby Sands began his hunger strike 43 years ago he was 66 days on hunger strike nearing the end of his life by this time. I heard the news from a radio that was smuggled into the jail an eerie silence descended throughout the wing as the radio said our comrade Bobby had died.
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@afneil Thatcher who let Bobby Sands die on hunger strike is despised throughout the world and even in her own country while Bobby Sands has been a symbol of resistance to all of those involved in struggle throughout the world.
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The statue of hunger striker Bobby Sands unveiled today in Twinbrook Belfast is based on this iconic photograph of Bobby marching along the Andersonstown Road in 1976.
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I live in Ireland and this is totally unacceptable ❤️❤️❤️❤️.
Welcome to Ireland where people get away with racism! This little black girl broke my heart. Don’t skip this post without leaving a million heart for her. Make her famous…
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Photos of the 'Birmingham Six' when they were charged showed they had been brutally assaulted by the police while in custody. The difference though it wasn't Russian police but British police who beat them up and the media hadn't any criticism of it .
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The fall of the house of Paisley and the rise of Sinn Féin
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Francis Hughes IRA volunteer and hunger striker died 12th May 1981 after 59 days on hunger strike aged 25 years. "We remain what we are - Political Prisoners of War". Bobby Sands
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A powerful message from Glasgow Celtic to all the fascists, racists and right wingers 👍
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Republican prisoners Long Kesh concentration camp after the jail was burnt to the ground by Republicans October 1974
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Irish people know full well what Palestinians are suffering
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Britain has a long history of covering up truth about illegal killings by British soldiers in .Ireland.Kenya .Malaysia.Aden.Iraq.Afghanistan . Gen Jenkins was aware of allegations that the SAS was committing extrajudicial killings in Afghanistan
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Updated list of manufactured unionist grievances Kneecap tops their list . Kneecap . Casement Pk. Irish Language . Irish Language schools . Bilingual Signs. West Belfast Féile. Wolfe Tones. GAA. Sinn Féin . Republican commemorations .
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Fine Gael don’t like being reminded where it all began
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IRA volunteer Raymond McCreesh died 43 years ago at 2.11am on Thursday 21st May 1981, after 61 days on hunger strike in the H Blocks of Long Kesh. Rest in Peace Raymond
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Bobby Sands on the right in Cage 11 Long Kesh prison camp in the early 1970s
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Saddened to hear the awful news that my friend Robbie Laverty died in a car accident. Robert was a former republican prisoner who served time in the cages of Long Kesh (photo of Robbie in cages on left sitting) and the H Blocks. Rest in Peace my dear friend 🙏🙏🙏
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IRA Volunteer Bobby Sands being laid to rest Republican Plot, Milltown Cemetery, Belfast, Ireland
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They can oppress us .They can imprison us.But they will never break our spirit . Bobby Sands
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IRA volunteer and hunger striker Francis Hughes being laid to rest May 1981
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Remembering Thomas McElwee today. Most of us who were in the H Blocks and took part in the blanket protest were young men. Thomas was only 23 years old when he died. We didn't know it then that the legacy of the hunger strikes would still resonate throughout Ireland to this day
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Remembering my comrade Thomas McElwee who died on hunger strike in the H Blocks of Long Kesh on the 8th August 1981
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The vast majority of Irish citizens don’t support this given his support for Israel and its genocide in Gaza.
It was a privilege to be at the @WhiteHouse to witness Bono @U2 receive the highest civilian award, the Presidential Medal of Freedom.A well deserved moment of recognition for his pioneering activism against AIDS & poverty. A very proud moment for Bono & all of today’s recipients
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In memory of those murdered by the British Army Ballymurphy Massacre Belfast Ireland August 1971
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The boy from Tallaghtduff. IRA volunteer Francis Hughes died on hunger strike this day 44 years ago on 12th May 1981 in the H Blocks of Long Kesh . Rest in Peace Francis
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