@BBCNewsNI
@murphydes1
The mapping of Ireland was an exercise in dispossession.
Townlands, parishes were renamed into meaningless, anglicised nonsense ... essentially making people strangers in their own homes.
It forms the central theme of Brian Friel's play "Translations".
@Jerusalem_Post
Reposting this article ... why?
It was nonsense the first time, and still nonsense now.
Lets not forget the Irish Defence Force personnel serving in South Lebanon for 4 decades ... and very familiar with the handiwork of Israeli artillery.
@sandraschulze
Sandra, Sandra!
Mayo = County in Ireland
Sam = the Sam Maguire Cup
Mayo for Sam = "I wish Mayo all the best in the All Ireland Football Championships and win!"
... like the Superbowl.
@R055C089
Remember there was love there once, she's the mother of your child.
Children don't need 5K spent on them, but they do need to feel loved and supported by adults who can put their hurt to one side for their sake.
@BrianLeonardFR
Truth!
I'm of the age where we all knew someone who "went to visit their Auntie in England" for a few days with a friend or sister ... or were in college one day and then not seen again.
I voted Repeal so did my mother, a former midwife who couldn't stand the hypocrisy of it.
@KilclooneyJohn
Kids, pay attention ...
Here's a lesson in how to squeeze racism, misogyny, xenophobia and scapegoating into 140 characters.
A big ✴ for
@KilclooneyJohn
👏👏👏
@theotherShira
@mishtal
A trawl through social media, using a selection of images to justify the killing of non-combatants as they are guilty by association.
Here are images of the British Royal Family meeting former PIRA terrorists, does this make them terrorists too?
@luckieluciee
@PaulTreyvaud
We did get "handouts".
Irish people had all the benefits of the NHS, education, housing etc in the UK due to the CTA.
I still have my free NHS filling 👍
Don't blame powerless people who have nothing for everything you don't like.
@alan_tobin
Working in Malaysia with well-educated Brits and talking about a long weekend for Independence Day.
Them: "Oh, Independence from whom?"
Me:"Have a guess!"
@MiddleEastEye
Ghettoising the ghetto.
Trapping people into ever-shrinking open-air prisons according to some criteria that they haven't decided on yet but will only apply to brown people.
@HotSpotHotSpot
1. America did hit back.
2. Haley is advocating for Ethnic Cleansing.
3. She has convicted all Palestinians as guilty & labelled them terrorists.
4. No country is willing to do Israel's dirty work for them.
@GCraughwell
No.
As a woman, I will not be supporting Fash Féile.
It's an openly anti-feminist movement, driven American religious conservatism and determined to divide women to weaken their collective action.
It's the thin end of the wedge in the erosion of women's rights.
@ShibasHanaKaito
@RonEng1ish
Having endured what Christians can do to each other in the name of Christianity, it would be hypocritical to point the finger at Irish citizens who happen to be Muslim.
@aroradrn
As a teacher, I've met a lot of parents who shouldn't be trusted with the care of a pet hamster nevermind another human.
Just because you can have children, doesn't mean you should.
And I don't.
@Luighseach
Enforcement.
@agriculture_ie
must enforce the regulations around horse ownership.
Gardaí must be empowered and supported in tackling animal welfare issue.
Many are quick to complain about "NGOs" but it's the voluntary/charity sector that's doing something.
@ProtecttheFaith
Enoch Burke is no hero.
He harassed his boss, disrupted an important event at his workplace, is suspended on full pay, continued to trespass on school property and can walk out of prison any time he wants.
He shows little Christianity for his fellow inmates who cannot.
@JonMarcStanley
Ireland and the UK joined the EEC on the same day, 1st Jan 1973.
We joined alongside our former colonial power, a larger more powerful neighbour who exploited an empire for free trade and crushed any independence movements from Dublin to Delhi.
We chose to stay in the EU.
@TalkLoyalism
You're protesting outside the wrong parliament.
You need to be outside the Parliament that approved the Brexit Withdrawal Agreement and NIP.
But you're welcome to protest in a functioning democracy.
@Hawkleton
@Natalan
@SiobhanFenton
Adam pet ...
@Hawkleton
She knows more than you do about the Good Friday Agreement because she wrote a big book called "The Good Friday Agreement".
Stop being an eejit now and admit your mistake ...
@roisinolorcain
Roisin, you are racist.
There is no "Irish DNA" and no "African DNA".
Israel was born and educated in Ireland and has trained hard to earn the right to wear our country's colours.
Israel is as Irish as I am.
@emma_okelly
In fairness, the Taoiseach's comments were conciliatory but Norma needs to reeled in. Her comments blaming the unions and SEN staff were petrol on the fire.
They will come back to haunt her when she's dealing with the other teaching unions.
@Toibin1
There's no harassment here.
A Garda is doing his job following the receipt of a complaint. He was patient and polite in the face of constant interruption.
As a member of the Oireachtas, your lack of support for Gardaí is most disappointing.
@Wind_air
@MaiaDunphy
As a Secondary School teacher of 23 years experience, your appaling use of tenses, syntax and sentence construction along with the absence of the apostrophe, tell me you didn't bother your backside in class and now content to blame others for your lack of social progress.
@mooreholmes24
Personally, I'd prefer something with long-term benefits like a library offering adult education, literacy skills, parental supports, early years intervention, financial management skills ...
@CazzieR68
@PantiBliss
I wonder how many of the "protesters" have elderly parents in a Care Home, or receiving HSE care in the home?
Have they noticed where the carers come from? Doing the jobs Irish people are unwilling to do.
@VMSportIE
"Orthodoxy in the south"?
No, I disagree. We were aware of the actions of a sectarian statelet and the violent indifference of the UK Gov ... but there was also a repulsion of PIRA violence.
And it's possible to hold both views simultaneously.
@IsraelinIreland
The accusation of antisemitism towards Irish Basketball is disingenuous and intended to suppress the criticism of the IDF's aggression in Gaza.
Thousands of Palestinian women and girls have been killed and maimed for life ... their lives matter too.
@NeilPenny9
@seanjonesqc
@JolyonMaugham
I'm a member of a swimming club in the West of Ireland that fundraised for the RNLI, an organisation that has survived the political upheaval of the last century because bravery and self sacrifice transcend politics.
@MaryKenny4
@RMcGreevy1301
You forgot the women nurses who had to put them back together again; the women who drove ambulances from the frontline; the women who died in munitions factory explosions; the women who died from exposure to phosphorus painting the dials of watches and instruments.
@gardenngather
At my father's funeral, he was laid out in his Master Mariner's uniform and he couldn't shave in his last weeks (and refused to let anyone else do it)
In the church during a lull in the chat, we heard ...
"Jaysus! Doesn't he look like Captain Bird's Eye!"