2020-1-05 03:37 https://twitter.com/PadraigMacL/status/1213545027076538368
Fair play to the Mayor of Clare @CllrCathalCrowe for taking this stand 👏🏻 This government have no right whatsoever to use the offices of the State to enforce their attempt to rewrite our history and whitewash the true role of the RIC
2020-1-07 00:28 https://twitter.com/MaryLouMcDonald/status/1214222257775685632
Govt commemoration of RIC, Black&Tans, DMP a calculated insult to all who stood for Irish freedom. Nowhere else would those who brutally suppressed national freedom be afforded a state commemoration. Crass Fine Gael revisionism gone too far. Cancel this event @LeoVaradkar
2020-1-07 02:54 https://twitter.com/IvanYatesNT/status/1214258868685070337
LISTEN: Should the #RIC be commemorated? A number of public representatives have said they won't attend an official event in Dublin later this month. Here @1916walkingtour Lorcan Collins explains the link between the RIC & #BlackandTans 100 years ago
2020-1-09 03:54 https://twitter.com/MaryLouMcDonald/status/1214998798164004867
You don't build a United Ireland by denigrating the memory of those who fought for Irish freedom and independence, and lionising those who brutally suppressed that desire and who upheld British rule @LeoVaradkar
2020-1-09 04:10 https://twitter.com/megan_fearon/status/1215002912633454592
So proud of my good friend @LizK1988 - our newest MLA! A dedicated community activist & tireless worker. The perfect person for this role. I’m so excited to see what comes next. The future is bright with our Liz 💚 @newryarmaghsf
2020-1-13 05:52 https://twitter.com/M_AndersonSF/status/1216478178375544832
Good exchange of views in Dungiven tonight about restoring the Stormont Executive & Sinn Féin Ministers, plus Elected & non elected Activists pledge to improve people’s lives in the here & now plus advance Irish Unity.
2020-1-14 05:26 https://twitter.com/GerryAdamsSF/status/1216833895670349824
So I broke some wee bones in my foot. RGs fault actually. I told him not to stand on my toes. But he didnt listen. Great treatment in the Royal. Nurses & other health workers were brilliant. Heres Mick Murphy advising me on the best way to get RG to walk on his own 2 feet.
#骨折 #跌斷腿
2020-1-13 19:02 https://twitter.com/CArchibald_SF/status/1216676892323078144
I’ve submitted my first motion of this new session calling for the Assembly to declare a Climate Emergency and urgently implement the commitments on climate in ‘New Decade, New Approach’ #ClimateEmergency
2020-1-16 07:08 https://twitter.com/GerryAdamsSF/status/1217584258598035456
Mary Lou speaking tonight described Sinn Féin as “the vehicle for Irish Freedom ... we are the activists, the generation charged with finishing the journey to full democracy and freedom on our island”
2020-1-17 06:44 https://twitter.com/JoeEDwyer/status/1217940642623578113
.@ConorMurphySF: “I’d be quite happy if the Treasury were to provide us with additional fiscal powers - and we can examine how to use those - but we’re not about punishing the poor or punishing people who can’t afford to pay. We’re not a 'satellite Tory regime'." Sin é. 🙌🙌🙌
Luk what I got from the darling man himself. Grma chara xo
#路上魔幻的夜晚 Magic Nights on the Road
2020-1-18 01:37 https://twitter.com/GerryAdamsSF/status/1218225875684032512
GOOD LUCK TO NEW POWER SHARING GOVT. As I sat in public gallery at Stormont, with Liz Maskey & Mary Lou I had birds-eye view of Assembly. Alex Maskey was elected Ceann Chomhairle. It was fitting that Liz, who was first women interned in 1970s, was there. https://shar.es/a3zAm8
Martina Anderson MLA
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@M_AndersonSFI pledged to work for you as your MEP right to the end & that is exactly what I am doing
A Brussels busy day
Meeting EU Minister, Rep from Brexit Steering Group - followed literally by Franch 24, 2 x Radio interviews & talking referendum, Irish Unity & Brexit with Catalan MEPs
https://twitter.com/MichealMartinTD/status/1221072638057099265
Today the people of Drogheda are marching to express their revulsion at the rise in gangland crime in their community. Fianna Fáil stands with them, and is committed to introducing tough new legislation to beat the gangs.
Martina Anderson MLA
@M_AndersonSFIt’s off to Brussels for me
This is the last Monday you will have an elected representative MEP in the EU Parliament: On Fri. at 11pm - your democratic franchise will end
50 years after “one man one vote” your right to vote elected reps is being trashed & Radio/TV ignoring that
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#離職 #Brexit脫歐 #決不要低估SNS的力量
2020-1-27 22:39 https://twitter.com/GerryAdamsSF/status/1221804907738664961
The new GAA stadium in Louth will be a huge community and sporting benefit to the people, and especially the young people of the wee county. First class facilities within two years. Comhghairdeas to the GAA
Martina Anderson MLA
@M_AndersonSFMy final warning to EU Trade Commissioner FG Phil Hogan about the EU future trade negotiations with the British Government
Don’t trust them
Don’t have blind-faith
And...
Don’t leave the people of the north of Ireland behind!
2020-2-26 03:09 https://twitter.com/orlaithiflynnsf/status/1232382215314722816
Seeking update from health minister during assembly Q’s - we need 2 see extended roll out of the mobile multi-agency crisis intervention service across all our trusts, 7 days a week - this pilot with police/ambulance/mental health practitioners is saving lives! #suicideprevention
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@SandraDuffySFInteresting meeting this morning with colleagues from across Derry, Donegal & Tyrone as part of North West City Region discussing plans for delivery of services & infrastructure across the region including rail, phase 3 Derry-Coleraine, Western Corridor & Derry-Dublin lines x
Gerry Adams
@GerryAdamsSFThis evening a portrait of Máire Drumm by Tony Bell was unveiled in the Mayor’s Parlour in Belfast City Hall. It will hang in the Mayor’s parlour until Cllr. Danny Baker steps down as Belfast Mayor. It will then be presented to the family. Beautiful piece of work by Tony.
2020-3-11 06:28 https://twitter.com/newbelfast/status/1237686916306386945
Shameful for this building to be sold to highest bidder - it should remain in civic use and would make an excellent European-standard art gallery to serve Belfast's citizens & visitors. Who is current owner? British Government? #CustomHouse @belfastcc
2020-4-20 01:05 https://twitter.com/IanChopperLowry/status/1251919748088168449
Police cars revolving lightIf I reach 1,916 Followers by the end of this lockdown, I will stand outside the offices of Fine Gael HQ dressed as James Connolly, singing the entire back catalogue of The Wolfe Tones*
Do your thing Twitter.....
*Sponsored by @fionamitchell56 @Revolution_IRL and @garvangrant
via 2020-4-20 06:17 https://twitter.com/IanChopperLowry/status/1251998266662797312
Hi @MaryLouMcDonald @mickconlan11 @paddycosgrave @paddyb_ireland @RealCFrampton @GerryAdamsSF @LNBDublin @EOBroin @wolfetones @moneillsf @gildernewm @M_AndersonSF @mattcarthy @PaulDonnellySF @chrisandrews64 @Donnchadhol any chance of an oul RT here folks? Thanks in advance 😉💪🏻🇮🇪
2020-4-21 05:14 https://twitter.com/JFionn/status/1252345009602363393
Watching it now, brought up many memories from my brothers suicide, but to see these people persevere and go on, it's so beautiful. Hon abbeyfeale ❤️
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@FOSFUSAGreat turnout and discussion with @johnfinucane and the @BrehonLawNYC on current politics and securing #IrishUnity.
Gerry Kelly
@GerryKellyMLAFound these while rummaging about. One’s of me and those shadowy figures that some journalists obsess about, hiding out in 10 Downing St-21 years ago today!! The other is the same crew congratulating my youngest son on his first steps in life.
Gerry Adams
@GerryAdamsSFWell it made me smile. First time since Mo Mowlan and Peter Mandelson that a British SOS has done that.https://twitter.com/jimfitznews/status/1264512784152375296 …
Whoops NI Secretary @BrandonLewis swiftly corrects ominous typo
Mary Lou McDonald tells our sister publication, the Sunday Independent, that there was “every chance, every possibility” she would have joined the IRA, and reveals Prince Charles wrote to her after she fell ill with coronavirus.
There are two conflicting narratives around how Mary Louise McDonald of Orwell Road, Rathgar, south Dublin, ended up being leader of this island's most controversial political party.
The first, proffered by her critics, is that having come from a Fianna Fail family, she unsurprisingly joined that party in the mid-1990s. As a bright, articulate and well-educated young woman, her stock was high and Bertie Ahern's party was on the brink of three successive general election victories. But, recall some in Fianna Fail, she found her path to elected office blocked by the party's old guard in Dublin West. So she upped and joined Sinn Fein.
The other version, recounted by McDonald, is different, perhaps darker, but far more compelling. She vividly recalls the sadness in her house in the spring of 1981 as the hunger strikes in the Maze Prison unfolded, how tense her mother was, the national grief, the protests. Four days before she turned 12, on May 1, 1981, Bobby Sands died after 66 days on hunger strike. "It was the moment at which I realised there was something radically, radically wrong in the politics and the life of the Ireland in which I was growing up," McDonald reflected last week.
"An act of political will" is needed to overcome delays to the implementation of the Troubles pension, Northern Ireland's victims' commissioner has said.
Judith Thompson said politicians should be "putting victims and survivors" first to implement a scheme that has already been passed by law.
Sinn Féin has rejected a government accusation that it is holding up the pension scheme.
The scheme was due to open on 29 May.
"It needs to involve a level of compromise to set up a system which will work fairly and be independent," Ms Thompson told the BBC's Talkback programme.
Regarding the debate around eligibility, the commissioner said: "It is clear that a small number of people who are responsible for their own injuries are excluded".
She explained: "There is a requirement that anyone who has been sentenced - not served but sentenced - to more than two and half years in prison, go before a judge-led panel which will make a decision on whether it's appropriate for them to get this payment or not."
She accepted that a judge-led panel would have to make decisions based on guidance from the secretary of state which has yet to be finalised.
However she added: "At the end of the day, that is not a good enough reason to decide that nobody will get anything."
Sinn Féin has refused to nominate a Stormont department to run the scheme and said the government is responsible for the delay.
It said the criteria for the scheme is flawed and discriminates against former prisoners.
The party claims that under current eligibility rules, anyone who was given a prison sentence of two and a half years or more would not be entitled to a pension payment.
"It is the British government who have brought in these regulations, without consultation, to be discriminatory, and all they are interested in is to protect one section of victims," said Sinn Féin MLA Gerry Kelly.
But Northern Ireland Secretary Brandon Lewis said it was "pretty shameful" of the party to try to re-open the definition of a victim.
Speaking on BBC's Good Morning Ulster programme, Mr Kelly said his party also had concerns about funding arrangements for the scheme, the cost of which has been estimated to reach at least £100m over the first three years.
Sinn Féin has argued that it should be funded centrally from Westminster rather than coming out of Stormont's budget.
The secretary of state has refused to commit to providing extra resources to fund the scheme, pointing out that more than £100m has already been set aside for Troubles legacy matters.
Ógra Shinn Féin
@Ogra_SFFrank Ryan passed away #OTD, 1941.
Frank was an IRA volunteer who fought against the Free State counter-revolution.
In 1936, Frank formed the Connolly Column, a brigade of Irish republicans and socialists who fought for democracy and the Spanish Republic against Franco's fascists
Taoiseach's contradictory comments about the Good Friday Agreement 'ridiculous' - Pádraig Mac Lochlainn TD | Sinn Féin https://www.sinnfein.ie/contents/57337
There is unanimity of approach among the establishment parties in the Oireachtas when it comes to a referendum on Irish Unity – they are against it. Last week the Taoiseach Micheál Martin ruled out a referendum on a united Ireland because it would be too ‘divisive’. In December the Green Party leader Eamon Ryan dismissed calls for a referendum on the same basis. It would be ‘divisive’. And not to be outdone the then Taoiseach Leo Varadkar claimed that a referendum would be ‘divisive’. Of course, it is partition that is ‘divisive’.
Sinn Féin
@sinnfeinirelandMary Lou McDonald pays tribute to Ruth Morrissey and says Irish inspections must take place of CervicalCheck screening being conducted in US labs
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@sinnfeinirelandSeptember is just around the corner. The Education Minister needs to start answering questions when it comes to the plan for reopening schools. Where is the long-promised roadmap? – @Donnchadhol
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@FOSFUSAToday @MaryLouMcDonald briefed US Special Envoy Mick Mulvaney on British Govt refusal to implement agreements & the Brexit threat. US Envoys have long played a critical role in the peace process. Mary Lou also raised the issue of a unity referendum, an essential part of the GFA
Belfast has a long and proud tradition of opposition to slavery and colonialism. On 8 July we celebrated the birth in 1770 of Mary Ann McCracken a fierce opponent of slavery. She and her brother Henry Joe McCracken, one of the leaders of the 1798 Rebellion, campaigned against slave ships docking in Belfast port. In her late 80s Mary Ann was still a frequent visitor to Belfast docks where she handed out anti-slavery leaflets to those travelling to the USA where slavery still existed. Thomas McCabe, a United Irishman, from the Antrim Road, was another stalwart who opposed slavery and efforts to set up a slave trading company in Belfast.
Darren O’Keeffe
@darrenjokeeffeA couple of years ago, Leo Varadkar spent over €160,000 of public money on a publicity campaign to stigmatise the unemployed for needing welfare supports.
Now, this government is continuing that demonisation of the unemployed with discriminatory punishments for people on PUPs.
Gerry Adams
@GerryAdamsSFSo do FF/FG/Green Govt.https://twitter.com/darrenjokeeffe/status/1287785153767538689 …
A couple of years ago, Leo Varadkar spent over €160,000 of public money on a publicity campaign to stigmatise the unemployed for needing welfare supports.
Now, this government is continuing that demonisation of the unemployed with discriminatory punishments for people on PUPs.
John O' Dowd
@JohnODowdSFIt was Sinéad Ennis @EnnisSinead and Pat Sheehan @PatSheehanMLA who challenged Well’s comments where it mattered, in the Assembly Chamber. No one from the SDLP in the Chamber chose to do so!
Gerry Kelly
@GerryKellyMLAJust back from a week off to hear Jim Wells insulting everyone in the GAA followed by Gregory Campbell attacking all Irish language speakers and then Nolan invites Wells on to defend the bigotry of both. Failing spectacularly. Beam me up, Scotty.
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Michelle O’Neill
@gildernewmI’m looking forward to chatting to legend #JimGibney about the Hunger Strikes, the by-election in #FermanaghSthTyrone and the legacy of our MP, #BobbySands tomorrow evening. Please join us?
Darren O’Keeffe
@darrenjokeeffeA couple of years ago, Leo Varadkar spent over €160,000 of public money on a publicity campaign to stigmatise the unemployed for needing welfare supports.
Now, this government is continuing that demonisation of the unemployed with discriminatory punishments for people on PUPs.
Gerry Adams
@GerryAdamsSFSo do FF/FG/Green Govt.https://twitter.com/darrenjokeeffe/status/1287785153767538689 …
A couple of years ago, Leo Varadkar spent over €160,000 of public money on a publicity campaign to stigmatise the unemployed for needing welfare supports.
Now, this government is continuing that demonisation of the unemployed with discriminatory punishments for people on PUPs.
Martina Anderson MLA
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@M_AndersonSFSo Derry being thrown under a bus by Micheál Martin - no “high speed” for Derry Colum Eastwood
It was always Derry/Belfast/Dublin/Cork
Of 54 stations in the north only “3” are situated west of the Bann
These regional inequalities need addressed by all including the Irish Gov
Gerry Adams
@GerryAdamsSFYou only die once. You live every day. Martin McGuinness was a huge influence in my life and so was Bobby Storey. I believe that the most important thing in life is friendship.
A great yarn with Joe Austin last night. Sure give it a watch
Gerry Adams
@GerryAdamsSFKevin McKenna died last summer. He was my friend. A quiet unassuming patriot who was devoted to his wife Marcella & their family. Today we publish his story as our latest Léargas. It’s available at An Fhuiseog, 55 Falls Road and at http://www.sinnfeinbookshop.com
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Carál Ní Chuilín-Nigh do lámha ✊
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Francie Molloy MP
@sinnfeinireland“These latest proposals from the British government on a victims' pension are exclusionary, discriminatory and unacceptable.
"We are committed to seeing the delivery of a victims' pension scheme which meets the needs of all victims and excludes no one."
John Finucane MP
@johnfinucaneThe British State & their proxies used every means at their disposal to target, kill & cover up murder here, spanning across decades.
Now, they use every means to resist accountability.
Huge credit must go to all families & activists who tirelessly demand truth.
Mary Lou McDonald
@MaryLouMcDonaldWhatWhat actually happened in the Dail today. Facts presented on the treatment of low paid workers. Taoiseach didn't like the truth. @rtenews not reporting low pay story but Taoiseach's outburst instead. Strange. 🤔
Gerry Kelly
@GerryKellyMLAAt the first major test of collective governance since the Assembly was reinstated the DUP have reverted to the One Party State mentality ignoring the cost in lives that will ensue. No matter how much they long for it-this is not 1969.
Gerry Kelly
@GerryKellyMLAThe British government colluded in the killing of Pat Finucane and Unionist politicians are now colluding with the British government to hide the full truth from being unearthed.
Gerry Adams
@GerryAdamsSFPoems for Hard Times:
A poem for the Antrim hurlers who did us all proud at the weekend. Well done to everyone who played their part.