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Richard Gallagher

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Advisor at Sinn Féin Ireland. PhD from Queens University Belfast. Book: Screening Ulster: Cinema and the Unionists. Email: drrichiegallagher@gmail.com

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Saying "I deserve the Nobel Peace Prize" should pretty much be a disqualification in and of itself for winning the Nobel Peace Prize.

09.10.2025 16:07 — 👍 644    🔁 68    💬 27    📌 5

Shocked that this could happen to a party that wouldn’t know the difference between a Poke and a Guttie.

08.10.2025 11:12 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Israel accused of detaining Greta Thunberg in infested cell and making her hold flags Activist tells Swedish officials she has been subjected to harsh treatment, including insufficient food and water

““They dragged little Greta [Thunberg] by her hair before our eyes, beat her, and forced her to kiss the Israeli flag. They did everything imaginable to her, as a warning to others,” the Turkish activist ErsinÇelik, a participant in the Sumud flotilla, told Anadolu news agency.”+

04.10.2025 18:21 — 👍 6418    🔁 3909    💬 218    📌 533
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The poll actually accounts for that and CC still has a sizeable lead.

04.10.2025 21:31 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Sinn Féin support certainly looking like a game changer now.

04.10.2025 20:49 — 👍 8    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 1
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In Ireland, they keep getting “experts” on the news to call a fringe political group “terrorists” and the fringe political group keep getting defamation payouts and they say it’ll continue to happen until the fringe political group have enough financing to become a major political group.

03.10.2025 10:48 — 👍 31    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

My thoughts are with my party colleague Senator Chris Andrews and all others aboard the Sumud Flotilla tonight who have seemingly been kidnapped by the Israeli state.

The Irish government must speak out.

01.10.2025 20:28 — 👍 10    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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‘I protested my innocence but I was guilty’: The untold story of the 1994 IRA attack on Heathrow Airport Michael Gallagher and Mary Attenborough speak to Sophie Clarke about their joint memoir which tells of secrets, lies and their survival following the fallout from the 1994 IRA Heathrow mortar attacks

This is an absolutely fascinating book. Genuinely couldn’t put it down. Highly recommend adding it to your reading list! www.irishnews.com/life/i-prote...

30.09.2025 07:42 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Currently ratioing the Taoiseach.

29.09.2025 23:10 — 👍 10    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Catherine the clear winner there. Two candidates that had clearly been fed lines and trained to avoid questions versus someone principled to the core and who had clearly been ready for the questions for years. #TonightVMT

29.09.2025 22:38 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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a close up of a man in a suit and tie with a question mark on his neck . ALT: a close up of a man in a suit and tie with a question mark on his neck .
29.09.2025 22:30 — 👍 16    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

Hugely impressive that Jim is going to be a republican President that lays the groundwork for the next one - like Michael Martin’s voice is in his earpiece. #TonightVMTV

29.09.2025 22:27 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Heather acting like she hasn’t been in government for the last decade plus. Expect to see much more of this over the next 4 weeks. #TonightVMTV

29.09.2025 22:09 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Great support today for Catherine Connolly at Sinn Féin’s Building for Unity event in Dublin.

Sinn Féin are moving heaven and earth to ensure we have a President that represents a better, fairer and united ireland.

27.09.2025 17:32 — 👍 6    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
a selfie of Killian, Dylan, Maolíosa, and Conor holding Catherine Connolly leaflets while out canvassing in Ballybricken.

a selfie of Killian, Dylan, Maolíosa, and Conor holding Catherine Connolly leaflets while out canvassing in Ballybricken.

This right here is the United Left Alternative and you absolutely love to see it - years in the making!

Soc Dems, Greens, Sinn Féin, and Independent (plus Labour and People Before Profit).

All united by the aim to get Catherine Connolly for President into the Áras and to keep FF/FG out!

#Ireland

26.09.2025 18:34 — 👍 10    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0
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Thoroughly enjoyed showing our next President around Donegal today!

26.09.2025 19:43 — 👍 8    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Terrorism case against Kneecap rapper Liam Óg Ó hAnnaidh thrown out Chief magistrate at Woolwich crown court rules that ‘proceedings were instituted unlawfully and are null’

What an absolute fucking waste of time, money, coverage, energy, everything this all has been

26.09.2025 10:12 — 👍 31    🔁 6    💬 1    📌 0
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Leonardo DiCaprio’s Israeli Luxury Hotel Gets the Green Light — and the Backlash to Match Leonardo DiCaprio, long praised as Hollywood’s climate conscience, is once again making headlines — but not for saving the planet.

The amount of people who are unaware of this makes me very sad. He has not backed out of opening the hotel despite the genocide
culturacolectiva.com/en/lifestyle...

26.09.2025 02:38 — 👍 77    🔁 36    💬 3    📌 1

If this intends to make it legally compulsory for every adult in Derry to carry something called a "Brit Card", then I'm willing to offer some high-paid consultancy on why this plan might be flawed.

25.09.2025 16:14 — 👍 2079    🔁 544    💬 85    📌 36
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McDonald 'very concerned' for those on Gaza aid flotilla Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald has said she is "very concerned" for the safety of those travelling on the Gaza-bound aid flotilla.

Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald has said she is "very concerned" for the safety of those travelling on the Gaza-bound aid flotilla

24.09.2025 13:00 — 👍 17    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 1
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Posters have arrived. #ConnollyforPresident

25.09.2025 14:32 — 👍 7    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Seems a lot of people in Ireland could do with googling “representative democracy”.

24.09.2025 17:12 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

This is absolutely shocking.

📧 Please urgently email the DFA, Taoiseach and Tánaiste demanding immediate intervention to protect the flotilla, adding in your local tds and reps.

24.09.2025 13:16 — 👍 8    🔁 4    💬 2    📌 0

Congrats Lynn 👏🏻

23.09.2025 19:34 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Didn’t realise he had passed. Sorry to hear. Yes, he was excellent in rebellion.

23.09.2025 19:32 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Irvine Welsh: 'I'm doing a biopic of James Connolly and his early years' As a new documentary on Irvine Welsh is released, he talks about the 1916 hero, as well as Iggy Pop, Oasis, and the turning point for Scottish football

Take. My. Money.
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23.09.2025 17:30 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Saying the people alone have the right to decide who governs their country is anti-colonialism 101. Stop the feigned outrage.

22.09.2025 20:18 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Whistleblower warned Varadkar Gavin's hiring broke rules The Irish Aviation Authority didn’t follow proper procedures when it hired Jim Gavin, said a whistleblower.

The Irish Aviation Authority didn’t follow proper procedures when it hired Fianna Fáil presidential candidate Jim Gavin as chief operating officer, according to a confidential letter from a whistleblower to then taoiseach Leo Varadkar.

www.ontheditch.com/whistleblowe...

22.09.2025 15:10 — 👍 45    🔁 33    💬 3    📌 7

I look forward to Gareth Sheridan remaining in Ireland, getting involved in housing organisations - CATU maybe? - networking with local communities, marching in the streets and then running for county Cllr in the next elections - seeing as he's so concerned about housing 'n' all.

22.09.2025 14:49 — 👍 119    🔁 33    💬 7    📌 3
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Disney is no longer associated with magic and innocence in the minds of millions now.

There are mistakes - and there is catastrophic cowardice that changes your brand identity.

Boycott Disney.

21.09.2025 08:28 — 👍 7176    🔁 2362    💬 415    📌 168

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