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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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Yep. Exactly.

09.08.2025 22:29 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

In a region where the more authoritarian instincts of the British state, at least in recent years, have largely been muffled by a policy locally of ensuring there isn’t an escalation of tensions among communities, this is the PSNI making a real statement. Shocking.

09.08.2025 22:13 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0
Two images, first is a presumably Jewish father and son in concentration camp clothing standing in front of a doorway saying 'I'm sure we'll be fine, we're only queuing for a shower' and the other image shows a Palestinian mother and daughter queuing in front of what looks to be a Red Cross van saying 'I'm sure it will be fine we're only queuing for some food.'

Two images, first is a presumably Jewish father and son in concentration camp clothing standing in front of a doorway saying 'I'm sure we'll be fine, we're only queuing for a shower' and the other image shows a Palestinian mother and daughter queuing in front of what looks to be a Red Cross van saying 'I'm sure it will be fine we're only queuing for some food.'

25.07.2025 11:13 — 👍 10    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 1
GALAR | Official Trailer (The Homes of Donegal)
YouTube video by Keltik Elk GALAR | Official Trailer (The Homes of Donegal)

This looks fantastic. And should make very uncomfortable viewing for many in the government parties. youtu.be/1BgesPv3ksE?...

03.08.2025 19:27 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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"Bertie Aherne emerges as preferred Fianna Fail candidate".

Have we not been playing that CMAT song enough or something?

02.08.2025 19:29 — 👍 21    🔁 6    💬 3    📌 0
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Horse Racing Ireland’s new advertising campaign predictably attempts to defend the indefensible.

If “Racing Runs in Us” then surely it should be able to cope without an extortionate subvention from tax payer money.

29.07.2025 19:04 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Hungary bans Kneecap ahead of Sziget Festival show Hungarian authorities have banned Irish rap group Kneecap from entering the country to perform at the Sziget Festival, accusing the group of using antisemitic hate speech and praising the Hamas milita...

Superficially ludicrous that a country with significant problems with anti-semitism - including from govt - tries to disbar a music group with spurious claims of the same. But it highlights the complex nature of a Far Right that can be both anti-semitic and pro-Zionist. www.rte.ie/entertainmen...

24.07.2025 15:12 — 👍 7    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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Hulk Hogan dies an old man at home at 71 when most of his contemporaries died in their 30s and 40s in hotel rooms and slung over steering wheels largely as a result of his ratting out of Jesse Ventura when he attempted to unionise wrestling back in 1986. That’s his legacy.

24.07.2025 19:46 — 👍 8    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Sorry … toxic what?

18.07.2025 10:14 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Let Them Play Irish government is blocking these children's visas. #LetThemPlay #GaaPalestine

Irish government is blocking these children's visas. #LetThemPlay #GaaPalestine my.uplift.ie/petitions/le... @uplift.ie

10.07.2025 18:04 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 3    📌 0
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Five words about Palestine Action could get me arrested Support for the protest group was legal last week—but now it is ‘terrorism’. This is an assault on our liberty

Powerful piece by Ronan Bennett - Five words about Palestine Action could get me arrested
Support for the protest group was legal last week—but now it is ‘terrorism’. This is an assault on our liberty www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/fre...

09.07.2025 13:31 — 👍 20    🔁 5    💬 1    📌 2

This could be a Gaelic score. #clubworldcup

09.07.2025 19:38 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Vile.

09.07.2025 12:11 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 3    📌 0

“When I came from Belfast this morning, I didn’t even know when I had entered Ireland”

Bualadh bos from the patriots.

08.07.2025 20:12 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Terrifying scenes in Britain today.

05.07.2025 18:19 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Sally Rooney will remain 'committed supporter of Palestine Action', court told The Irish author said in court documents that the ban would prevent her from speaking at future public events as she “could not in good conscience disguise or lie about my principles” if it comes into...

Irish writer Sally Rooney is at the forefront of the legal challenge to stop Palestine Action being banned under the UK Terrorism Act. ❤️🇵🇸

www.irishexaminer.com/world/arid-4...

04.07.2025 22:26 — 👍 82    🔁 25    💬 1    📌 2

Britain is in a deeply authoritarian moment.

04.07.2025 21:54 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Today, after 14 years, I’m resigning from the Labour Party.

Jeremy Corbyn and I will co-lead the founding of a new party, with other Independent MPs, campaigners and activists across the country.

Join us. The time is now.

Sign up here to stay updated: actionnetwork.org/forms/join-t...

03.07.2025 19:20 — 👍 6552    🔁 1752    💬 610    📌 615
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RTÉ calls them antisemitic.

02.07.2025 20:11 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

No RTÉ, Bob Vylan did not "lead anti-semitic chants from the stage." Completely defamatory reporting and this is backed up time and time again by the courts.

30.06.2025 20:31 — 👍 9    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

I’d like to thank Kneecap and Bob Vylan this past weekend for forcing the political right-wing back into their natural habitat - censoring art and anti-war voices. Time to stop pretending you are anything other than a bunch of Mary Whitehouses.

30.06.2025 19:41 — 👍 10    🔁 0    💬 3    📌 0

Honestly can’t get enough of the Club World Cup. Not sure how detractors can deny all these giant South American clubs such a world stage. #FIFAClubWorldCup2025

29.06.2025 21:26 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

A very bad day for the Zionist lobby today and a perfect example of how censorship can completely backfire.

28.06.2025 19:37 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
DJ Provai in his trademark tricolour bally, and a t-shirt saying "WE ARE ALL PALESTINE ACTION", an hour before Kneecap plays Glastonbury 2025.

DJ Provai in his trademark tricolour bally, and a t-shirt saying "WE ARE ALL PALESTINE ACTION", an hour before Kneecap plays Glastonbury 2025.

1 hour to go.....

28.06.2025 14:02 — 👍 1223    🔁 203    💬 22    📌 13
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PETITION: Defend the right to protest: no proscription of Palestine Action

SIGN THE PETITION: Defend the right to protest: no proscription of Palestine Action

palestinecampaign.eaction.org.uk/NoProscription

28.06.2025 18:05 — 👍 29    🔁 15    💬 4    📌 3
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Whacked on the BBC Glasto coverage to see what they were showing instead of Kneecap and caught Amy of Amyl & the Sniffers giving a pro Palestine speech...

Beeb editors playing whack-a-mole

28.06.2025 16:41 — 👍 1445    🔁 438    💬 38    📌 75

For the first part, this debate has been had and it is clear that this road must be upgraded as planned.

For the second part, a small group of self-interested obstructors should not be allowed to continue to delay progress. Reality is it simply wouldn’t happen if the road was located in the south.

23.06.2025 19:33 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

This is beyond farce. Just how can such a minority continue to hold back such a majority.

23.06.2025 18:08 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 1
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Honoured to visit Derry with @bloodysundaytrust.bsky.social for the 15th anniversary of the Saville Report.

We remember the 14 unarmed civil rights activists murdered on Bloody Sunday & stand with all fighting for truth from Ballymurphy to Rafah.

One world. One struggle. Until we are all free.

16.06.2025 20:30 — 👍 169    🔁 36    💬 4    📌 0

I’m going to say it. I’m really enjoying the Club World Cup. Refreshing to have something different and enjoying learning more about the non-European teams.

16.06.2025 19:20 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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