“The great boycotts of history did not succeed because millions of people suddenly became heroic activists.”
~Rutger Bregman
Irish Examiner
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“The great boycotts of history did not succeed because millions of people suddenly became heroic activists.”
~Rutger Bregman
Irish Examiner
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“Peacekeeping has become force protection.”
~Colin Sheridan
Irish Examiner
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“What is needed instead is a determined effort by non-aligned nations to pool their power and to stand up for basic principles of international justice.”
~Tom Collins
The Irish News
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There are credible concerns that Trump’s motives for attacking Iran have more to do with
🔺a dive in his popularity at home
🔺the cloud of suspicion over his relationship with Epstein
~editorial
Irish Examiner
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Sport has always been political
🔺 South Africa was excluded from international competition.
🔺Russia was suspended from tournaments after its invasion of Ukraine.
To pretend otherwise now is not neutrality. It is selective blindness.
~Colin Sheridan @colinivan
Irish Examiner
“Unity must not be a protest vote. It must be a strategic choice.”
~Lillian Seenoi-Barr
The Irish News
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“The policy adopted in March 1976 to criminalise the IRA and isolate them as a criminal gang with no support had backfired spectacularly.”
~Brian Feeney
The Irish News
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“Can you imagine explaining being afraid of UEFA “disciplinary measures” to an orphan amputee who lives in a tent?”
~Aoife Moore
The Irish News
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“Neutrality remains one of the most widely supported pillars of Irish foreign policy, rooted in historical experience, post-colonial identity, and a long-standing preference for international mediation rather than military alignment.”
~Patricia MacBride
The Irish News
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“A small country cannot outspend the great powers, but it can decide what kind of politics it wants to import.”
~Colin Sheridan @colinivan
Irish Examiner
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“The killing of Gazans never stopped; the intensity merely reduced, perhaps just temporarily.”
~Robert Swift
The National
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“If Jackson’s retrospective praise reveals the dissonance of establishment respect, consider the contempt directed at Francesca Albanese — the UN special rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territories.”
~Colin Sheridan
Irish Examiner
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“The military men always want more money for fancier equipment, more personnel, and, with their friends in the media, constantly manufacture or exaggerate threats to Britain, sometimes quite preposterously.”
~Brian Feeney
The Irish News
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“People power has many expressions. Boycotting is only one of them”
~Justine McCarthy
The Irish Times
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“It is almost like government parties are spooked by a commentariat suggesting our nation's conscience can be dictated by I3raeli-backed threats to foreign investments.”
~Andrée Murphy
Andersonstown News
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“The north can’t elect a government or play any role in one, so people here have no say in how this sub-polity is run. Stormont just doles out what’s doled out.”
~Brian Feeney
The Irish News
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“History does not look kindly on appeasers; the appeasers of Hitler are not well remembered.”
~Suzanne Harrington
Irish Examiner
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“If you criminalise protest, you can shift the story from what is being facilitated to who is objecting.”
~Colin Sheridan
Irish Examiner
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“Starmer’s government has politicised the new powers in the various acts, starting with the misuse of the Terrorism Act 2000 to outlaw Palestine Action as part of what is in effect Starmer’s government’s anti-Palestinian bias.”
~Brian Feeney
The Irish News
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“Why do they play to their increasingly small and irrelevant galleries instead of building real and meaningful working relationships and partnerships?”
~Andrée Murphy
Andersonstown News
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“the only thing Starmer has any proven allegiance to is his own political career.”
~Kelly Given
The National
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“Language in America has always been a proxy for belonging, and in periods of heightened immigration enforcement and nationalist rhetoric, Spanish becomes a target.”
~Colin Sheridan @colinivan
Irish Examiner
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“If you have a problem with literally anybody expressing public sympathy with a people being slaughtered, then something is missing in your emotional make-up. Not your politics, but your wiring.”
~Colin Sheridan
Irish Examiner
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“The staggered and heavily-redacted release of the Epstein files has largely functioned to shield powerful men whilst re-traumatising victims.”
~Patricia Mac Bride
The Irish News
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Mhairi Black
The National
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“The more you read about Epstein, the more you realise you’re not dealing with one monster, but with an ecosystem of monsters, enablers, and cowards.”
~Colin Sheridan
Irish Examiner
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“Jon couldn’t field a five-a-side team full of Ulster Unionist MLAs willing to publicly endorse him…”
~Chris Donnelly
The Irish News
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“I feel white hot outrage at a world that will deliver a modicum of societal disgrace to those named in the Epstein files while simultaneously excusing Isreali murderers”
~Andrée Murphy
Andersonstown News
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Compromising the powerful, influential, popular has been a political espionage tactic for an eternity. The web of deceit was by design, to influence, direct and coerce.
We know where all the roads lead to but for some reason there is an unwillingness to act. Strange that 🤔