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Roibeárd Meillear

@beaniebob.bsky.social

Accidental Anarchist. Retired journalist and NUJ Life member but still a union activist. Garage artist just for the joy of it. Stout drinker again just for the joy of it. Ex-rugby union player. For my sins in a past/current life still a ManU fan.

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Another one.

12.08.2025 15:36 — 👍 10395    🔁 5217    💬 1620    📌 966
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VAWG in NI: PSNI response to FactCheckNI’s Freedom of Information Request - FactCheckNI FactCheckNI recently published an analysis of what is known about Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG) in Northern Ireland, focusing on the criminal justice system and, in particular, the statistic...

Incident and Crime Statistics Violence against Women and Girls as recorded by the cops in NI

factcheckni.org/articles/vaw...

12.08.2025 08:53 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Ed Sheeran is ‘culturally Irish’. So can you be ‘culturally Scottish’? Both Scotland and Ireland could do with underscoring their credentials as welcoming nations

Ed Sheeran says he feels ‘culturally Irish’. As an Irishman I think that’s great. In fact as an Irishman in Scotland I feel culturally Scottish. We’re all the same anyway whether Irish or Scottish, black or white. Be what you want. That’s something to celebrate www.heraldscotland.com/politics/vie...

12.08.2025 07:41 — 👍 50    🔁 7    💬 4    📌 0
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Killing of Al Jazeera staff in Gaza ‘silencing journalistic voices’ – Tanaiste Simon Harris extended Ireland’s sympathies to Al Jazeera over the deaths of five of its staff members in Gaza on Sunday night.

Solidarity to all my journalist colleagues condemning the killings in Gaza.
uk.news.yahoo.com/killing-al-j...

11.08.2025 20:35 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
Redirecting...

Well done to all who turned up at short notice. Solidarity.
www.facebook.com/share/19Y37q...

11.08.2025 20:11 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Nigel Farage Claimed There's 'No Money in Politics' Just Before Running for £91,000+ MP Job EXCLUSIVE: Unearthed comments show Reform UK leader dismissing MP salary, just weeks before becoming Britain's highest-earning parliamentarian

Nigel Farage Claimed There’s ‘No Money in Politics’ Just Before Running for £91,000+ MP Job

EXCLUSIVE: Unearthed comments show Reform UK leader dismissing MP salary, just weeks before becoming Britain’s highest-earning parliamentarian
bylinetimes.com/2025/08/11/f...

11.08.2025 18:30 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Israel-Gaza live: Israel kills prominent Al Jazeera journalist and four colleagues in targeted attack The broadcaster condemns the

Taregeted by Zionist forces

Israel kills prominent Al Jazeera journalist and four colleagues in targeted attack in Gaza

www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c1...

11.08.2025 08:25 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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When even the BBC says ‘Israel kills’ you know things have got serious.

11.08.2025 08:17 — 👍 129    🔁 48    💬 8    📌 0

Am dreading it. Am taking a mate, who is recovering from a stroke, to the pub next Sunday to watch Utd game. He's a Utd fan too.

10.08.2025 08:55 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
The real bin boy: Who is the handsome fella on the right soaked through to the skin? A thinner Beanie Bob, with an early morning Wednesday crew (6am) from the old Antrim Council Depot in the Steeple, on our way out to do a real bin lift over the shoulder job with the ashes and the rats. Circa: 1970s

The real bin boy: Who is the handsome fella on the right soaked through to the skin? A thinner Beanie Bob, with an early morning Wednesday crew (6am) from the old Antrim Council Depot in the Steeple, on our way out to do a real bin lift over the shoulder job with the ashes and the rats. Circa: 1970s

A real bin boy: Who is the handsome fella on the right soaked through to the skin? A thinner Beanie Bob, with an early morning Wednesday crew (6am) from the old Antrim Council Depot in the Steeple, on our way out to do a real bin lift over the shoulder job with the ashes and the rats. Circa: 1970s

09.08.2025 18:20 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Another painting done by garage artist Beanie Bob

07.08.2025 18:42 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Reminder, because one is sorely needed: Arriving in the UK via irregular means, such as by a precarious small boat crossing, is not in itself illegal.

Only those asylum seekers refused asylum are genuinely "illegal".

It's disgusting that Yvette Cooper and Labour paint them all with the same brush.

07.08.2025 11:52 — 👍 162    🔁 59    💬 9    📌 1

Not all NI racists/fascists are female/male and child beaters but half of them are.

07.08.2025 09:58 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Almost half NI race rioters reported for domestic abuse The figures for Northern Ireland – 48% - were higher than the UK average (41%).

There were 48 people arrested in relation to the disorder, of which 23 had been reported for domestic abuse. The figures for Northern Ireland – 48% - were higher than the UK average (41%).
Comment source: Amanda Fersuson, journalist.

Story source: By Luke Butterly
www.thedetail.tv/articles/alm...

07.08.2025 09:53 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Epstein had a daily quota too

He had Maxwell supply him with three girls a day

He raped three girls a day for 10 years

Maxwell was the brains.

She had an elaborate, pyramid scheme, She literally did everything and also raped little girls .

She’s a monster

07.08.2025 02:18 — 👍 5628    🔁 2559    💬 214    📌 83

You can also read a bit more about the CMC here, as it was myself and @josiah.writes.news that had the first look into them, early last year, though this was when they'd only just started to be quoted in places like the Telegraph:
bsky.app/profile/mc00...

07.08.2025 09:45 — 👍 2    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Private Eye also now digging deep into this bizarre man, Robert Bates, who's been pushing out wonky immigration stats which have then been picked up by the RW media:
bsky.app/profile/priv...

07.08.2025 09:42 — 👍 13    🔁 6    💬 2    📌 0
TikTok - Make Your Day

More from Lewis on Bates:
vm.tiktok.com/ZNdxUh2xC/

07.08.2025 09:38 — 👍 1    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0

Lewis has done incredible work picking apart skewed data being released by the Centre for Migration control, a Reform affiliated Astroturf operation that's quickly becoming the go-to anti-immigration "think tank" for the far right:

07.08.2025 09:30 — 👍 24    🔁 7    💬 1    📌 0
47% of people think immigration is primarily illegal. There were 4% irregular arrivals in March

47% of people think immigration is primarily illegal. There were 4% irregular arrivals in March

New YouGov polling. A monumental failure of our political class to educate, a monumental failure of our media to report fairly, for a generation

05.08.2025 06:27 — 👍 4926    🔁 2004    💬 286    📌 250
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Leading global scholars sign letter urging UK to end Palestine Action ban Naomi Klein and Angela Davis among those demanding stop to ‘attack on fundamental freedoms’ of assembly and protest

#palestine #Uk

07.08.2025 08:02 — 👍 9    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 1
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Another reason why Zionism has to join Nazism in the trash bin of historical failures. #FreePalestine #GazaHolocaust

05.08.2025 00:50 — 👍 50    🔁 17    💬 15    📌 1

I prosecute and defend the most serious sexual offences in our courts.

The overwhelming majority of offenders are British-born. Overwhelmingly the victim is someone known to them, either a partner or relative.

Anybody purporting to care about protecting women might start there.

04.08.2025 15:29 — 👍 6483    🔁 2431    💬 94    📌 89

An excellent +10 part posting of how Fox News tries to implore with us there is nothing special to report about the Epstein files, by @decodingfoxnews.bsky.social.
Please go to her profile and read/watch. Worth following her, too!

06.08.2025 08:19 — 👍 16    🔁 16    💬 0    📌 0
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Protect are kids’ the latest favourite right wing slogan yet 42% of recently convicted rioters have been punished or warned over domestic/sexual abuse against women and girls.

06.08.2025 08:52 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Housing waiting list of 48,000+ people, over 4500 households in temporary accommodation in 2024 and just 500 social homes projected to be built this year if we're lucky.

If a politician is yapping about trans people you should recreate the Pigtail Hammer Throw scene from Matilda with them.

05.08.2025 10:34 — 👍 50    🔁 8    💬 1    📌 0

And no one’s fooled.

05.08.2025 10:35 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Behind every draconian decision, there's secret evidence ("detailed security assessments") we're not allowed to see. We should just suck it up and believe them.
Sorry, Yvette Cooper, that's not how democracy should work. When you make a decision of such consequence, we need to see the basis for it.

05.08.2025 07:55 — 👍 1488    🔁 499    💬 147    📌 34
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04.08.2025 20:17 — 👍 4426    🔁 1610    💬 118    📌 87

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