Andrée Murphy

ANDRÉE MURPHY: Safety of women and girls demands an island-wide, properly-funded strategy AT a Féile event exploring the contents of the book Lost Gaels, GAA President Jarlath Burns began his remarks by asking the audience to remember three more Lost Gaels, Vanessa Whyte and her children J...

There needs to be concerted and dedicated political a tion including respurces to tackle violence against women across this island belfastmedia.com/all-island-s...

ANDREE MURPHY: The banality of evil and the lure of money unite to condemn a people HANNAH Arendt spent every day at the trial of Adolf Eichmann, the miner’s son and travelling salesman who was architect of the 'Final Solution'. Her observations on the cold, mundane nature of evil be...

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ANDRÉE MURPHY: Salad days in Dublin before the mayo curse THE youngest sent me a shopping list recently. It included 'salad cream'. Excuse me? Ours is a mayo house (not in football of course)! What was this?

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Thank you x

Comber Orange Order has released a clarification which fails to understand: being an Irish republican is not only legitimate, it is noble.
The Irish identity and culture is legitimate and noble.
Flying the Irish flag and singing the Irish anthem is legitimate and noble.
Saying other is bigotry

I think the cricket club was left isolated and had few options with a primary interest of children protection.
It is incredulous that this isolation and threat to children is possible - there are many agencies that need to step up now

What is the PSNI actually for?
We have to be better than this.
Emma Pengelly should be standing there tomorrow and saying she will ref the first game.
It is the lack of the leadership from those who are paid to do it that creates the fear and leaves good people isolated and vulnerable

Sports summer camp cancelled as Orange lodge raises ‘significant concerns’ over children from GAA club Orange lodge among those opposed to cross-community sports event due to ‘perceived move of the GAA into the local community’

The cricket club is trying its best
The Orange Order has led a charge against young Gaels and the cricket club felt isolated
And young people get bigotry as their example
A lot to unpick here
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ANDRÉE MURPHY: Micheál Martin should consider how reconciliation has failed up to now THE Vice President for Research of Dublin City University, last week produced the first peer-reviewed paper on the true costs of Irish unification.

Lets think about the barriers to reconciliation - partition is one of the fundamental ones x- belfastmedia.com/constitution...

An Orange card in the rest of the world looks like this.
Here it looks like insanity

If that bonfire is lit tonight the people who will claim victory will have lost so much.
And told the rest of us that fundamental change is our only option.

Remember when republicans actually disbanded and actually prevented violence and threats of violence on the streets?
And still nothing they did was good enough?
And think about the loyalist gangs that have still not disbanded, are threatening violence over a bonfire and seeking a few quid more

What a beautiful message - wishing you the very same x

Indeed - and now they get it cleaned up for free. Which is probably a relief as the costs might have been quite high

I think this is positive and an insight into a Taoiseach that is trying to reimagine the constitutional debate.
Many are frustrated with but
I don’t think he favours partition - and you see that here.
Nuance and creativity is required. I think Mícheál Martin has much to offer to this

In the context of the “will they won’t they” nonsense re loyalist paramilitaries the dysfunction and paralysis of local governance becomes highlighted even more. Muir’s eunuch persona so sad.
And most people live their lives despite them all, viewing the partitioned system as increasingly broken.

11th night bonfires are sites of contest every year.
Far from engaging with criticisms, organisers often put it up to residents, communities, hospitals, cops, firefighters and political parties.
The annual “come on” is becoming increasingly desperate.
And by the time the embers get cold, forgotten

Nothing sums up the sadness I feel when thinking of Stormont more than this week.
An environment minister who could have been the hero, protecting working class communities from asbestos went on the missing.
Gifted it by a far too slow to respond Belfast Council, he hid.

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Highly recommend @pbs.org's new documentary, Hannah Arendt: Facing Tyranny. www.pbs.org/wnet/america...

'Force of nature' Galvin at the heart of RTÉ Noraid film THE RTÉ documentary 'Noraid: Irish America and the IRA' was something that needed to be made. Despite its sensationalist title it is a sensitive two-parter that breaks with tired formats and relies en...

The history of Irish Northern Aid needed to be told. On RTÉ this the first of a two parter begins that journey belfastmedia.com/irish-northe...

ANDRÉE MURPHY: US visitors tell us truths that we can no longer ignore TWO 'influencers' came to visit Belfast and they called out some unsavoury truths about our shared city. Tana Mongeau and Brooke Schofield were, until this week, entirely unknown to me but they are bi...

I think we need to talk about Belfast. She needs an intervention belfastmedia.com/a-better-bel...

ANDRÉE MURPHY: Kneecap have decided to rise – and we're rising with them ON the shore of the southern western coast of Kerry a lonely tricolour flies. Watched by only sea birds it looks out toward the slate-grey sea, under a slate-grey sky. A heron might be caught wonderin...

From 1916 to today the Irish will make British PNs quake in their boots belfastmedia.com/the-irish-wi...

Chancers, criminals and traitors who should never be allowed fly the Irish Flags in their cause of hate, and division

ANDRÉE MURPHY: Let's not allow Israel to rob us of our humanity "TEL Aviv right now. Shoppers. Dogs. Children. Rabbis. Yoga. Everyone comes down to the bunker for 20 minutes with stoicism, resilience, and a sense of common purpose."

belfastmedia.com/israel-must-... Last week I found myself ambivalent about Israeli civilians being killed. I refuse to become the hypocrite violence encouraged us to be

ANDRÉE MURPHY: We want our country – and it's time we got it THE latest results of the NI Life and Times Survey make for interesting reading. 45 per cent of respondents describe themselves as Irish, 35 per cent describe themselves as British. The other 20 per c...

My column in the Andersonstown News this Week belfastmedia.com/we-do-not-as...

When I was diagnosed in 2017 I learned that the treatment I received had not changed in decades. 70% of those diagnosed with meningioma are women.
While meningioma are mainly slow growing tumours that can hide life changing, diminishing and life shortening impacts.
We urgently need funded research

ANDRÉE MURPHY: BBC's defence of indefensible opens up questions about its exit strategy WHAT is the BBC’s exit strategy in the scenario for a united Ireland? That was always a fair question.

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In her column for the Andersonstown News, @andreemurphy.bsky.social asks in the first line, “What is the BBC’s exit strategy in the scenario for a United Ireland?”

That’s a great question.

ANDRÉE MURPHY: Good character punished and bad character rewarded WHAT is 'good character'? In my hall I have the 'graduation' photo of my daughter as she left Naíscoil na bhFál, a part of the now proud tradition of Gaeilgeoirí in West Belfast. The Cumann Iar Scoile...

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As with Mark Sykes on the Ormeau Rd, this is an entirely unnecessary arrest. It’s disproportionate and is unreasonable in the circumstances.

It’s a fucking joke. @andreemurphy.bsky.social @williamcrawley.bsky.social