Andrée Murphy
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Human rights. Feminism. United and reconciled Ireland.
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ANDRÉE MURPHY: Cycle of educational underachievement and poverty must be broken
IF you live in the South of Ireland you live in a state where 63% of young people go to third level education. In West Belfast it is 29.7%, the lowest in the North.
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ANDRÉE MURPHY: While Kenova has value, it remains window-dressing at its core
IN a long 164 pages that spends much time justifying its own existence and approach, the Kenova Report will leave many people wondering how £40 million could be spent by the state investigating histor...
https://belfastmedia.com/kenova-is-important-but-it-is-not-enough
28 days ago
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The treatment of Siobhán McCallin tells us tgat some sinister mentalities never change
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ANDRÉE MURPHY: We need to attract women like Siobhán – not drive them away
IN August 1993, Sinn Féin in Belfast marched for the first time to Belfast City Hall. It was a seminal moment, led by republican women, when the right to march, assemble and express republican opinion...
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about 1 month ago
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Are Commissions a case of be careful what you wish for?
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ANDRÉE MURPHY: Is it time we had a commission for commissions?
THERE are things that seem like a really good idea at the time but then experience prompts us to ask if they really are.
https://belfastmedia.com/let-s-question-commissions-and-their-added-value
about 1 month ago
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Lets capitalise on a united Irelander in the park and concebe convene convene
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ANDRÉE MURPHY: Phoenix Park elders have a change to forge a new national conversation
WHEN Mary Robinson was first elected to the Presidency there was a sense of “shift”. The South of Ireland gave its first sign that it was breaking the hegemony of Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael, and was mo...
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about 2 months ago
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ANDRÉE MURPHY: Unionist cold-war aggression takes hold yet again
THE combined actions and inactions of the DUP and the Orange Order this week tell of a unique local psychosis of being at once deeply insecure and at the same time incredible arrogant. How lovely to h...
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about 2 months ago
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The far right can be beaten Not by telling people what they want to hear to the point no one knows what you stand for But trusting them to hear the truth of your principles and engaging in the hard work of integrity
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ANDRÉE MURPHY: Integrity and trust defeated the post-partition duopoly
IDENTIFIED as firmly a voice for the dispossessed and marginalised, Uachtarán Catherine Connolly has caught a mood that has been simmering but lacking confidence for too long. Its day has come and Ire...
https://belfastmedia.com/integrity-wins-trust-and-defeats-the-far-right-and-partition
2 months ago
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It is not reasonable or generous or thoughtful to say the Paras actions on Bloody Sunday brought their regiment into disrepute: that denies the truth of so many of their other victims
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ANDRÉE MURPHY: The Paras' reputation is not 'proud' and they are not 'valiant'
MAYBE Justice Lynch felt he was acknowledging the Bloody Sunday families when he spoke of the Parachute Regiment’s actions in Derry 1972 being a source of shame. However, referring to the “proud reput...
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2 months ago
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ANDRÉE MURPHY: Peace through strength is no kind of peace
IT is so clearly not a peace deal. It is so clearly a pause of uncertainty, of unfairness, of threat and of inequality.
https://belfastmedia.com/peace-through-strength-is-impossible
3 months ago
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ANDRÉE MURPHY: Watching the fairground ride we're not allowed to get on
IT'S hard to sum up the absolute car crash of the Southern Presidential election in ways that are kind, positive or contributory right now. With what were three pretty underwhelming candidates, who co...
https://belfastmedia.com/hubris-vs-integrity
3 months ago
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I’m not saying we are Germany. I’m not even saying we are East Germany. I’m just saying.
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ANDRÉE MURPHY: Germany calling, Germany calling: Don't ignore the lessons of history
BERLIN 1989. The communist efidice is crumbling. Citizens of the country decide to hop over the Berlin Wall and some start taking out the Kangol hammers.
https://belfastmedia.com/this-is-berlin-calling
3 months ago
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I know the world is upside down and scary but sometimes we can be a bit less urgent
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ANDRÉE MURPHY: Let's create our own smells and colours as the leaves begin to fall
THE September air turned crisp this week as we were reminded that despite the turmoil of the world, the seasons will come, and the earth will remind us of the forces greater than our imagination.
https://belfastmedia.com/ditch-the-plastic-this-autumn-and-ditch-the-anxiety
3 months ago
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If you are keen on unifying the country maybe mention the disgraceful lack of voting rights of Irish citizens, living in their own country but on the wrong side of partition. And mention it often. Especially if you are a candidate 🧐
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SF supporting Catherine Connolly makes sense internally as well as externally. The early momentum of leading the alternative left government needs to be reinforced if the objective of replacing FF/FG is to be realised. In that context losing would be a monumental blow to all parties. High stakes.
4 months ago
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4 months ago
Only Dublin could treat the provision of public toilets as if they were being asked to land people on Mars.
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4 months ago
An Tánaiste is giving some bold commitments today, on behalf of Rialtas na hÉireann, to our citizens in the north east of Ulster. I sincerely hope he is proved right and is vindicated.
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The tenacity of families who refused to accept a Legacy Bill of impunity and no hope should be widely acknowledged today. The paper is undoubtedly imperfect but huge progress has been made
4 months ago
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The Guardian Climate News (unofficial)
4 months ago
Only a third of world’s river basins experienced normal conditions in 2024: Increasingly erratic water cycle is creating food scarcity, rising prices, conflict and migration, says UN agency Only a third of the world’s river basins experienced normal conditions last year as the climate cri...
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Only a third of world’s river basins experienced normal conditions in 2024
Only a third of world’s river basins experienced normal conditions in 2024: Increasingly erratic water cycle is creating food scarcity, rising prices, conflict and migration, says UN agency Only a third of the world’s river basins experienced normal conditions last year as the climate cri...
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/sep/18/climate-crisis-driving-extreme-floods-droughts
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Devastating
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Security concern as tens of thousands of phone locations for sale
Data showing the specific movement of tens of thousands of smartphones in Ireland is available to purchase within the digital marketing and advertising industries, an undercover Prime Time investigati...
https://www.rte.ie/news/primetime/2025/0918/1534034-security-concern-as-tens-of-thousands-of-phone-locations-for-sale/
4 months ago
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While we speculate and consider the candidates with feverish anticipation we know that we have no vote.
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ANDRÉE MURPHY: We can only sit and watch as the Presidential drama plays out
THE democratic process is a wonderful thing – and the vote for an Irish President all the more so.
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4 months ago
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ANDRÉE MURPHY: Neutrality is about how we view ourselves as a people
ONE of the surprises of Féile this year was the repeated reference to Irish neutrality and the passionate response every time it was mentioned. It became clear by the end of the week that this is an i...
https://belfastmedia.com/neutrality-in-a-new-ireland
4 months ago
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There should be zero surprise in Ireland at Britain’s actions regarding Gaza
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ANDRÉE MURPHY: When it comes to starvation and genocide, Israel and Britain are perfect bed-fellows
“The last words I heard him speak were ‘Papa, I am hungry'."
https://belfastmedia.com/britain-s-colonial-legacy-explains-her-actions-in-gaza
5 months ago
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There needs to be concerted and dedicated political a tion including respurces to tackle violence against women across this island
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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...
https://belfastmedia.com/all-island-strategy-for-women-and-children
5 months ago
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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...
https://belfastmedia.com/the-banality-of-evil
5 months ago
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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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6 months ago
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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
6 months ago
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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
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6 months ago
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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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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’
https://www.irishnews.com/news/northern-ireland/sports-summer-camp-cancelled-as-orange-lodge-raises-significant-concerns-over-children-from-gaa-club-N6JNP5R4NBEP7MXT64TFSGHOP4/
6 months ago
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Lets think about the barriers to reconciliation - partition is one of the fundamental ones x-
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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.
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6 months ago
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An Orange card in the rest of the world looks like this. Here it looks like insanity
6 months ago
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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.
6 months ago
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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
6 months ago
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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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6 months ago
Highly recommend
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's new documentary, Hannah Arendt: Facing Tyranny.
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Hannah Arendt: Facing Tyranny - About the documentary | American Masters | PBS
Discover Hannah Arendt, who transformed her time as a political prisoner during World War II into daring insights about totalitarianism.
https://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/hannah-arendt-documentary/36135/
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The history of Irish Northern Aid needed to be told. On RTÉ this the first of a two parter begins that journey
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'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...
https://belfastmedia.com/irish-northern-aid-documentary-review
6 months ago
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I think we need to talk about Belfast. She needs an intervention
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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...
https://belfastmedia.com/a-better-belfast-is-possible
6 months ago
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From 1916 to today the Irish will make British PNs quake in their boots
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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...
https://belfastmedia.com/the-irish-will-always-unite
6 months ago
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Chancers, criminals and traitors who should never be allowed fly the Irish Flags in their cause of hate, and division
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7 months ago
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Last week I found myself ambivalent about Israeli civilians being killed. I refuse to become the hypocrite violence encouraged us to be
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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."
https://belfastmedia.com/israel-must-not-rob-u-of-our-humanity
7 months ago
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My column in the Andersonstown News this Week
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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...
https://belfastmedia.com/we-do-not-ask-for-the-stars-only-our-country
7 months ago
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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
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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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7 months ago
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7 months ago
In her column for the Andersonstown News,
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asks in the first line, “What is the BBC’s exit strategy in the scenario for a United Ireland?” That’s a great question.
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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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7 months ago
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8 months ago
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.
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Here we have a significant overreach of police power. This is an entirely disproportionate, unreasonable and unjustified removal of a citizen’s liberty. This must be challenged robustly.
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ANDRÉE MURPHY: Bellaghy is lit up by the colours of truth and justice
BELLAGHY'S St Mary’s church holds the graves of a Nobel Laureate for literature, two young men who died on hunger strike and the GAA club chairperson murdered when locking the gates after training on ...
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8 months ago
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Just as you think the Brits are calming things down, trying to fool us that normal is possible in this place we get a UVF gun runner getting kid gloves and a West Belfast rapper charged with terrorism. The fools. The fools. The fools.
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A presidential candidate from Sligo?
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Michael Ryan is one of modern Ireland’s greatest heroes. This treatment of humanity’s public servant is as salient an example of the trouble we are in right now as any you will see.
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