Just now heard David Campbell of the LCC on BBCNI - after being let wax lyrical about his fears of threat of illegal Turkish Muslim men coming here when discussing the Mosque on top of a bonfire, remind us that 30 yrs ago there were killings and this is really not a big deal. We should be grateful!

I mean he wrote that chapter in IT.

Out with my little girl yesterday - twice her being pleasant and patient while I chatted to people was dismissed as “but that’s just girls for you” Not the effort she’s making to remember what she’s been taught to do, it’s all dismissed as ‘what’s expected’ while telling her it’s not for boys

Not to be a nit-picker but I would feel easier using Palestine Cola as an alternative to Coca Cola products if yer man wasn't using the official instagram to like Saoradh's gloating posts in the wake of the acquittal verdict yesterday

I intervened yesterday when a group of boys on bikes rode up to and started physically & mentally intimidating 2 young boys in the park - shoving them, stealing and binning their things etc. Four men who were there said to me “they have to learn, boys will be boys” etc. Why? I don’t understand why?

I'm encouraging individuals frustrated by the way that rape myths were used in the recent trial of Jeffrey Donaldson - and indeed in lots of trials - to use this template to write to the Justice Minister urging her to act on the Gillen Review recommendation on education on rape myths for juries.

Tony has once again provided me with a platform for slabbering

Just a shockingly horrific time for violence against women and children here. Both Donaldson’s conviction and today’s acquittals are so illustrative.

Lyra's legacy will be her words, a bursary scheme to help the disadvantaged seek a career in journalism and a renewed spirit driving a rejection of the pointless violence of vain men. The legacy of the New IRA and their PR boys will be murdering an Irish woman and covering for the murderer.

The two men charged with the murder of Lyra McKee have been found Not Guilty by the Judge. Thoughts with Lyra's family and Sara rn. Justice for Lyra forever.

So, you're saying the racists are lying and the media are helping them in order to do more racism? Well, isnt that a shocking development...

i’m so sorry but as a jew i fear this is the catholic version of the classic @averyedison.com post

Religious views deserve absolutely no special privileges for politicians pass laws that affect the lives of their citizens. If you oppose the human rights of your voters, doesn’t matter if your justification is the Bible or ‘biology’ you will be judged accordingly

Felt very forty today - I screamed in excitement in the car when I spotted and then pulled over to watch, a buzzard soaring in the Mourne mountains. 25 year old me didn’t even know what a buzzard looked like.

Paramilitary groups forced young people to carry out the violence to clear drug debts, as paramilitary leaders directed. [13/n]

But paramilitary groups are behind every element of every pogrom since August 2024, investigations and cases against paramilitary members either don't happen or are designed to collapse. [12/n] www.werisetogether.ie/analysis/32/...

'There were so many fires across the city that it took the fire brigade about 30 minutes to arrive. “It was so, so, so terrifying,” Nakazibwe said, as the women watched flames take hold of nearby houses. Emergency services told them it was too dangerous for them to attempt to leave.' [9/n]

There are two East Belfast UDA paramilitary flags on lamp posts either side of the entrace to Garnerville Rd in East Belfast. Garnerville is where the PSNI training college is. The paramilitaries are showing everyone who is in charge. Policing is severerly compromised. How did we get to this? [1/n]

In ‘terrible but also funny’ news, the state of Florida is currently beefing with… An Coimisiún Le Rincí Gaelacha, aka the world’s largest and oldest governing body for Irish Dance because the NA championships are being held in Orlando and CLRG refuses to ban trans girls from competing as girls

I was giving a talk to a law school class last year and asked them if any of them had seen Clueless, since I wanted to reference this speech, and I got blank stares in response. I was devastated.

Ah July, the month in which we will be reminded by paid commentators on BBCNI to be grateful that bonfires aren’t MORE racist, homophobic and sectarian.

Back to work post maternity leave two weeks now, but reality didn’t really hit until today when I had my first “oh, sorry can you not see my screen… can you see it now? Ok sorry was sharing my other screen” 🫠

Emergency episode on how we’re one vote away from nullifying the post civil war constitutional order: pod.link/1469168641/e...

This, and the other pieces in the series, are by far the best thing I've read on the Donaldson case and its implication. Intelligent, fair-minded and getting to the heart of the matters. They're well worth your time as is everything written by LFE. The Scarva sham fight metaphor is very astute.

There's people who actually want Ogbu to have her career destroyed and maybe even get deported so badly it's sick. Desperate for her story to be fake. Because they think all immigrants - especially those who sought asylum - are liars and cheaters. And some of them are employed as "journalists"

Thomas did social media posts at Stansted airport en route to Belfast but was STILL allowed to travel to the pogroms which he incited. He had a personal escort across Belfast during the evening of 9th June as paramilitaries controlled the streets. NI Fire Service couldn’t even move as freely. [2/2]

The older I get the more it kills me that I pay taxes to fund the whims of a government that my vote never ever endorses or counters - even if I wanted to vote for them I couldn’t. It makes me feel so powerless

Nobody I know that uses Just Eat/Deliveroo is disabled. When I worked in Belfast I offered to walk to walk to collect the lunch we ordered - it was a ten min walk, everyone looked at me like I was demented. Between this stuff and AI, people are willingly becoming so physically and mentally lazy.

I don't want to hear another word about how much white European visitors are enjoying ranch dressing while team officials, Africa's top referee, and now one of the world's most celebrated fans are turned away from the World Cup. The USA is an utterly unfit host — it's as simple as that

Computers are riddled with AI now - to little effect, but try to open two excel documents from an email, at the same time, and even brand new computers still want to call in sick and not do it

Was presented with an advert for Alice and Steve and honestly cherry on the cake of a week revealing abuse of power and overlooking sexual assault of women in Stormont. It’s not harmless, it’s not funny it’s vile, can’t believe it was ever commissioned, let alone made

Terror acts orchestrated and carried out by the proscribed UDA & UVF. No COBRA meeting and a whitewashing of terror involvement because the North of Ireland isn’t seen as somewhere deserving safety, never mind human & civil rights. Paramilitary groups are still celebrating their pogrom operation.

“What we saw was the forensic targeting of houses occupied by black and minority ethnic individuals and families by organised gangs, implying a level of co-ordination and organisation rather than an outpouring of uncontrolled rage." viewdigital.org/ppr-and-anak...

Decentralisation reminds me so much of the Celtic Tiger. Off topic sorry Allan, but remember that was the buzz word of choice for Irish politicians for a few years that’s all but fizzled out

Sorry I'm going to be UNBEARABLE on this topic during the Burnham Premiership, but there is a perfectly good word for "giving local government more powers" and that word is "decentralisation", we should not be using the same word for a process of ceding legislative powers as for management powers!

It can feel like we've never properly reckoned with places like this and that whole Magdalen Laundry/Industrial School/Orphanage complex which incarcerated so many people. More appetite to hear about the trauma caused to us by the Brits than the damage we did to ourselves perhaps.

I really don't love how now the Jeffrey Donaldson headlines are "he had sex with men!!!!!" and not "he abused children, sexually assaulted at least one woman, and is a gigantic hypocrite".

Happy 100th birthday to Mel Brooks

Generative AI is not only fundamentally based on the rejection of consent, but also *standards*. Artists have been micromanaged and hounded over individual pixels, academics fighting to defend every minute detail of their thesis, etc, and then are tossed away in favor of the get shit wrong machine.

my 1 year old has perfected the Irish iteration of pulmonic ingressive speech - sharp inward breath while saying "yeah". He sounds like an aul one at a wake when he’s replying to you.

This Danville, VA city council candidate made a very dramatic video about sidewalks and public safety, and I love it and him. Worrying about a possible milkshake duck situation, I looked at his FB page, but he seems ok. Juneteenth celebrations, community outreach, Methodists. A solid old gent.

Worked in very young male dominated field of corporate finance for a bit - the amount of gambling every single day they all did, was so jaw dropping to me. Every lunchtime this was the chat

This'll be a whitewash. Also a waste of time if it doesn't include the UUP. Sorry, but 20ish years in that party, he was there through most of the years he was abusing children. Not sure how they are walking out of this hands clean.

100% accurate and passed by in a flash because after all we are talking about an adult woman, and this place only cares enough to say or do anything when we die.

If I wanted an agreeable young woman who can play the piano and whom I can send letters, I would do it the old fashioned way and call upon the Bennet family.

Dealing with the complete mind bending realisation that I gave the DUP too much credit

Fuck you, Jimmy Fallon.

Burnham’s new chief of staff was chief executive of lobbying firm Flint It’s like the British political elite is addicted to conflicts of interest www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

The politics of James Purnell www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2026/06... If this is what Burnham brings to government, nothing is changing.

My husband mused the other day that “you and your friends are always buying and doing nice things for each other” like it was a revolutionary idea. I couldn’t cope with what modern male friendship dynamic has evolved into, I’d be lonely too. And it’s not women’s fault that it is this way either