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“Today may end his premiership or begin another period of paralysis. Either outcome demands scrutiny beyond one man’s fortunes” ~Colin Sheridan Irish Examiner ☕️🥐

“The destruction of education is not collateral damage. It is part of Israel’s targeted and express genocide of Palestinian intellectuals, culture, and education.” ~Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian & David Lloyd Irish Examiner Martin’s Govt is participating in scholasticide ☕️🥐

“So, is the whole rancorous divisive debate on the triple lock just an unnecessary performative exercise to please Brussels?” ~Brian Feeney The Irish News ☕️🥐

…destruction contradicts claims of belonging… “No one native to that region would ever cut down, would not have the heart to cut down an olive tree,” ~ Susan Abulhawa Colin Sheridan Irish Examiner ☕️🥐

Compliant and complicit Adonis Storr The National ☕️🥐

“We aren’t incidental to this peculiar exercise in male bonding we're the means through which it takes place, and the result extends much further than our taking offence at it” ~Kelly Given💚 The National ☕️🥐

“he obviously believes it’s appropriate for a party leader in 2026 to belong to an anti-Catholic organisation committed to Protestant supremacy” ~Brian Feeney The Irish News ☕️🥐

“If Britishness gradually contracts into Englishness, the consequences will not be confined to immigration debates in England. They could ultimately shape developments in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland” ~Paul Breen Belfast Telegraph ☕️🥐

“Understanding Zionism requires following that history, and asking whose freedom each use of the word promises — and whose it leaves out” ~Colin Sheridan Irish Examiner ☕️🥐

Facilitating Genocide - UN Report 🩸systematic killing of journalists 🩸information regıme of propaganda and censorship 🩸International media amplifying Israeli narratives while silencing Palestinian voices Adonis Stor Sunday National ☕️🥐

“Helm has been outspoken on social media about Palestine and Israel” Hamish Morrison The National ☕️🥐

“Not content with catapulting Kneecap to global fame, the British establishment has once more proven there is no Irish cause it can’t help by trying to really, really hurt it” ~Colin Sheridan Irish Examiner ☕️🥐

“Media exposure was critical to aiding this campaign by sustaining the pressure cooker atmosphere within which the commissioners were operating during this critical time period” ~Chris Donnelly The Irish News ☕️🥐

“Only Trump could have declared the rebuilding of Gaza for the benefit of monied Western and Arab nations and private interests a ‘comprehensive peace’!” ~Fintan Drury Irish Examiner ☕️

“The dehumanising of our community by unionism is not something new” ~Andrée Murphy Andersonstown News ☕️🥐

“The bottom line is that Stormont doesn’t work and isn’t going to work, so Dublin and London need to start thinking about future arrangements” ~Brian Feeney The Irish News ☕️🥐

“The facts are known but are of no interest to the public” ~editorial Haaretz When you ‘other’ the indigenous population to such an extent that you’re indifferent to the horrors perpetrated on them, you’re sick. ☕️

“Like a child who can't take criticism, always accusing everyone else except himself, Israel is accusing the entire world” ~Gideon Levy Haaretz An eclectic blend of psychopathy, sociopathy and anti social personality disorder. ☕️

“If we want people to put down their weapons, freedom must become something they can reach without them” ~Colin Sheridan Irish Examiner ☕️🥐

“What unionist politicians could do in the past no longer applies. Being led by extreme elements will only help hasten the end of the union” ~Cormac Moore The Irish News ☕️🥐

“Allowing their suffering to be the defining influence over how we understand them is not solidarity; it’s further injustice” ~Kelly Given 💚 The National ☕️

“Imagine if the Irish government, which abandoned this region after partition, but has since Brexit promised to do better, decided to protect Irish citizens and their rights meaningfully” ~Andrée Murphy Andersonstown News ☕️🥐

“Successive governments — including this one — have shown themselves to be functionally illiterate on defence and security matters” ~Tom Clonan Irish Examiner ☕️🥐

“Calling out the illegal occupation of the West Bank nearly 60 years after it started is not the pace of change this government promised...” ~Steph Patton The National ☕️

“Martin sees himself as a champion of the Irish people. Champion my foot. Martin’s view of the world is seen entirely through the prism of his own self-interest” ~Tom Collins The Irish News ☕️🥐

“The Parades Commission decision has galvanised thousands across Ireland and the diaspora to rally under a singular, definitive mandate: there is no going back” ~Patricia Mac Bride The Irish News ☕️🥐

Brian Feeney The Irish News It will take meaningful actions to convince anyone that cabinets loaded with lobbyists are willing to deliver beyond their meaningless public utterances.

“Even the safest and warmest of arms feel unsafe to her now - her body simply doesn't know the difference” ~Kelly Given 💚 The National ☕️🥐

“Apparently fundamentalism becomes considerably less alarming when the preacher has a US flag behind him” ~Colin Sheridan Irish Examiner ☕️🥐

“What the latest Drumcree standoff proves is not that a united Ireland must be put back on the shelf, but that the reunification of this island is the North’s best bet” ~Justine McCarthy The Irish Times ☕️🥐

“There is a consensus quickly developing that loyal order parading through the centre of overwhelmingly nationalist Derry would be an early casualty of the aggressive Garvaghy Road campaign” ~Chris Donnelly The Irish News ☕️🥐

“Sectarian hatred has been exposed as a fresh and active threat” ~Andrée Murphy Andersonstown News ☕️🥐

“Whining about their ‘right’ to march along Garvaghy Road being denied is typical of their approach in which they, the oppressors of Catholics, try to present themselves as put-upon, hard-done-by victim” ~Brian Feeney The Irish News ☕️🥐

“‘Croppies lie down’ has always been part of that mindset and always will be” ~Tom Collins The Irish News ☕️🥐

“A gesture at kick-off cannot undo the choice they made” ~Colin Sheridan Irish Examiner ☕️🥐

“If an industry has made you extraordinarily rich, you owe more than a shrug when it punishes somebody with less power for speaking” ~Colin Sheridan Irish Examiner ☕️🥐

“A homegrown uprising is what the US appears to be counting on. But if the intention is to encourage Iranians to turn against their own state, the war may be doing the opposite” ~Hossein Hamdieh Irish Examiner ☕️🥐

“Our nation's soul is at stake, not six points.” ~Andrée Murphy The Andersonstown News

“You’re not dealing with a normal legislative assembly here, or indeed normal political parties who owe allegiance to the toytown assembly or have any respect for it or its procedures” ~Brian Feeney The Irish News ☕️🥐

“Oh dear, Ed. Not a good look. Not very Irish at all” ~Suzanne Harrington Irish Examiner ☕️🥐

“Kraft did not take politics out of Gillette Stadium. He established that only the owner’s politics were guaranteed admission” ~Colin Sheridan Irish Examiner ☕️

“when you ground any comment you make about the genocide in Gaza or the ethnic cleansing and apartheid in the West Bank as if it is in response to one awful incident, then you propagate the false “two sides” narrative” ~Patricia MacBride The Irish News ☕️🥐

“Remaining silent, as Sheeran has continued to do, when atrocities are being carried out against an entire race, is complicity. Don’t try to spin it as anything else, Ed” ~Elaine Loughlin Irish Examiner ☕️🥐

“This is an opinion column. It usually runs to 1,000 words. Eight hundred of them have been spent naming ordinary things Israel has illegally denied the people of Gaza. I could fill another column and still not exhaust the list.” ~Colin Sheridan Irish Examiner

“Sitting beside his American guest, the famously unity-averse Taoiseach looked like a boy who had swallowed a gobstopper” ~editorial Andersonstown News ☕️🥐

“For us in Ireland, shackled to Westminster misers who see us in 2026 in the same light as Trevelyan in 1846, responsible for our own partitioned misfortune, this is a statement of intent and disruption to prevailing right wing economic theology” ~Andrée Murphy Andersonstown News

“People are no longer, given the evidence available to them, willing to accept neutrality as a legitimate stance in the face of these unjustifiable horrors” ~Kelly Given 💚 The National ☕️🥐

“The truth is this: Burnham is an English politician who is unthinkingly committed to the union… He knows nothing about Ireland or Scotland and a little bit about Wales” ~Brian Feeney The Irish News ☕️🥐