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“One of the measures of Connolly’s success will be the number of times she too becomes a thorn in the side of ministers who put their own interests before the people’s.”
~Tom Collins

The Irish News

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November 11, 2025 at 6:39 AM
“The Israel Defense Forces and the nation’s football teams operate in lockstep as instruments of nationalism.”
~Colin Sheridan

Irish Examiner

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November 10, 2025 at 7:48 AM
“The scandal at the heart of this controversy is not a political one. It is a media scandal.”
~Justine McCarthy

The Irish Times

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November 7, 2025 at 6:38 AM
“…the ceasefire is going wonderfully — if you happen to support the psychopathic killing machine that the EU-backed, US-funded Israeli military has inevitably become.”
~Colin Sheridan

Irish Examiner

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November 5, 2025 at 3:29 PM
“It shows how really desperate Israel is to garner any semblance of support or approval from any source, no matter how inconsequential”
~Brian Feeney

The Irish News

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November 5, 2025 at 6:40 AM
“However, my major concern is that the reason we haven’t heard enough about Sudan is because of who is funding the slaughter.”
~Aoife Moore

The Irish News

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November 4, 2025 at 6:45 AM
“The Parachute Regiment is not a proud regiment in Ireland, or anywhere else.”
~Andrée Murphy

Andersonstown News

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November 3, 2025 at 6:26 AM
“We are a rich country masquerading as a poor one, run by people terrified of annoying people even richer.”
~Colin Sheridan @colinivan

Irish Examiner

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November 1, 2025 at 7:08 AM
“States that mobilise arms and money must be judged for the outcomes, however plausible their public relations may be.”
~Colin Sheridan

Irish Examiner

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October 31, 2025 at 5:54 AM
“Starmer has demonstrated that he is nothing more than the latest in a line of discredited Tory prime ministers.”
~Tom Collins

The Irish News

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October 28, 2025 at 5:40 AM
“Our right to full Irish citizenship is not a hot water bottle to comfort us. It is our birthright.”
~Andrée Murphy

Andersonstown News

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October 26, 2025 at 7:36 AM
As usual UN determination on Gaza set to be ignored.

The National

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October 23, 2025 at 6:40 AM
“This is the new moral arithmetic: Better not to ask questions if the answers affect the tax take.”
~Colin Sheridan

Irish Examiner

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October 22, 2025 at 6:40 AM
“Although the British state has a long history of questionable policies towards genocide, its role in Gaza stands out”
~Prof Martin Shaw

The National

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October 21, 2025 at 4:50 PM
“The governing parties need to reflect long and hard on why they have been unable to ever look like winning this election”
~Fintan O’Toole

The Irish Times

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October 21, 2025 at 6:51 AM
“A Connolly victory could deliver a carnival of hope for those aspiring to build a new Ireland.”
~Chris Donnelly

The Irish News

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October 20, 2025 at 5:50 AM
“IT is so clearly not a peace deal. It is so clearly a pause of uncertainty, of unfairness, of threat and of inequality.”
~Andrée Murphy

Andersonstown News

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October 19, 2025 at 11:41 AM
It’s long past time for a general boycott full stop.

The National

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October 19, 2025 at 7:49 AM
“Our rights to a democratic constitutional future are bandied around as if they are negotiable or can be subject to an Orange card.”
~Andrée Murphy

Andersonstown News

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October 16, 2025 at 5:23 AM
“Here, we’re just spectators, for English politicians have long ago forsaken the north.”
~Brian Feeney

The Irish News

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October 15, 2025 at 5:40 AM
“The union is on life support, and the union without Scotland would make Northern Ireland even more of a rump and further expose its irrelevance.”
~Tom Collins

The Irish News

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October 14, 2025 at 5:39 AM
“Yvette Cooper defended proposals which could extend digital identification to children as young as 13.”

Hamish Morrison

The National

Yes, you did read that right.
Be afraid, very afraid.

#Think32
October 12, 2025 at 2:34 PM
“Before accusing all those people who protest, resist, struggle and voice subversive opinions abroad, it should be recognized that the only arena in which genuine change can still be effected is the international arena.”
~Gideon Levy

Haaretz

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October 12, 2025 at 1:35 PM
“If voters can be convinced that a candidate is dangerous, radical, compromised — even faintly suspect — the work is done.”
~Colin Sheridan @colinivan

Irish Examiner

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October 11, 2025 at 7:36 AM
“Injustice does not dissolve with signatures; it ferments like rotten fertiliser in a Beirut silo.”
~Colin Sheridan

Irish Examiner

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October 10, 2025 at 7:32 AM