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“Our masters of the universe are seldom spotted trudging to work in the rain, waiting for a bed in a hospital or a domestic violence refuge, residing beside derelict buildings or on streets festooned with menacing anti-immigration flags.”
~Justine McCarthy
The Irish Times
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~Justine McCarthy
The Irish Times
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January 2, 2026 at 9:23 AM
“Our masters of the universe are seldom spotted trudging to work in the rain, waiting for a bed in a hospital or a domestic violence refuge, residing beside derelict buildings or on streets festooned with menacing anti-immigration flags.”
~Justine McCarthy
The Irish Times
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~Justine McCarthy
The Irish Times
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“The most important challenge in 2026 will be the protection of human rights and human rights defenders.”
~Andrée Murphy
Andersonstown News
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~Andrée Murphy
Andersonstown News
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January 1, 2026 at 9:34 AM
“The most important challenge in 2026 will be the protection of human rights and human rights defenders.”
~Andrée Murphy
Andersonstown News
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~Andrée Murphy
Andersonstown News
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“the only people who would want to stay connected to a politics that no longer exists are, you’ve guessed it, unionists.”
~Brian Feeney
The Irish News
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~Brian Feeney
The Irish News
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December 31, 2025 at 7:07 AM
“the only people who would want to stay connected to a politics that no longer exists are, you’ve guessed it, unionists.”
~Brian Feeney
The Irish News
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~Brian Feeney
The Irish News
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“What matters most is the Irish Government making its collective mind up about acting on a goal it is legally/ politically committed to.”
~Colin Harvey
The Irish News
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~Colin Harvey
The Irish News
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December 30, 2025 at 7:55 AM
“What matters most is the Irish Government making its collective mind up about acting on a goal it is legally/ politically committed to.”
~Colin Harvey
The Irish News
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~Colin Harvey
The Irish News
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“Sectarianism functioned as cover. It reduced a colonial conflict and a contested sovereignty question into “two warring tribes”, absolving the state of responsibility.”
~Patricia MacBride
The Irish News
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~Patricia MacBride
The Irish News
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December 29, 2025 at 8:30 AM
“Sectarianism functioned as cover. It reduced a colonial conflict and a contested sovereignty question into “two warring tribes”, absolving the state of responsibility.”
~Patricia MacBride
The Irish News
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~Patricia MacBride
The Irish News
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“This Labour regime is chock-full of Israel supporters and Israel apologists.”
~editorial
Andersonstown News
~editorial
Andersonstown News
December 27, 2025 at 1:22 PM
“This Labour regime is chock-full of Israel supporters and Israel apologists.”
~editorial
Andersonstown News
~editorial
Andersonstown News
“You could write the script the British government is following, because it is exactly the same as the one Thatcher’s government followed in 1981.”
~Brian Feeney
The Irish News
~Brian Feeney
The Irish News
December 27, 2025 at 9:32 AM
“You could write the script the British government is following, because it is exactly the same as the one Thatcher’s government followed in 1981.”
~Brian Feeney
The Irish News
~Brian Feeney
The Irish News
“Fragile is the flesh of defenceless populations, tried by so many wars, ongoing or concluded, leaving behind rubble and open wounds,”
~Pope Leo
The Irish Times
~Pope Leo
The Irish Times
December 26, 2025 at 10:04 PM
“Fragile is the flesh of defenceless populations, tried by so many wars, ongoing or concluded, leaving behind rubble and open wounds,”
~Pope Leo
The Irish Times
~Pope Leo
The Irish Times
“It is no surprise, then, to learn that Israeli forces have killed so many of those bearing witness to their atrocities.”
~editorial
Irish Examiner
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~editorial
Irish Examiner
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December 26, 2025 at 8:35 AM
“It is no surprise, then, to learn that Israeli forces have killed so many of those bearing witness to their atrocities.”
~editorial
Irish Examiner
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~editorial
Irish Examiner
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“The fundamental problem is that SF and the DUP do not agree on the purpose of the institutions of the Good Friday Agreement. They don’t share a common aim, let alone agree to share power.”
~Brian Feeney
The Irish News
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~Brian Feeney
The Irish News
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December 24, 2025 at 7:25 AM
“The fundamental problem is that SF and the DUP do not agree on the purpose of the institutions of the Good Friday Agreement. They don’t share a common aim, let alone agree to share power.”
~Brian Feeney
The Irish News
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~Brian Feeney
The Irish News
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“we are talking about a chief executive who is above the law”
~Prof Aziz Huq
Irish Examiner
[From demagogue to piracy, rogue narcissist to partner in genocide, watch as every law is ignored to feed an insatiable ego]
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~Prof Aziz Huq
Irish Examiner
[From demagogue to piracy, rogue narcissist to partner in genocide, watch as every law is ignored to feed an insatiable ego]
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December 23, 2025 at 12:49 PM
“we are talking about a chief executive who is above the law”
~Prof Aziz Huq
Irish Examiner
[From demagogue to piracy, rogue narcissist to partner in genocide, watch as every law is ignored to feed an insatiable ego]
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~Prof Aziz Huq
Irish Examiner
[From demagogue to piracy, rogue narcissist to partner in genocide, watch as every law is ignored to feed an insatiable ego]
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“The images of retired elderly professionals being led away by the Met Police has been a stain on Keir Starmer's leadership”
~Allison Morris
Belfast Telegraph
~Allison Morris
Belfast Telegraph
December 22, 2025 at 11:39 AM
“The images of retired elderly professionals being led away by the Met Police has been a stain on Keir Starmer's leadership”
~Allison Morris
Belfast Telegraph
~Allison Morris
Belfast Telegraph
“The ongoing genocide is robbing Palestinians of their futures, and these strikers have responded by putting themselves on the line.”
~Naoise Dolan
The Sunday Independent
~Naoise Dolan
The Sunday Independent
December 21, 2025 at 6:03 PM
“The ongoing genocide is robbing Palestinians of their futures, and these strikers have responded by putting themselves on the line.”
~Naoise Dolan
The Sunday Independent
~Naoise Dolan
The Sunday Independent
“A watching world has kept schtum about it all for fear of scuppering a ceasefire that is flagrantly failing to cease the firing.”
~Justine McCarthy
The Irish Times
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~Justine McCarthy
The Irish Times
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December 19, 2025 at 6:42 AM
“A watching world has kept schtum about it all for fear of scuppering a ceasefire that is flagrantly failing to cease the firing.”
~Justine McCarthy
The Irish Times
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~Justine McCarthy
The Irish Times
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It isn’t just Trump.
Irish Examiner
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Irish Examiner
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December 18, 2025 at 3:33 PM
It isn’t just Trump.
Irish Examiner
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Irish Examiner
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Laughing MPs set to continue their legacy of political stupidity.
December 17, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Laughing MPs set to continue their legacy of political stupidity.
“If unionists cannot rule the roost, they will do everything they can to ensure that nationalists are stymied.”
~Tom Collins
The Irish News
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~Tom Collins
The Irish News
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December 16, 2025 at 7:37 AM
“If unionists cannot rule the roost, they will do everything they can to ensure that nationalists are stymied.”
~Tom Collins
The Irish News
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~Tom Collins
The Irish News
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“This promotion of hatred in pursuit of political goals is recognised as a phenomenon in political economy, where it is appropriately described as fascism.”
~Prof Richard Murphy
The National
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~Prof Richard Murphy
The National
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December 15, 2025 at 6:35 AM
“This promotion of hatred in pursuit of political goals is recognised as a phenomenon in political economy, where it is appropriately described as fascism.”
~Prof Richard Murphy
The National
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~Prof Richard Murphy
The National
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“Prost was added to the sanctions list in August because five years ago she was one of the judges who ruled to authorise an investigation into alleged war crimes by the Taliban, Afghan forces, US forces and the CIA in Afghanistan since 2003”
~Naomi O’Leary
The Irish Times
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~Naomi O’Leary
The Irish Times
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December 13, 2025 at 8:14 AM
“Prost was added to the sanctions list in August because five years ago she was one of the judges who ruled to authorise an investigation into alleged war crimes by the Taliban, Afghan forces, US forces and the CIA in Afghanistan since 2003”
~Naomi O’Leary
The Irish Times
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~Naomi O’Leary
The Irish Times
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“…the UVF — acting alone — did not possess the technical, operational, or organisational capacity to execute the Dublin car bombings of May 17, 1974.”
~John O’Brien
Irish Examiner
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~John O’Brien
Irish Examiner
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December 12, 2025 at 8:27 AM
“…the UVF — acting alone — did not possess the technical, operational, or organisational capacity to execute the Dublin car bombings of May 17, 1974.”
~John O’Brien
Irish Examiner
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~John O’Brien
Irish Examiner
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“To fit Gaza and the Eurovision Song Contest into the same sentences, we must leave irony far behind and venture deep into the realms of the grotesque.”
~Fintan O’Toole
The Irish Times
[a colonial experiment that encapsulates the very worst traits of narcissistic psychopathy]
~Fintan O’Toole
The Irish Times
[a colonial experiment that encapsulates the very worst traits of narcissistic psychopathy]
December 9, 2025 at 8:02 AM
“To fit Gaza and the Eurovision Song Contest into the same sentences, we must leave irony far behind and venture deep into the realms of the grotesque.”
~Fintan O’Toole
The Irish Times
[a colonial experiment that encapsulates the very worst traits of narcissistic psychopathy]
~Fintan O’Toole
The Irish Times
[a colonial experiment that encapsulates the very worst traits of narcissistic psychopathy]
“Normally I try to be a glass halffull kinda guy. But where Trump is concerned, half-empty rules.”
~Tom Collins
The Irish News
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~Tom Collins
The Irish News
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December 9, 2025 at 6:46 AM
“Normally I try to be a glass halffull kinda guy. But where Trump is concerned, half-empty rules.”
~Tom Collins
The Irish News
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~Tom Collins
The Irish News
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“Calls for justice for Palestinian children such as Hind Rajab have not been led by governments which have long claimed to be protectors of women's rights…”
~Khudejha Asghar
The National
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~Khudejha Asghar
The National
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December 8, 2025 at 7:33 AM
“Calls for justice for Palestinian children such as Hind Rajab have not been led by governments which have long claimed to be protectors of women's rights…”
~Khudejha Asghar
The National
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~Khudejha Asghar
The National
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