@stephendouds.bsky.social
Here at last • Media prof (ex-BBC) • Art/Culture • Politics • Ormeau
The quality of the contributions (all day) more than matched the environs. First class from start to finish.
Fearghal McGarry opening our ‘From Boundary Commission to Border Poll?’ conference in the grand environs of the Belfast Harbour Offices
December 3, 2025 at 7:57 PM
The quality of the contributions (all day) more than matched the environs. First class from start to finish.
Immense thanks due to @ronanhession.bsky.social
Have you watched Leonard and Hungry Paul? Ah it's gorgeous.
December 3, 2025 at 9:55 AM
Immense thanks due to @ronanhession.bsky.social
0.00003% of annual GDP ?
BBC leading the news this morning with ‘BBC reveals’ that government has spent more than £100m on Covid inquiry
That only reaction is TaxPayers’ Alliance says a lot….
That only reaction is TaxPayers’ Alliance says a lot….
December 3, 2025 at 9:54 AM
0.00003% of annual GDP ?
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In the two weeks alone the PSNI has admitted to:
- additional surveillance of a journalist, and which they withheld from Tribunal;
- keeping journalists data for 7 years after court ordered it destroyed;
- withholding two spying ops from oversight body www.irishnews.com/news/norther...
- additional surveillance of a journalist, and which they withheld from Tribunal;
- keeping journalists data for 7 years after court ordered it destroyed;
- withholding two spying ops from oversight body www.irishnews.com/news/norther...
PSNI failed to disclose information about surveillance of journalist to spy tribunal
PSNI failed to disclose information about surveillance of journalist to spy tribunal
www.irishnews.com
September 22, 2025 at 8:28 AM
In the two weeks alone the PSNI has admitted to:
- additional surveillance of a journalist, and which they withheld from Tribunal;
- keeping journalists data for 7 years after court ordered it destroyed;
- withholding two spying ops from oversight body www.irishnews.com/news/norther...
- additional surveillance of a journalist, and which they withheld from Tribunal;
- keeping journalists data for 7 years after court ordered it destroyed;
- withholding two spying ops from oversight body www.irishnews.com/news/norther...
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Campaigners hold a monthly vigil to protest the use of Belfast International Airport by the US military.
Over 60 military flights landed at Belfast between October 2023 and December 2024, including to Israel.
WATCH: vimeo.com/1119366838?f...
Over 60 military flights landed at Belfast between October 2023 and December 2024, including to Israel.
WATCH: vimeo.com/1119366838?f...
Palestine
This is "Palestine" by Below the Radar on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.
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September 18, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Campaigners hold a monthly vigil to protest the use of Belfast International Airport by the US military.
Over 60 military flights landed at Belfast between October 2023 and December 2024, including to Israel.
WATCH: vimeo.com/1119366838?f...
Over 60 military flights landed at Belfast between October 2023 and December 2024, including to Israel.
WATCH: vimeo.com/1119366838?f...
This is a model podcast. At last intelligent political conversation.
In the first episode of our new ‘On Politics’ series, host James Butler talks to former Labour MP Chris Mullin and the journalists Andy Beckett and Morgan Jones.
Can Labour recover from critical mistakes over tax, and who they should really be trying to represent?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRcO...
Can Labour recover from critical mistakes over tax, and who they should really be trying to represent?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRcO...
Labour's Tax Mistake
YouTube video by London Review of Books (LRB)
www.youtube.com
September 17, 2025 at 2:43 PM
This is a model podcast. At last intelligent political conversation.
Indispensable listening. After the slabberfest of daytime speech radio, it’s time for well-chosen music.
Leave behind the cares of the day and sail away into the sunset with a soulful soundtrack from the Creedon Show, weeknights 8-10pm @RTERadio1.
September 15, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Indispensable listening. After the slabberfest of daytime speech radio, it’s time for well-chosen music.
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Regional daily ABCs: Print circulation is down by average of 18% in H1 2025, with The Irish News the only UK regional daily with circulation above 20,000
Regional daily ABCs: Print circulation down by average of 18% in H1 2025
ABC regional daily newspaper circulation fell by 18% in in the first half of 2025, with one daily paper climbing above a 20,000 circulation.
pressgazette.co.uk
September 15, 2025 at 10:53 AM
Regional daily ABCs: Print circulation is down by average of 18% in H1 2025, with The Irish News the only UK regional daily with circulation above 20,000
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Interesting responses from McAlinden J to oral argument in the Judicial Review of Irish language signage at Central Station. Not only judicial exasperation with the farcical scenes of different Exec departments on different sides of the case but also an invocation of parity of esteem from the bench:
September 11, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Interesting responses from McAlinden J to oral argument in the Judicial Review of Irish language signage at Central Station. Not only judicial exasperation with the farcical scenes of different Exec departments on different sides of the case but also an invocation of parity of esteem from the bench:
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Michael Longley obituary in today's Irish Times: www.irishtimes.com/obituaries/2...
Michael Longley obituary: Award-winning poet of emotional and intellectual depth
He was the last survivor of the Belfast triumvirate of poets which also included Derek Mahon and Seamus Heaney
www.irishtimes.com
February 1, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Michael Longley obituary in today's Irish Times: www.irishtimes.com/obituaries/2...
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📊 RED C POLL 📊
Fianna Fáil - 21% (-)
Sinn Féin - 20% (+2)
Fine Gael - 20% (-2)
Independents - 14% (-1)
Social Democrats - 6% (-)
Labour - 4% (+1)
Ind Ireland - 4% (+1)
Greens - 4% (-)
Aontú – 4% (-1)
PBP - 2% (-)
Read more here - https://buff.ly/4i8N0nR
Fianna Fáil - 21% (-)
Sinn Féin - 20% (+2)
Fine Gael - 20% (-2)
Independents - 14% (-1)
Social Democrats - 6% (-)
Labour - 4% (+1)
Ind Ireland - 4% (+1)
Greens - 4% (-)
Aontú – 4% (-1)
PBP - 2% (-)
Read more here - https://buff.ly/4i8N0nR
November 27, 2024 at 8:04 PM
📊 RED C POLL 📊
Fianna Fáil - 21% (-)
Sinn Féin - 20% (+2)
Fine Gael - 20% (-2)
Independents - 14% (-1)
Social Democrats - 6% (-)
Labour - 4% (+1)
Ind Ireland - 4% (+1)
Greens - 4% (-)
Aontú – 4% (-1)
PBP - 2% (-)
Read more here - https://buff.ly/4i8N0nR
Fianna Fáil - 21% (-)
Sinn Féin - 20% (+2)
Fine Gael - 20% (-2)
Independents - 14% (-1)
Social Democrats - 6% (-)
Labour - 4% (+1)
Ind Ireland - 4% (+1)
Greens - 4% (-)
Aontú – 4% (-1)
PBP - 2% (-)
Read more here - https://buff.ly/4i8N0nR
Is there a turn off reposts function here?
November 20, 2024 at 2:21 PM
Is there a turn off reposts function here?
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One of the problems on this site is verification (possible, I know, but requires work from our website developers) so I've put together a starter pack of Belfast Telegraph journalists & columnists, which I'll add to as others join.
November 20, 2024 at 4:48 PM
One of the problems on this site is verification (possible, I know, but requires work from our website developers) so I've put together a starter pack of Belfast Telegraph journalists & columnists, which I'll add to as others join.
I’d be more concerned about the content tbh.
‘Belfast Stories’: Public asked about design of £100m tourist centre www.bbc.com/news/article...
Belfast Stories: Consultation open on new £100m tourist centre
Belfast Stories, based near the former listed Bank of Ireland building, is expected to open by 2030.
www.bbc.com
November 19, 2024 at 6:53 PM
I’d be more concerned about the content tbh.
At last !
Hello BlueSky!
November 19, 2024 at 6:15 PM
At last !
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I've been doing that Irish thing of being too embarrassed to say hello, would you like my book?
It's The Ghost Limb: Alternative Protestants and the Spirit of 1798. A tribe of 20 modern day northern dissenters go walking around the sites of 1798, asking what this politics could mean for today.
It's The Ghost Limb: Alternative Protestants and the Spirit of 1798. A tribe of 20 modern day northern dissenters go walking around the sites of 1798, asking what this politics could mean for today.
November 18, 2024 at 9:26 PM
I've been doing that Irish thing of being too embarrassed to say hello, would you like my book?
It's The Ghost Limb: Alternative Protestants and the Spirit of 1798. A tribe of 20 modern day northern dissenters go walking around the sites of 1798, asking what this politics could mean for today.
It's The Ghost Limb: Alternative Protestants and the Spirit of 1798. A tribe of 20 modern day northern dissenters go walking around the sites of 1798, asking what this politics could mean for today.