“Don’t try and lecture the Irish people about the history, culture & precarious nature of peace on this island. You haven’t got a clue.”
RTÉ’s Claire Byrne challenges Nigel Farage over his knowledge of Ireland
Spare a thought for the passengers on this
#Ryanair
flight from Manchester to Dublin.🤢
Took off at 5.30pm > circled near Dublin > diverted to Belfast > missed approach at international airport > now heading back to Manchester after spending 3hrs in the air.
#StormIsha
#RYR6333
“Sadly the DUP and others chose to reject that.”
Former PM Theresa May tells DUP leader Jeffrey Donaldson her
#Brexit
deal protected the Good Friday Agreement and would have prevented a border in the Irish Sea or on island of Ireland.
“I heard a senior British minister openly & offensively, in front of a US audience, dismiss the impact of a “No Deal”
#Brexit
on Irish businesses as just affecting “a few farmers with turnips in the back of their trucks.”
Ex Brexit counselor at the British Embassy in Washington
Confirmed.
For the first time ever there are more nationalist MPs than unionist MPs in Northern Ireland.
DUP 8 (-2)
Sinn Féin 7 (-)
SDLP 2 (+2)
Alliance 1 (+1)
#GE19
#BBCElection
#GE2019
“I heard a senior British minister openly & offensively, in front of a US audience, dismiss the impact of a “No Deal”
#Brexit
on Irish businesses as just affecting “a few farmers with turnips in the back of their trucks.”
Ex Brexit counselor at the British Embassy in Washington
“I got a call from the health service. They’re in dire straits looking scrubs for their frontline staff. We are currently in the factory making samples of what we can do for them”
Kieran Kennedy of
@ONeills1918
Sports told RTÉ that he went to Altnagelvin hospital to get samples
Who is backing the Prime Minister's new
#Brexit
plan?
DUP ✅
Sinn Féin ❌
UUP❌
SDLP❌
Alliance❌
Greens❌
TUV❌
Freight NI❌
FSB❌
Manufacturing NI❌
Retail NI❌
NI Retail consortium❌
CBI ❌
Tonight on
@BBCTheView
- the DUP respond.
@MarkCarruthers7
Northern Ireland Protocol raised in Holyrood at
#FMQs
@NicolaSturgeon
: “As FM of Scotland - If I could get a protocol that would allow Scotland to trade freely across the single market I would take that in a heartbeat."
A majority of Northern Ireland Assembly members have signed a joint letter to
@donaldtusk
confirming their support for the backstop.
Letter signed by Sinn Féin, SDLP, Alliance & Green Party leaders.
Deputy First Minister Michelle O'Neill in tears in the Assembly as she is told by
@JimAllister
that one of his constituents' chemotherapy will stop due to
#coronavirus
.
@BBCNewsNI
“We are currently living our own miracle on this island because we are living in peace. For all those in Israel & Palestine…. we hope your miracle comes soon.”
Powerful words from
@PatricKielty
at the end of last night’s
#LateLateShow
.
Take 90 seconds to watch this 👇
New
#Brexit
plan - Here's the overall reaction from Northern Ireland's political parties & business groups.
DUP ✅
Sinn Féin ❌
UUP ❌
SDLP ❌
Alliance ❌
Manufacturing NI ❌
Retail NI ❌
NI Retail Consortium ❌
Optics?
Two Prime Ministers visited Belfast this week.
🇬🇧 PM
@BorisJohnson
didn’t meet any members of the public during his visit earlier this week.
🇮🇪 Days later Taoiseach
@LeoVaradkar
takes part in the
#BelfastPride
parade.
NI Coca~Cola production ‘saved from UK CO2 crisis by protocol’.
Northern Ireland bottlers are getting their carbon dioxide from EU countries while GB remains paralysed by the closure of huge fertiliser factories
Arlene Foster is concerned that Dublin could be a backdoor for international travellers to Northern Ireland...
Meanwhile, Leo Varadkar is concerned that Belfast could be a backdoor for travellers from GB to Republic of Ireland.
🚨
"Where there is an indication that a state intends to break international law, it seems to me that it may have a domestic effect on the confidence that the public may have in the legal system generally.”
Northern Ireland's Lord chief Justice reacts to
@BrandonLewis
' comments
“He knew exactly what he signed.”
Former EU Chief
#Brexit
negotiator
@MichelBarnier
tells
@maitlis
that “every word, every sentence” of the Protocol was negotiated.
“There were no surprises”.
🇺🇸💵✍️💷🇬🇧
“We’ve been quite blunt from day one. There will be no US / UK trade deal if the Good Friday Agreement is undermined.”
US Congressman
@RepBrendanBoyle
tells
#newsnight
Taoiseach Leo Varadkar :
"I am the European Union when it comes to these matters. The Irish Gov & EU are all one when it comes to
#Brexit
. If people haven't realised that over the past three years, they are coming to realise it now. "
"Go to the chippy" shouts
@DUPonline
MP Sammy Wilson as
@theSNP
@IanBlackfordMP
mentions potential food shortages in the event of a no=-deal
#brexit
You can hear him at the end of this clip:
Taoiseach: “Why is there a double standard applied to Irish politicians … when we say we’d like to see a United Ireland.”
“The PM describes himself as a proud unionist. The SoS often talks about how committed he is to the union . Not only to we accept that - we respect it.”
"If
@Dominic2306
tweets are true, then I think we are in a very, very difficult place.”
Ireland’s EU Commissioner
@McGuinnessEU
tells
#twip
that claims the British Gov always intended to ditch the NI Protocol left her “speechless”.
“I’ve had supportive messages from the Chairman of the Conservatives in Northern Ireland around the work the PM is doing & that we should get on with the job”
*The NI Conservatives have no elected reps - no cllrs, no MLAS & no MPs
**They won 254 votes in May’s assembly election
#TomorrowsPapersToday
🔹November: Boris Johnson reveals that every Conservative parliamentary candidate has personally pledged to vote his
#Brexit
deal through the House of Commons.
🔹September: Deal never made sense.
"You don't go to Brussels but you go instead to Dublin. You literally do a deal with the Irish, whether you bribe them or threaten them, one way or the other, to get them in the position where they drop their opposition to the backstop"
Alan Mendoza, HenryJackson Society
#Brexit
🇺🇸🇮🇪
@JoeBiden
’s campaign statement on Ireland & Irish America.
#JoeBiden
“will ensure there will be no US / U.K. trade deal if the implementation of
#brexit
imperils the Good Friday Agreement.”
John Hume is the only person in the world to have received the Noble Peace Prize, The Gandhi Peace Prize & the Martin Luther King Peace Prize.
#JohnHume
The Times reports that the new NI Secretary of State
@ShaileshVara
once asked an official “whether he needed a passport to go to Derry”.
He asked this when he was a Northern Ireland minister .
New stats from the NI Dept of Health.
Of those in ICU wards with Covid, 72% are unvaccinated
8% have had one dose
20% have had two doses.
Unvaccinated people make up less than 12% of our adult population – yet account for 72% of people in ICU.
Irish language returns to Belfast courtroom for first time in 300 years.
It is believed to be the first time witnesses have officially used Irish in courts in Belfast since it was banned under the Administration of Justice (Language) Act (Ireland) 1737.
“It’s basically £30m a game.”
David Healy - on Casement Park’s redevelopment costs.
**No. It’s not.
The stadium will be hosting football, hurling & camogie games for decades. Possibly soccer & rugby too. Maybe even American football. Plus concerts.
Lady Hermon says
@BorisJohnson
& his government "will never be forgotten or forgiven" for undermining the Good Friday Agreement.
She asked
@michaelgove
when the PM would feel honour-bound by the 1998 referendum
🇺🇸💵✍️💷🇬🇧
“We’ve been quite blunt from day one. There will be no US / UK trade deal if the Good Friday Agreement is undermined.”
US Congressman
@RepBrendanBoyle
tells
#newsnight
"It's not a Céad Mile Fáilte that people need - it's a respect for their rights”
Bernadette McAliskey - on the rise of anti-migrant sentiment in Ireland
More on
@BBCTheView
tonight -with
@hazechu
& Kitty Holland
🔴BBC One NI @ 10.40pm
@MarkCarruthers7
NI Minister
@SteveBakerHW
tells MPs he was moved by efforts being made to teach unionists Irish. “Unionists who recognise you don’t have to go back too many generation to find that their ancestors were speaking Irish.”
"When it comes to Sinn Féin and the rule of law.... it doesn't take long for your balaclava to slip".
Feisty exchange between Taoiseach Leo Varadkar & Sinn Fein's
@PearseDoherty
in the Dáil over the Roscommon eviction.
.
@DominicRaab
’s meeting with US Congress leaders has ended.
Speaking after the meeting,
@RepRichardNeal
told
@BrianOD_News
“We took time to point out that until we are reassured, there can be no trade agreement between US & UK if there’s any threat to Good Friday Agreement”
Taoiseach said Britain “struggled” to accept it was “not as important in the world” and that its economy would be overtaken by France, India and growing Far-Eastern countries.
.
@ClaireHanna
’s first act as an MP is to register a protest “against the requirement that she make a statement of allegiance to the Crown as a precondition of taking her seat”.
BREAKING
Theresa May has declined to hold a meeting with the leaders of Northern Ireland's four 'remain' parties.
Leaders of
@sinnfeinireland
@SDLPlive
@allianceparty
&
@GreenPartyNI
had asked for a joint meeting with the PM. They represent a majority in the NI Assembly.
🚨 THIS JUST HAPPENED.
Former NI Secretary
@OwenPaterson
has quoted Michael Collins - in Westminster - as he voices his support for the
#Brexit
deal.
He ended it by saying "I hope I don't follow the fate of Michael Collins".
“Prime Minister Netanyahu, the Irish people could not be clearer. We are repulsed by your actions.”
Ireland’s incoming Taoiseach
@SimonHarrisTD
says “famine is a spectre no Irish person can bear.”
“Anyone who can countenance deliberate starvation has lost their humanity.”
“As a unionist I make no apology to this house for saying that this bill will restore Northern Ireland’s place within the Union - and that is important to me.”
DUP leader
@J_Donaldson_MP
Another little bit of history…
First Minister Michelle O’Neill is at her first Northern Ireland game at Windsor Park. The Sinn Féin deputy leader was in her seat ahead of God Save the King & stood for it.
Read more: …
It gets worse. This was only the second part of the story
#RYR633
Here’s the full journey
@flightradar24
:
▪️Copenhagen to Dublin
▪️diverted to Manchester
▪️4 hours on ground in Manc
▪️Departed for Dublin.
▪️3 hours later it diverted to Liverpool,
Spare a thought for the passengers on this
#Ryanair
flight from Manchester to Dublin.🤢
Took off at 5.30pm > circled near Dublin > diverted to Belfast > missed approach at international airport > now heading back to Manchester after spending 3hrs in the air.
#StormIsha
#RYR6333
#StayAtHome
✅
The Irish Gov originally predicted 15,000 cases of
#coronavirus
by tomorrow.
Tonight there are 2,910 cases.
The mitigation measures are pushing down the peak!
"There's been a bit of historical revisionism going on."
@LeoVaradkar
says the backstop was not an Irish invention imposed on the UK.
"The backstop & Withdrawal Agreement were co-designed by the EU & UK - around UK redlines."
#brexit
US Special Envoy to Northern Ireland
@JMMulvaney1
has said that the entire US federal government is agreed that if there is a return to a hard border on the island of Ireland then any potential trade deal with the UK will not go ahead.
Look at how a Coalisland primary school is helping parents deal with cost of living crisis
Free sweatshirt for all P7s
It’ll provide free ‘Fruit for All’ every day & ‘Toast for All’ in winter, free hot dinners for all pupils during January
It’ll cover cost of swimming classes