Etain Tannam @EtainTannam Twitter profile

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Etain Tannam

1 year

A moving ceremony & beautiful day in @tcddublin . Honoured to be there to see Martin Mansergh, Monica McWilliams, Jonathan Powell & Nancy Soderbergh receive honorary doctorates. GFA25 #BGFA #Peace

Trinity College Dublin

@tcddublin

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Looking forward to our Honorary Degrees ceremony today marking the 25th anniversary of the #GoodFridayAgreement #peace #GFA25 #BGFA

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En route Belfast. Apart from Connolly station being more depressing than any I’ve seen outside island, worst thing to see was the extreme poverty around Abbey St and generally destitute feeling & appearance of area-far worse than late 80s when we were one of poorest states in EU

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Lazy & inaccurate phraseology on @BBCNews saying SF’s success marks end of unionist ‘domination’ for a century. GFA was about consociational power sharing- between unionist & nationalist parties & others - not domination. Seems people have lost sight of GFA over past 24 yrs.

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2 cancelled social events today/tonight because of Covid, difficult 22 months for someone who loves socialising, plus losing his beloved father in 2019, but my son’s spirit prevails & inspires #downsyndrome ⁦ @DownSyndromeIRL ⁩ ⁦ @downsyndub ⁩

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Ahern: ‘DUP had a point that imposing the protocol on unionists went against the idea of “powersharing’…However, imposing the protocol Bill against the wishes of a majority isn’t power sharing either…one side cannot simply impose its wishes on the other’

Newton Emerson: Bertie Ahern understands unionists better than most

Barely rehabilitated political figure in South has respect and ear of unionists

www.irishtimes.com

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@EtainTannam

1 year

@MaryMcAuliffe4 I didn’t take that interpretation at all. I thought Eoin O’Malley was implicitly reflecting on how hard it was for his own father who had senior roles in government & led the PDS. I didn’t see it as a gendered comment.

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3 years

Thought it was appropriate to retweet this on Good Friday, in the midst of all the acrimony. Thank you @DENISEJOHNSTO10

Cllr DENISE JOHNSTON

@DENISEJOHNSTO10

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This is how I like to think of them, up there walking on heavenly beaches knowing the seeds they planted have taken root and those who follow will nurture their crop. Rest easy your work is done and we remain forever in your debt.

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Remembering Robert today on his 4th anniversary. As he was when I first met him.

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Remembering Robert on what would have been his 59th birthday

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30 yrs ago this summer, Robert and I getting ready for our wedding ⁦ @simon_towler ⁩

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@EtainTannam

3 years

I regard myself as soft nationalist with reconciliation focus, but baffled by timing of this public meeting with nearly all parties at such a fraught time,heightened unionist insecurity & peace process spirit fraught.UI didn’t even feature in 2020 election,so what’s driving this?

Alan Shatter

@Alan__Shatter

3 years

Perhaps it would be better if we first learnt how to better share our island with mutual tolerance & understanding of diverse traditions, identities, loyalties & historical perspectives & resolved remaining difficulties caused by Brexit & the Protocol.

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Even for St Pats cynics, impossible not to be grateful to ⁦ @dfatirl ⁩ for Irl’s soft power: ⁦ @PatLeahyIT ⁩: “the week has seen 850 official events organised by Irish embassies & consulates in 77 cities across 44 different countries” ⁦⁩

Washington parades Ireland centre stage as politicians play green card for St Patrick’s festivities

Varadkar, Martin and McDonald among many visiting Joe Biden and other key US players in traditional leveraging of our national identity

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Remembering Robert on Father’s Day.

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⁦ @AlexKane221b ⁩ : Unionism really needs to ask why London won’t take its side

Unionism really needs to ask why London won’t take its side

A long line of prime ministers have cobbled together a mountain of platitudes about how important Northern Ireland is to the rest of the UK, yet the place seems to be pushed farther and farther away

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The decline and fall of the DUP | The Spectator: “Saying no, backing yourself into a corner and relying on others to save you from your own failures, only works if the other participants all agree that you are an essential player in game”

The decline and fall of the DUP

Along with death and taxes, life has only one other certainty: the DUP will never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity.

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@EtainTannam

3 years

Remembering Robert Elgie's many talents and his modesty, after his inquest on Friday and posting one of his drawings from just before we met (that he dismissed as something anyone could do). Rest in peace Robert.

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4 years

A timely plaque

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Springtime again in Trinity

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Also excellent from @fotoole : ‘’Let’s be clear, there is no gain for anyone in unionism’s pain. Tribalistic glee at the disarray of the enemy is idiotic. Disarray...is dangerous for everybody on the island’

Fintan O’Toole: The DUP created this mess but now it belongs to all of us

Unionism in disarray is dangerous, and tribalised glee at its plight is idiotic

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Stephen Collins: EU should have implemented protocol more flexibly at start but also says ‘scale of….concessions made by…Commission…in..last set of proposals took the British government by surprise, but instead of embracing them Frost upped the ante’

Stephen Collins: Johnson steps back from the brink for now

No knowing what the UK prime minister will do next after his erratic behaviour to date

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@EtainTannam

4 years

Irish people should not stereotype the British, says President via @IrishTimesOpEd Tide is turning - political leadership essential and media awareness @NigelAWatson @KeohaneDan @SamuelJohnsnon @StevieHollywood @SammyOWilson1

Irish people should not stereotype the British, says President

History of Irish republicanism too often showed disregard for life, says Higgins

www.irishtimes.com

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Beautiful calm in ⁦ @tcddublin ⁩ this evening in midst of frenetic Christmas shopping outside the gates ( despite or because of pandemic)

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4 years

One of Robert’s last tweets was to announce what I thought was his last book (with Alex Batturo), but Handbook French Pol arrived today, softback. Thanks to Co-Eds ⁦ @e_grossman_fr ⁩ and to Dominic Byatt, OUP. ⁦ @Gia_Passarelli ⁩ ⁦ @GaryMurphyDCU ⁩ ⁦ @prespow ⁩

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4 years

Excellent article:’Unionists are politically isolated in Europe, the consequence of their..euroscepticism,failure to make links in continental political systems..over-reliance on London’ Ironically may need 🇮🇪 govt. John Hume’s EU strategy so different.

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@EtainTannam

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Pat Hume obituary: John’s intellectual equal who strove for peace

Wife made politician’s life possible, while simultaneously participating fully in it

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@EtainTannam

3 years

Delighted to be featured in #ProvostReview alongside @TCDLawSchool @TriCONDublin colleague (& team mate in @ConUnit_UCL working group on referendums!) @dkennytcd . I think @oran_doyle beat us to it last year!

Religion, Theology, and Peace Studies at TCD

@TrinityRTPS

3 years

Etain Tannam’s contribution to the understanding of Brexit and British-Irish relations is featured in this year’s #ProvostsReview research case studies section. You can read how Etain's research is helping to shape the debate on page 54. @EtainTannam

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8 months

Didn’t realise there’s a Victorian post box still standing outside Dublin Castle!

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4 years

Remembering Robert as always and our wedding today on what would have been our 28th anniversary and feeling grateful to Best Man ⁦ @simon_towler ⁩ ⁦and ⁦ @louisetowler ⁩ for staying in touch.

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Celebration lunch for Michael’s 1st trip away without me or Robert & my first trip to Belfast since pandemic. Thx ⁦⁦ @CheeverstownH ⁩ ⁩for taking care of him during respite & thx day service too during tough times & Orlaith.Not appreciated enough so tweeting to 🙏

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Lucky to have short break in London! Noticeable how helpful London transport staff & passengers are to me & my son with Downs Syndrome. Sometimes on Dublin transport too, but depends who you get! Generally more of a sense of well-established systems hereTho tube strike next week!

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@EtainTannam

4 months

Michael O’Regan’s last ‘cornflakes’ prediction. R.I.P

Michael O'Regan

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Reading my cornflakes, I think the March referendums will pass in a low poll. The Yes and No sides have a big job in generating public interest.

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It’s to @dfatirl and @irishgov credit that from the start, 2016, they foresaw the challenges, (though probably not to this extreme) & possibility that NIrl could be pawn in trade talks. Hence backstop in original Protocol -no change to any border, sea or land.

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2 years

Saddened to hear that Glasnevin Cemetery scraps memorial wall after vandalism via @RTENews

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1 year

Seems sad Ulster Bank has gone. My first joint account with Robert & very helpful Dublin staff when he died. End of an era.

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Mary Harney’s eulogy to Des O’Malley: His form of republicanism was peace & reconciliation ‘based on respect & appreciation of the different traditions, and not through the evil of violence, the threat of violence, or the sneaking regard & ambivalence towards violence’.

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5 months

Wise advice that a ‘more even-handed approach’ to policy in NI, involving U.K. & Irish govts (depending on its composition?), as intended by GFA, is the way forward, instead of reliance on DUP& SF alone. Essential to get back to GFA 3 strands approach

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1 year

Ahern reminds U.K. gov again that GFA is 2 agreements- British-Irish & Multiparty. Rigorous impartiality is in B-I agreement & is hugely important in any efforts to resolve issues

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Lovely state funeral for John Bruton, simple & spiritual.On top of last Sat’s historic day & substantively more important,who’d have thought 30yrs ago we’d see DUP & SF leaders in a front pew, deep in amiable-looking conversation at state funeral of a former Taoiseach.V moving

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Trinity in Spring. Not for the 1st time, thinking how lucky I am.

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1 year

There’ll be many tweets today, but remembering all the British & Irish diplomats who were crucial in causing peace & who still give their time to share their wisdom @dfatirl @BritEmbDublin #GFA25

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Fascinating,fact-based by Patterson on actual NI-GB rules 1920-1973, overseen by unionist govts & paradox of some unionists saying WF causes all-is economy (it doesn’t!),bolstering nationalism.Not mentioned is fallacy that trade diversion leads to a UI!

Henry Patterson: Legalistic attempts to ‘restore’ Article 6 of the Act of Union would be a disaster

The first of the DUP’s seven tests on any future arrangements agreed with the government is that it should “fulfil” the promise of Article 6 of the Acts of Union.

www.newsletter.co.uk

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11 months

Collins’ grandniece said her great grandfather urged family to forgive & ‘old’ IRA members called into him to apologise for Collins’ death.There wasn’t glorification by either side after civil war. Perhaps not talking about it, while repressing it,was also to help reconciliation?

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@Michael_O_Regan

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@MichaelKellyIC Remarkably, Sean Lemass held no grudges. ‘Terrible things were done on both sides.’ Truly great man.

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Trinity in Autumn. Always constant but particularly reassuring this Autumn ⁦ @tcddublin ⁩ ⁦ @ReligionTCD ⁩ ⁦ @jacobjerickson ⁩ ⁦ @LindaHoganTCD ⁩

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IMO there’s misconception for some that Irl could have ‘made’ EU find better solution than backstop &sea border.That it only ‘cared’ about nationalists.Fails to see EU has red lines too. Irl seeking solution now too from an EU probably fed up dealing with Brexit/NIrl after 4 yrs.

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@EtainTannam

1 year

Irish diplomats seeking to limit damage to relations with EU member states & UK. U.K. ambassador will know the background & know President’s views aren’t government policy, but those farther away will be less familiar

Edward Burke

@Edward__Burke

1 year

My comments on President Higgins / his phantom "admiral and air force". “It seems that he has not read the programme or has heard something about it that is not accurate. It would be helpful to read the programme and perhaps even correct that statement.”

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Pleased to see my oped in ⁦ @IrishTimes ⁩ but they omitted my note that its based on earlier article ⁦ @ConorKellyLDN ⁩ & me in ⁦ @po_qu ⁩ - link to follow!

Windsor Framework is as good as it gets for unionism. Will it be enough?

Creative use of the Belfast Agreement offers a way for unionists to have real influence, and the Windsor Framework has made clear that unionist concerns are integral to the 1998 agreement and must be...

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@EtainTannam

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Thank you ⁦ @tcddublin ⁩ College Medical Service for my #Covid19 vaccine this morning. Courteous and efficient- & a pleasant surprise to be notified so soon! Your turn next ⁦ @JohnOBrennan2 ⁩!

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This isn’t accurate.The whole pt of GFA is that they’re joint heads with equal powers. No one ‘head’ & NI isn’t a state anyway. So that description’s completely wrong. It’s a highly emotional day & historic, & I’m looking forward to watching,but vital to get facts right @rtenews

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Strange comment that Heather Humphries would be the 1st Protestant to be Taoiseach- no mention that she’d be the 1st woman!

BBC News NI

@BBCNewsNI

3 months

Who could succeed Leo Varadkar as Ireland's next prime minister?

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Excellent by @AnMailleach on prob of citizens’ assemblies if all contributors share same view: ‘In research…we found that members of citizens assemblies are highly suggestible. If the expert presenters agree, so do the members’ . Shows need for careful planning if used

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@AnMailleach

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“For a decade politicians have called for citizens’ assemblies without thinking. They’ve been used either as a façade of legitimacy to deliver a predetermined outcome, or to abdicate leadership and responsibility.” This week’s @Independent_ie column.

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Thinking of Robert Elgie today & his last lecture in DCU as a more normal academic year begins and we move on. Good luck to colleagues and students across the university sector @GaryMurphyDCU @Gia_Passarelli

Dublin Law & Politics Review

@DublinLPR

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Keynote address on the best systems of government. "There are no easy answers" Goodluck @robertelgie . @nrna2003

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Important from Daithi O’Ceallaigh, @iiea : does @MatthewOToole2 sense lack of support for GFA from U.K. gov? Reply: current govt not committed at all to GFA principles. Eg Lewis: ‘we have sole responsibility’ for NI. Noticed that too -undermines totality of relationship, strand 3

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No mention at all in @rtenews of tribute to Bertie Ahern in eulogy at David Trimble’s funeral. Given poor Unionist-Irish government relations atm, it was a nice gesture to pay him tribute & v strange not to report it. #sharedisland

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Back in Feb Prof Brendan O’Leary gave ‘master class’ on hist & pol of NI.For anyone who missed it, well worth a listen.Interesting that he thinks historians exaggerate either impact of commemoration on healing wounds, or impact on exacerbating them.

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Hard to know what’s going on from below. Puzzled by Donaldson saying within UK gov there is ‘now belated recognition’ of unionist concerns. As WF isn’t going, implies legislation re NI in U.K.? Clearly no U.K. gov consultation with Irish gov or anyone else

Jeffrey Donaldson: Windsor Framework does not go far enough to repair harm to NI. This is a time to...

The Windsor Framework represents significant progress, but it does not go far enough toward restoring Northern Ireland’s place in the United Kingdom internal market and ensuring our constitutional...

www.newsletter.co.uk

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Thank you Matthew and Michael for a lovely Mother's Day. Lots of happy memories of when you were small, but a happy new memory today and knowing dad is with us.

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Disingenuous headline about Westin Hotel. It’s been renamed ‘Westmoreland Hotel’ because it’s on Westmoreland St. Headline implies it’s been deliberately named after a defender of slavery.

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IT editorial: ‘The team embodies some of the traits Irish people admire most about England and its people…reminds us that…battle for more generous…idea of England is still being fought. In the long view it may even be winning’.

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Article below (print copy has less sensationalist headline) ties in with @AndrewPRLevi that aim of Brexiteers is to destroy EU itself:EU reaction to idea of Irl not in SM reflects its harmfulness to EU ‘raison d’être’…that being a member is better than not being a member’

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This is a brilliant piece from @NaomiOhReally

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1 year

View from the window, Connemara, ⁦ @UNDKylemore ⁩ ⁦ @NDIrishStudies ⁩ ⁦ @ArinsProject ⁩ . Fascinating seminars to match the view!

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Full house & a very happy son at ⁦ @gaiety_theatre ⁩ . Thanks to all the staff & the cast of ⁦ @Riverdance ⁩ for a special atmosphere & great show.

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This is excellent from Darren Litter @QUBelfast in response to Brolly, pointing out that predominantly Irish policy makers & voters didn’t ignore plight of nationalists. but they opposed IRA violence & supported the SDLP’s peaceful approach (as did most nationalists in NI).

Ben Tower

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Valuable evidence based rebuttal of claim that Ireland ignored/blamed nationalists during Troubles. My lived experience of the time aligns with Darren Litter's account. via @rte

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Lovely to see Brendan O’Leary’s, (my former PhD supervisor, reason I got to LSE, reason I’m where I am (& reason I met my husband!) Treatise displayed prominently in ⁦ @HodgesFiggis ⁩ today - though they should put the 3 on one shelf!

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A superb interview with Brendan O’Leary. I hope he’s called on far more often by broadcast media. He is upfront he wants a UI but doesn’t let ideology sway his academic rigour and fairness. As he said, academics shouldn’t care about popularity!

BBC The View

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"Its best to have as much consent from the losing side as possible." Prof Brendan O'Leary explains to @MarkCarruthers7 how "losers' consent" could be critical in any future border poll...

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Can’t wait to read @Edward__Burke new & timely book on Protestants on ‘the wrong side’ ofborder after partition: ‘Memories of the violence and betrayal experienced by one generation of protestants in the three counties entrenched an intergenerational Ulster loyalist identity’

William Sheehan

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Major new book incoming from @Edward__Burke @CambridgeUP

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@SJAMcBride As @freyamcc wrote, DUP opposing Windsor has serious consequences for its international reputation. It will play to stereotypes of Paisley Sr before he changed & of unionism always saying no. And to no avail - Windsor is going through.

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Irish media’s poor coverage of Northern Ireland not helping understanding in the Republic | 2 Irelands together

Irish media’s poor coverage of Northern Ireland not helping understanding in the Republic

Earlier this week I addressed the Belfast dialogue group Compass Points on the coverage of Northern Ireland by the media in the Republic. This is a slightly edited version of my remarks. The first …

2irelands2gether.com

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Voice of 1st hand experience of conflict from Mary McAleese to @PatricKielty on Varadkar’s UI comment: ‘Concentrate on the good relationships..happy to leave it (UI) to GFA and a lot of people including your daddy died for it’ . Hope that penetrates. #johnhume #sharedisland

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Important reporters are accurate about joint authority. @morningireland cited report that Vardakar & Martin ‘suggested joint authority’ this wk if there was direct rule. But they didn’t - they said increased consultation.Likewise NIO ruled out JA,but not increased consultation.

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Delighted to be in ⁦⁦ @FT ⁩ Brexit Briefing with ⁦ @MCollinsIIEA ⁩ & ⁦⁦ @nealerichmond ⁩ coolness to N-S cooperation from *some* unionists sentence got lost in translation - not bec of Dublin Institutions but fear of Dublin influence

Why Dublin is piggy in the middle in EU-UK trade talks

As frustration grows over Northern Ireland protocol, UK-born applicants dominate demands for Irish passports

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Not sure how I missed this, but below is excellent summary of NI & Irl economies,using multiple studies of each theme, highlighting methodological pros & cons & assessing whether Sir George Quigley’s definition of ‘island economy’ exists. A one-stop shop!

Shared Island: Projects, Progress & Policy The Island Economy - National Economic & Social Council

This paper is one of a series of papers being published by NESC this year on the shared island. It traces the evolution of the two economies, north and south, on the island of Ireland. It describes...

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4 years

New Government & Opposition Fellowship programme in honour of the late Robert Elgie and Mick Moran.

New Government & Opposition Fellows

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Bizarre that fundamental change to GFA that would potentially dismantle consociational pillar negotiated by BOTH govts & by parties, wouldn’t involve Irish gov.GFA is international agreement bet govts & Strand 3 provides for its review by BIIGC after 4 yrs- formal Irish gov role

Belfast News Letter

@News_Letter

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The Northern Ireland Office have ruled out a role for the Irish government in internal NI affairs such as how first ministers are elected at Stormont – but Alliance says Dublin has a “legitimate” role in the matter

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Filling in 2019 tax form for me & for Robert 2019, not a year I like to remember, so thank you v much to kind woman in USS Bereavement Section today who dealt with my query with great compassion. Reminded me of all the kind people I encountered in England (including my husband!)

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3 years

#JohnHume in America emphasises Hume’s belief that reconciliation must occur before territorial unification can occur and @MichealMartinTD observes that reconciliation, peace & political processes are still fragile.

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‘Senior Irish sources point out that both Sinn Féin &…DUP have collapsed the Executive & Assembly on a number of occasions & each time it was put back together because of the strong working partnership of Dublin and London. That partnership is now dead’

NI Protocol: No off ramps, only cliff edges

Europe Editor Tony Connelly explains how a "unique opportunity' in January 2021 has led to this week's escalation of the Northern Ireland Protocol impasse.

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⁦ @tconnellyRTE ⁩ : ‘The conflict is bleeding into the global culture war. Unquestioning allegiance to one narrative or the other…has created a furious binary debate,driving people into street & campus violence’

Israel and Gaza: What comes after the Time of War

The dystopian landscape of Gaza reflects a desperate lack of hope that this calamity can end soon.

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Good letter by David Davin-Power in ⁦ @FT ⁩ correcting its article/clarifying that GFA provided for cross-community vote in Assembly to nominate 1st & deputy 1st minister, & this changed under St Andrew’s.Ties in with Ahern at BIIPA in a way -gen pt that GFA isn’t the prob

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Very happy and poignant too to hear that Maura Conway @galwaygrrl has been appointed to Robert's old position - as Paddy Moriarty Chair of Law and Government (have I got that right?!) in @DCU . I wish her all the best in her new role and I know how pleased he'd be.

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What a superb trip to @UNGeneva with a superb MPhil Peace Studies & Conflict & Dispute Resolution Dip class. So good to be able to do this again. ⁦ @ReligionTCD ⁩

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Superb by ⁦ @CliffTaylorIT ⁩ . A relief to see mature non-ideological,balanced appraisal of both sides. NB: all economists face probs predicting, but as Taylor ( & F&M say too) even harder with UI as much depends on transfer of sov terms agreed by govs

Battle lines are being drawn in the escalating row over the cost of Irish reunification

Irish unity report highlights how analysis of the costs and potential pay-offs is now required

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3 years

Thank you Amy Mazur for arranging a wonderful tribute to @robertelgie at @APSAtweets . I know how pleased he’d be and I feel he knows. Thanks too to @Ej_Europe @GaryMurphyDCU @imcmenamin David Doyle @PhilippKoeker & all contributors. He valued you all

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Congratulations to everyone involved, and especially to @IrelandAmbUSA & @USAmbIreland who brought great warmth and informality to the events. As did @POTUS !

Ambassador Geraldine Byrne Nason

@IrelandAmbUSA

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Thank you Mr. President, come back soon!

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Excellent ⁦⁦ @HHumphreysFG ⁩ . Supports ⁦Taoiseach warmly.Recalls Collins warned against politicians who weaponise past,with emotional reverence for atrocities of past. ‘A real reverence for past respects complexity & doesn’t hijack history’

Michael Collins Commemorative Oration 2021

This is "Michael Collins Commemorative Oration 2021" by Viewfinder on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.

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Where would this fit with British Irish Council in GFA? Danger of emptying out Strand 3 & 2 by creating new parallel institutions, or initiatives, whereas creative use of both strands is needed - and never happened

Fiona McElroy

@fionamce

8 months

Has Jeffrey Donaldson finally got his something from the Prime Minister? #PMQS the PM welcomed welcomed Donaldson’s proposal of a new east/west council to ‘bring together all parts of the UK family to discuss & collaborate on trade and other opportunities presented by the Union’

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Another lovely tribute to Robert. Thank you Helen Drake @FrancoBrit @SophieLMeunier Alistair Cole, @VTiberj

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Springtime in St Stephen’s Green & memories of its past.

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This is puzzling on Irl’s Future: ‘Its profile is nationalist to unionist eyes,despite its non-partisan stance & credentials, because it chooses unity over any existing or renewed U.K. future…’. But surely that is partisan on the constitutional issue?

The Irish Times view on Ireland’s constitutional future: a debate worth engaging with

The argument that Northern Ireland is better off in the UK now has to be won on evidence and merit in a new setting of multiple political minorities

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@AndrewPRLevi That’s very moving. I hope he found a peaceful life in his adulthood. Frightening times now.

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Appalling comment explaining Harris’ attitude to UI: ‘Greystones is an outlier in one respect. It’s the most Protestant town in the south, with a Church of Ireland population of nearly 10%’. Alot to learn about here-that way of thinking long since gone

Simon Harris’s waffle on Irish unity shows he couldn’t care less about the north – Brian Feeney

New taoiseach doesn’t have a plan on constitutional imperative for re-unification

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Thank you ⁦ @FrenchPols ⁩ for sending me your special edition/section in memory of Robert Elgie. He would be very moved. And thank you ⁦ @GaryMurphyDCU ⁩ for including your tribute. ⁦ @JohnOBrennan2 ⁩

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One of the less headline grabbing consequences of Brexit is that Irish gov reopened its consular office in Wales & opened one in Manchester. E-W cooperation diversifying & strengthening between Irl & GB & hopefully will reenergise Strand 3 British-Irish Council with NI reps too.

Kathryn Hallett 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇺🇦

@KathHallett

3 years

Nearly eighteen months ago we started to work with @irelandinwales to shape and deliver a shared statement and action plan, setting out our ambitions across climate, education, trade, culture, language and heritage.

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So different from joint guardianship of peace process & GFA where govts carved strategy together: U.K. official says govt in intensive talks with DUP & Irish gov involvement in restoring Exec would be ‘problematic’ for unionists.

Jude Webber

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Varadkar says UK reluctant to co-operate on N Ireland political crisis via @financialtimes

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Interesting by @AlexKane221b that Varadkar’s comment expecting UI (not aspiring to it as he said on Mon, but ‘expecting’ it) ‘spooks’ unionists, so CHH may have publicly criticized for fear DUP deal would stall. Whole thing implies, (like legacy) breakdown in intergovernmentalism

Irish Times Opinion

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Unionists may be about to turn their backs on the Belfast Agreement via @IrishTimesOpEd

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This is why John Hume saw the EU as a model for Northern Ireland & for British-Irish relations & why GFA comprises analogous complex network of institutions, all interdependent @humefoundation

Alex Taylor

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If all those generations of French and Germans who fought each other could have seen this ...

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Looking forward to speaking on ‘The Future of Northern Ireland’ panel with Rory Montgomery, Pete Shirlow, Claire Sugden and discussing with @EvePatten9 #HubMatters @ReligionTCD

Trinity Long Room Hub

@TLRHub

3 years

Our next Behind the Headlines discussion turns its focus to #Northern #Ireland , where our panel of experts will discuss the complex 'Future of Northern Ireland: The role of interdependence on the Islands' Thursday 15th April at 7pm #HubMatters Book here

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Post final vaccinations celebratory coffee @coffeeangel with @LeddinDeclan . Nice coincidence to be vaccinated at same time- first cafe experience in months! Many thanks again to Dr McGrath & wonderful team @tcddublin College Medical Service.

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Hard-hitting words from ⁦⁦ @mickfealty : overview of Churches (all-Ireland) role. He notes they had been preparing for months to make it service of reconciliation, with discussions with all parties.Tenor of article is that Higgins made decision alone

Michael D Higgins’ shifting stories indicate a weakening defence of the Belfast Agreement

II’m glad I put yesterday’s blog out before President Higgins gave his ‘explanation’ about why he wasn’t coming to this joint service, because in its absence I preferred to focus on the bigger...

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As an asthma sufferer and as my husband had had cancer, I always noticed an arrogance among smokers about how it affected others. That definitely changed & quite quickly. Thank you @MichealMartinTD

Eoin O'Malley

@AnMailleach

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The (I think) most interesting aspect of Ireland’s smoking ban was how it changed behaviour in private houses unaffected by the law. Immediately people at house parties started to go outside to smoke. Laws affect norms.

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