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Tim Brannigan

10 years

If only bananas had robust, natural, bio-degradable packaging of their own. Some sort of peelable skin, perhaps. http://t.co/QyJ6Ew6V4w

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4 years

This US doctor has had enough of the ‘tributes’. He makes his point powerfully and impressively.

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Tim Brannigan

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3 years

Damn.

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Tim Brannigan

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4 years

Black men wearing Fred Perry tops annoys British racists? Bought this bad boy last year. Ridiculously over-priced and I’ve only worn it twice but I’ll be wearing it every day from now on. ✊🏾 *waves*

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Tyres stuffed into the car to block *live* rounds. This is real close quarters combat with murderous, heavily armed, heavily protected soldiers against Palestinians throwing rocks. Phenomenal bravery.

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🔻They will resist even if it’s with stones.

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1 year

🎵You can shove your coronation up yer arse.🎵

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5 years

Truly, one of the great political quotes of our age.

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“I want to be very clear – I do not believe what I said, that is not my view"

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1 year

“Biquette the goat, sold to an abattoir after she stopped producing milk but was rescued by punks and then spent 10 years watching grindcore bands. She could come and go as she pleased and, in the words of her rescuers, “escaped death, lived punk”. Absolute legend. 🐐

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28 days

It’s not an issue to which I’ve given much thought but Jesus Christ.

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6 months

Purest Alan Partridge moment from Vine, here. Gold.

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5 months

Team meetings you wish you’d been at!

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3 years

Harry Dean Stanton on the Movie Pretty In Pink.

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4 months

One of the best political cartoons I think I’ve ever seen. (The New Yorker).

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3 years

Court report on attempted robbery at a hairdressers in Dublin from 2018.

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11 months

This might be one of the greatest signs I’ve ever seen. (Sedgley, England 2021)

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1 year

Any excuse.

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1 year

Tim Stanley is 40.

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Tim Brannigan

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10 months

As has been mentioned in the comments, unionists and loyalists consider stacking pallets to be 'engineering', in case you're wondering how the Titanic sank.

John Murray

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10 months

Whatever you think of bonfires there is no denying that such structures can’t be built without a serious amount of planning, teamwork, engineering prowess & hard graft. The grumpy old republicans will of course deny that & try to cancel the magnificent efforts of so many kids.

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Tim Brannigan

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2 months

Far be it from me to judge but he doesn’t really look “alpha”, does he?

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10 months

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10 months

Have you ever in your life encountered a genuine woman who would stand up before a crowd and incite them to punch people "in the fucking face"? No, I thought not.

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30 days

@disappoptimism I think she’s amazing. Her hair is fantastic. Not quite sure about the bikini bit but otherwise great video.

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Tim Brannigan

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10 months

‘Dear people of Benidorm, I write, once again, to apologise about the Orangemen. We are all absolutely mortified.’

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Tim Brannigan

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1 year

A year ago. Sinead O’Connor dragging Piers Morgan over his Meghan Markle obsession.

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3 years

Educational tweet: The Japanese word KOMOREBI means ‘sunlight that filters through the leaves of trees’.

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Tim Brannigan

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3 years

Until 1pm yesterday, when this angel slid into my DMs, I never thought that I’d get to write this line but “speaking as a parent”, turns out I have a daughter, Rebecca. Damn. A thing like that. ❤️

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Tim Brannigan

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11 months

It all kicked off when one drummer shouted “We’re more loyal to the King than yousens, so we fuckin are!”

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6 years

Worst Sequel Ever etc.

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4 years

This guest, Shola Mos-Shogbamimu, on Channel 4 News is fantastic! Here she is mocking the ‘royal crisis’. Nails it.

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Tim Brannigan

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3 months

The Gregg Wallace piece below is amazing.

Ed Cumming

@edcumming

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Catching up on Gregg Wallace’s magnificently Partridgian My Saturday.

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Tim Brannigan

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9 months

Nolan routinely used a racist ‘caller’ from County Down, as a prop, knowing he’d make bigoted remarks which they would ‘debate’ before Nolan dramatically cut the call. Once, Nolan shouted at him: “How dare you call my show!” and the ‘caller’ shouted back: “But you called me!!” 😂

Media Guardian

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9 months

BBC’s Stephen Nolan show accused of planting staff in TV audience

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1 year

@nikolausbaker @stepickford @GBNEWS It’s not bigotry, though. Being opposed to a monarchy is actual republicanism.

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2 years

@kelly_welles Love these two. 1 Chile. 2 Macedonia

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3 years

Still one of the greatest tweets ever written.

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4 years

Irish American hypocrisy and racism hypocrisy getting called out. Last line is great.

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4 years

@Dempster2000 @michaelhogan @TheFloodDefence School lads I know (pissed) nicked a car and were chased by cops in a seaside town. They abandoned it and ran. One went into the sea and lay down. A cop simply waited on him surfacing for air. In the copshop a peeler shouted “Ask The Man From Atlantis if he wants any breakfast?!”

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Tim Brannigan

@tim_brannigan

3 years

Tragic

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Tim Brannigan

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11 days

Champions! Linfield press for a last minute of extra-time equaliser, so their keeper goes up for a corner. Cliftonville hit them on the break and Ronan Hale does this! Ye little dancer!

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Tim Brannigan

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1 year

Rain, you magnificent bastard!

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4 years

Here’s to social media. The lady in this image is Rosa, who has just sent me this photo of me taken at the Baby Home where I lived for my first year. Rosa said her favourite phrase was “Timothy, you weigh a ton.” Life, eh? ❤️

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Tim Brannigan

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10 months

Beautiful letter about Sinead O’Connor.

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6 months

“Can you cook fried rice for Israel?”

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Tim Brannigan

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3 years

Daniel Hegarty, a 15-year-old schoolboy, shot twice in the head with a sub-machine gun by a British soldier standing only 10 feet away. Today, his killer walked free, like so many others. There is no British justice.

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Tim Brannigan

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4 years

And now we return to the afternoon three-act play: Death of a Mansplainer.

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3 years

I am available for media interviews about my part in his downfall.

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Tim Brannigan

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4 years

This is fantastic. A humbling lesson for many, I hope. #NHS

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@tim_brannigan

4 years

This blew up, huh? Thanks everyone but look, I’m only one guy. Honestly, the doctor is the real hero.

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Tim Brannigan

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7 months

Workmen in Casement Park, lads! The Dublin government finally delivering for West Belfast what Stormont has failed to do for over a decade. Wouldn’t that be ironic?

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Tim Brannigan

@tim_brannigan

7 months

I was in Sinn Fein Youth and we painted this mural in 83, in response to the Sabra and Shatila massacres. The Brits would ‘paint bomb’ it. We’d repaint it. I painted the street sign. The message from Republicans was clear. But today, not even a token protest from Sinn Fein. Awful

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Tim Brannigan

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6 years

Theresa May’s performance was like walking into your bank and warning them that if they don’t play ball that you’re going to take your overdraft elsewhere.

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1 year

As the British national anthem is played at Anfield, Liverpool fans bring the noise. #LFC

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4 years

Don’t know who did this but it’s fabulous.

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1 year

Six years since fearless Saffiyah Khan faced down the fash with her hand nonchalantly in her pocket.

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1 year

You’re not allowed to say “Merry Christmas” anymore. - James Acaster.

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Tim Brannigan

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9 years

And in case you missed it, a panoramic photo taken while rolling down a hill. http://t.co/8HdZNjso3l

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1 year

Oh ffs. Please tell me this excruciatingly embarrassing West Britism is fake.

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1 year

Nyek - @stupidhoroscope.bsky.social

@stupidhoroscope

1 year

Ads for games in the 90s were the absolute worst. You'd have a two page spread with no screenshots, someone making a stupid face, and a ransom-letter font saying "ArE YOu FuCKINg STUpID?", then a tiny little Yoshi's Island logo in the corner

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Tim Brannigan

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5 months

“Voluntary evacuation”? Chilling. In what way is it voluntary? And if they don’t want to leave?

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3 years

@claretnblueHQ Ah, so now this van makes sense.

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Tim Brannigan

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10 days

Remembering IRA Volunteer Bobby Sands who died on hungerstrike on May 5th, 1981.

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Tim Brannigan

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2 years

Not a single IRA volunteer died for this disgraceful scene. Not a single IRA volunteer who gave their life for the struggle has ever been ‘honoured’ in Stormont by Sinn Fein with honeyed words and black mourning clothes. This is West Britism on a different lucrative scale.

UTV Live News

@UTVNews

2 years

Sinn Féin's Vice President Michelle O'Neill says Queen Elizabeth made 'real efforts' to bridge the divide between communities in Northern Ireland. Read more:

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Tim Brannigan

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2 years

Ladies and gentlemen, the weekend. Have a good one.

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Tim Brannigan

@tim_brannigan

7 years

@AEI And the Native Americans and the black people? How about their blood?

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Tim Brannigan

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4 years

Last year, man put a memorium notice in the paper for his mum. ❤️

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4 years

Sesame Street Gold. Very cute.

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Lolz, here’s my ma up visiting me in the H-Blocks.

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Mixed race guys with black mums vs mixed race guys with white mums

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Tim Brannigan

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3 years

Ta for kind words. This has been a terrible week. I’m off to bury my beautiful friend, drinking partner and travel companion for amazing trips to Berlin, Milan, Venice and Malaga etc. One of those I’ve leaned on in these my hardest years. Anita was 49. Found dead on Sunday. 💔

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Tim Brannigan

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10 years

Former Dr Who star Tom Baker in an unexpectedly moving comment... http://t.co/55aD3vTttm

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On his relationship with Amanda Holden.

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@afneil Bobby Sands MP died as both an IRA Volunteer and an elected representative of the Irish people who voted for him in the middle of his hungerstrike. British people should, at least, respect his mandate. Democracy and all of that.

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5 years

#FBmemories . The contrasts. Man Feeding Swans. Krakow, Poland. By Marcin Ryczek.

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2 years

The three genders.

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The amount of firepower and riot cops around her. Absolutely ridiculous. She’s cool AF though.

LivePDDave 🇺🇸

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Police unmask lowlife UCLA protestor for the world to see.👏

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@disappoptimism Well, Sid The Sexist, I was only focused on the pre-raphaelite beauty of her hair, and her ability to plait in a mirror. Don’t be so base.

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1 year

Said it before, I’ll say it again. There are very few presenters, political or lobby journalists who dare hold the Tories to account more robustly than Susanna Reid. Here she takes down Suella Braverman with facts.

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6 years

Melissa Howard: “Vote for me! I’ve a degree!” University: “No, you do not.” Howard: “Well, explain this photo of me holding the certificate!” University: “That certificate’s fake. We don’t offer that particular course and you’ve forged the signatures on it.” Howard: *silence*

The Hill

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University says GOP Florida House candidate faked her diploma: report

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4 months

No gloves, armalite rifles, flared jeans. The 70s era Ra, kickin it Old Skool.

Paul Butler

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IRA checkpoint West Belfast during the conflict

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@tim_brannigan

6 months

Is that it? After all that bombing? I was caught with about half this amount myself, ffs.

OSINTtechnical

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Weapons cache reportedly recovered by the IDF in the MRI department of the Al-Shifa Hospital.

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Tim Brannigan

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6 years

Well, fair enough but as a city that claims to be a modern, changing, ‘must-see’ destination, it’s a shame that, once again, Belfast portrays itself as a parochial, white-only town. Didn’t anyone think to equality-proof this?

Visit Belfast

@VisitBelfast

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This is Belfast. These are our people. We love our nights out. Our food. Our music. Our shopping trips. And you can be sure we always look out for one another. Which is why we're asking you to support #YourBelfast ! Find out more:

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West Belfast

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Get your self arrested.

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Tim Brannigan

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3 years

@liamyoung @lewis_goodall Lewis, to be fair to him, is operating in what appears to be a cowed and intimidated BBC newsroom. I’ve just scrolled through dozens of RTs and didn’t see one from a single BBC reporter. One of the biggest news organisation? BBC journos need to have a hard look at themselves.

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10 months

Bruh

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3 years

Another impossible body image for men.

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6 months

This is art etc

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1 year

Today, I’m remembering the volunteers of the IRA 1970-98, who gave their lives fighting the British forces in an armed struggle for an Irish socialist republic.

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6 years

Met a girl I know in the park today. She’s white, hubby is black. Today a white woman walked up to her wee ba (18 months) leaned into his pram and yelled “Nigger!” before walking on. This wee guy, right here. Middle of west Belfast.

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2 years

Smooth move by the wee bird.

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8 years

Scottish realism.

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6 years

“Fuck Your Ballymurphy Massacre Inquiry” and “KAT” - Kill All Taigs (Catholics). Yes, it’s a peculiar ‘festival’, isn’t it? A celebration of Protestant culture, apparently.

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Tim Brannigan

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8 years

This is what the #Mali flag looks like, for your profile pictures and they speak French, so it's still "Je suis..."

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Tim Brannigan

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They didn’t. These kids, and their mum, travel to and from school every single day - from Portrush, on the north coast. (1hr 47mins). And they live in a hostel and have to be on their best behaviour or they’ll be put out. That seems like a lot for such young kids to deal with no?

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Last Friday, I shared the top deck front row seats on the bus with three wee black siblings (6-11yrs) who’d all just finished primary school. I chatted to them and they were very politely spoken. They were from Eritrea, East Africa. I asked if they lived on the Falls Road

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Belfast republican Bobby Storey has died. I first met him in the H-Blocks where he was a considerable presence. I loaned him The Catcher In The Rye to read in H8 in 92 - he was much more intelligent than some enemies gave him credit for. And he was a committed IRA volunteer.

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1 year

VAR: Lineker is onside.

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7 years

Finland Tourist Board, we salute you!

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3 years

Has anyone ever heard anyone say this? Maybe they do but it’s a new one on me.

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3 months

This is IRA volunteer Alex Murphy being led across the carpark in Castlereagh in 1988. Like many republicans, I too, made that walk, handcuffed and knowing for sure you’re going to prison. Cops making jokes, sneering. Some experience. To those who made it, my respect.

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2 months

Interesting framing. Defining her by her relationship to him. More significantly, leading with her charges yet his are the more serious offences.

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4 years

Leave the kids with uncle Andy?

The Sun

@TheSun

4 years

Kate Middleton arrives at nursery to serve kids breakfast... Is there anything she can't do?

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Shocking. Irish society is increasingly throwing up scenes many claimed would be impossible to imagine in Ireland. And not just the far right but political leaders north and south are lending credibility to this hate by describing it as people having “legitimate concerns”.

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Quite possibly the most concerning 10 seconds you will see from #Coolock tonight. An unknown adult inciting kids to chant 'Get them out'. This is deeply disturbing.

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