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- WE SAY: If the queen could bow her head in memory of the men and women of the IRA at the Garden of Remembrance, maybe it's worth counting to ten before hitting the tweet button tonight.
- Replying to @JimAllisterHi, Jim. A confused Squinter here. Let me see if I'm getting this right. You're accusing the media of focusing on Sinn Féin during the period of mourning by making a video of your own during the period of mourning focusing on... Sinn Féin? Is that about right?
- Irish language activists are holding a protest at the new Belfast Grand Central Station after failure to erect dual-language signage following its opening.
00:00 - Squinter: In covering the queen's vigil in Ediburgh the BBC laughed at Catholics being 'cleared out' of Scotland. It approvingly broadcast a tribute to the queen from a UVF band which regularly pays tribute to Catholic-killing gunmen. But Celtic fans are the problem. Got that?
- WATCH: WEST Belfast rappers Kneecap have presented young people from the Glór na Móna youth project with a £7,000 cheque towards their plans for a new flagship Irish medium youth and community facility. belfastmedia.com/kneecap-donate…
00:00 - From ITV. Great journalism.Not the opening to news at 10 you expect
00:00 - Squinter: The Irish women's team sparked a week-long tsunami of loyal Ulster media and political rage by singing the Celtic Symphony. The UDA/UVF just threatened to go back to killing Catholics and they're totally Zen about it. If you didn't laugh you'd cry.
- Go hiontach. Niall Murphy out of ICU at Mater to applause of healthcare heroes.
00:00 - Squinter: Just to be absolutely clear: The DUP regularly consult a an umbrella group for the still-active UDA/UVF which has just threatened to end the peace process. Stop and think for a moment about how that has become normalised.
- A FOUR-YEAR-OLD West Belfast boy successfully underwent a life-changing kidney transplant this week – thanks to an organ donation from his hero grandad. belfastmedia.com/alfie-s-succes…
- 'The IRA, the IRA, the IRA, the IRA, the IRA...' Squinter writes that Joe Brolly's tweet has sparked wailing and gnashing of teeth in some familiar quarters, but it's not the IRA that's upset them today, it's the accuracy of his point.
- Squinter: Eddie Izzard hasn't been transitioning for 30 years in order to follow your daughter into a toilet in 2022, despite what liars at GB News (which has gender-neutral toilets) tell you. While you're pondering this crap the Tories want to slash welfare to pay the rich. See?
- Our editorial is a post-Féile message for those of good faith. Read it all in this week's paper, in the shops this evening and tomorrow morning.
