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- What Sinn Féin’s Michelle O’Neill wrote in her letter to the Queen …
- A moment in history as a seat in a European election in Northern Ireland goes to someone who is not a unionist or a nationalist.
00:00 - Every time Rory wins a major, the bakery in his hometown Holywood bakes for the occasion … 🎉 The tradition continues.
- Bumped into a unionist today. Not a fan of the Irish Government. Never has been. But said, through gritted teeth: “I watched the Taoiseach speak last night. Afterwards, I must admit ... I felt like he was my Taoiseach.”
- Trade union leader Mick Lynch, in Belfast, is asked about a united Ireland ...
00:00 - The rise of Sinn Féin is dominating the airwaves. Not so long ago, Sinn Féin were banned from the airwaves. It feels like a turning-point in Irish political history.
- When a Primark store in Belfast re-opened 4 years ago: "Can't wait to get into it ... tear the place asunder."
00:00 - I followed Northern Ireland fans around France for 3 weeks in 2016. Night and day. I didn’t hear one sectarian song. Or one sectarian comment. These are the true fans. Not the few singing anti-Catholic songs in a pub on Sunday night.
- Of the 60 seats at Belfast City Hall, only 17 are now held by unionists.
- Journalists outside Castle Buildings this time 25 years ago were watching the door for a WALK-OUT … then suddenly in the SDLP window there was a HUG. 📸 Pictures went around the world. First sign that the deal was on.
