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Kevin Meagher
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Kevin Meagher
@KevinPMeagher
Commentary and snippets on British and Irish politics. Author: 'What A Bloody Awful Country…’ and ‘A United Ireland…’
Up North
Joined November 2011
- Posted without a hint of irony on the door of the Church of St Mary the Virgin, adjacent to Whitby Abbey.
- Yes, yes, I know #ConorMcGregor is hardly the most appetising salesman. But 21.8% of Ireland’s population is now foreign-born. The country’s changing at the molecular level with no serious discussion about the long-term implications and with no consent.
- ‘Northern Ireland is part of Ireland, not Britain, as can clearly be seen from aerial photographs.’ RIP Jeremy Hardy
- British Govt policy on the Irish border: 1 Don’t worry, it’s not a biggie. 2 Its a bit tricky but we’ll use cameras. 3 Okay, so the technology doesn’t exist. 4 We’ll effectively keep NI in Customs Union. 5 Whoops! The DUP doesn’t like that. 6 It’s all Ireland’s fault.
- The three phases of Britain’s Brexit diplomacy over the Irish border: 1. “Don’t worry Paddy, you’re not top priority, we’ll get to you...” 2. “Now look here Paddy, you’re having a border and you’ll ruddy well like it.” 3. “Please Paddy, be reasonable. We’re old friends...”
- This is the equivalent of going to a restaurant, eating a meal and then being given a bill that includes the costs of the plate, cutlery, table and chair. The assumptions in this report are nonsensical. The real figure's less than €3bn.The initial cost of a united Ireland would be at least €8bn (£6.86bn) a year rising to potentially €20bn (£17.15bn) a year, a new study from Dublin think tank @iiea has estimated bbc.in/3TNvla2
- This candidate for the Social Democrats called the cops to a bunch of Catholics praying the Rosary outside their church during Covid. Delighted at this result.
- I won’t retweet the video, but just hope all my British followers take a minute to check out why ‘Orange Order’ is trending. Impossible to plumb the depth of their sectarian hatred.
- 'King Charles and Pope Leo are to become the first British monarch and pontiff to pray together at a church service since the Reformation in the 16th Century.' Thoughts with the Orange Order at this difficult time...
- Given no one in Kneecap has been convicted of anything, this is both highly prejudicial to live legal proceedings and defamatory.The BBC should not be showing Kneecap propaganda. One Kneecap band member is currently on bail, charged under the Terrorism Act. As a publicly funded platform the BBC should not be rewarding extremism.
- I’ve been studying, researching, commentating and and writing about Northern Ireland for 30 years. I can genuinely count the number of genuinely-reflective, generous, open-minded unionist politicians I’ve come across on one hand.
- A permissible Irish joke. Paddy goes for a job on a building site. ‘I’ll give you a test,’ says the foreman. ‘What’s the difference between a joist and a girder?'' ‘C’mon now, that’s too easy,’ says Paddy. ‘The difference is that Joyce wrote Ulysses and Goethe wrote Faust...'
- It’s a mark of tolerance by Catholic-Nationalists in such a deeply divided society that they don’t demand that the Orange Order - and all the hatred and violence it embodies - is scrapped entirely. March where you’re wanted. Keep away from places you’re not. And that’s it."It is a very sad day.... that Orange feet are still not welcome on a particular stretch of road." DUP MP @carlalockhart says calls for mediation over the Drumcree / Garvaghy Rd dispute. #SundayPolitics | @MarkCarruthers7
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