My ma came out to the door to cheer me on down the Andytown Road. The oul eyes aren’t as sharp as they once were but she could make out the orange tee and orange top. 93 this month! 🙌🙌❤️
Máirtín Ó Muilleoir
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Máirtín Ó Muilleoir
@newbelfast
"In eaglais mó chroí, tá an cór le thine." Mayakovsky. Rien ne vaut que l'amitié. Publishing community newspapers in Belfast & NYC.
- Tigers Bay Firestarters' Confab: "It's all I could get, Gerry Kellys were gone." "Who is it?" "Not sure but guy who sold me it told me he was somebody once." "Is that his real name?" "Aye & your man tells me all our names will be like that when this Act comes in." "Toss him on."
- Am not a big census watcher or stats-massager but thinking 2day of my oul da Sammy Millar being told at Mackie’s gate back in day to take his sheetmetal skills elsewhere because “we don’t employ Catholics”. Important now to manage generously closing of 1 era & opening of another.
- I have been running a local biz in West Belfast for 30 years - am not being exploited by paramilitary gangs & don’t know any of my small biz peers who are. So if you are thinking of starting a small biz in West and this puts you off, please be aware this is not the norm. 🤦🏼♂️😡
- In relation to vile report on Unionist Voice website, I have instructed my solicitors to issue proceedings against all those involved in publishing this junk.
- Comhghairdeas! Congrats Aisha Alnajjar who got fab A Level results with help of life-changing QUB Widening Participation prog. She lost her dad in Syrian war, left a refugee camp in Jordan with her mum & bros in late 2015. Will study biochemistry at @QUBelfast. Thnx VC Ian Greer
- I was also banned from BBC airwaves from ‘88-94 but Beeb journos continued to call me & @sinnfeinireland reps regularly & found variety of ways to beat ban - e.g. letting me speak in Irish with their English translation voiceover. In same 6-year period, I got ONE call from #RTE
- Milltown Cemetery Massacre, 29 years ago this month. As mourners shelter Martin McGuinness hurdles headstones to aid the injured @ATownNews
- Scenes that wouldn't be tolerated anywhere else in W Europe: Catholic families driven from their homes by paramilitaries. #Belfast2017 #UVF
- Shameful scenes as Catholic families are forced from homes. #Belfast2017 Four days on, no statement from Chief Constable, no arrests by PSNI
00:00 - I met Fawaz in 2015; a political refugee from chaos of Mid-east who struggled hard to put roof over head of his family. When I 1st visited him in winter, his home was freezing; only heater was on in bedroom 4 kids to study. He is rightly proud of GCSE results of daughter Hala 👏
- More loyalist flags in Sunnyside St this year than in 2017 Including outside Catholic primary school where Union flag flies year-round. Screw being turned on mixed community by loyalists emboldened by DUP-Green protocol. Let’s Stand together against intimidation & harassment.
