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Mhairi Black

The National

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February 8, 2026 at 8:28 AM
“The more you read about Epstein, the more you realise you’re not dealing with one monster, but with an ecosystem of monsters, enablers, and cowards.”
~Colin Sheridan

Irish Examiner

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February 7, 2026 at 6:21 AM
“Jon couldn’t field a five-a-side team full of Ulster Unionist MLAs willing to publicly endorse him…”
~Chris Donnelly

The Irish News

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February 6, 2026 at 6:39 AM
“I feel white hot outrage at a world that will deliver a modicum of societal disgrace to those named in the Epstein files while simultaneously excusing Isreali murderers”
~Andrée Murphy

Andersonstown News

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February 5, 2026 at 6:40 AM
Compromising the powerful, influential, popular has been a political espionage tactic for an eternity. The web of deceit was by design, to influence, direct and coerce.

We know where all the roads lead to but for some reason there is an unwillingness to act. Strange that 🤔
February 4, 2026 at 7:50 AM
“There is no atrocity it cannot justify, equivocate or execute.”
~Jonathan Shafi

The National

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February 3, 2026 at 7:43 AM
“Gaza is not only being destroyed, it is being sealed.
The crime scene is being cleared while the crime is still underway.”
~Colin Sheridan @colinivan

Irish Examiner

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February 2, 2026 at 6:41 AM
Shocker!

Psychotic addiction to violence and coercive control when someone else is footing the bill.

Haaretz

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February 1, 2026 at 6:34 PM
“Ulster Unionists, then the UUP and DUP, have opposed all progressive legislation for the past century and every reform to make this place more equitable.”
Brian Feeney

The Irish News

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January 31, 2026 at 6:36 AM
“The hundreds of Palestinians who dream of bringing their
loved ones to Palestine for burial are as if they don't exist.”
~Gideon Levy

Haaretz

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January 30, 2026 at 8:01 AM
Laura Pollock’s headline in The National says it all.
January 29, 2026 at 9:16 PM
“When left unchecked, the extreme right morphs into wherever fear and doubt lurk in every country and when it goes unchallenged it becomes legitimate.”
~Andrée Murphy

Andersonstown News

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January 29, 2026 at 2:41 PM
Attempting to repackage the UN in an insane vanity project smacks more of a caricature of an ensemble of international villains than any attempt at international diplomacy.

The Irish Times

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January 29, 2026 at 7:49 AM
“It involved the dissemination of sensitive information in a tense environment where wording could foreseeably influence public behaviour.”
~Dr Melissa McCullough

The Irish News

[it’s not like the DUP have no history of marching people to the top of the hill]

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January 28, 2026 at 6:37 AM
“While a ceasefire has been in place since October, the killing has not stopped.”
~Michael Jansen

…so the ‘ceasefire’ isn’t actually a ‘ceasefire’

The Irish Times

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January 27, 2026 at 7:51 AM
“Donald Trump once famously — or maybe infamously — declared that he could “stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody and [he] wouldn’t lose any voters, OK?””
~Sean Murray

Irish Examiner

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January 26, 2026 at 7:37 AM
“But maybe we owe it to the part of ourselves that needs to be devastated every now and then to choose differently.”
~ Colin Sheridan

Irish Examiner

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January 24, 2026 at 12:06 PM
“Trump has as much interest in making peace as he has in making apple pie. Greed and ego are what get him out of bed in the late morning.”
~Justine McCarthy

The Irish Times

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January 23, 2026 at 12:14 PM
“we are all guilty of creating the Frankenstein that is American exceptionalism. “
~Chris Donnelly

The Irish News

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January 23, 2026 at 6:17 AM
“COLONIALISM is back, baby!
And it's as greedy and inhumane as it ever was.”
~Andrée Murphy

Andersonstown News

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January 22, 2026 at 8:19 AM
“We might ask — does the law ever work? How can we have faith in international humanitarian law when it did not protect Hind and her rescuers?”
~ Deirdre Garvey

Irish Examiner

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January 21, 2026 at 7:38 AM
After going missing for over 2 years the EU has finally found the book on International law. Strange that.
January 19, 2026 at 5:00 PM
The total dismantling of International law to pursue interests in the Middle East has enabled and emboldened expansion.
When you see only enemies you have no friends, you have expendable assets.
January 19, 2026 at 7:59 AM
“State killings are nothing new, but it now feels as though all guardrails have gone and the nation is governed entirely by what the administration can get away with”
~Jack Sheehan

The Irish Times

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January 16, 2026 at 7:41 AM
“Status quo translates as the sunny uplands of a British Ulster where nationalists knew their place, a memory slowly fading into the past in spite of frantic efforts to sustain it.”
~Chris Donnelly

The Irish News

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January 16, 2026 at 6:38 AM