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Amanda Ferguson

@amanda.ie

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North Belfast woman. Freelance journalist c2010. NUJ member. Writer. Talker. Events. Consultant. Reasonable. A wee bit fancy.✌🏻❣️#BeanUltach Also Director @wimbelfast.bsky.social And everywhere else: https://linktr.ee/amanda.ie

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Amanda Ferguson @amanda.ie · Oct 2

Hello all. It’s me. Again. Lots going on, and so many different apps. Is Bluesky going to be the one?! A

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Amanda Ferguson @amanda.ie · 12h

Doing an unscientific survey about where you get your news?!What tv news and programmes do you watch? What radio station, programmes, presenters do you listen to? Which podcasts do you listen to? Which news websites and papers do you read? Do you pay for media outlet subscriptions?

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Amanda Ferguson @amanda.ie · 7d

#WIM25 at QUB on November 18! Get your tickets before they are gone! Don’t say I didn’t warn ye lol www.wimbelfast.com/voices/get-t...

Amanda Ferguson @amanda.ie · 21d

Claims that the UK could leave the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) without breaching the 1998 Good Friday Agreement (GFA) are “not credible”, a new report has concluded.
www.irishlegal.com/articles/uk-...

UK withdrawal from ECHR would breach Good Friday Agreement

Claims that the UK could leave the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) without breaching the 1998 Good Friday Agreement (GFA) are "not credible", a new report has concluded. A new report by Pro...

www.irishlegal.com

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Amanda Ferguson @amanda.ie · 24d

It’s been fascinating watching them reveal themselves one at a time. The shame has been taken out of racism. It was always there. They are just emboldened but need to know they will never win. Most people are not hateful maniacs and racist freaks. Our diversity is our strength.✌🏻

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Amanda Ferguson @amanda.ie · Sep 1

Is right

Amanda Ferguson @amanda.ie · Sep 1

Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, scholars' association says www.reuters.com/world/middle...

Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, scholars' association says

The world's leading genocide scholars' association has passed a resolution saying that the legal criteria have been met to establish Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, its president said on Monday.

www.reuters.com

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Amanda Ferguson @amanda.ie · Sep 1

Immigration is NOT the number one political issue in the north/NI. 3% fgs! Health, poverty, housing, economic opportunities, the list goes on…. Don’t mistake a minority of racists and victims of right wing propaganda and dis/misinformation for most people.

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Amanda Ferguson @amanda.ie · Aug 28

People Before Profit hosted Galway TD & President of Ireland hopeful Catherine Connolly in west Belfast today. She visited Coláiste Feirste, Shankill Women's Centre and other locations meeting with Irish language, youth, housing and women’s sector campaigners.

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Amanda Ferguson @amanda.ie · Aug 25

NEW from @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social: Queen’s University Belfast has announced that its Body Donation Programme, within the School of Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Sciences, reopened on 25 August 2025.
Further information by contacting [email protected] or here: www.qub.ac.uk/schools/mdbs...

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Amanda Ferguson @amanda.ie · Aug 22

Hello. Anyone got top tips of places for garden storage? A shed but not necessarily a shed - one of those large storage cupboard things for a mower and bits. #askbluesky #belfast

strawberry shortcake walking through a field of flowers

ALT: strawberry shortcake walking through a field of flowers

media.tenor.com

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Amanda Ferguson @amanda.ie · Aug 19

Positive news flowing from a challenging episode!👏🏻I hear the vibe today was brilliant. Well done Cricket Ireland🏏
150+ young people from Belfast, the North West, and Donegal came together today at the Cricket Connects Camp, hosted by Cricket Ireland at the Civil Service Cricket Club, Stormont.

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Amanda Ferguson @amanda.ie · Aug 16

Minimal moral integrity requires that if we think something is wrong when they do it, it's wrong when we do it.

#NoamChomsky

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Amanda Ferguson @amanda.ie · Aug 14

Yes! I ♥️ Brendan Gleeson. www.hotpress.com/culture/bren...

Brendan Gleeson urges RTÉ to add arts slot to Six One News: “I think we need to levitate it in the national conversation” | Hotpress

The Emmy-winning actor will make his return to the stage for the first time in ten years at Dublin’s Olympia Theatre tonight

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Amanda Ferguson @amanda.ie · Aug 12

It’s my late nana’s birthday today. Alice was a Millie (doffing mistress), a home help, and a no nonsense north Belfast woman who loved her family. She liked salt in her porridge and Hennessy in her tea. She was 96 when she died in 2016. #ballysillan #uppawomen💞

Amanda Ferguson @amanda.ie · Aug 7

There were 48 people arrested in relation to the disorder, of which 23 had been reported for domestic abuse. The figures for Northern Ireland – 48% - were higher than the UK average (41%). www.thedetail.tv/articles/alm...

Almost half NI race rioters reported for domestic abuse

The figures for Northern Ireland – 48% - were higher than the UK average (41%).

www.thedetail.tv

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Amanda Ferguson @amanda.ie · Aug 7

“This isn’t a political issue. Abusers are abusers.” Amanda Brown has spoken out against the “sectarianisation” of abuse.
m.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/norther...

Keep ‘them and us’ politics out of abuse, pleads stepdaughter of paedophile David Tweed

A stepdaughter of the paedophile David Tweed has spoken out against the “sectarianisation” of abuse.

m.belfasttelegraph.co.uk

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Amanda Ferguson @amanda.ie · Aug 5

Just been to see #NakedGun It was good craic. Silly fun. 85 minute special. Ballymena’s testosterone filled heterosexual manly man Liam Neeson wears a short skirt in one scene if any arts crusaders want to moral panic about the possible consequences and picket the cinemas😂

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Amanda Ferguson @amanda.ie · Aug 3

Domestic abuse victims ‘routinely threatened with horror killings’
Women’s Aid raises alarm as police receive more than 5,200 reports over 108 days m.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/sunday-life/...

Domestic abuse victims ‘routinely threatened with horror killings’

Domestic abusers routinely use local women’s violent deaths to intimidate their partners, Women’s Aid NI has warned.

m.belfasttelegraph.co.uk

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Amanda Ferguson @amanda.ie · Aug 3

In today’s Sunday Life: Domestic abusers routinely use local women’s deaths to intimidate their partners. And an FOI reveals over 5,000 domestic abuse calls to the PSNI. #endvawg @womensaidni.bsky.social

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Amanda Ferguson @amanda.ie · Aug 1

NEW: Jeffrey Donaldson and Eleanor Donaldson case review today at Laganside. Following discussion about medical reports listed for mention at Newry on September 11. Not necessary for defendants to attend then. November trial date still on the cards...

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Amanda Ferguson @amanda.ie · Jul 31

Irish court rejects Conor McGregor appeal in sexual assault case www.reuters.com/sports/irish...

Irish court rejects McGregor appeal in sexual assault case

Martial arts fighter Conor McGregor on Thursday lost his attempt to overturn a jury's order that he compensate a woman who accused him of raping her, with Ireland's Court of Appeal rejecting the appeal in its entirety.

www.reuters.com

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Amanda Ferguson @amanda.ie · Jul 31

Pamela Anderson being the new First Lady of Ballymena wasn’t on my 2025 bingo card but stranger things have happened. Multiple friends have asked if the Liam Neeson Pamela Anderson relationship is real. I’m no showbiz reporter lol but I do hope so. They look cute!

people.com/liam-neeson-...

Liam Neeson Said He Was Over Dating Before 'Sincere' Pamela Anderson Romance (Exclusive)

Before Liam Neeson and his 'The Naked Gun' costar Pamela Anderson struck up a romance, Liam Neeson told PEOPLE he was done with dating: 'I'm past all that,' he said.

people.com

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CMJohnston @cmjohnston.bsky.social · Jul 30

Psst…NI folk. There’s something you need to know, but brace yourself for a shock.

Ask your MLA/ MP this exact question: “how long will the waiting list for my local health treat’s Psychological Therapies Service be if I develop a severe mental health issue?”

@amanda.ie

#Belfast #NorthernIreland

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turnedtofire @turnedtofire.bsky.social · Jul 28

This is literally what @arcadiaego and I were talking about yesterday: the fact that there's a division in what media people consume, and how that both reflects and shapes identity...

Amanda Ferguson @amanda.ie · Jul 28

A timely conversation for ARINS ~ the Royal Irish Academy
www.ria.ie/2025/07/21/a...

‘A Foreign Country?’ Telling stories up North and down South - Royal Irish Academy

By ARINS writers

www.ria.ie

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Amanda Ferguson @amanda.ie · Jul 31

Which ones?