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🏦 MLAs under fire this week - first Edwin Poots roasts their debating skills and now this: "MLAs needed to improve their scrutiny role which currently was “neither robust nor supportive”. The “step-up” would include training on the role of Assembly questions and committees."

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🇦🇺 New experience today speaking to an Australian audience about Kneecap rapper Liam Óg Ó hAnnaidh's Westminster court appearance. 📡 ABC Australia | The World 🔗 Link below at 30:24

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⚖️ "Footage showed the defendant unsuccessfully attempting to break a large rock and throwing bottles at officers." 📰 @belfasttelegraph.co.uk

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💬 | "We'll continue growing stronger." 🍕 | NI pizza restaurant targeted in sledgehammer hate crime 📰 | @belfasttelegraph.co.uk

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🏦 | Assembly Speaker Edwin Poots has advised MLAs to end the practice of "pre-scripted text" for social media clips and engage in "robust" debate. 📰 | @belfasttelegraph.co.uk

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The never-ending story 🔵🟡

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Urge everyone who comes across this thread to read it. 👏 @clairemullaly.bsky.social

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Here is the article referred to. Police are still dealing with disorder from 10 mths ago. From Monday they'll start releasing pics of people involved in B'mena riots - how long will it take before they see the inside of a courtroom? Backlog builds and the racists will go again.

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"The men in the shadows" - this is the nub of it in five words. Racists are always there. They read the room to see what they can get away with. Frustrations over socio economic issues and demonstrably awful attacks are channeled towards a scapegoat and we get this cocktail of hate.

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What N. Ireland is experiencing right now is a form of state media censorhip to cover up the overwhelming level of paramilitary involvement in the far-right, white supremacist riots that have swept the North. While cameras and narratives focus on the 'youths' - the men in the shadows .. [1/n]

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Politicians need to call racism racism. LEAD They’re all well able to say when something is sectarian. Talking about real or imagined sectarianism keeps most of them elected. They need to find the courage of Anna Lo when she was basically a lone voice calling out racism even when it was v dangerous

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🔥 NI race riots - leadership needed to both end the violence and address the issues that have allowed it to fester.

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🎧 | "This had all the hallmarks of a pogrom." 🎙️ | Discussing the context of last night's violence in Ballymena. 📰 | @belfasttelegraph.co.uk

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⚖️ | Piece from last Thursday's Nama trial hearing. Cross examination of Mr Bryson will get underway this morning at Laganside Crown Court. 📰 | @belfasttelegraph.co.uk

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🎁 | Grand National tickets, woolly blankets and a 39p brick... Fascinating insight into the gifts and hospitality that get offered to NI Executive ministers - both accepted and declined. 📰 | @belfasttelegraph.co.uk

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🔴 | Police have charged two teenage boys with the attempted rape of a girl in Ballymena on Saturday The pair will appear in court tomorrow morning. 📰 | @belfasttelegraph.co.uk

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🔴 | Four people have been arrested after windows were smashed and petrol poured through the letterbox of a flat in Lisburn on Sunday evening 📰 | @belfasttelegraph.co.uk

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🔴 | "We can’t live like this" - two cars have been damaged in what police suspect is a racially motivated crime in Rathcoole. Police are investigating whether a spate of similar incidents in the area are linked. 📰 | @belfasttelegraph.co.uk

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🏦 "It was deeply wrong, and absolutely unacceptable." ⛔️First Minister @moneillfm.bsky.social has hit out after representatives from Mothers Against Genocide were denied entry to Stormont. 📰 @belfasttelegraph.co.uk

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🏦 The UUP representative makes up part of an all-female top table with the Alliance Party's Julie Gilmour. A number of other councils have also appointed their First Citizens this evening - details here: 📰 @belfasttelegraph.co.uk

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🏥 "I made a promise to my sister and I intend to keep that promise." Two years after a court ordered a review into his nephew's care, Paul Herbert is still waiting for its completion. Gareth Waterworth (38) suffered a brain injury in 2007. 📰 @belfasttelegraph.co.uk

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✍️ "Families unable to secure an appropriate care package for an elderly relative will raise an eyebrow at the pay packets being taken home by health bosses." Cardiac unit report raises major questions for confidence in the health service. 📰 @belfasttelegraph.co.uk

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⚖️ Prosecution in the so-called 'Nama trial' is expected to complete its evidence today (Wed) at Laganside Crown Court. 📰 @belfasttelegraph.co.uk

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🏥 The consultants are all expected to be in post by the end of the year. 👩‍⚕️ The @bma-ni.bsky.social has welcomed the move and called on the Dept to ensure the staff are distributed equally across NI. 📰 @belfasttelegraph.co.uk

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🔴| A number of people from NI have been caught up in the horrific incident 🔸 27 people (4 children) taken to hospital 🔸 Two people (1 child) suffer serious injuries 🔸 Not being treated as terror-related 🔸 53-year-old man in custody 📰 @belfasttelegraph.co.uk

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Great investigation by @ismiseliam.bsky.social on the disgraceful justice response to the far-right riots in August 2024. The statistics speak for themselves: 'A total of 43 files were received by the PPS from the PSNI in relation to the riots, with 27 resulting in a decision to prosecute.. [1/n]

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🏦 Independent MLA Claire Sugden brought the amendment following a conversation with a primary school pupil. 📰 @belfasttelegraph.co.uk

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"On the plus side, with the revamped rules making Gaelic football immeasurably more enjoyable, the minister is in for a much more entertaining afternoon than he may have faced this time last year." 📰 @belfasttelegraph.co.uk

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⚖️ | "If the morning was dry and shrouded in legalese, the calling of the first witnesses in the afternoon drew back the curtain slightly on the inner workings of the Stormont machine." 👨‍⚖️ | So-called 'Nama trial' gets underway in Belfast. 📰 | @belfasttelegraph.co.uk

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🔴 | Long-awaited 'Nama trial' is adjourned again as counsel to prepare legal arguments relating to Mr McKay's charge sheet. 📰 | @belfasttelegraph.co.uk

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😬 Six years since The Bad Thing. An insane night at Elland Road. Was a bit less concise back then 😂 #LUFC

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⚖️ The court heard how Sean O'Reilly survived the attempt on his life after one of gunmen's weapon failed to fire. A 50-year-old man has been charged in connection with the incident and the murder of Danny McClean in 2021. 📰 @belfasttelegraph.co.uk

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📝 It follows a petition from Chloe's family last year calling for the flat to be demolished. NIHE has approved the demolition and a business case is now with the Department for Communities. 📰 @belfasttelegraph.co.uk

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Almost two dozen NI couples have been left without “heartfelt memories” after paying thousands to a wedding videographer who has failed to deliver any footage. Read the full story from @ismiseliam.bsky.social here ➡️ tinyurl.com/33hm8att

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💒 "Three people at my wedding have actually passed away so we would love to look back at those memories." Around 20 couples have been left without their wedding videos after a Co Derry videographer failed to provide the footage. 📰 @belfasttelegraph.co.uk 1/2

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📉 Documents show the company owes £400,000 to HMRC while a five-figure sum is due to a law firm. 📰 @belfasttelegraph.co.uk

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📉 A month on from the announcement the company was to close, liquidators have now been appointed for the FBA Brand Builder. 📰 @belfasttelegraph.co.uk

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New report by Rabble Co-op for @caj.ni which tracks the far-right online and their role in racist incidents & anti-immigration rallies. A key recommendation is that existing criminal offences are used: ‘intimidation’, ‘stirring up hatred’ and ‘arousing fear’. [1/3] caj.org.uk/wp-content/u...

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🔴 | Dozens of performers have condemned what they said was an "interference campaign" targeting Belfast rappers Kneecap. "As artists, we feel the need to register our opposition to any political repression of artistic freedom." 📰 @belfasttelegraph.co.uk

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