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🪉🇮🇪 Garvaghy Road, Portadown, County Armagh, on the Sunday Night of 27th September 2026. Earlier that morning, residents & supporters had defied the Orange Order, the PSNI, the DUP, Loyalist Agitators and a High Court Judge. They said NO to an unwanted sectarian parade..., they said NO to second class citizenship... and they said NO going back... Not now and not ever... Garvaghy Road was a pivotal moment in the modern history of the North of Ireland. Everything changed. A new, better and United Ireland can be acheived for all of our people. Let's work together and make it happen... 🟢 NO GOING BACK... HENRY JOY. 🪉🇮🇪

THESE ARE THE DUP MLA'S WHO VOTED AGAINST HOLIDAY HUNGER PAYMENTS FOR THOUSANDS OF CHILDREN IN UNIONIST/LOYALIST AREAS: These are the 24 DUP MLA's who voted against this week's Holiday Hunger Bill to provide Food Payments to families in poverty during School Holidays. Ironically, tens of thousands of children from families in Unionist/Loyalist areas would have missed out on these payments if the DUP had got their way. This is not a political Party who have the interest of working class Unionists at heart. @duponline @little_pengelly @JBuckleyMLA @PhillipBrett21 @DavidBrooksMLA @gordonlyons1 @deborah_cheryl @BrianKingston @MMcIlveenDUP @Joanne_Bunting @PamCameronDUP @petermartin @StephenDunneMLA @Buchanan_dup @trevorclarkeMLA @DianeDoddsMLA @DianeForsytheNI @paulfrewDUP @paulgivan

🪉🇮🇪 Inspirational speech last Saturday by Uachtarán Shinn Féin, Mary Lou McDonald at the Moore Street Campaign Rally in Dublin.🪉 @MooreSt_Trust @MaryLouMcDonald @sinnfeinireland #reclaimmoorestreet

DUP COUNCILLOR NAMED IN DEPT OF EDUCATION FUNDING CONTROVERSY. DUP Councillor Alan Mulholland has been named as a sponsor of a County Armagh Football Club to whom DUP Education Minister Paul Givan had attempted to award £30,000 of funding. @BelTel Pat Sheehan of Sinn Fein had previously urged an investigation into cronyism, after Paul Givan had attempted to award the funding to Richhill FC in County Armagh. The funding was allegedly towards a new synthetic pitch, even though the Club was inelligible for funding under the designated criteria in The Department's Curriculum-Led Capital Investment Programme. Paul Givan and his Department subsequently came under intense scrutiny from the Education Committee, and in particular from Pat Sheehan, the Sinn Fein Deputy Chair of the Committee. They have now announced that no funding will be allocated to the Club. The Department of Education have refused to comment on whether Paul Givan was aware of the connection to the Club of his DUP colleague Alan Mulholland. This is just the latest controversy to engulf Paul Givan during his tenure as Education Minister. Earlier this week, the DUP employed a veto against a proposed Workforce Plan for Irish Medium Education. Paul Givan also led Unionist opposition to Sinn Fein's Holiday Hunger Bill, however the Bill passed in the Assembly on Tuesday night, at it's final stage. @paulgivan @duponline @PatSheehanMLA @sinnfeinireland @NickDMathison @CathyMasonSF @Education_NI @BBCgmu @BBCTalkback

BREAKING: FORMER UUP LEADER DOUG BEATTIE CRITICISES JON BURROWS FOR HELPING TO VETO THE IRISH LANGUAGE BILL. Doug Beattie, the former Leader of the Ulster Unionist Party has this morning criticised it's current Leader, Jon Burrows for siding with the DUP to veto the Irish Medium Education (Workforce Plan) Bill. Doug Beattie said in a Social Media post - "I could understand if there was an attempt to amend the bill. But there wasn't". He further stated "The UUP simply rolled in behind the DUP again" "Opportunity to attract people to Unionism lost". Doug Beattie had lost a battle as UUP leader to try and take the Party into a more socially liberal direction. Jon Burrows has since gone in the opposite direction, taking the Party to the right, where it is now almost indistinguishable from the other Unionist Parties. @BeattieDoug @JonBurrowsMLA @uup

SINN FEIN ARE NOW DELIVERING MORE FOR WORKING CLASS UNIONISTS THAN ANYBODY WITHIN THE DUP AND POLITICAL UNIONISM. THE NEW REALITY IN 2026... Unionism is again in turmoil this morning as it deals with the fallout from the passing of Sinn Fein's Holiday Hunger Bill last night in the Stormont Assembly. The Bill, championed by Sinn Fein MLA Danny Baker, passed overwhelmingly, with cross- Party support from Alliance, Gerry Carroll of PBP & the SDLP. All three Unionist Party's opposed it. DFM Emma Little-Pengelly and other Unionists have since been lashing out on Social Media, as they face growing criticism from within their own community, for opposing a Bill which will establish a legal requirement to allow thousands of families in poverty to receive financial payments to help feed their children during Summer School Breaks. These include tens of thousands of children within Unionist & Loyalist communities. The DUP could not get enough support last night to veto the Bill. The Bill also marked another glaring miscalulation by UUP Leader Jon Burrows who had an opportunity to create space for his Party, but he once again succumbed to the temptation to oppose anything from Sinn Fein rather than to promote a liberal Unionist alternative. However, Independent Unionist Claire Sugden from East Derry, did support Danny Baker's Bill. This is a huge personal triumph for Danny Baker who has been doing the groundwork for the past four years on his Private Members Bill. It also gives a glaring insight into a new reality within a rapidly changing political orbit here in the North of Ireland. Sinn Fein are currently delivering more practical help to working class Unionists and Loyalists, than anybody within political Unionism. Unionism is now so obsessed with in-fighting that it has completely lost its way. All three Unionist Parties are promoting the same right wing populist agenda which delivers absolutely nothing for the working class Unionist communities that they claim to represent. Welcome to our new reality... HENRY JOY. 🪉🇮🇪 @danielbakersf @sinnfeinireland @duponline @TUVonline @little_pengelly @uuponline @JonBurrowsMLA @williamcrawley @BBCgmu @MarkCarruthers7 @niassembly @allinceparty @gordonlyons1 @GRobinsonDUP "@GerryCarrollPBP @BBCTalkback @ViewFrmStormont @StormontSources

BREAKING NEWS TONIGHT: (FROM STORMONT). 9.00pm. ** THE SINN FEIN BILL TO PROVIDE HOLIDAY HUNGER PAYMENTS FOR SCHOOLCHILDREN, HAS BEEN PASSED TONIGHT IN THE STORMONT ASSEMBLY, DESPITE THE OPPOSITION FROM ALL THREE UNIONIST PARTIES. ** A bill by West Belfast Sinn Fein MLA Danny Baker, to establish permanent summer food payments for 90,000 schoolchildren across the North of Ireland who are on Free School Meals, has been passed tonight in the Stormont Assembly, (at it's Final Stage). All three Unionist Parties opposed the bill, but tonight the Bill was carried by 49 votes in favour to 24 votes against. Alliance, SDLP & Gerry Carroll from PBP, all supported the Sinn Fein motion. Independent Unionist Claire Sugden also supported Danny Baker's motion. Danny Baker has been personally working on preparing his Holiday Hunger Bill for the past 4 years. His personal commitment to the bill was praised by many MLA's from across different Parties within the Assembly tonight. The Sinn Fein Bill will ensure that children in poverty here from all backgrounds, including Nationalist & Unionist, will receive financial payments for food during the summer months. A succession of Unionist MLA's including the DUP Education Minister Paul Givan and the UUP Leader Jon Burrows, spoke against the legislation. @danielbakersf @sinnfeinireland @sdlp @GerryCarrollPBP @allianceparty @dup @uuponline @TUVonline @niassembly @ClaireSugden @PatSheehanMLA @CathyMasonSF

STAND UP TO UNIONIST SECTARIANISM! - REGISTER TO VOTE AND HELP TO BUILD A NEW & BETTER IRELAND... 🪉🇮🇪 (PLEASE SHARE THIS POST). Next May's Stormont & Council Elections will be the most important here in years. There is a wind of change in the North of Ireland and we can deliver a message that there is no going back to the past. Please register to vote and also (importantly) register any of your younger relatives who have now reached voting age. 🟢 NO GOING BACK 🟢 NO SECOND CLASS CITIZENS 🟢 BUILD A NEW IRELAND @sinnfeinireland @GerryCarrollPBP @think__32 @IrelandsFuture

Picture from today's Irish News: (Tuesday) @irishnews @MalMccann Sinn Fein MLA Danny Baker is joined by other MLA's and anti-poverty campaigners on the steps of Stormont yesterday to support his holiday-hunger bill which would feed 90,000 children during the Summer Months. It is now anticipated that the DUP may also try to veto this bill. @danielbakersf @sinnfeinireland

These are some of the school children of Gaelscoil Éanna who have today become 'legitimate targets' of The DUP, The UUP and the TUV. Wonderful Irish Medium pupils who are tonight at the forefront of a disgusting and co-ordinated sectarian attack by @JonBurrowsMLA @little_pengelly @timothygaston and all of their respective Party's at Stormont. Tonight is a new low for Unionism on this island. Shame on everyone single last one of them... @duponline @TUVonline @uuponline @GRobinsonDUP @JimAllister @JonBurrowsMLA @DianeForsytheNI @paulgivan @little_pengelly @gordonlyons1 @RobbieButlerMLA @JBuckleyMLA Photo credit @ATownNews

DUP TO USE VETO AT STORMONT TO BLOCK HELP FOR 7,000 IRISH LANGUAGE SCHOOLCHILDREN. In one of the most blatantly sectarian actions seen at Stormont for many years, the DUP have announced that tomorrow they will use a Stormont 'Petition of Concern' to block a bill designed to address staff & teaching shortages along with funding structures affecting thousands of children in Irish Medium Schools. Over 7,000 pupils attending Gaelscoileanna will be affected. This is already causing huge outrage today due to the blatantly sectarian and anti-Irish nature of the DUP actions. Condemnation has already been widespread. The DUP can only force this blockage through with the full support of Jon Burrows and the UUP but they appear confident that the UUP will comply. This would result in a unified Unionist political action of blatant sectarianism towards thousands of school children who choose Irish as their first language. Sinn Fein's Pat Sheehan who has proposed the bill has today accused the DUP of "blatant anti-Irish bigotry". @duponline @uuponline @JonBurrowsMLA @GRobinsonDUP @TUVonline @RobbieButlerMLA @Diana_uup @ClaireSugden @williamcrawley @rodneyedwards @BBCNewsNI @UTVNews @mikenesbittni @paulgivan @Ed_Authority

BIG EVENT TONIGHT IN DUBLIN - IRELAND'S FUTURE - UCD 7pm. "Preparing for a new and United Ireland". @mclaren_linzi @KarenSethuraman @nealerichmond

BOOK LAUNCH - PEADAR BROWNS, DUBLIN - NOVEMBER 21ST - 7pm to 9pm. New novel by John Crawley: "A Shadow of Liberty". johncrawley.ie. 🪉

Remember these words from Sorcha Eastwood when she is running around Lagan Valley at the next Election begging for Nationalist votes... 😡 @SorchaEastwood @allianceparty @LVAlliance

🪉 TODAY WE REMEMBER THE INNOCENT IRISH MEN, WOMEN & CHILDREN MURDERED BY THE BRITISH ARMY IN THE NORTH OF IRELAND. 🪉🇮🇪 Bloody Sunday Derry, Whiterock Massacre Belfast, Springhill Massacre, the multiple innocent victims of plastic bullets fired by British Crown Forces, including many children, and countless other victims. We remember 12 year old Majella O'Hare who was shot twice in the back and killed by a British Paratrooper as she walked to confession in County Armagh. A Judge in a Diplock Court later acquitted the soldier who killed her. None of those innocent victims ever obtained justice. The British Crown Forces who murdered them were never convicted for their crimes. Their history is our history... Their pain is our pain... "And in the dirt lay justice like an acorn in the winter". Seamus Heaney. 🪉🇮🇪

The same people who will be demanding "respect" at Cenotaphs here tomorrow, were happy enough to hurl sectarian abuse today as they passed a memorial to 5 innocent victims of Loyalist terrorists. They will not be remembering the Ormeau Road innocent victims at their Cenotaphs tomorrow, but we won't forget them. 🟢 BAN SECTARIAN MARCHES

THIS IS A TOTAL DISGRACE! AN ANGRY GERARD RICE FROM THE LOWER ORMEAU RESIDENTS RIGHTLY DEMANDS ANSWERS FROM THE PSNI ABOUT THE DISGRACEFUL BEHAVIOUR OF A LOYALIST BAND THIS MORNING.

BREAKING - @irish_news @RyanMcAleerbiz LOYALIST BANDSMEN HAVE THIS MORNING TAUNTED VICTIMS OF THE MASSACRE ON THE LOWER ORMEAU ROAD.

THE ALLIANCE PARTY - WHEN SILENCE STRIPS YOU OF YOUR MORAL CREDIBILITY. “The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people.” — Dr Martin Luther King Jr. One of the most striking revelations in yesterday's Lucid Talk Poll was the further decline of the @allianceparty . The Party have now dropped right down to 9%, putting it in real danger of considerable seat losses at next years Assembly Election. So, where did it all go wrong...? Well, politics is difficult. And it can certainly be very difficult in this part of the World. But for every Party, there comes a moment in time when sitting on the political fence just no longer cuts it. In terms of the relationship between the Alliance Party & the broader Nationalist community, that 'moment in time' was Garvaghy Road... There is little doubt that the rise of Alliance to a record vote share of 16.8% in the 2019 General Election coincided with a new and improved relationship with the Nationalist community. Long gone were the days of the openly "Soft Unionist" Alliance Party led by Sir Oliver Napier in the 1970's. A Party which only really attracted votes from the erstwhile "Castle Catholics" in the wealthy suburbs of North Down. The newly branded Alliance Party offered much hope. A vibrant and younger clientele with increased representation by those from a Catholic background. The increased transfers of votes from Nationalist voters to Alliance candidates and vice versa was self evident. Of course, it is certainly true that much of it was designed to keep out the DUP in certain areas, but nonetheless a new relationship was building. Political Nationalism is simply smarter than political Unionism. Nationalists & Republicans have realised for a long time that Unity cannot be acheived without securing the support of the sometimes mythical "middle ground". It is also true many Nationalists also share the socially liberal values that the Alliance Party hold. They have generally worked well with Sinn Fein in the Assembly. However, Garvaghy Road has already proven to be a seminal moment in the modern poltical history of this place. It's ramifications have already been enormous & its full aftershocks will still be felt here for a long, long time ahead. Alliance simply lost their voice over Drumcree. They displayed abject political cowardice at a time when an issue of basic civil & human rights was on the table. As recent polling has visibly demonstrated, the vast majority of people here (from right across the community) were totally opposed to an inflammatory sectarian march by the Orange Order through Garvaghy Road. The Alliance Party (who by their own manifesto) are opposed to "sectarianism & segregation" decided to hide from public view. Better to say nothing than to stand up for the values that you are supposed to represent. And,when they finally discovered their voice amid the political turmoil, their response was catastrophic. Their leader & Justice Minister Naomi Long had to delete a social media post in which she stated that she had "more hope" of the Orange Order "as Christians" "acting for the greater good", than those "engaging in unlawful protest". It was a truly shocking post. A total miscalculation of the overall public sentiment and mood. It was quickly followed by Alliance's Paula Bradshaw demanding that the Speaker add on an extra half hour to an upcoming Assembly debate so that she could interrogate the First Minister Michelle O'Neill. It's hard to know where Alliance go from here. They have always been non-commital about what they would do in the event of a Border Poll. But surely, if Garvaghy Road has taught them anything, then sitting on the fence and staying silent on issues of such importance, can no longer be a credible option...? HENRY JOY @allianceparty @naomi_long @EoinTennyson @paulabradshaw @moneillsf @niassembly