2014 ~ Normal Northern Ireland

Dublin Orange Lodge (@dublin1313) - Peaceful 12th obviously very effective in annoying our opponents

Previously the Martin McGuinness handshake had deprived loyalist hostility of its substance. Violence is utterly self-defeating. As the News Letter said:"Loyalists have allowed Sinn Fein to depict themselves as the reasonable democrats" http://t.co/qTflF...

Alex Kane (@AlexKane221b) - The Mrs Lincoln argument

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Alex Kane wrote in the News Letter in June 2014:"At some point we’ll also hear someone deploy a variation of “the vast majority of [Orange Order/loyalist] parades pass off peacefully, it’s only a few that cause problems”. I call this the Mrs Lincoln argument, because it’s a bit like saying to the assassinated president’s wife, “but apart from that, how did you enjoy the play?"And:"People don’t remember, let alone notice, the parades...

Julian O'Neill - 'Image problem' may explain fall in NI visitor numbers

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An "image problem" may explain a fall in visitor numbers to Northern Ireland from across the border, according to a review of the tourism industry.Overnight visitors from the Republic of Ireland declined by 7% in 2013.A report for the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Investment (DETI) said "social unrest over parades and flags" had potentially had an impact.It also said the local tourism industry was worried about "continuing...

Matt Bagott tacitly slams unionist politicians for their licensing and indulgence of lawlessness

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Matt Bagott tacitly slams unionist politicians for their licensing and indulgence of lawlessness http://tmblr.co/ZTxVUt1K4JoTuAlso said: I think there are times when politicians need to be less risk averse and actually more equivocal that, irrespective of if we like it or not the law is the law.Matt Bagott - In terms of ordinary crime Nothern Ireland is probably the safest place I have ever workedMatt Bagott said to...

Newton Emerson - Sinn Fein oppose integrated education and mixed housing because it normalises Northern Ireland

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Newton Emerson wrote in the Irish News:"As with integrated education, Sinn Fein sees mixed housing as a plot to "normalise" Northern Ireland and therefor partitio...

John Tongue - Racist attacks damage loyalism

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Jonathan Tongue, author of ‘The Democratic Unionist Party: From Protest to Power’ said:“They [loyalists] don’t see how much damage these attacks are doing to their own image, their own communities even if, to be completely fair, loyalist leaders on the ground see this… There is a bit of a Millwall mentality within working-class loyalist communities – the perception that ‘no one likes us, we don’t care’.”And then:“These people...

Kyle Paisley criticism of Peter Robinson

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Loyalist paramilitaries and racist attacks

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Gerard Stewart, writing for the Institute for Race Relations said:"There is a high correlation between racist attacks and areas which are a traditional heartland for affiliation to prominent Loyalist paramilitary groups."www.irr.org...

Newton Emerson - The Sinn Fein game is to let Unionism drive itself mad then pick up the pieces

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"In Northern Ireland... letting unionism drive itself mad then picking up the pieces has been the only game Gerry Adams has ever played."Newton Emerson, The Irish News, May 29 2014.&nb...

#Pastorgate

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https://twitter.com/saminolife/status/471770406870065...

Alex Kane - The DUP doesn't speak for Unionism

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https://twitter.com/alexkane221b/status/471571112464498688https://twitter.com/alexkane221b/status/470836402692046...

Newton Emerson - Large number of unionist parties increases unionism's overall share

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In the Sunday Times of May 25 2014, Newton Emerson wrote of unionism:"Unionism's overall share of the vote increased from 46.1% to 49.5%, boosted by the large number of unionist parties an their advice to transfer to all other unionists on the ballot."Of nationalism:"Nationalism lost out as a result, with Sinn Fein down to 24.1% of the first-preference...

Survey of Fermanagh Orangemen

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A first professional survey of Orangemen in Fermanagh found the following:- Almost 50% of respondents believe the rule barring Orangemen from attending Mass should be changed. Just 25% believe it should stay.(The Mass finding may be influenced by the overwhelmingly Church of Ireland make-up of Fermanagh Orangemen, with 77 per cent coming from an Anglican background.)- 43% believe shared education should be encouraged, with...

Alex Kane on what's wrong with Unionism

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Intimidation

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PSNI surrender to loyalists

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https://twitter.com/newtonemerson/status/467937568026550...

Doug Beattie - This is not how the Union Fag should be left

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https://twitter.com/beattiedoug/status/468413470141321216https://twitter.com/beattiedoug/status/468428026532098...

William Scholes: 'Orange Order betrayed by Belfast hooligans'

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Newton Emerson wrote in the Irish News of January 2 2014:"The Haass talks failed because the DUP would not sign up to a legally binding code of conduct for parades."He continued:"In August 2014 Sinn Fein's IRA parade in Castlederg aped the worst aspects of the loyal orders to deliberately challenge unionism with the moral (or immoral) equivalence....

Alex Kane - Damaging the cause they claim to promote

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Flag protesters are making a key error: they are now damaging the cause and brand they seek to promote. Get off the streets and into talks. — Alex.Kane (@AlexKane221b) December 21, 20...

Eamon Holmes on leadership

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UVF orchestrating racist attacks

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https://twitter.com/bbcmarksimpson/status/451734921716170...

Irish schools discriminate against 'new Irish'

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The NUIG Whitaker Institute study, which focused on Galway as the most culturally diverse area in the State, says this will result in a significant “under-representation” of children of migrants in third-level institutions.The research found non-migrant children were twice as likely to sit higher level Leaving Certificate mathematics than Irish-born children of foreign-born parents.Non-migrant children are also 2.25 times more...

Irish republican Stephen Murney on the PSNI

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He said in an interview with the Ancient Order of Hibernians here: "Despite the claims to the contrary by members of both constitutional nationalist parties in the Six Counties and by the establishment parties in the Free State, very little substantial change has occurred in respect of policing in the North. The name of the police force may have changed, but let’s not forget that the PSNI is a fully armed force with access...

Ulster unionism weakens the Union

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Former Sammy Wilson SpAd, Graham Craig said:“I believe in the Union, I believe in a broader civic unionism and I believe that unionism needs to be more outward looking and be part of the wider UK conversation. An inward looking unionism is a great danger to the Union.”http://m.newsletter.co.uk/news/regional/sammy-wilson-s-former-adviser-to-stand-as-ulster-unionist-candidate-1-5930...

Alex Kane - "UUP to the right of TUV"

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Finished cover to cover read of UUP document. Puts them well to the right of TUV. I've no idea what votes they're now chasing. — Alex.Kane (@AlexKane221b) March 12, 20...

The Northern Ireland moderate defined

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@brianjohnspencr @SadisticMark "moderate" in NI means "not pathologically obsessed with the supremacy of one's own tribe" — Andrew Gallagher (@andrewgdotcom) March 2, 20...

Irish ethnicism

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@Irish_Gaels @ianjamesparsley @brianjohnspencr That sounds dangerously close to an argument for cultural purity—which isn't republicanism. — Barton Creeth (@bartoncreeth) March 5, 20...

The non-voter - "Wealthy, slightly more likely to be Protestant and young-middle age"

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Who is a non voter in NI? They are typically wealthy, slightly more likely to be Protestant and young-middle age. — David McCann (@dmcbfs) March 2, 2014 @SeamyC @Donnchadhol Yep 2011 election showed 51% of wealthest voted wereas around 65% of working classes voted. NI goes against most norms — David McCann (@dmcbfs) March 2, 20...

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