@murchadhfinn.bsky.social
“This is the unique force of what might be called ‘polite dissent’, the ability to embarrass an institution not through confrontation, but through withdrawal.”
~editorial
Irish Examiner
(* ‘polite dissent’ is not always the most operative route)
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~editorial
Irish Examiner
(* ‘polite dissent’ is not always the most operative route)
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November 28, 2025 at 4:51 PM
“This is the unique force of what might be called ‘polite dissent’, the ability to embarrass an institution not through confrontation, but through withdrawal.”
~editorial
Irish Examiner
(* ‘polite dissent’ is not always the most operative route)
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~editorial
Irish Examiner
(* ‘polite dissent’ is not always the most operative route)
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“It makes no sense to have two separate health services on an island of this size.”
~Pat Cullen @patcullen9
The Irish News
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~Pat Cullen @patcullen9
The Irish News
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November 27, 2025 at 7:45 AM
“It makes no sense to have two separate health services on an island of this size.”
~Pat Cullen @patcullen9
The Irish News
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~Pat Cullen @patcullen9
The Irish News
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“For northern nationalists, particularly those close to the border, the London Agreement was the ultimate betrayal meted out to them by the Free State government.”
~Cormac Moore
The Irish News
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~Cormac Moore
The Irish News
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November 26, 2025 at 6:39 AM
“For northern nationalists, particularly those close to the border, the London Agreement was the ultimate betrayal meted out to them by the Free State government.”
~Cormac Moore
The Irish News
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~Cormac Moore
The Irish News
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“By the beginning of November 2025, Unifil recorded almost 7,100 Israeli air violations of UN resolution 1701, which the ceasefire agreement was based on.”
~Sally Hayden
The Irish Times
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~Sally Hayden
The Irish Times
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November 24, 2025 at 7:42 AM
“By the beginning of November 2025, Unifil recorded almost 7,100 Israeli air violations of UN resolution 1701, which the ceasefire agreement was based on.”
~Sally Hayden
The Irish Times
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~Sally Hayden
The Irish Times
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“Into this tropical archipelago of geopolitical ego arrives Donald Trump bearing a “peace plan” that appears to have been constructed by holding a map of the Middle East upside down while blindfolded.”
~Colin Sheridan
Irish Examiner
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~Colin Sheridan
Irish Examiner
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November 22, 2025 at 9:35 AM
“Into this tropical archipelago of geopolitical ego arrives Donald Trump bearing a “peace plan” that appears to have been constructed by holding a map of the Middle East upside down while blindfolded.”
~Colin Sheridan
Irish Examiner
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~Colin Sheridan
Irish Examiner
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A story of two slices of toast and a moulded loaf.
The Irish News
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The Irish News
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November 19, 2025 at 7:27 AM
A story of two slices of toast and a moulded loaf.
The Irish News
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The Irish News
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“Only those blinded by ignorance, naivete or a lack of genuine experience of northern affairs would maintain that propping up a unionist veto or setting wildly unrealistic demands as a condition for Irish unity are appropriate at this time.”
~Chris Donnelly
The Irish News
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~Chris Donnelly
The Irish News
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November 17, 2025 at 6:22 AM
“Only those blinded by ignorance, naivete or a lack of genuine experience of northern affairs would maintain that propping up a unionist veto or setting wildly unrealistic demands as a condition for Irish unity are appropriate at this time.”
~Chris Donnelly
The Irish News
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~Chris Donnelly
The Irish News
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“There is zero respect for Irishness from the DUP. They don't respect our citizenry, our traditions, our culture or our heads of state.”
~Andrée Murphy
Andersonstown News
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~Andrée Murphy
Andersonstown News
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November 15, 2025 at 7:47 AM
“There is zero respect for Irishness from the DUP. They don't respect our citizenry, our traditions, our culture or our heads of state.”
~Andrée Murphy
Andersonstown News
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~Andrée Murphy
Andersonstown News
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“…democracy requires standards that guard against hidden influence and the public has a right to know who is shaping the information they receive”
~Eilen Culloty
The Irish Times
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~Eilen Culloty
The Irish Times
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November 14, 2025 at 7:50 AM
“…democracy requires standards that guard against hidden influence and the public has a right to know who is shaping the information they receive”
~Eilen Culloty
The Irish Times
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~Eilen Culloty
The Irish Times
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“Human rights have to be permanent and can’t be removed at the whim of a state.”
~Brian Feeney
The Irish News
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~Brian Feeney
The Irish News
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November 12, 2025 at 6:33 AM
“Human rights have to be permanent and can’t be removed at the whim of a state.”
~Brian Feeney
The Irish News
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~Brian Feeney
The Irish News
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“One of the measures of Connolly’s success will be the number of times she too becomes a thorn in the side of ministers who put their own interests before the people’s.”
~Tom Collins
The Irish News
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~Tom Collins
The Irish News
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November 11, 2025 at 6:39 AM
“One of the measures of Connolly’s success will be the number of times she too becomes a thorn in the side of ministers who put their own interests before the people’s.”
~Tom Collins
The Irish News
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~Tom Collins
The Irish News
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“The Israel Defense Forces and the nation’s football teams operate in lockstep as instruments of nationalism.”
~Colin Sheridan
Irish Examiner
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~Colin Sheridan
Irish Examiner
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November 10, 2025 at 7:48 AM
“The Israel Defense Forces and the nation’s football teams operate in lockstep as instruments of nationalism.”
~Colin Sheridan
Irish Examiner
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~Colin Sheridan
Irish Examiner
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“The scandal at the heart of this controversy is not a political one. It is a media scandal.”
~Justine McCarthy
The Irish Times
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~Justine McCarthy
The Irish Times
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November 7, 2025 at 6:38 AM
“The scandal at the heart of this controversy is not a political one. It is a media scandal.”
~Justine McCarthy
The Irish Times
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~Justine McCarthy
The Irish Times
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“…the ceasefire is going wonderfully — if you happen to support the psychopathic killing machine that the EU-backed, US-funded Israeli military has inevitably become.”
~Colin Sheridan
Irish Examiner
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~Colin Sheridan
Irish Examiner
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November 5, 2025 at 3:29 PM
“…the ceasefire is going wonderfully — if you happen to support the psychopathic killing machine that the EU-backed, US-funded Israeli military has inevitably become.”
~Colin Sheridan
Irish Examiner
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~Colin Sheridan
Irish Examiner
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“It shows how really desperate Israel is to garner any semblance of support or approval from any source, no matter how inconsequential”
~Brian Feeney
The Irish News
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~Brian Feeney
The Irish News
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November 5, 2025 at 6:40 AM
“It shows how really desperate Israel is to garner any semblance of support or approval from any source, no matter how inconsequential”
~Brian Feeney
The Irish News
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~Brian Feeney
The Irish News
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“However, my major concern is that the reason we haven’t heard enough about Sudan is because of who is funding the slaughter.”
~Aoife Moore
The Irish News
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~Aoife Moore
The Irish News
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November 4, 2025 at 6:45 AM
“However, my major concern is that the reason we haven’t heard enough about Sudan is because of who is funding the slaughter.”
~Aoife Moore
The Irish News
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~Aoife Moore
The Irish News
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“The Parachute Regiment is not a proud regiment in Ireland, or anywhere else.”
~Andrée Murphy
Andersonstown News
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~Andrée Murphy
Andersonstown News
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November 3, 2025 at 6:26 AM
“The Parachute Regiment is not a proud regiment in Ireland, or anywhere else.”
~Andrée Murphy
Andersonstown News
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~Andrée Murphy
Andersonstown News
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“We are a rich country masquerading as a poor one, run by people terrified of annoying people even richer.”
~Colin Sheridan @colinivan
Irish Examiner
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~Colin Sheridan @colinivan
Irish Examiner
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November 1, 2025 at 7:08 AM
“We are a rich country masquerading as a poor one, run by people terrified of annoying people even richer.”
~Colin Sheridan @colinivan
Irish Examiner
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~Colin Sheridan @colinivan
Irish Examiner
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“States that mobilise arms and money must be judged for the outcomes, however plausible their public relations may be.”
~Colin Sheridan
Irish Examiner
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~Colin Sheridan
Irish Examiner
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October 31, 2025 at 5:54 AM
“States that mobilise arms and money must be judged for the outcomes, however plausible their public relations may be.”
~Colin Sheridan
Irish Examiner
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~Colin Sheridan
Irish Examiner
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“Starmer has demonstrated that he is nothing more than the latest in a line of discredited Tory prime ministers.”
~Tom Collins
The Irish News
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~Tom Collins
The Irish News
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October 28, 2025 at 5:40 AM
“Starmer has demonstrated that he is nothing more than the latest in a line of discredited Tory prime ministers.”
~Tom Collins
The Irish News
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~Tom Collins
The Irish News
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“Our right to full Irish citizenship is not a hot water bottle to comfort us. It is our birthright.”
~Andrée Murphy
Andersonstown News
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~Andrée Murphy
Andersonstown News
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October 26, 2025 at 7:36 AM
“Our right to full Irish citizenship is not a hot water bottle to comfort us. It is our birthright.”
~Andrée Murphy
Andersonstown News
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~Andrée Murphy
Andersonstown News
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As usual UN determination on Gaza set to be ignored.
The National
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The National
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October 23, 2025 at 6:40 AM
As usual UN determination on Gaza set to be ignored.
The National
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The National
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“This is the new moral arithmetic: Better not to ask questions if the answers affect the tax take.”
~Colin Sheridan
Irish Examiner
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~Colin Sheridan
Irish Examiner
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October 22, 2025 at 6:40 AM
“This is the new moral arithmetic: Better not to ask questions if the answers affect the tax take.”
~Colin Sheridan
Irish Examiner
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~Colin Sheridan
Irish Examiner
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“Although the British state has a long history of questionable policies towards genocide, its role in Gaza stands out”
~Prof Martin Shaw
The National
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~Prof Martin Shaw
The National
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October 21, 2025 at 4:50 PM
“Although the British state has a long history of questionable policies towards genocide, its role in Gaza stands out”
~Prof Martin Shaw
The National
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~Prof Martin Shaw
The National
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“The governing parties need to reflect long and hard on why they have been unable to ever look like winning this election”
~Fintan O’Toole
The Irish Times
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~Fintan O’Toole
The Irish Times
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October 21, 2025 at 6:51 AM
“The governing parties need to reflect long and hard on why they have been unable to ever look like winning this election”
~Fintan O’Toole
The Irish Times
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~Fintan O’Toole
The Irish Times
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