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More than 93% of unionist parades went ahead without any restrictions over the past decade. Of the 22,679 notified unionist parades that took place between April 2016 and March 2026, only 1,454 (6.4%) had any conditions imposed on them by the Parades Commission. By @lukejbutterly.bsky.social

More than 93% of unionist parades go ahead without restriction

There were 26 times as many unionist parades (2,507) than republican marches (96) in 2025/26

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Badge of Honour being banned by WhingeUK who want “free speech” for everyone except those they disagree with

Peter Geoghegan@petergeoghegan.bsky.social · last mo.

"Democracy for Sale will continue scrutinising money and influence in our politics, wherever we find it. "Reform can stop us going to their conference. But Farage and his friends can’t stop our journalism." New by me, on being banned by Reform democracyforsale.substack.com/p/ive-been-b...

Thanks to @iefni.bsky.social for hosting this event at @stmarysbelfast.bsky.social , @amanda.ie for chairing, and @mrulster.com for this excellent write-up. I was honoured to represent @pfie.bsky.social on the panel for what turned into a very thought-provoking discussion. Thanks again to all!

Allan LEONARD@mrulster.com · 2mo ago

‘Parental choice is an illusion’: the gap between integrated education demand and provision ‘Parental choice is an illusion’: the gap between integrated education demand and provisionby Allan LEONARD…...

Valuing health workers should be top priority for new Minister belfastmedia.com/valuing-heal...

Valuing health workers should be top priority for new Minister

VALUING and paying health and social care workers properly should be top of the priority list for new Stormont Health Minister Robbie Butler, a range of health spokespeople have said.

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A NEW wellbeing programme aimed at tackling the impact of loneliness and isolation on older peoples’ health launches in Belfast next month. belfastmedia.com/with-the-rig...

Breastival is back – encouraging support for breastfeeding belfastmedia.com/breastival-n...

Breastival is back – encouraging support for breastfeeding

BREASTIVAL is back and celebrating a decade of encouragement and support for breastfeeding.

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NEW: Claire Mitchell: People call us useful idiots, Sinn Féin puppets, self-hating Prods. We prefer ‘happy Lundys’ None of us think that Northern Ireland is working or can be made to work. 100+ years is a long enough experiment www.irishnews.com/opinion/clai...

And some wonder why I put together a quality, thoughtful women led, non Jeremy Kyle style, discussion for #feile26. Come join Claire Hanna, Claire Mitchell, Linzi McLaren and I on Thursday. More Claires than men, what?! All welcome.

I worked with the BBC Alba team to make this ‘Through Three Nations’ Eòrpa programme exploring the constitutional question in Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland. Check it out. www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

Eòrpa - Series 34: 4. Through Three Nations

For the first time, nationalist parties lead the governments of Scotland & Wales, while Northern Ireland has a nationalist First Minister. Join Michael MacNeil as he travels through the three nations.

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My latest byline in today’s Tele. Pressure mounts on DUP to appoint different body to carry out review into paedophile Jeffrey Donaldson www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/crime/p...

Pressure mounts on DUP to appoint different body to carry out review into paedophile Jeffrey Donaldson

Safeguarding expert echoes concerns of survivors’ group over INEQE ‘conflict of interest’

belfasttelegraph.co.uk

An honour to facilitate a NI Survivor Council ‘Nothing About Us Without Us’ event at Féile 26. NISC co-founders, Michelle Duffy, Amanda Brown, Haileigh Ashton Lamont and Nikella Holmes, presenting their latest research findings and insights on CSA, barriers to justice, reforms, support services.

Northern Ireland's Donaldson found guilty of child sex offences www.reuters.com/world/uk/jur...

Northern Ireland's Donaldson found guilty of child sex offences

The former leader of Northern Ireland's largest unionist party, Jeffrey Donaldson, was found guilty on Monday of historic child sex ​offences against two women when they were children in one ‌of the h...

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EXCL: Hearing from multiple sources tonight that the government is moving at pace to announce the long-promised ban on so-called conversion therapy in the coming days. The ban was first pledged by Theresa May but got caught up in complexities with regards to gender identity.

For an on-the-ground insight into the race riots in Northern Ireland I’ve been speaking with @amanda.ie - worth a listen:

The Bunker podcast – Your daily news Deep Dive@bunkerpod.bsky.social · 4mo ago

What really triggered the horrific race riots in Northern Ireland earlier this month? Belfast-based journalist @amanda.ie was on the ground as violence unfolded, she gives @gavinesler.bsky.social her eyewitness account. ➡️ linktr.ee/bunker_pod

What really triggered the horrific race riots in Northern Ireland earlier this month? Belfast-based journalist @amanda.ie was on the ground as violence unfolded, she gives @gavinesler.bsky.social her eyewitness account. ➡️ linktr.ee/bunker_pod

@amanda.ie discusses the increase of riots with a racial element in Northern Ireland, saying that concern over immigration policy is "no justification to burn people out of their homes". #RTETWIP repeats at 23:35 tonight on @rteone.rte.ie.

Speaking with Áine on #RTETWIP today, journalist @amanda.ie discussed the #Belfast riots, the involvement of paramilitaries, and the influence of "online characters". #RTETWIP repeats at 23:35 tonight on @rteone.rte.ie.

Tomorrow on #RTÉTwip, @aine-lawlor.bsky.social will be joined by Minister of State Seán Canney, Sinn Féin TD @matt-carthy.bsky.social, Social Democrats TD @sineadgibney.bsky.social, and journalist @amanda.ie. Tune in tomorrow at midday on @rteone.rte.ie! #Belfast #EUPresidency #Migration

NEW: I was covering Newry court earlier. The judge determined Eleanor Donaldson is unfit to be tried, on medical grounds. She will now to face a trial of the facts. Judge deciding tomorrow the process for this, and Jeffrey Donaldson’s trial. Proceedings on course for next week.

Join Roderic O’Gorman TD, Nina Briggs and Maureen Hamblin, for an honest conversation Green Party NI conference about facing down the far right. Chaired by me! www.greenpartyni.org/green_party_...

"The rights of one minority should not be curtailed in order to accommodate those of another in a united Ireland.” www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Irish language should not be 'bargaining chip' for united Ireland

A new report says Irish language speakers should be

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NEW: Divided Kingdom - pro independence parties surge across Britain www.reuters.com/world/uk/div...

A divided kingdom: pro-independence parties surge across Britain

Three of the United Kingdom's four nations are set for the first time to be governed by pro-independence parties after elections on Friday which nationalists said marked the death knell of the centuri...

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‘This is harming people’: GP urges politicians to make good on pledge over scandal of ‘conversion therapy’ Read: www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/this-is... Thanks to Dr Gareth Patterson, Eoin Tennyson, Mal O’Hara and Scott Cuthbertson for the chats.

‘This is harming people’: GP urges politicians to make good on pledge over scandal of conversion therapy

Doctor from Presbyterian background damning of church’s shortcomings when dealing with gay men

belfasttelegraph.co.uk

Fab couple of days working in Dublin. I was speaking at the Royal Irish Academy on a European Movement Ireland panel. www.europeanmovement.ie/press-releas...

Sorry for the absence. I got logged out and only logging back in!

North Belfast ones. And those who wish they were north Belfast ones. Go visit Matthew (and Keith) at the Parakeet coffee cart beside Iceland on the Antrim Road. Established coffee is the biz and that cinnamon bun was next level. Opening hours here: instagram.com/parakeet.coffee

Happy 16th journalism anniversary to me! Look at her. She’s only a child. At 7am on April 5, 2010 I arrived into the Tele newsroom on Royal Avenue/Little Donegall Street for my first day as a reporter.  You can read more here: www.linkedin.com/posts/amanda...

Having a creme egg and a cup of tea for breakfast. Not even sorry. Model’s ‘I am Kenough’ hooded top belongs to her boyfriend. Looking forward to fish from Longs at lunchtime and a hopefully news free long weekend. Happy Good Friday. Have a lovely Easter. #goodvibesonly

Fantastic evening mesmerised by the length of @lenniesaurus.bsky.social hair, & her noble, magnificent & unashamedly rhyming #poetry. Part of @imaginebelfast.bsky.social, Len was interviewed by @amanda.ie who was kind enough to let me ask a question. Enjoying the poyums very much indeed.