Some Absolute Rocket Surgeon has suggested a ceasefire in Ukrane with a bullet list of Musk-Tier brain-takes; One stood out to me:

Create a government for the disputed territories based on the Northern Ireland Good Friday Agreement

My friend beneath the stars..... have you ever MET a northern Ireland government? If you have, could you call them and ask them to come back to Stormont? We havent seen them in years.

#iepol #norniron

Some Absolute Rocket Surgeon has suggested a ceasefire in Ukrane with a bullet list of Must-Tier brain-takes; One stood out to me:

Create a government for the disputed territories based on the Northern Ireland Good Friday Agreement

My friend beneath the stars..... have you ever MET a northern Ireland government? If you have, could you call them and ask them to come back to Stormont? We havent seen them in years.

#iepol #norniron

The stormont break bolts on another concession to extremism to an already entirely unhinged government built from concessions to extremism.

Its going to be fun! And by fun i mean not at all fun.

#iepol #ireland

Its been a while since i have done one of these but hooo hecc, the 'UK' PM's power play is tactically sound regarding the occupied province.

Who knows what was promised to the extremist wings at the table. Given DUP are all but on record as saying they will never sit with an SF first minister, i sense some bigger plan, or even bigger payout. At least a strategy.

There is now, i suppose a period of calm while the unionist hard-line and whatever faction of brit imperialists is meddling this month decide what their approach is going to be. Do they take the bribe? Its not like they have anything to loose, no one is voting out 'ussens' when the only alternative is 'themens'

Hevens knows how the lads on the street will react to this, i would suspect that July will be especially fraught this year.

#iepol #ireland

Observer today: A 2-day ‘private discussion’ with some of the UK’s most senior politicians, including Michael Gove, has been held to address the failings of Brexit under the title: “How can we make Brexit work better with our neighbours in Europe”. Just a quick recap, Michael: 🧵1/4 #MichaelGove #Brexit #Tories #EUpol #IEpol #UKpol
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/feb/11/revealed-secret-cross-party-summit-held-to-confront-failings-of-brexit

For years we've been told by FFG and Official Ireland that socialists and Sinn Féin are all bad populists who will say anything people want to hear.

Now that the far-right is growing in Ireland, it turns out these parties don't practice so much cynical populism after all.

Official Ireland offers far more sympathy to the racists, from news media to former government ministers.

Not surprising at all, but a useful reference point. #iepol

The thing about The Ditch is, whilst I’m generally wary of the motives behind a privately funded group interested in doing hit pieces on specific people, it’s incredibly to watch how Establishment Ireland is so unprepared for a group willing to take a complete scorched earth approach to “access”. Like they can’t handle the notion that The Ditch team don’t need or want the inside line. #politics #iepol #ireland

Mammy: "If Leo came over for Sunday dinner what would you feed him?"

Me: "Into a fucking woodchipper"

#iepol

Simon Harris has described the tenure of this government as "stability". That's the "everyone I know owns a house or two" version of "works for me"

#iepol

Fr. de Souza gives three reasons why a united Ireland is likely in the next decades, but he omits an important fourth reason: the English don't really care what happens to #NorthernIreland anymore.

#iepol #ukpol

"In the days after his accession, King Charles III addressed parliamentarians in England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. Despite that early show of commitment to the unity of his kingdom, it is not unimaginable that his reign will witness the dissolution of the United Kingdom. Will Scotland attempt to separate? Perhaps, but it is Northern Ireland that bears closer watching."

#RaymondJdeSouza

https://nationalpost.com/opinion/raymond-j-de-souza-king-charles-will-likely-be-the-last-british-monarch-to-rule-over-northern-ireland

#iepol #ukpol
#NationalPost

The new king meeting the leader of #SinnFein in #NorthernIreland and thanking her for her kind words about his mother... Well, that wasn't something I would have predicted.

https://twitter.com/newschambers/status/1569776818189656065

On social media, the Irish diaspora [0] does not seem very mournful, but real #Ireland has always been complex.

[0] I am partially Irish myself.

#ElizabethII
#iepol

Seán Burke on Twitter: "The UK donating vaccines to Ireland. https://t.co/Bdxh77wDaP" / Twitter
https://mobile.twitter.com/SeanBurkeShow/status/1376583811367112710

Via #MichaelBrendanDougherty

#covid19 #ukpol #iepol