Owen Polley (@3000versts) 's Twitter Profile
Owen Polley

@3000versts

Writing about politics, the Union and Northern Ireland. Find many of my latest articles here: muckrack.com/owen-polley/…

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'You do not have to accept all the details of painstaking historical research or the well-placed sources’ accounts of Adams’ life, to feel nauseated by the Dublin jury’s decision to award him damages. 'At the very least, he explained the IRA’s perspective to the world for

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'At the very least, he explained the IRA’s perspective to the world for decades, justifying its violence and laundering its reputation, with the blackest, most ruthless cynicism.' capx.co/gerry-adams-do… via CapX

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The idea that the GAA has a right to government funding for a massive stadium in west Belfast takes nationalist grievance mongering to a new level. Belfast News Letter app.newsletter.co.uk/story/5166286/…

Kate Hoey (@catharinehoey) 's Twitter Profile Photo

They have a right to what was originally allocated to them at the same time as Football and Rugby. Any new extra funding must also go to Football and Rugby! Not Governments fault GAA didn’t develop Casement at the time

Jeffrey Dudgeon MBE (@jeffdudgeon) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Tomorrow will tell on Casement Park. Actually it only takes one resident in Belfast to force a street vote on Irish language signs which is won even if a majority opposes! Only 15% need be in favour as Owen Polley points out. How did the Alliance Party agree to such divisiveness?

KJH (@kjh19322252) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Cillian McGrattan on the process of reconciliation through unification: “It is accepted by all nationalists that reconciliation is inevitable – it is merely a matter of timing as to when unionists reconcile themselves to ending partition.” newsletter.co.uk/news/opinion/c…

Jonny (@gawanorniron) 's Twitter Profile Photo

“Ballymena has similarities to many places across the rest of the UK that have experienced unrest caused by migration…the violence was something of a cry of despair from a community that has been changed radically by immigration and feels like its opinions have been ignored…”

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The violence in Ballymena is disgraceful, but it's also something of a 'cry of despair from a community that has been changed radically by immigration and feels like its opinions have been ignored.' spectator.co.uk/article/what-c…

David Thompson (@newsletter_pols) 's Twitter Profile Photo

A major investigation is underway into an organised crime gang suspected of trafficking Roma people into NI – with evidence uncovered of potential fraud relating to post-Brexit immigration rules People close to the community say they are being exploited newsletter.co.uk/news/politics/…

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Over half the population of the Clonavon area of Ballymena - which saw racist violence over the past week - arrived here in a decade. Census data also shows employment is much higher and economic inactivity much lower than in Northern Ireland generally. newsletter.co.uk/news/politics/…

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'Starmer’s hypocrisy is.. illustrated by.. continuing with Wes Streeting’s Tobacco and Vapes Bill, which will not apply in Northern Ireland because.. it is the EU’s Tobacco Products Directive that applies in Northern Ireland (as it does in the Republic).'