@OfficialIrishFA this is the worst ever kit I have seen. You expect us to pay £55 for this? #listentothemasses
— Phil Martin (@philm_88) November 9, 2015
FIGHT!
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Tag Archives: Northern Ireland
Desafío
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Collywobble writes:
Spotted this in a Drogheda “antique” shop. A “Was it for this” and 2 defiant tricolours all rolled into one!
Fleg On Tour
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This morning.
Helsinki, Finland
Liam writes;
Northern Ireland fleg still defiant in Helsinki, a week after Norn Iron played Finland in soccer.
Trip Up
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Splutter!
Miq writes:
The six counties are now seven according to Massive Attack
*wipes teardrop*
Jeffrey Dudgeon
Bébhinn Thornton Cronin writes:
I’m producing a talk tomorrow at the Project with Una Mullally, Ivana Bacik and Colm O’Gorman from Amnesty International about sexuality and equality in Northern Ireland and the republic.
We’ve got a special guest from Norn Ireland – Jeffrey Dudgeon who is basically the Northern irish equivalent of David Norris– and led the way to decriminalising homosexuality in the 80s. He’s also a unionist!
Book here.
Mark Moloney tweetz:
According to Shanghai Daily, in the North “only the Protestant majority plays rugby”!?
Bobby Sands
In the BBC documentary [Peter] Taylor is filmed sitting on a bed inside a preserved part of the Maze complex.
He says: “I’m now sitting on the actual bed where the hunger-striker Bobby Sands died in May 1981, which I|remember covering.”
Shaking his head, he adds: “I never thought that Bobby Sands would go through with it.It was no ordinary death and Sands was no ordinary prisoner, no ordinary man because he was an elected Member of Parliament.”
This evening on BBC 1 at 9pm, Peter Taylor on the 20th anniversary of the 1994 ceasefire, makes a personal assessment of who really ‘won the war’.
Anger Over Bobby Sands Deathbed Memorial (Belfast Telegraph)
Previously: ‘RA Fought The Law And The Law Won’
Alternative Northern Ireland flag submissions from ‘Barry’, Dave Regan, Hilary Reid, Mick McMenamie and Anon.
(Thanks Spaghetti Hoop)
Demonstration outside Marie Stopes Clinic, Belfast 2012
The High Court in London has ruled women from Northern Ireland are not legally entitled to free abortions on the NHS in England.
The case was brought by a 15-year-old girl (claimant A) and her mother who live in Northern Ireland.
After becoming pregnant, she travelled to England with her mother (claimant B) in October 2012.
The court was told her mother had struggled to part-raise funds to pay for her daughter to have a termination privately in England.
Unlike the rest of the UK, abortion is only allowed in very restricted circumstances in Northern Ireland.
More than 1,000 women each year travel from NI to have an abortion in other parts of the UK.
Those who do travel must pay for their transport, accommodation and the cost of the procedure.
Mr Justice King ruled that Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt’s duty to promote a comprehensive health service in England “is a duty in relation to the physical and mental health of the people of England”, and that duty did not extend “to persons who are ordinarily resident in Northern Ireland”.
In England, Wales and Scotland access to abortion is covered by the 1967 Abortion Act.
High Court in London says NI women not entitled to free NHS abortions in England (BBC News NI)
Previously: Choice Words
File pic: Laura Hutton/Photocall Ireland