ANDRÉE MURPHY: Brexit aftershock still hitting community groups hard THE crisis facing community and voluntary organisations as we go into April is not a new story. Following Brexit (remember that?) many groups, organisations and citizens warned that this would happen....

Britain was never going to replace EU monies coming here with anything close to the long-term commitment of the EU. Britain doesn’t care a jot about kids in New Barnsley or Newbuildings.
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ANDRÉE MURPHY: Brexit aftershock still hitting community groups hard THE crisis facing community and voluntary organisations as we go into April is not a new story. Following Brexit (remember that?) many groups, organisations and citizens warned that this would happen....

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ANDRÉE MURPHY: Are our women expendable? It is impossible to imagine a world without violence against women. Impossible to even imagine living in a region where women might be safe. In a week where we see Natalie McNally’s murderer Gareth Mc...

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ANDRÉE MURPHY: Unionist attacks on Dublin are baseless – but that's the point of them Political unionism is a study in small man syndrome. You don’t even need to be male, but you do need a brass neck. Sometimes you wonder if they just do it to get some high off feeling righteous, or ar...

Mention “legacy” to unionism and they go off on a tangent about Dublin
It’s a red herring to deflect from their actions and their obligations belfastmedia.com/attacks-on-t...

ANDRÉE MURPHY: Victims remain victims despite attempts to claim the narrative The issue of the definition of victims and survivors must be the most tawdry and reductive part of our political discourse.

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ANDRÉE MURPHY: All forms and perpetrators of sexual violence must be part of legacy conversation IN this century law and society has determined that definitions of sexual violence are expanded to include the range of harms actually experienced, to ensure victims are at the heart of processes, rat...

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This is overt racism. Full stop. There’s no ‘misinterpretation’ and no excuse. This is who he is, who he’s always been, and why he should never be anywhere near power again. And there’s a reason the tapes from The Apprentice have never been released.

Blatant racism

Robust official justification of racism

Gaslighting critics as engaged in faux outrage

No indication to date Trump is not responsible for the posts on Truth Social

The idea that republicans will be assuaged by the “staffer” line is sadly entirely accurate

We live in dark days

every epstein file drop underscores how elite power operates through shared socio-economic networks, regardless of people's ideological differences, populist posturing, or public feuds

Well, that went about as well as could be expected.

“When left unchecked, the extreme right morphs into wherever fear and doubt lurk in every country and when it goes unchallenged it becomes legitimate.”
~Andrée Murphy

Andersonstown News

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ANDRÉE MURPHY: Colonialism rears its ugly and familiar head again COLONIALISM is back, baby! And it's as greedy and inhumane as it ever was.

Colonialism is back and only citizens can defeat it - my column in tbis week’s Andersonstown News belfastmedia.com/colonialism-...

Succinct, articulate and infuriatingly true.
If it can happen in NI/6counties (over decades) it all too easily can happen in GB under a far right government.

ANDRÉE MURPHY: Justification of Renee Good's killing followed a familiar template WHEN the American Department of Homeland Security ICE militia murdered Renee Nicole Good they followed a tried and tested method for state murder: justification and cover-up.

State violence in the USA follows the patterns of British state violence

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Ooooooooooooooof

Set that border poll date ! @cjharvey1.bsky.social @arinsproject.bsky.social @andreemurphy.bsky.social

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@andreemurphy.bsky.social - well done for this article.

If we all don’t stand up for each other’s human rights, we all soon will be told we do not have any.

As the Niemoller ‘poem’ goes ‘ First they came ….’.

Senior devolved civil servants are accepting so-called honours, as are PSNI officers. That ain’t neutral whatever way you dice that apple belfastmedia.com/empire-gongs...

ANDRÉE MURPHY: Cycle of educational underachievement and poverty must be broken IF you live in the South of Ireland you live in a state where 63% of young people go to third level education. In West Belfast it is 29.7%, the lowest in the North.

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ANDRÉE MURPHY: While Kenova has value, it remains window-dressing at its core IN a long 164 pages that spends much time justifying its own existence and approach, the Kenova Report will leave many people wondering how £40 million could be spent by the state investigating histor...

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ANDRÉE MURPHY: We need to attract women like Siobhán – not drive them away IN August 1993, Sinn Féin in Belfast marched for the first time to Belfast City Hall. It was a seminal moment, led by republican women, when the right to march, assemble and express republican opinion...

The treatment of Siobhán McCallin tells us tgat some sinister mentalities never change belfastmedia.com/we-need-more...

ANDRÉE MURPHY: Is it time we had a commission for commissions? THERE are things that seem like a really good idea at the time but then experience prompts us to ask if they really are.

Are Commissions a case of be careful what you wish for? belfastmedia.com/let-s-questi...

ANDRÉE MURPHY: Phoenix Park elders have a change to forge a new national conversation WHEN Mary Robinson was first elected to the Presidency there was a sense of “shift”. The South of Ireland gave its first sign that it was breaking the hegemony of Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael, and was mo...

Lets capitalise on a united Irelander in the park and concebe convene convene belfastmedia.com/presidency-e...

ANDRÉE MURPHY: Unionist cold-war aggression takes hold yet again THE combined actions and inactions of the DUP and the Orange Order this week tell of a unique local psychosis of being at once deeply insecure and at the same time incredible arrogant. How lovely to h...

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ANDRÉE MURPHY: Integrity and trust defeated the post-partition duopoly IDENTIFIED as firmly a voice for the dispossessed and marginalised, Uachtarán Catherine Connolly has caught a mood that has been simmering but lacking confidence for too long. Its day has come and Ire...

The far right can be beaten
Not by telling people what they want to hear to the point no one knows what you stand for
But trusting them to hear the truth of your principles and engaging in the hard work of integrity belfastmedia.com/integrity-wi...

ANDRÉE MURPHY: The Paras' reputation is not 'proud' and they are not 'valiant' MAYBE Justice Lynch felt he was acknowledging the Bloody Sunday families when he spoke of the Parachute Regiment’s actions in Derry 1972 being a source of shame. However, referring to the “proud reput...

It is not reasonable or generous or thoughtful to say the Paras actions on Bloody Sunday brought their regiment into disrepute: that denies the truth of so many of their other victims belfastmedia.com/the-paras-ha...

ANDRÉE MURPHY: Peace through strength is no kind of peace IT is so clearly not a peace deal. It is so clearly a pause of uncertainty, of unfairness, of threat and of inequality.

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ANDRÉE MURPHY: Watching the fairground ride we're not allowed to get on IT'S hard to sum up the absolute car crash of the Southern Presidential election in ways that are kind, positive or contributory right now. With what were three pretty underwhelming candidates, who co...

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ANDRÉE MURPHY: Germany calling, Germany calling: Don't ignore the lessons of history BERLIN 1989. The communist efidice is crumbling. Citizens of the country decide to hop over the Berlin Wall and some start taking out the Kangol hammers.

I’m not saying we are Germany. I’m not even saying we are East Germany. I’m just saying. belfastmedia.com/this-is-berl...