Helen Reihill

🚨NEW: Kerry Kennedy has announced Late Show Host Stephen Colbert is the recipient of the 2025 Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award for his advocacy for free speech and speaking truth to power. RETWEET to congratulate Colbert on this honor!

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Thanks to all who supported the book launch of “A Bitter Harvest - The good life and unresolved murder of a Derry GAA man” by Garbhán Downey. For all those asking the book is now available to purchase locally in Muldoons and MACE Bellaghy, Sheehys Cookstown and Waterstones. 1/2

@SaulStaniforth Scrapping the two child benefit cap was a matter of personal principle for Starmer, that principal being his own political survival!

@SaulStaniforth @lisanandy In Dec. '24, 6 months into gov. Meg Hillier asked Starmer if he would change any of his decisions and he said NO he wouldn't change a thing! He was happy with cuts to WFA and keeping 240,000 children IN poverty. The principles belong to the 7 MPs he suspended.

Excellent article @IrishTimes today by Justine McCarthy. Irish Zionists really need to look at themselves and their vile accusations. You know who you are Rachel & friends. I'll share screenshots here, remainder in comments.

"Why are we still supplying arms and weapons to Israel” Retweet if you agree with Corbyn

You weren’t “truly appalled” when I$rael tried to kill me in an airstrike, or at the killing of thousands of civilians in Lebanon or when you ignored legal advice to proscribe Palestine Action as a terrorist organisation you utter fraud. Your government is complicit in the genocide in Gaza, the massacre of children in Lebanon and an ethnic cleansing operation on a scale larger than the Nakba. I’m “truly appalled” that you, Keir Starmer, David Lammy and the rest of the rotten British Cabinet aren’t being hauled in front of The Hague and tried as war criminals

@C_Fitz_ Fermanagh has a schools’ bus service rather than a public service meeting locals needs. Currently there are no services on weekdays after 6pm or on Sunday This means on Bank Holiday weekends there’s no public transport for 2 days. If you don’t drive you’re stuck I had to move

This makes me want to scream. Currently carrying out research with young people who are NEET. A persistent issue is TRANSPORT particularly in rural areas. Now there is going to be a removal of fare discounts for young people.

EXC - Global Counsel met with top officials at DBT and Treasury last year - Meeting with clients including Blackstone, Shell and JP Morgan wasn't declared - Departments hold 'no records' of what was discussed at one-on-ones with senior GC lobbyists opendemocracy.net/no-records-fro…

I have watched Israel decapitate children, burn people alive, rape people to death, maul a disabled man to death with dogs, bomb schools, starve an entire population, and shoot children in the head, but somehow I'm supposed to believe that Ben-Gvir's actions "aren't the spirit of Israel."

🚨 The US pharma deal is a crime against UK healthcare. That's why we are launching a legal challenge, alongside @GlobalJusticeUK. It hands billions in #NHS money to Big Pharma, undermines NICE, and passed Parliament without a vote. Read more ⬇️ newstatesman.com/spotlight/heal…

My letter to @Arsenal about their appalling treatment of a long-time employee fired because of his views on Palestine:

Supermarkets are happy enough for taxpayers to subsidise their low-paid workforce with in-work benefits so they can pay their bosses seven-figure salaries. But ask them even to consider voluntary price caps on basic foods and they'll slam the idea as 'preposterous'.

Campaigning on the benefits of Brexit will at least enjoy the communications advantage of extreme brevity.

Your father retired at sixty. He bought a caravan. He saw his grandkids on Tuesdays. He had time. You are sixty four. Your knees are gone. Your back is ruined. And they have moved the line again. Sixty seven. Then sixty eight. Then sixty nine. They sold three years of your retirement to balance their books. They sold five years of your wife's pension to balance their books. They will sell your children's whole retirement before they are done. Healthy life expectancy in this country is sixty three. You will retire sick. If you retire at all. The printer at Threadneedle Street never stops. The spending at the Treasury never stops. The excuses at Downing Street never stop. Three machines grinding through your life. You were not given more years to enjoy. You were given more years to serve.

By securing a High Court date, a mother’s fight exposes British state collusion at its worst. Former secret agent Peter Keeley allegedly helped murder Eoin Morley while working for military intelligence, turning this battle for damages into a trial on state-sponsored terror.

"In 1972, the day after the Bloody Sunday funerals, the Derry Journal reported how ‘Even the Skies Wept’. Thirty-eight years later, the widow of victim Barney McGuigan, another Bridie, remarked at the conclusion of the Saville Inquiry, how the sun shone in Derry to welcome the findings. "Bizarrely, however, for a society that has supposedly progressed out of the dark days of the Troubles, into a ‘new dispensation’, the Browns have now been kept waiting for an inquiry longer than the Bloody Sunday families." Garbhan Downey on newly released book on the murder of GAA official Sean Brown. Read more: tinyurl.com/4d5bc9ve

@GrahamGGrant I don’t think the people of Fermanagh have ever forgotten the cruelty of members of the Argyll and Sutherland regiment in 1972 edward-burke.com/the-pitchfork-…

🔴 Relatives of Scottish soldiers killed during the Troubles in Northern Ireland are demanding John Swinney’s resignation after he claimed people should ‘move on’ from Sinn Fein’s dark past mol.im/a/15825583 #sinnfein #terrorism #scotland #SNP #indyref2

Lammy: "Every one knows that the brexit that was delivered by Boris Johnson & his cronies damaged the British economy" A reminder that as shadow Brexit secretary Starmer rejected *his own proposals* in order to sabotage negotiations over a soft Brexit deal & undermine Corbyn