David McCann

🆕 We reflect on Trump, Martin, Pengelly and Irish unity 🟥 How did the leaders perform? 🟥 Did the boycott work?

Ahead of next year here's a law that will please the silent majority Banning people playing music on their phones without headphones.

Call made for feasibility study of bridge linking Portaferry and Strangford belfastlive.co.uk/news/call-made…

"Nobody Wants Us" @naomi_long suggests that Northern Ireland is still a divided, dysfunctional society and that needs to be dealt with before any mention of constitutional change. @dmcbfs @timcairns

Donald Trump welcomed the deputy first minister of Northern Ireland at Capitol Hill by proposing an 'Irish unity' with the Republic of Ireland. U.S. correspondents @skydavidblevins and @marthakelner discuss the U.S. President's potentially major faux pas. 🎧 trib.al/J9GJAxH

The Trump Doctrine on a United Ireland: 2026

Trump: "Deputy First Minister of Northern Ireland, and you get along so well. I don't know if I should be promoting mergers. I love mergers but we're gonna get in a little trouble. We're gonna get in more trouble with that."

"This is a fundamental structural problem with our politics, is nobody ever being willing to make an argument." @MatthewOToole2 on what holds Stormont back.

🚨 NEW: Keir Starmer has now outlasted Rishi Sunak as PM

"There has been a really strategic campaign since I took Peter Robinson's seat back in 2010 to demonise me and make me a figure of hate in the unionist, loyalist community." @naomi_long tells us: "Unionist men of a certain age find me a threat and really do not like me." @dmcbfs @timcairns

"The Assembly chamber has become a toxic thunderdome." In our first-ever LIVE show, @naomi_long tells #StormontSources why she won’t stand by while progress is "stymied by vetoes." Is the Alliance Party's place in the Executive under threat? 🎧 Streaming now on podcast apps and YouTube. @dmcbfs @timcairns

This week on @StormontSources we speak with @allianceparty Leader @naomi_long We talk about border polls, opposition, what Alliance are doing in government and the tone of politics 🎧 Dropping into your feeds soon

5️⃣0️⃣ years ago today, Harold Wilson resigns as Prime Minister He wishes he had governed in easier times “These years of office spanned a period when Britain nationally and internationally had to face storms and challenges without parallel in our peacetime history’ A thread 👇🏼

Live from Belfast, our first ever live episode featuring Alliance Party Leader, @naomi_long. Subscribe on YouTube or your podcast app to hear all things politics and policy making across Northern Ireland. @dmcbfs | @timcairns

Look who’s here! Recording live at 3:30pm at Alliance Party Conference 🔴 @timcairns, @dmcbfs and Michael McKernan

🔴We’re recording a special episode of the podcast later, live at @allianceparty conference. Before that, @AndyBurnhamGM will address the conference… @dmcbfs | @timcairns

"We have children sitting at home with reduced timetables because there is no placement for them." @CathyMasonSF tells the Stormont Sources podcast parents are in tears with anxiety over their SEN children's school places for next year.

@molloy1916 Wait until they find out where St Patrick is buried, blow their mind. "Oh so that's maybe why it's called Downpatrick"

Where St Patrick's Day will be celebrated in 'the streets of Ireland' says the Irish Independent. At page bottom they write: 'Why you can trust the Irish Independent'. Probably deliberate Free Statism - and too lazy to check out the hundreds of parades in the North.

"Education systems relying heavily on exams are fundamentally damaging to working-class pupils." Is the current system rigged against those without access to private tutoring? @CathyMasonSF thinks so. The latest #StormontSources podcast is out now.