Irish Border Poll

If you want to hear more of @mclaren_linzi she is a respondent with @KevinPMeagher to Brendan O’Leary on Mon 11am - IRISH UNITY: MOVING FORWARD or MOMENTUM STALLED? Everyone welcome.

Enormous interest in our Irish unity talk this afternoon in St. Mary’s College, both the main and overspill rooms are packed! Over 90 talks and debates will take place during Féile an Phobail in our biggest ever programme.

We just had the pleasure of bumping into Nicola Sturgeon this morning at Heathrow. We are on the same plane😃 She was delighted when we introduced ourselves to her as big @FeileBelfast supporters + told her were flying back to Belfast for the debates, the music and the cráic 😀

Huge response in the room as @MaryLouMcDonald calls upon the Irish Government to step up to the mark and begin to get prepared for Irish Unity without any further delay. #WeAreFéile2019 #Féile

NEW: Claire Mitchell @irish_news: People call us useful idiots, Sinn Féin puppets, self-hating Prods. We prefer ‘happy Lundys’ None of us think that Northern Ireland is working or can be made to work. 100+ years is a long enough experiment @FeileBelfast irishnews.com/opinion/claire…

Partition led to the creation of two flawed states. However, constitutional change could create a pivotal moment where redesign, best practice, political courage and energy come together to build momentum for something better. Claire Mitchell

Claire Mitchell: People call us useful idiots, Sinn Féin puppets, self-hating Prods. We prefer ‘happy Lundys’ – The Irish News irishnews.com/opinion/claire…

Sceal brónach faoi bás Glenn Hansard. Fear fónta é. Fear uasal. Macanta agus fior mhaith ar son daoine bocht agus cuis maith. Bá mhaith liom mo comhbhrón a dheanamh ar a bhean cheile agus a mhac ‘s a chairde.

RIP Glen Hansard ❤️ you’re music is still magic. Learned this song when I was 14 and continue to play it til this day ⁦@AdaPasternak⁩

In Memoriam: Glen #Hansard (56) stirbt bei Motorradunfall. Hier eine der schönsten irischen Balladen, Fields Of Athenry, im Duett mit Paddy Reilly

A fantastic discussion tonight at @FeileBelfast organised by @GaelsLeCheile at Casement social club. Brendan Crossan in conversation with Oisín McConville discussing everything from his playing career, managing Wicklow, addiction, Irish Unity, Casement and much more. Maith sibh👏

Féile 2026 Highlights: Thursday 30th July ✨West Belfast Little Explorers ✨Soldier F £4.3M To Defend the Unjustified & Unjustifiable ✨Is Irish Unity Inevitable ✨Ghosts of the Shankill ✨Slí na Sí ✨Nicola Sturgeon in conversation For more information go to: feilebelfast.com

Annnnnndddd...if you're free TOMORROW, we would love to see you at St Mary's College Belfast, 1pm, with myself, @ClaireHanna, Claire Mitchell and the inimitable @AmandaFBelfast

@PaulKel79494744 @mclaren_linzi @KevinPMeagher If there is one thing you get at an irishborderpoll.com event it is a real debate Paul. If you are sceptical check our stuff on YouTube out?

@mclaren_linzi @KevinPMeagher @irishborderpoll Is it really a debate if everyone on the panel is pro Unity? Should there not be a Unionist for balance ?

Join me, @KevinPMeagher, Brendan O'Leary, @irishborderpoll 3rd Aug 11am at St Mary's College Belfast, for a unity debate. It will be great to see you there.

A packed hall at Casement Social Club for Gaels Le Cheile in Conversation with Oisín McConville. A powerful, emotive and inspiring conversation chaired by Brendan Crossan.

Tonight on RTÉ One at 9.35pm and then on @RTEplayer #unitedireland #borderpoll

OLYMPIAN, CLERIC, ANTI-FASCIST BRIGADISTA: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF ROBERT ‘BOB’ HILLIARD: GUEST SPEAKER: LIN ROSE CLARK 📆FRIDAY 31ST JULY, 12PM 📍SHANKILL ROAD LIBRARY, SHANKILL ROAD BELFAST Robert Hilliard is one of Ireland’s best-known International Brigadistas. His short life blazed with rare intensity; his death left a shadow hanging over his family. Lin Rose Clark, Hilliard’s granddaughter and author of his biography Swift Blaze of Fire, describes this absorbing character and the stirring times that shaped him. Free event. No booking required.

WHERE ARE WE AT IN THE UNITY DEBATE? @feileBelfast Aug 3rd. Join us with Brendan O’Leary @KevinPMeagher @LinziMcLaren

📕 @FranceskAlbs new book — a NYT bestseller — is about what it actually costs to look at a war directly, in real time, while everyone else is scrolling past it. Here’s the thing: We’re living inside the exact moment this book is describing, right now. The bodies keep getting counted. Doctors keep dying in Israeli custody. The UN keeps putting out statements that change what, exactly? Nothing on the ground. The news cycle moves on before the grief even has time to land. Francesca wrote this because she wasn’t going to let that happen to the people in these pages. She gave them names. Memories. Mornings. Fear. Dignity. Things the news cycle doesn’t. That’s what makes her so dangerous. She doesn’t ask you to have the right opinion. She asks you to sit with one person until you can’t continue looking away anymore. And then she asks what you’re actually going to do about it. Read this book. Not to feel informed. To feel implicated. In the good way. The way that actually moves you into feeling, and into action. I’m grateful to call her a friend. To learn from a mind that holds this many dimensions at once and still finds a way through with grace. The way she navigates this moment has become something I measure my own against. While the World Sleeps, by Francesca Albanese. GET IT NOW: otherpress.com/product/when-t…