Seán Cormac

More Blacks More Dogs More Irish. You don’t get to be racist and Irish. Powerful.

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#r4today. @BBCr4today @BBCWorldatOne Dear friends. Come and join us on Bluesky.social So many are leaving the anti democratic Musk and his plutocratic mates. Sadly the Today programme is as biased against Labour as ever but you never know hope springs eternal.

Bloody X. Tried a number of times to deactivate my account. Musk has kidnapped me.

Bye bye X. Had enough of Musk and his vile anti democratic plutocracy. I’ve decided to move completely to Bluesky. @seancormac.bsky.social. I look forward to following my Twitter friends over there.

Just joined Bluesky. Musk, Trump, Xtian fundamentalists, Reform,Today programme inter alia are driving me away. I haven’t deleted this account just yet. I’ve got 4 followers. I’ll try and find those I follow on this platform on Bluesky. Thank you @GeorgeMonbiot

@GeorgeMonbiot I was thinking of deleting my account this morning and using my Threads account instead. I am now persuaded for the moment by your pro arguments.

5. In conclusion, I'm staying for now, using the #Xdissenter hashtag in my profile. I also have accounts on Threads and BlueSky. But if we're going to leave, let's do it together, and decide which platform to migrate to. Your views are welcome, as ever.

1. Here are my thoughts on the pros and cons of staying on this platform. Pro: We were here long before Musk took it over. We built this. Con: He has used our creation to help elect a far-right autocrat, and build his own grim political career. 🧵

@LoveIreland3 Favourite place in the world.

Take in the breathtaking view of Keem Bay on Achill Island, Ireland – where emerald cliffs meet crystal-clear waters, and every wave seems to carry a story of its own.

@Jenny_1884 I think they’re wonderful. Their symmetry is aesthetically pleasing and they do a really effective job in creating energy cheaply.

Who else thinks Wind Turbines are a blot on the landscape & look horrendous?

@Dubliner112 @Edward__Burke Thank you.

@seancormac @Edward__Burke They ate many commonwealth war grave cemeteries at gallipoli.

At the National Arboretum to pay my respects to those who died for us. Moved to see a joint British Russian commemorative dedication. Looking forward one day to seeing our countries at peace.

@Helen121 There’s a play on #r4extra. It started at 6.00. Entertaining enough.

Oh god, its Emma Barnett. So not much news. Off. #r4today

Ireland has passed a vote saying that Israel is committing Genocide in Gaza. RT if Ireland is right

@RMcGreevy1301 @mooreholmes24 Well said Ronan. There really are some Hobbesian characters among the Unionists. I remember going to the Commonwealth war cemetery in Thessaloniki to pay respects to the Nationalists from Clonmel buried there. RIP. My grandfather fortunately survived.

Talk about no good deed going unpunished. I hold no torch for SF, but Republicans have been generous in their remembrance of the First World War dead not least because many of their own relatives died in it. Your intemperate tweet also suggests that Unionists have some kind of monopoly on remembrance. You have no such thing. The majority of Irish men who died in WW1 were from an Irish nationalist background, more than 33,000 from the South. Stop with this tribal nonsense. You have no monopoly on remembrance.

Michelle O’Neill’s decision to attend a Remembrance service is inspired by many things, but a conviction to honour our brave British soldiers is not one of them. How could it be when she simultaneously and unapologetically continues to justify those Republican terrorists who waged a sectarian murder campaign against them? The First Minister is not fooling anyone with this symbolic stunt. The real reason behind Sinn Fein’s gesturing is about deflection, not remembrance. It is an insincere attempt to divert attention away from recent party scandals involving improper safeguarding. Following weeks of heavy criticism, Sinn Fein hope that O’Neill’s attendance at a Remembrance service will switch off the negative spotlight & extinguish a fire of their own making. Nothing like a dead cat on the table to take everyone’s mind off the fact that party members are inappropriately messaging minors. Yet, behind the veil of their tactical tokenism, it is impossible not to take notice of just how much of a contradiction Sinn Fein have become. They are a political paradox wrestling with their own identity. The same party that cut its teeth as an anti-British political vessel of the IRA have now developed into a fully-fledged, participating member of the British establishment. The party of IRA members and so-called martyrs, who claimed to fight British oppression are now completely embedded within our British institutions. They have immersed themselves into British civic life & by participating in what is the most sacred of British conventions, a Remembrance service, is further confirmation of that. Some will praise the move and compliment Sinn Fein for embracing change, but it will have ruffled as many Republican feathers as Unionists’. Why exactly? Because it is impossible to ignore how Sinn Fein’s attendance at a memorial service to British soldiers renders everything the IRA claimed to stand for obsolete. Sinn Fein can pay lip service to & heroise the IRA, but the party have entirely betrayed and compromised on almost every twisted belief their terrorist godfathers espoused. They may not have abandoned the IRA army council, but they have abandoned what the IRA supposedly believed in. Could you imagine, for example, the leader of Hamas attending Israel’s Yom HaZikaron to remember Israeli fighters? Or the leader of Al-Qaeda visiting a 9/11 memorial? Far from being “We, Ourselves,” Sinn Fein now wine & dine with royals, administer British rule through Stormont and fully accept & participate in the legitimacy of Northern Ireland – even if they still object to saying Northern Ireland’s name. Instead of, “British Army Go Home,” they are now bowing their heads & laying wreaths to commemorate British soldiers – the same British soldiers that broke the IRA & forced them into peace. Sure, they remain hostile to the United Kingdom in theory & use the corridors of power to advance an ineffective separatist agenda, but they have become the very thing they were founded to oppose. Republicans must be left wondering, is there any policy or principle that Sinn Fein are not prepared to sacrifice if it suits their interests? We have watched on as Sinn Fein change their tune on both sides of the border when opportunity presents itself. The once eurosceptics have become europhiles. The once anti-Stormont have become devolutionists. The once pro-immigration are now saying “Ireland is full.” The party is entirely circumstantial & to them, attending a Remembrance service is worth it if it gets them some positive headlines & ends the cycle of negative attention. Is it any wonder therefore that Sinn Féin incessantly speak of Irish unity? That they desperately try to keep the ‘unity’ project the centre of attention for their electoral base? Perhaps Irish unity is not just a dead end but another dead cat, used to divert attention away from the fact that Sinn Fein are a fully functioning & complicit cog in the Northern Ireland they aspire to abolish.

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@RoryStewartUK right now there's too much breast- beating and apologising among Dems - Trump is every bit the malevolent idiotic monster he has always been and we should not for a minute be afraid to say the many millions who voted for him made a grotesque mistake .

Indeed, #r4today would be unbearable without her.

This is a dark, dark day for people around the globe. The world’s largest economy and most powerful military will be led by a dangerous, destructive demagogue.

@JohnnyForeign12 I never listen when Trumpy Webb is on with his transparent bias and pet subjects and it's... boring. He's the worst of a very poor bunch. Mishal Hisain is the only one left with any journalistic integrity. #r4today