November 6, 2026 at 9:20 AM
Useful article here on the intensification of victimhood framing in unionist political discourses during the period around the signing of the #GoodFridayAgreement.
Narratives of victimhood still inform the Irish #peaceprocess & will grow in relevance as the debate on #IrishUnity grows.
#SpéirGhorm
Narratives of victimhood still inform the Irish #peaceprocess & will grow in relevance as the debate on #IrishUnity grows.
#SpéirGhorm
I just had an article published in Irish Political Studies.
Please have a read if you are interested in Northern Ireland, unionism or the Good Friday Agreement. Some of the things I talk about here may be relevant to discussions of Irish unity going forward.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Please have a read if you are interested in Northern Ireland, unionism or the Good Friday Agreement. Some of the things I talk about here may be relevant to discussions of Irish unity going forward.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Political victims: unionist political parties and the rhetoric of victimhood around the Good Friday Agreement
Collective victimhood and its relationship to identity have received much attention in recent years, though its impact on the Northern Irish context has been underexplored. Historically, unionist i...
www.tandfonline.com
November 12, 2026 at 9:31 AM
Useful article here on the intensification of victimhood framing in unionist political discourses during the period around the signing of the #GoodFridayAgreement.
Narratives of victimhood still inform the Irish #peaceprocess & will grow in relevance as the debate on #IrishUnity grows.
#SpéirGhorm
Narratives of victimhood still inform the Irish #peaceprocess & will grow in relevance as the debate on #IrishUnity grows.
#SpéirGhorm
#FollowBackFriday
Supporters of Irish Unity, Scottish Independence and Welsh Independence should follow each other other and advocate for each other.
#IrishUnity
#WelshIndependence
#ScottishIndependence
Supporters of Irish Unity, Scottish Independence and Welsh Independence should follow each other other and advocate for each other.
#IrishUnity
#WelshIndependence
#ScottishIndependence
November 6, 2026 at 9:21 AM
#FollowBackFriday
Supporters of Irish Unity, Scottish Independence and Welsh Independence should follow each other other and advocate for each other.
#IrishUnity
#WelshIndependence
#ScottishIndependence
Supporters of Irish Unity, Scottish Independence and Welsh Independence should follow each other other and advocate for each other.
#IrishUnity
#WelshIndependence
#ScottishIndependence
Labour = Tories in red. This is disturbing and bloodthirsty politics that will result in suffering for sick, disabled and mentally ill people.
Vote Green
Vote Green
Young people should get fewer welfare benefits, according to Milburn review on the workforce – UK politics live
November 12, 2026 at 11:40 AM
Support in the north of #Ireland for remaining in the UK continues to drop (& has been doing so for years), & now leads support for #IrishUnity by just 4% - almost a margin of error.
Every age band under 55 now supports a #UnitedIreland (if narrowly).
Time to prepare for a #borderpoll.
#SpéirGhorm
Every age band under 55 now supports a #UnitedIreland (if narrowly).
Time to prepare for a #borderpoll.
#SpéirGhorm
November 12, 2026 at 10:18 AM
Support in the north of #Ireland for remaining in the UK continues to drop (& has been doing so for years), & now leads support for #IrishUnity by just 4% - almost a margin of error.
Every age band under 55 now supports a #UnitedIreland (if narrowly).
Time to prepare for a #borderpoll.
#SpéirGhorm
Every age band under 55 now supports a #UnitedIreland (if narrowly).
Time to prepare for a #borderpoll.
#SpéirGhorm
#ScottishIndependence
Activists need to take a big interest in what’s going on in Ireland at present; North & South.
The 3 main Parties in Dublin are putting planning for #IrishUnity at the centre of their agenda.
Unionism in Northern Ireland is fragmenting and turning on itself. @snp.org
Activists need to take a big interest in what’s going on in Ireland at present; North & South.
The 3 main Parties in Dublin are putting planning for #IrishUnity at the centre of their agenda.
Unionism in Northern Ireland is fragmenting and turning on itself. @snp.org
EXCLUSIVE | The gap between support for Irish unity and Northern Ireland staying in the UK has narrowed in the past year.
NI voters still back Union over Irish unity - but gap is narrowing, poll suggests
The gap between support for Irish unity and Northern Ireland staying in the UK has narrowed in the past year.
www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk
November 8, 2026 at 9:33 PM
#ScottishIndependence
Activists need to take a big interest in what’s going on in Ireland at present; North & South.
The 3 main Parties in Dublin are putting planning for #IrishUnity at the centre of their agenda.
Unionism in Northern Ireland is fragmenting and turning on itself. @snp.org
Activists need to take a big interest in what’s going on in Ireland at present; North & South.
The 3 main Parties in Dublin are putting planning for #IrishUnity at the centre of their agenda.
Unionism in Northern Ireland is fragmenting and turning on itself. @snp.org
Northern Ireland is poorer because of Brexit.
Northern Ireland is poorer because of partition.
A United Ireland is the solution to both issues.
#IrishUnity
#BorderPoll
#Think32
Northern Ireland is poorer because of partition.
A United Ireland is the solution to both issues.
#IrishUnity
#BorderPoll
#Think32
November 4, 2026 at 4:59 PM
Northern Ireland is poorer because of Brexit.
Northern Ireland is poorer because of partition.
A United Ireland is the solution to both issues.
#IrishUnity
#BorderPoll
#Think32
Northern Ireland is poorer because of partition.
A United Ireland is the solution to both issues.
#IrishUnity
#BorderPoll
#Think32
" #Ireland is talking about a #borderpoll. Are we ready for the conversation that comes before it?"
www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...
The country is.
The govt (despite recent moves) isn't.
The Taoiseach can't see beyond party politics
www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-41...
#SpéirGhorm #IrishUnity
www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...
The country is.
The govt (despite recent moves) isn't.
The Taoiseach can't see beyond party politics
www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-41...
#SpéirGhorm #IrishUnity
Ireland is talking about a border poll. Are we ready for the conversation that comes before it?
The case for unification is not sufficiently developed and is more rooted in aspiration rather than supported by a detailed, inclusive, and credible plan, writes Declan Lyons
www.irishexaminer.com
November 11, 2026 at 12:21 PM
" #Ireland is talking about a #borderpoll. Are we ready for the conversation that comes before it?"
www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...
The country is.
The govt (despite recent moves) isn't.
The Taoiseach can't see beyond party politics
www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-41...
#SpéirGhorm #IrishUnity
www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...
The country is.
The govt (despite recent moves) isn't.
The Taoiseach can't see beyond party politics
www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-41...
#SpéirGhorm #IrishUnity
#SinnFéin
Momentum towards a #UnitedIreland is growing.
The govt must ensure preparations move forward with urgency, with the resources, ambition & inclusive approach needed to shape our shared future.
#IrishUnity will unlock the potential of our island, helping us build a stronger economy
#Éire
Momentum towards a #UnitedIreland is growing.
The govt must ensure preparations move forward with urgency, with the resources, ambition & inclusive approach needed to shape our shared future.
#IrishUnity will unlock the potential of our island, helping us build a stronger economy
#Éire
November 7, 2026 at 12:47 PM
#SinnFéin
Momentum towards a #UnitedIreland is growing.
The govt must ensure preparations move forward with urgency, with the resources, ambition & inclusive approach needed to shape our shared future.
#IrishUnity will unlock the potential of our island, helping us build a stronger economy
#Éire
Momentum towards a #UnitedIreland is growing.
The govt must ensure preparations move forward with urgency, with the resources, ambition & inclusive approach needed to shape our shared future.
#IrishUnity will unlock the potential of our island, helping us build a stronger economy
#Éire
48% in NI for #IrishUnity
52% ….a work in progress😎
And that is before the preparation and debate starts.
@sluggerotoolepols.bsky.social @snp.org @johnswinney.bsky.social
52% ….a work in progress😎
And that is before the preparation and debate starts.
@sluggerotoolepols.bsky.social @snp.org @johnswinney.bsky.social
NI voters still back Union over Irish unity - but gap is narrowing, poll suggests
The gap between support for Irish unity and Northern Ireland staying in the UK has narrowed in the past year.
www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk
November 8, 2026 at 11:33 PM
48% in NI for #IrishUnity
52% ….a work in progress😎
And that is before the preparation and debate starts.
@sluggerotoolepols.bsky.social @snp.org @johnswinney.bsky.social
52% ….a work in progress😎
And that is before the preparation and debate starts.
@sluggerotoolepols.bsky.social @snp.org @johnswinney.bsky.social
Huge momentum now building behind #SinnFéin ahead of the Assembly election.
Massive opportunity for nationalism to send a powerful message that change in the North is unstoppable, and there is No Going Back!
#UnitedIreland #Éire #IrishUnity #CelticExit #Celtexit #Ireland #MaryLouMcDonald #SinnFein
Massive opportunity for nationalism to send a powerful message that change in the North is unstoppable, and there is No Going Back!
#UnitedIreland #Éire #IrishUnity #CelticExit #Celtexit #Ireland #MaryLouMcDonald #SinnFein
November 7, 2026 at 12:52 PM
Huge momentum now building behind #SinnFéin ahead of the Assembly election.
Massive opportunity for nationalism to send a powerful message that change in the North is unstoppable, and there is No Going Back!
#UnitedIreland #Éire #IrishUnity #CelticExit #Celtexit #Ireland #MaryLouMcDonald #SinnFein
Massive opportunity for nationalism to send a powerful message that change in the North is unstoppable, and there is No Going Back!
#UnitedIreland #Éire #IrishUnity #CelticExit #Celtexit #Ireland #MaryLouMcDonald #SinnFein
Next #MooneyOnPolitics features @nealerichmond.bsky.social discussing #FineGael and #IrishUnity and the state of Irish centrist politics. Full podcast out tomorrow.
See clip here on FG's Unity proposals:
youtu.be/QjoSP1PWMbE
See clip here on FG's Unity proposals:
youtu.be/QjoSP1PWMbE
Fine Gael’s blueprint for Unity: Neale Richmond sets out what it actually proposes
YouTube video by Derek Mooney
youtu.be
November 12, 2026 at 6:20 PM
Next #MooneyOnPolitics features @nealerichmond.bsky.social discussing #FineGael and #IrishUnity and the state of Irish centrist politics. Full podcast out tomorrow.
See clip here on FG's Unity proposals:
youtu.be/QjoSP1PWMbE
See clip here on FG's Unity proposals:
youtu.be/QjoSP1PWMbE
hay muchas formas de matar a un pueblo. Dejarlo arruinado y esperar a que las inclemencias y enfermedades acaben con los que resisten anlas bombas
#FreePalestine #Gaza
terrible
#FreePalestine #Gaza
terrible
Irish Unity 🇮🇪🇵🇸 (@IrishUnity) on X
This is Gaza and the world is silent.
70,000 tents flooded in 12 hours.
Families who survived the bombs are now starving & freezing in flooded tents.
x.com
November 8, 2026 at 5:38 PM
hay muchas formas de matar a un pueblo. Dejarlo arruinado y esperar a que las inclemencias y enfermedades acaben con los que resisten anlas bombas
#FreePalestine #Gaza
terrible
#FreePalestine #Gaza
terrible
🏴 #FreeScotland 🏴
🏴 #FreeCymru 🏴
🇮🇪 #IrishUnity 🇮🇪
🖤🤎💛🧡❤️🩷💜💙🩵💚🩶🤍
My heart is with you all, in this one.
May you affirm and regain freedom.
Good luck in ripping up 🏴 tyranny.
🏴 #FreeCymru 🏴
🇮🇪 #IrishUnity 🇮🇪
🖤🤎💛🧡❤️🩷💜💙🩵💚🩶🤍
My heart is with you all, in this one.
May you affirm and regain freedom.
Good luck in ripping up 🏴 tyranny.
It’s time for the people of the North of Ireland, Cymru & Scotland, to choose their constitutional futures
🏴 ☘️ 🏴 🇪🇺
🏴 ☘️ 🏴 🇪🇺
for those interested in Polling...this EM report from spring 2026 found:
73% of NI Voters want a return to the EU.
63% of NI voters would be happy to do that with Ireland.
(lucidtalk provided NI data for poll)
www.europeanmovement.ie/wp-content/u...
73% of NI Voters want a return to the EU.
63% of NI voters would be happy to do that with Ireland.
(lucidtalk provided NI data for poll)
www.europeanmovement.ie/wp-content/u...
November 5, 2026 at 10:15 AM
🏴 #FreeScotland 🏴
🏴 #FreeCymru 🏴
🇮🇪 #IrishUnity 🇮🇪
🖤🤎💛🧡❤️🩷💜💙🩵💚🩶🤍
My heart is with you all, in this one.
May you affirm and regain freedom.
Good luck in ripping up 🏴 tyranny.
🏴 #FreeCymru 🏴
🇮🇪 #IrishUnity 🇮🇪
🖤🤎💛🧡❤️🩷💜💙🩵💚🩶🤍
My heart is with you all, in this one.
May you affirm and regain freedom.
Good luck in ripping up 🏴 tyranny.
#ScottishIndependence in the EU and #IrishUnity in the EU will focus English minds. Brexit is 💯 an English cultural & identity issue. Only an ‘independent’ England can fully fix Brexit. The cathartic shock of #EndUK is what will fix England. The EU needs to play a long game here.
November 4, 2026 at 12:37 AM
#ScottishIndependence in the EU and #IrishUnity in the EU will focus English minds. Brexit is 💯 an English cultural & identity issue. Only an ‘independent’ England can fully fix Brexit. The cathartic shock of #EndUK is what will fix England. The EU needs to play a long game here.
“Almost three decades after the Good Friday Agreement, the erosion of unionist electoral hegemony and the emergence of Sinn Féin as the largest party in the North have failed to produce a demonstrable majority in favour of Irish unity” - Muiris Ó Súilleabháin #IrishUnity #Unionism #SinnFéin
Muiris’ real point survives the polling noise: unionism can lose every election and still keep the Union.
@sinn-fein.bsky.social can win every election and still not deliver unity.
That asymmetry is the whole story, not the seat count.
@sinn-fein.bsky.social can win every election and still not deliver unity.
That asymmetry is the whole story, not the seat count.
November 4, 2026 at 8:36 AM
“Almost three decades after the Good Friday Agreement, the erosion of unionist electoral hegemony and the emergence of Sinn Féin as the largest party in the North have failed to produce a demonstrable majority in favour of Irish unity” - Muiris Ó Súilleabháin #IrishUnity #Unionism #SinnFéin
#ScottishIndependence in the EU and #IrishUnity in the EU will focus English minds. Brexit is 💯 an English cultural & identity issue. Only an ‘independent’ England can fully fix Brexit. The cathartic shock of #EndUK is what will fix England. The EU needs to play a long game here.
November 3, 2026 at 3:37 PM
#ScottishIndependence in the EU and #IrishUnity in the EU will focus English minds. Brexit is 💯 an English cultural & identity issue. Only an ‘independent’ England can fully fix Brexit. The cathartic shock of #EndUK is what will fix England. The EU needs to play a long game here.
Colin Harvey on the "reconciliation first" approach to #IrishUnity:
"An open invitation to mischievous disruptors/spoilers... to impede the necessary planning for the future of Ireland…
A #unitedIreland… must be prepared for in the open and won"
#SpéirGhorm
irishborderpoll.com/2026/10/31/k...
"An open invitation to mischievous disruptors/spoilers... to impede the necessary planning for the future of Ireland…
A #unitedIreland… must be prepared for in the open and won"
#SpéirGhorm
irishborderpoll.com/2026/10/31/k...
October 31, 2026 at 2:40 PM
Colin Harvey on the "reconciliation first" approach to #IrishUnity:
"An open invitation to mischievous disruptors/spoilers... to impede the necessary planning for the future of Ireland…
A #unitedIreland… must be prepared for in the open and won"
#SpéirGhorm
irishborderpoll.com/2026/10/31/k...
"An open invitation to mischievous disruptors/spoilers... to impede the necessary planning for the future of Ireland…
A #unitedIreland… must be prepared for in the open and won"
#SpéirGhorm
irishborderpoll.com/2026/10/31/k...
" #SinnFéin and #SDLP welcome Taoiseach's plan to create new body to examine #Irishunity… “define what needs to be known” so that people can engage in “informed debate” about proposals for the future"
Better late than never, Micheál...
#SpéirGhorm
www.thejournal.ie/sinn-fein-an...
Better late than never, Micheál...
#SpéirGhorm
www.thejournal.ie/sinn-fein-an...
Sinn Féin and SDLP welcome Taoiseach's plan to create new body to examine Irish unity
It’s understood the Taoiseach will bring a memorandum before Christmas proposing a new body to examine Ireland’s constitutional future, including Irish unity.
www.thejournal.ie
November 1, 2026 at 11:52 AM
" #SinnFéin and #SDLP welcome Taoiseach's plan to create new body to examine #Irishunity… “define what needs to be known” so that people can engage in “informed debate” about proposals for the future"
Better late than never, Micheál...
#SpéirGhorm
www.thejournal.ie/sinn-fein-an...
Better late than never, Micheál...
#SpéirGhorm
www.thejournal.ie/sinn-fein-an...
🏴 #FreeScotland 🏴
🏴 #FreeWales 🏴
🇮🇪 #IrishUnity 🇮🇪
The arrest of unarmed, peaceful political activists & protestors is an act of unmitigated, antidemocratic fascism, and must not ever be accepted or tolerated. 🏴 deserves better than 🏴 rule.
End the despotic tyranny. Break the oppressive 🏴 “union.”
🏴 #FreeWales 🏴
🇮🇪 #IrishUnity 🇮🇪
The arrest of unarmed, peaceful political activists & protestors is an act of unmitigated, antidemocratic fascism, and must not ever be accepted or tolerated. 🏴 deserves better than 🏴 rule.
End the despotic tyranny. Break the oppressive 🏴 “union.”
NEW: Police have made no arrests after activists staged a protest in support of Palestine Action in Edinburgh 🚨
www.thenational.scot/news/2...
www.thenational.scot/news/2...
October 31, 2026 at 7:03 PM
🏴 #FreeScotland 🏴
🏴 #FreeWales 🏴
🇮🇪 #IrishUnity 🇮🇪
The arrest of unarmed, peaceful political activists & protestors is an act of unmitigated, antidemocratic fascism, and must not ever be accepted or tolerated. 🏴 deserves better than 🏴 rule.
End the despotic tyranny. Break the oppressive 🏴 “union.”
🏴 #FreeWales 🏴
🇮🇪 #IrishUnity 🇮🇪
The arrest of unarmed, peaceful political activists & protestors is an act of unmitigated, antidemocratic fascism, and must not ever be accepted or tolerated. 🏴 deserves better than 🏴 rule.
End the despotic tyranny. Break the oppressive 🏴 “union.”
🏴 #FreeScotland 🏴
🏴 #FreeWales 🏴
🇮🇪 #IrishUnity 🇮🇪
There is nothing in these three sovereign nations that should be or deserves to be named for 🏴 invaders and oppressors, in my opinion, looking on this from the outside as someone who has a heart and knows even a little bit about regional history.
🏴 #FreeWales 🏴
🇮🇪 #IrishUnity 🇮🇪
There is nothing in these three sovereign nations that should be or deserves to be named for 🏴 invaders and oppressors, in my opinion, looking on this from the outside as someone who has a heart and knows even a little bit about regional history.
🏴 Well done to those involved in the recent ‘Redcoat Cafe’ demonstration at Edinburgh Castle 👏
“Would Eire tolerate a ‘Black & Tans’ cafe in Dublin ?”
🏴🇪🇺😎
“Would Eire tolerate a ‘Black & Tans’ cafe in Dublin ?”
🏴🇪🇺😎
October 28, 2026 at 2:12 PM
🏴 #FreeScotland 🏴
🏴 #FreeWales 🏴
🇮🇪 #IrishUnity 🇮🇪
There is nothing in these three sovereign nations that should be or deserves to be named for 🏴 invaders and oppressors, in my opinion, looking on this from the outside as someone who has a heart and knows even a little bit about regional history.
🏴 #FreeWales 🏴
🇮🇪 #IrishUnity 🇮🇪
There is nothing in these three sovereign nations that should be or deserves to be named for 🏴 invaders and oppressors, in my opinion, looking on this from the outside as someone who has a heart and knows even a little bit about regional history.
🏴 #FreeScotland 🏴
🏴 #FreeWales 🏴
🇮🇪 #IrishUnity 🇮🇪
Personally, I think it should return to the name of Kiliwhimin. Firstly, because the true Scottish name is the proper one, in my personal opinion - and it's also a far cooler name, besides that.
Tertiarily, never name shit after a genocidal asshole.
🏴 #FreeWales 🏴
🇮🇪 #IrishUnity 🇮🇪
Personally, I think it should return to the name of Kiliwhimin. Firstly, because the true Scottish name is the proper one, in my personal opinion - and it's also a far cooler name, besides that.
Tertiarily, never name shit after a genocidal asshole.
Should the Highland town of Fort Augustus revert to its original name Kiliwhimin?
🇬🇧Fort Augustus was named in honour of William Augustus (Butcher Cumberland) by General Wade (‘Rebellious Scots to Crush’)
Is it fitting for the town to be named after the man responsible for mass slaughter of Scots?🏴
🇬🇧Fort Augustus was named in honour of William Augustus (Butcher Cumberland) by General Wade (‘Rebellious Scots to Crush’)
Is it fitting for the town to be named after the man responsible for mass slaughter of Scots?🏴
October 27, 2026 at 10:04 AM
🏴 #FreeScotland 🏴
🏴 #FreeWales 🏴
🇮🇪 #IrishUnity 🇮🇪
Personally, I think it should return to the name of Kiliwhimin. Firstly, because the true Scottish name is the proper one, in my personal opinion - and it's also a far cooler name, besides that.
Tertiarily, never name shit after a genocidal asshole.
🏴 #FreeWales 🏴
🇮🇪 #IrishUnity 🇮🇪
Personally, I think it should return to the name of Kiliwhimin. Firstly, because the true Scottish name is the proper one, in my personal opinion - and it's also a far cooler name, besides that.
Tertiarily, never name shit after a genocidal asshole.
🏴 #FreeScotland 🏴
🏴 #FreeWales 🏴
🇮🇪 #IrishUnity 🇮🇪
I don't think there is anywhere in Scotland that deserves to be saddled with an 🏴 name. Every location that bears such name should be renamed to the original name that the Scots gave it.
Any other name is invalid - and an insult to Scottish people.
🏴 #FreeWales 🏴
🇮🇪 #IrishUnity 🇮🇪
I don't think there is anywhere in Scotland that deserves to be saddled with an 🏴 name. Every location that bears such name should be renamed to the original name that the Scots gave it.
Any other name is invalid - and an insult to Scottish people.
Should the Highland town of Fort William be renamed (possibly Inverlochy) ?
As recently as 1874 the town was renamed Fort William, in honour of the sectarian british King William III, the man who sanctioned the Glencoe Massacre ?
🏴🇪🇺😎
As recently as 1874 the town was renamed Fort William, in honour of the sectarian british King William III, the man who sanctioned the Glencoe Massacre ?
🏴🇪🇺😎
October 27, 2026 at 10:42 AM
🏴 #FreeScotland 🏴
🏴 #FreeWales 🏴
🇮🇪 #IrishUnity 🇮🇪
I don't think there is anywhere in Scotland that deserves to be saddled with an 🏴 name. Every location that bears such name should be renamed to the original name that the Scots gave it.
Any other name is invalid - and an insult to Scottish people.
🏴 #FreeWales 🏴
🇮🇪 #IrishUnity 🇮🇪
I don't think there is anywhere in Scotland that deserves to be saddled with an 🏴 name. Every location that bears such name should be renamed to the original name that the Scots gave it.
Any other name is invalid - and an insult to Scottish people.