“When the earth is put on my coffin we will still be in the United Kingdom” – Peter Robinson, a former leader of the DUP in Northern Ireland.
I concur and don't see the momentum for a United Ireland
July 15, 2025
Sinn Fein leader Mary Lou McDonald Rof I : "Northern Ireland ‘makes no economic sense’ and called for a border poll within the next five years. Oh, this should cheer up the Unionists. 😉
Aug 16, 2025
La Datcha, a superyacht owned by Siberian-born Oleg Tinkov, arrived in Belfast coming from Port Ellen in Scotland.
He founded Tinkoff Bank in 2006 .
Yacht has its own helipad.
Sept 21, 2025
Sinn Féin will back Catherine Connolly, a left -eaning Independent, to be the next president of R of I. She is for a united Ireland . McGregor and Geldof aren't running.
Heather Humphreys, center-right Fine Gael from County Monaghan, near the border with NI, is a member of a Protestant church. Her grandfather signed a petition against Irish self-government in 1912, when all of Ireland was still a part of the UK.
Jim Gavin of the Fianna Fáil, which is the largest party in the Irish Parliament, is running.
Oct 15, 2025
A woman In Londonderry , NI ,whose home was badly damaged during flooding in 2017 described a public meeting hosted by the Department for Infrastructure (DfI) as a "tick-box exercise". Just bureaucrats checking boxes
Nov 5, 2025
The Harland and Wolff site in the Port of Belfast, NI was searched for unexploded WW2 bombs in preparation for a defense contract ,and no bombs were found.
Cleary Contracting, a local company, completed the job..
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