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I declare an interest as a member of the Association of Loyal Orangewomen. Yes, Mr Carroll, we exist and we are proud women. There are moments when the Assembly must decide whether its principles mean anything at all. This is one such moment. A Minister cannot participate in an unlawful protest that obstructs a…
FlaggedSectarianism, hate crime and community relationsCriteria met: Dog-whistle messaging.
Another bizarre twist to the debacle and a ploy straight out of the Trump playbook is to accuse your opponent of that which you are doing yourself. The DUP has convinced itself that Sinn Féin started the dispute in a clandestine attempt to goad it into collapsing the Assembly and the Executive. Sinn Féin did not…
FlaggedSectarianism, hate crime and community relationsCriteria met: Identity framing, Sectarian or communal antagonism, Cultural grievance politics, Dog-whistle messaging, Controversy escalation.
Go raibh maith agat, a Cheann Comhairle. It really takes an obscene lack of self-awareness for the so-called leaders of political unionism in the Assembly to attempt to exclude four democratically elected Sinn Féin Ministers when they have not one vote between them. For Emma Little-Pengelly, who has no votes, Jon…
I thank the Member for giving way. Does the Member agree that one of the most chilling scenes that we saw was that of democratically elected Members from Sinn Féin and the SDLP linking arms with dangerous dissident republican terrorists who are pledged to the murder of police officers? Further, does the Member agree…
FlaggedLegacy of the Troubles, victims and paramilitarismCriteria met: Identity framing, Dog-whistle messaging.
It is hard to start after the kind of gaslighting of unionism that we have just heard. Nevertheless, the debate is really important for the House to have, because the rule of law is fundamental to any society. At the heart of the debate is this question: can lawmakers be lawbreakers? That is what is at the heart of…
FlaggedSectarianism, hate crime and community relationsCriteria met: Identity framing, Sectarian or communal antagonism, Cultural grievance politics, Dog-whistle messaging.
The people of the Garvaghy Road have been retraumatised: forced, 28 years on, back to a place of fear, pain and uncertainty that they thought they would never face again. That pain has reached far beyond their community, reopening wounds across the North, across Ireland and resonating with people across the world. Now…
FlaggedDecided on a second assessment.Parades, bonfires and commemorationsCriteria met: Identity framing, Cultural grievance politics.
For the sake of clarity up front, we will not support the various motions of no confidence in Ministers before the Assembly today. They are a distraction from what we actually need to do in this place. Let me say first of all that I and my party welcome the Secretary of State's decision to ban the parade. We should…
The motion is, above all else, about the rule of law. It is about the cardinal principle — I will not give way during this speech — that everyone is subject to the law, whether they are the most prosperous and powerful or the poorest and least powerful. The rule of law applies to us all. This is not a new road for…
FlaggedDecided on a second assessment.Legacy of the Troubles, victims and paramilitarismCriteria met: Identity framing, Dog-whistle messaging.
I was born in 1998, the year that the Drumcree dispute was brought to an end and the Good Friday Agreement was signed. It was supposed to be a new start for the community. The people of Northern Ireland were promised not just peace but progress, progress that has never been fully realised because of the poor political…