Profile picture
Mark Durkan
@markdurkan
, 4 tweets, 2 min read Read on Twitter
Powerful, moving #GreatBritishInjustice @StephenNolan exposes crushing cruelty to #MaguireSeven. Asked by Gerry & Sarah Conlon, I got TBlair to agree to fully apologise & assert total innocence of #GuildfordFour & Maguires in 2005. But events even cheated them on its form. 1/
Downing St spinners had BBC/Sky News lead at midnight on apology due during PMQs (w Maguires & GerryConlon in gallery). Speaker then told Eddie McGrady he couldn't call him for a Q as LibDems protesting protocol! PM apology then given to camera in Commons office not Despatch Box.
G Conlon & V Maguire distressed when told Q not to be called etc. Pres McAleese (who'd stressed to me need for Maguires to get full apology alongside Gerry et al) also perplexed. Gerry felt it was devalued for others. All this by phone as not in London but due to be with Sarah.
I called with Sarah later & apologised that shallow antics had impacted on the apology. We watched again. The PM's words meant all to her for what they should mean for the Maguires as well as for Gerry & Guiseppe. We hugged & she whispered "Now I'm not afraid to die any more".
Missing some Tweet in this thread?
You can try to force a refresh.

Like this thread? Get email updates or save it to PDF!

Subscribe to Mark Durkan
Profile picture

Get real-time email alerts when new unrolls are available from this author!

This content may be removed anytime!

Twitter may remove this content at anytime, convert it as a PDF, save and print for later use!

Try unrolling a thread yourself!

how to unroll video

1) Follow Thread Reader App on Twitter so you can easily mention us!

2) Go to a Twitter thread (series of Tweets by the same owner) and mention us with a keyword "unroll" @threadreaderapp unroll

You can practice here first or read more on our help page!

Related hashtags

#GreatBritishInjustice #MaguireSeven #GuildfordFour

More from @markdurkan see all

Profile picture
Mark Durkan
@markdurkan
Anti-backstoppers putting big weight on par 50 Dec'17 EU-UK Report. NB It applies to any *new* regulatory divergence in future. Terms actually covered in Juncker-Tusk letter of 14 Jan ie EU won't *impose* new regs & (unlike detractors) truly respect terms of Strands 1 & 2. /1
Anti-backstoppers claiming par 50 needs consent for backstop itself.
Not so!
Brazen given Brexiters' previous lines cheering UKSC ruling neither Brexit nor its treaty terms are subject to NI consent.
Existing ambit of Strands 1 & 2 protected by backstop, jeopardised without. /2
False arguments re "top-down imposition by EU" via Bew et al = bunkum. Misdirection distracts from attempt to ensure that future "UK-wide" measures can override & undermine existing areas of N-S cooperation, harmonisation etc & encroach envelope of Strand 1 devolved powers. /3
Read 10 tweets
Profile picture
Mark Durkan
@markdurkan
As one involved in negotiation of #GFA (dealing with all parties not just one) I have to refute this misconstrued "Fundamental" @TomMcTague & L Bew. Anxious about "top-down imposition" & GFA's delicacy? Why blindly uphold imposing convulsive Brexit on NI that voted Remain? /1
I would not pretend the backstop fully protects #GFA. (It is mitigation/insurance & wouldn't make up existing GFA deficits eg Rights). But given the impulses & ignorance shown in London's chaotic approaches to date noone should pretend that GFA would be upheld without it. /2
I am disappointed that Lord Bew invokes "all parties" in such a tendentious appraisal. His own top-down imposition on us? Other parties have shown more consistent adherence to letter & spirit of GFA than L Trimble & have well-founded different views on Brexit & backstop. /3
Read 10 tweets
Profile picture
Mark Durkan
@markdurkan
It might have been more welcome that UK govt finally look to GFA strands for Brexit answers if their paper was not so selective & distortive about "safeguarding". A pander paper slanted to curb Strand 2 potential, contort Strand 1 workings & ignore Strand 3 (&2) possibilities.
If a main point of paper is to show potential inputs for NI Exec & if serious about not altering the remit of NSMC, why not highlight par 17 of Strand 2? This would enable NI Exec views agreed in NSMC to be represented appropriately at relevant EU meetings. A unique advantage.
Why nothing on Strand 3? Could highlight bespoke input under par 7 on BIIC for NI Ministers at meetings of B & I govs on matters at their level. This might include eg those immigration issues where DUP now say they want NI to have comparability with South.
Read 5 tweets

Related threads

Profile picture
Tim Clare
@TimClarePoet
Ok, ok. 1 Like = 1 interesting magic system / cost for casting magic. I don't guarantee that all of these will be original as this is pretty well-trodden territory, but they'll certainly be made up on the spot by me.
1. Spellcasting feeds on ambient heat. Magic users leave trails of frost, ice crystals glinting in their hair. Strongest wizards operate in equatorial regions - deserts, tropical rainforests home to key mage colleges.
2. Magic requires pain. Pain is the remorse of matter, magic the expression of this remorse. Mages practice self-flagellation, electrocution, ice baths in order to cast spells. More powerful effects possible in throes of agony. Mage duels quickly escalate as combatants are hurt.
Read 203 tweets
Profile picture
Pale_Primate
@PALE_Primate
Okay, I'm going to do a thread going over & critiquing Ryan Faulk's (The Alternative Hypothesis) & Sean Last's recent videos.
Starting with Ryan's

Ryan starts out with saying that whites aren't politically all that exceptional. He says this because people in Europe don't support freedom of speech as much as people in America. Yes, his argument really is this stupid.
Read 120 tweets
Profile picture
🐳🌌
@flyfarahway
yoonjin time travel au

On his 55th birthday, Kim Seokjin, also known in his neighborhood as “insufferable old Kim”, makes a wish to feel genuine happiness. The next day he wakes up 22 years old again and on the day he first meets his ex-boyfriend, Min Yoongi.

#YJweek18 #day1
to anyone who might read, qt only & don't reply so thread doesn't break cuz this is a looong au and my first uwu
there is some swearing just a heads up and this is angst w a happy ending so im sorry in advance
also this is lowkey inspired by Miss Granny (ph ver). haven’t watched the film but there’s a song on the OST that just FITS and i cry

here's the song:
Read 721 tweets
Profile picture
Dannielle Blumenthal PhD
@DrDannielle
1) $1 —
The truth is simpler than we think to apprehend.

It’s coffee time.
Thursday, August 16, 2018.
2) “The Messiah’s coming is not simply the redemption of the Jews...but a general change in the entire world...we will recognize that God encompasses past, present and future as one.” - Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson (The Lubavitcher Rebbe), RIP
3) Oneness means that in the future there are no religions. All will simply know that God is real - the Truth will be undeniable. And so we will serve Him together because doing otherwise simply would not make any sense.
Read 219 tweets
Profile picture
Rebecca Traister
@rtraister
Sarah Huckabee Sanders is upset about "silence from the left" re Sam Bee calling Ivanka a "feckless cunt" for swanning around on social media, hugging her son amidst news of children being ripped from their parents by ICE. So I won't be silent:
deadline.com/2018/05/white-…
1. Language's ability to inflict harm depends on power of who's wielding it & against whom it's being wielded. Not just individuals, ie, it's not about Bee/Ivanka or Roseanne/Jarrett, all of whom have power. It's about power of entities & ideas individuals are representing.
2. So when Bee goes after Ivanka for supporting an administration that's doing grievous harm to the bodies, families, lives of human beings, she's acting on behalf of less powerful people (immigrants ripped from their children) against the grotesquely powerful & abusive.
Read 11 tweets
Profile picture
Milad Jokar
@Milad_Jokar
#Total CEO Patrick Pouyanné: [#Trump's] announcement on #Iran clearly is pushing the price up. And I would not be surprised to see $100 per barrel in the coming months because, clearly, you will have some impacts. 
#Oil #IranDeal
csis.org/analysis/conve…
#Pouyanné: we know we are back to the situation we were before the 2016 agreement, and in the meantime #Iran has grown its exportation by 1 million barrel(s) per day. So this 1 million barrel(s) per day is in question today.
#IranDeal
#Total CEO Pouyanné: We have decided to look to that project in Iran because of the #JCPOA, which means end of secondary sanctions. As soon as the U.S. decide to put back in place the secondary sanctions, there is no possibility for us to be a major company, a global company.
Read 9 tweets

Trending hashtags

#trusted #Oil #powerful #control #USMilitary #TrustThePlan #Jisr #EdgarDegas #TeamPatriot #militia #protecting #nzsecretsanta #gears #Aqrabat #Turkish #withstand #AQ #Latakia #WeCanNotDivide #PoK #EmbraceLove #autismwomen #MedicaidMatters #UrbabNaxals #RockOn
Follow Us on Twitter!

Did Thread Reader help you today?

Support us! We are indie developers!

This site is made by just three indie developers on a laptop doing marketing, support and development! Read more about the story.

Become a Premium Member ($3.00/month or $30.00/year) and get exclusive features!

Become Premium

Too expensive? Make a small donation by buying us coffee ($5) or help with server cost ($10)

Donate via Paypal Become our Patreon

Thank you for your support!