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Ballymena Race Riots 🪶 The Good Friday Agreement In Action

Gearóid Ó Loingsigh ☭ writing in Substack on 11-June-2025.The race riots in Ballymena have shocked some, but are not one bit surprising, not only because we have already had racial disturbances in the north of Ireland with loyalist paramilitaries kicking in people’s doors and moving them out, but because on the one hand Ballymena is a sectarian cesspit and on the other

Lynx By Ten To The Power Of One Thousand Six Hundred And Eighty Eight

Ten links to a diverse range of opinion that might be of interest to TPQ readers. They are selected not to invite agreement but curiosity. Readers can submit links to pieces they find thought provoking.Before We Conform, Or Condemn, Let Us At Least Be CuriousSt. Patrick's Athletic V Drogheda United - PreviewLeague of Ireland live: Derry City v Galway United, Cork City v Bohemians, St

Sectarian Murder In 1982 🪶 When Revenge Ruled Belfast

Brandon Sullivan ✍ The murders of Karen McKeown and William Nixon in 1982 have stuck in my mind ever since I learned about them.The two victims, completely different from each other except it seems, their membership of the Protestant/Unionist/Loyalist community. In Ms McKeown’s case, her faith was an important part of her life and she worked at a church, teaching children about the

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Natsis

TPQ ⚈ A page for those who hate so that they are kept at a distance from those who do not. Do not rejoice in his defeat, you men.For though the bastard is dead, the bitch that bore him is again in heat - Bertolt BrechtNationalists Ireland, or Natsis for short, every so often make an appearance on TPQ where neither they nor their warped sense of superiority coupled to their

Lynx By Ten To The Power Of One Thousand Six Hundred And Eighty Seven

Ten links to a diverse range of opinion that might be of interest to TPQ readers. They are selected not to invite agreement but curiosity. Readers can submit links to pieces they find thought provoking.Before We Conform, Or Condemn, Let Us At Least Be CuriousLabour's War On The Disabled Puts Tory Cuts To ShameGood morning Britain – prepare to be told yet again that decline is all you

Achilles Versus Hector 21st Century Style

Caoimhin O’Muraile ☭ Most of us will have read or heard the story of the legendary battle between alpha Greek warrior Achilles and the Trojan Prince, Hector, during the mythical Trojan Wars.It invokes images of the apex fighter, Achilles, chasing Hector around the walls of Troy the ancient city which is the background of the fabled Trojan Wars, a city supposedly under siege for ten years.

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