A few of the music legends who have publicly supported both the Garvaghy Road residents and the ongoing plight of the Palestinian people. 🇮🇪🇵🇸 Paul Weller is pictured alongside two members of Kneecap and also their manager Daniel Lambert outside his Community Cafe in Phibsborough, Dublin. @paulwellerHQ @dlLambo @KNEECAPCEOL

OPINION PIECE; 🪉🇮🇪 The message that went out all around the World in the past few weeks was about the dignity, bravery & entirely peaceful struggle by the residents of Garvaghy Road. It won the hearts & minds of many people far beyond these shores.🪉 This week has seen a typically disgraceful attempt by Unionist politicians (and also some elements within the local media) to try & demonise that wonderful community of Garvaghy Road and also all of the people from across Ireland who came to support them. In some ways that is not surprising. A light has now been shone very brightly on to both the Orange Order & the regressive behaviour of many individuals within political Unionism here. This week Loyalists responded by attacking a memorial to five innocent Catholics who were brutally murdered on the Lower Ormeau Road. They have also filed a new application to march down that Road again in a few weeks time. Loyalists have also continued their "culture war" by attacking Irish and dual signage street signs in the city of Belfast. The lack of condemnation of these attacks by significant figures within political Unionism is frankly staggering... The same politicians who regularly preach about "unlawful protests" and "lawbreaking", but who remain totally silent about attacks on Nationalist communities. There is also a very growing anger within the broader Nationalist community here about one very prominent local broadcaster who is afforded a daily platform on both radio and television to whip up tensions. He offers a daily platform to the most extreme voices within Unionism/Loyalism and it has now reached a point where it is simply no longer tenable. It is time that BBCNI were investigated and held fully accountable for allowing a presenter (funded by taxpayers), to platform unelected individuals, some of whom, have openly declared their intention to both wreck the institutions & perpetuate a "culture war". Those individuals represent a very clear danger to the entire peace process. The Nationalist Community have behaved impeccably throughout the past few weeks. The peaceful resistance at Garvaghy Road was acheived with music and camaraderie. A victory for civil right & human dignity was won by entirely peaceful protests. 🇮🇪 🪉✊ Stand together against sectarianism, stand together against the lies of Unionist politicians & agitators and make your voice heard about the media bias which corrupts our airwaves on a daily basis. 🇮🇪 ✊ 🟢 NO SECOND CLASS CITIZENS 🟢 NO GOING BACK....

My understanding is that there are more revelations still to come in respect of Donaldson. The "hear no evil, see no evil" statements from the DUP are going to come under considerable pressure in the very near future. Watch this space...