Darach MacDonald @DarachMac

Writer, commentator and editor with a PhD and 40-plus years experience of professional journalism in Europe and North America. Author of seven books, so far. darachmac.blogspot.com Border, Ireland Joined January 2009

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Darach MacDonald @DarachMac

3 years ago

Joe Mulhern, the Man of No Property, the founder of Sandino's in Derry – the best socialist bar in the world – has passed away. No pasaran, vive Sandino, vive Joe.

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Derry University Group @derry_group

3 years ago

Great piece in this morning’s @DerryNow on our new billboard campaign. DUG’s @conal_mcfeely asks why are other Irish cities set to grow over the next 20 years, while Derry is set to shrink? A university we run ourselves will restore our voice and reverse the trend, he says.

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Derry University Group @derry_group

3 years ago

Today is a profoundly disappointing day for Derry. #WeShallOvercome

Gerry Quinn @gerryquinn57

3 years ago

On Wednesday, the US president will speak at the new Belfast campus at the University of Ulster…should have been built in Derry. Derry, which has been crying out for a university since the 1960s. Derry, which has the highest levels of poverty. theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

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Darach MacDonald @DarachMac

3 years ago

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Darach MacDonald @DarachMac

3 years ago

The Tommy Makem Arts and Community Centre in Keady, Co. Armagh, is the next venue for our film, Border 1921-2021: A Centennial Calibration, on Wednesday, 12 April at 8pm. Admission £5. (Signed copies of the book @ £5 available on the night.)

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Darach MacDonald @DarachMac

4 years ago

Speaking truth to power. Local politicians accepting 'crumbs from the table' - Conal McFeely derrynow.com/news/home/1020…

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An Táin Arts Centre @antainarts

4 years ago

A hard hitting feature-length documentary film, 'Border 1921 - 2021: A Centennial Calibration' counts the huge changes and left deep scars on both sides of the Irish border. Screening at An Táin Arts Centre, Wednesday 1st February at 8pm. #louthchat @DarachMac @dundalktourist

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Darach MacDonald @DarachMac

4 years ago

Rishi Sunak's new anti-union legislation means when workers democratically vote to strike, they could be forced to work and sacked if they don’t. Join the campaign to protect the right to strike. megaphone.org.uk/petitions/prot… via @megaphoneuk

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An Táin Arts Centre @antainarts

4 years ago

Based on Darach MacDonald’s new book-length poem 'Border 1921-2021: A Centennial Calibration', counts the huge changes and left deep scars on both sides of the Irish border. Screening at An Táin Arts Centre, Wednesday 1st February at 8pm. #louthchat @DarachMac @dundalktourist

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Darach MacDonald @DarachMac

4 years ago

Please support this important campaign to save journalists' jobs in the north west of Ireland: megaphone.org.uk/petitions/save… via @megaphoneuk

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Derry University Group @derry_group

4 years ago

What's happening currently to Radio Foyle is the Belfast-Derry relationship in microcosm. The isolation of the North West - no university, no new roads, the closure of railways, shipyards and now our radio station - is deliberate. It must be challenged. irishtimes.com/ireland/2022/1…

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Darach MacDonald @DarachMac

4 years ago

@Seamusdo @BuswellsHotel @NUJofficial A dry dock is a fitting launch pad!

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Darach MacDonald @DarachMac

4 years ago

Don’t miss it! m.facebook.com/story.php?stor…

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Derry University Group @derry_group

4 years ago

Train wreck interview from UU on @BBCRadioFoyle this morning, trying to explain away why they can't increase numbers in Derry to more than 6000. Peddling the old lie 'students are free to go where they want'. Not if you starve the campus of resources and courses for decades. 1/3

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Garrett Hargan @GAHargan

4 years ago

Important when being critical of reps not speaking out that we recognise people have called for accountability over uni provision and faced roadblocks. Cllr Farrell has spoken out on this issue many times. As mentioned earlier, so have PBP, Independents and Aontu.

Rory Farrell @rory_farrell

4 years ago

1,000 days since the agreement to produce university expansion proposals for #Derry. No proposals for 10,000 students, no commitment from @Economy_NI minister, and numbers at Magee remain at 2015 level.

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Danny Morrison @molloy1916

4 years ago

The Troubles explained

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Irish Foreign Ministry @dfatirl

4 years ago

The Department of Foreign Affairs 🇮🇪 is proud to partner with @NLIreland and @seamusheaneyest on Postcards from Heaney Country - short films of four poems by Seamus Heaney ☘️, launched today. Take a moment to enjoy one of his most beautiful works...

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Darach MacDonald @DarachMac

4 years ago

Loyal Belfast will be doing it 'on the cheap' when King Charles calls on his tour of remembrance. Unlike London's St Paul's, Edinburgh's St Giles and Llandaff Cathedral in Wales, St Anne's dispensed with its world-renowned professional choir in July. #KingCharles #MatthewOwensUK

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Derry University Group @derry_group

4 years ago

Odd boast. This policy is also known as transference and follows a decades-old UU policy of ‘incubate, replicate and eradicate’. (i.e. grow in Derry, copy to Belfast, then close in Derry.) Already this week, Derry Med School jobs are being advertised for Belfast.

Derry Journal @derryjournal

4 years ago

Ulster University has said its new campus in Belfast has taken its lead from 'innovations and enhancements already deployed at Ulster University's Derry campus.' derryjournal.com/education/uu-b…