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Barry McGee

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@guitarquestion1 @BenLowry2 If you lack the ability to recognise your own logic when it's presented back to you with different parameters, I have neither the time nor the inclination to teach you.

@guitarquestion1 @BenLowry2 Once again Brian, you make your own assumption then comment on it as if it's my view. 🀨 Have you forgotten that this thread started with you, not me, suggesting that positive discrimination akin to 50-50 policing might be appropriate to 'clear out' a residential area? πŸ€¦πŸ»β€β™‚οΈ

@guitarquestion1 @BenLowry2 The entire student population of Queens does not exclusively live in the Holylands nor does the entire student population of the Holylands go exclusively to Queens.

@guitarquestion1 @BenLowry2 Firstly, did he write '...it would be vile if student housing...'? No. Secondly.. any area in a five mile radius of a university could be considered suitable for students. By your logic, I could simply ask why is Sandy Row not considered a student area for young nationalists? 🧐

@WJProgressive @StevensonPaddy @BenLowry2 Our entire education system is segregated right up until university but you're still surprised that students choose to live together when moving to a city that has about 60 peace walls to protect differing communities? The Holylands is a symptom of a sectarian state.

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RT @Rubberbandits: I would let someone glass me with a freshly pulled pint just for the few drops that would touch my lips

RT @julianpopov: You eat sausages your whole life but you refuse vaccine because you don’t know what’s in it.

@guitarquestion1 @BenLowry2 You're now asking and answering your own questions with assumption. I'm simply observing that Queen's University is surrounded by student areas from Botanic to the Holylands, to Stranmillis, to the length of the Lisburn Rd but Ben Lowry is fixated on one area. Why?

@guitarquestion1 @BenLowry2 So the question is why are you and Ben so pissed about an area where they majority are one background in a city that elsewhere boasts about sixty peace walls separating such communities?

@guitarquestion1 @BenLowry2 No and no and that's why we now have equal employment legislation. If I'm not mistaken, it's also illegal to discriminate housing on the basis of religious or political affiliation. However, the majority of houses in the Holylands are not social housing and private rentals.

@guitarquestion1 @BenLowry2 However, addressing your unrelated question, why are you surprised student populations are segregated when education right up until that point is segregated? There are many rows of student streets off Tate's Ave where accommodation is equally squalid, what's their demographics?

@BenLowry2 @guitarquestion1 Are you seriously giving equivalence to the makeup of the police force of a country to the makeup of twenty streets in Belfast? Jesus wept. πŸ€¦πŸ»β€β™‚οΈ

Foolish as Varadkar was, at least the south had time to make a correction before Christmas and their numbers are now well down. In the north, our numbers are going UP as we open up for a week of manic panic-buying before we have to lockdown right up to Christmas week.

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