Doug Beattie

@BeattieDoug

Unionist MLA for Upper Bann. Former soldier and author. anordinarysoldier.wordpress.com

Portadown, Northern Ireland Joined April 2011

6.3K Following 54K Followers 74K Posts

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Watched the whole of Peelers season 2 in one sitting. Fantastic show with harrowing content at times.

Reminds us, if we need reminding, just how much we owe the men and women of the PSNI.

Well done @StephenNolan

Doug Beattie @BeattieDoug 2d

I could understand this if there was an attempt to amend the bill. But there wasn’t.

The UUP simply rolled in behind the DUP again.

Opportunity to attract people to unionism lost.

Cool FM News Verified account @newsoncool 3d

⛔️🗣NEW: 'I don't have a sectarian bone in my body. I've family learning the Irish language, I've no hostility to it' - Jon Burrows

⁉️@uuponline Leader @JonBurrowsMLA explains why his party is supporting a Petition of Concern against proposed Irish-medium education legislation brought forward by Sinn Féin.

🎤 When asked by Chief Reporter @jamesgould23 if he was anti-Irish, he replied 'absolutely not', insisting his concerns relate to 'duplications' within the proposed legislation.

He added that he felt it was important to explain his party's decision to support the Petition of Concern today.

Mr Burrows described the proposed legislation as a 'bad bill and electioneering by Sinn Féin.'

More on-air and online.

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Doug Beattie @BeattieDoug 3d

The ‘Duke of Wellington’ - also had a pivotal role in Catholic Relief Bill while he was the PM.

In many ways it was his intervention that started the ball rolling for his fellow Irishman to take his seat in the commons.

BBC News NI @BBCNewsNI 4d

A new law could remove what has been described as "the last remaining discriminations against Catholics" in Parliament, nearly 200 years after Irishman Daniel O'Connell fought for more rights for Catholics at Westminster bbc.in/4iupq7x
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Doug Beattie @BeattieDoug Nov 6

Zak Hughes pleaded guilty a year after he committed murder. That would allow him to receive up to 30% off his sentence.

20 years may seem a lot but, for his crime, it’s still on the lower end.

Sky News Verified account @SkyNews Nov 6

BREAKING: Zak Hughes, who beat pregnant mother-of-two Sarah Montgomery to death in her flat in Donaghadee has been jailed for a minimum of 20 years

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Doug Beattie @BeattieDoug Nov 6

Good Character References should play no part, post conviction, in influencing sentencing for serious sexual or domestic abuse crimes. #justice #vawg

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