Cancellation of WRN NI event at Féile festival.

In which case, all should be FOIable?

Féile's solicitor's statement gives more detail than Féile's. The taxpayer is funding Féile, I believe https://x.com/OMuirighSols/status/2082453362776183005

I hope they book the waterfront or a larger venue and get lots of support. I will go if I can get a ticket.

So what exactly has happened here?

it seems that Feile and WRNI met in advance of the court action and made an agreement upon which WRNI withdrew the legal action? Yet Feile are spinning this as a court win for them?!?!

what is the actual story here.

I see Féile an Phobail are linking WRN to attacks on An Fhéile, but also on 'the West Belfast Community' - actually expanding the range of their misinformation/slurs against WRN.

I hope at least some of the women of West Belfast can see this for what it is - supporting women, but only the kind who are acceptable to An Fhéile, not the sex-realist kind who are somehow a threat to 'the West Belfast Community' .
Maybe some of them will even turn out to support the alt.event.

It looks like this is an attempt to portray terfy women as rightwing, anti-Nationalist, and xenophobic as well as anti-trans - like women in the US are force-teamed with the extreme right and Trump - therefore every right-minded person must condemn evil WRN ['supported by JK Rowling' as I saw in one report🙄] and applaud wonderful An Fhéile for standing up for the marginalised and oppressed..

I hope WRN notes that suggestion that they are somehow against 'the West Belfast Community' and gets ahead of it, because it is quite potent.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cpq8nz5yrrvo

https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/sinead-in-no-show-row-over-violence/a/149801110.html

'SINEAD O'Connor has withdrawn from a Belfast festival claiming the organisers told her not to speak out against IRA violence. The singer had agreed to perform at the Feile an Phobail, west Belfast's community festival, on August 6.But after claiming she had been asked by the organisers not to mention punishment beatings, in a republican area where hundreds of victims have been shot, she said she was not prepared to go on stage.'

'Today's outcome at the High Court' - implying it was a court decision, when in fact it seems that wasn't the case.

Low-down sneaky behaviour, that is.

So WRN NI lost, it sounds like they caved in fact, the men win again, very disappointing WRN NI.

That's the spirit! Don't sugar-coat the exclusion, and hopefully the replacement event will make a big impression.

Thank you for lifting the spirits and rallying the terfs, Róisín

Looks like it is on elsewhere. From X

Róisín Michaux

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Confirmed: Women's Rights Network NI have not been allowed to participate in
FeileBelfast due to their position on women being a real definable biological phenomenon. However, the de-programmed women's rights event will indeed take place elsewhere in Belfast on the same day (Tuesday 4 August).

Get in touch, we're going TERFing.

BBC said it didn’t make it into court. Both parties produced a statement which was given to the judge. But there wasn’t a ruling. Will be interesting to see next steps and where the WRN holds the talk. I wonder if they are gearing up for a proper discrimination case, which I heard the other day could take months/ years so not possible before the Feile. Perhaps and I hope they’re playing the long game.

I suppose it's a case of, pick your battles. Especially after the Sara Morrison decision, maybe? Obviously if the event can go ahead, that's good.

I just listened in to BBC Radio Ulster and it doesn't look like there was a ruling as the court action didn't go ahead. They also sounded a bit puzzled about the conflicting statements.

WRN's statement looks as if they are putting the best possible spin on still being excluded from An Fhéile, whereas An Fhéile can crow that they've won and are still standing up for the marginalised..
I'm looking forward to seeing what the ruling actually said.

Yes, very puzzling.

I wonder why they withdrew?

AM is already on her high horse

https://x.com/i/status/2082409383200244150

But the festival said it was a High court decision?

They are a bunch of kids playing dress up.

I can understand terms being altered over time- see 'vandal' and 'hun', etc. But generally speaking I'd have thought this was a slower process, and didn't happen while the victims of certain atrocities were still living.

On bbc now. WRN are planning to hold the talk somewhere else in the city but just not at Feile. Hope I can get a ticket!

Maybe the event is still happening but they've come up with some fudge that it's not technically Faile, like maybe they've been allocated some Faile funding but not the brand?

So it didn’t go to court. Both parties produced statements and WRN withdrew.

That's a bit fucking odd.

Sorry, cross post!

The statement from WRN NI seems much more conciliatory than that of Feile