Sara Morrison vs Belfast Film Festival - Thread 2

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Continuation of previous thread - don’t have all the details to hand to add here, so if someone can pop them on, pls do! Want to get this up quickly!

Bernice

It was Micheal - Laurence McKeown is an IRA convicted criminal and director of BFF

Like I say, there's a lot of OBE and Dr and Prof dropping going on on the lists of people Deborah Boyd has been on boards with on CH entries.

Briefly googling those people then brings up their CH entry and so it goes on.

Ah ok. I was going from your post last night! 😆

But she’s used it across multiple sources fraudulently over a long time.

If Naomi brought in an expert witness and called them Profressor but they were only a visiting profressor years ago their evidence would rightly be disregarded as they are liars lairs pants on fire. 🔥

Same for Debbie Pro Trans Boyd

This whole thing is like a Netflix documentary 😵‍💫

The 'and tutor' bit is fine. They are different jobs at different institutions and visiting professorship isn’t a transferable job title. Someone could quite reasonably be a visiting professor at one and a tutor, or bursar, or assistant duck keeper, at the other.

It so should be!

Hmm. I wonder who else might be spending the weekend googling DB?

Hi Nick. Loving your coverage. Sorry for messing up your search results. 😀

I should sleep more. I need to keep correcting myself and my spelling is going to pot.

It is Bernie and I am eternally sorry!!!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn0gj42l4zeo

DB is easy to find on FB - she's the one with the side profile picture and the eyeshadow. If you look at who has liked that photo - michelle devlin is one. I assume its the same michelle devlin. How can the ET not check in advance for that kind of bias??? and Michael McKeown appears to be union rep / director for the NIPSA union which is supportive of LGBT rights although there is nothing about what he personally believes that I can find online. This is all public information btw that anyone can search for.

That is ridiculous. And screenshot I hope.

There is actually a long standing issue - not just in NI but GB as well - of the same people being recycled around public boards, because if you've served on one, that's evidence you can serve on another. There are often calls to get fresh blood on the boards, with varying degrees of success.

Ironically the NI system should be better at getting in fresh blood, because the recruitment process uses blind sifting instead of being CV based like the GB system.

But then you run up against NI being small and insular. I've been scratching my head wondering if I know Sturgeon J, because her face looks incredibly familiar to me, and I can only assume I've encountered her eons ago but can't remember where from. This happens to me all the time when NI stories come up.

Bloody hell! 😳

No worries! I hope the sleep fairy brings the zzzzzz. It's hard work with a baba 💪

I can see her picture but everything else is locked down

It's a common surname in NI, I think, but... has someone attempted to check whether they're related?

‘The Blue Room’ is the debut novel from author Michael McKeown, who has won a number of literary awards for short fiction and had a dozen short stories published. He is a leading trade unionist with NIPSA (Northern Ireland Public Service Alliance), the largest union in Northern Ireland. He has previously worked as a personnel officer, teacher, civil servant, factory worker, labourer, barman, fairground operator and security guard at various times and in various countries. He holds several degrees from Queen’s University, Belfast including an MA in English (Creative Writing).
Amazon Review.

Another person writing a book about The Troubles.
Just like Laurence McKeown of BFF ex IRA who now considers himself to be respectable author and Doctor.(I think he got his doctorate from Queens?)

Not related, and have never met each other, I presume? Hmm

The [female] journalist's note was given to NC's team after lunch on Friday, and was read out in court. It didn't contain any background on DB, it was just a TT/NW style 'semi-transcript' taken of the relevant section of proceedings.

The [male] journalist's conversation with NC's team speculating about what was being discussed during the break, and mention that he'd ask to make representations about it if the judge came back with directions about language used, happened on Wednesday. While the break was going on, as far as I could deduce.

@AnnoyingAlarm and @SionnachRuadh - thanks. Was just playing devil's advocate, wondering if we were putting too much weight on this issue.

https://amzn.eu/d/aXDf5fI

Quite sweet that the first review is by a ?relative....

Not sure about the review stating there is gratuitous sexualisation and that the main female characters are described as femme fatales...

I'm definitely getting too into it! But having fun!

It's always good to do that. It's one of the (many) reasons I love this board so much.

I'm finding it interesting that journalists can pass notes to the lawyers at all. I'd have thought they were there just to report. It's fascinating.

If you had to complete a Top Trumps of Tribunal Moments, all this <waves hands> intrigue makes all the reversing into bins and sixth best options look positively pedestrian.