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Huge thanks for all the positive feedback on the
@RTE_PrimeTime
Housing Week.
It was a massive effort from a team of brilliant colleagues - on and off air.
Thanks to everyone who took part and all who got in touch with their own perspectives.
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Petition for branded delivery boxes to be banned Nov-Jan 🎅
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Really sad to learn that Samantha Cruise who featured in my
@RTE_PrimeTime
report earlier this year on hospital-acquired Covid has died.
She was a brave advocate for herself and others patients with CF.
May she rest in peace.
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“We’re lucky the country’s not called Switzerland”.., 1,700 volunteer hours to uncover, restore and paint (with lighthouse paint).
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We were PCR tested yesterday at 5.30pm and the results came back a few minutes ago.
Less than 24 hour turnaround.
In Christmas week when the health service has never been busier, that's really impressive.
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Minding the
@RTE_PrimeTime
presenter’s chair is a huge privilege but I’m excited to get back to reporting soon. The ship is in brilliant hands.
#rtept
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Happy Pride! 😊 🌈
In our
#Pride
celebration this week, Prime Time's
@LouiseByrneNews
shares her story - talking about coming out, her journey to motherhood, passion for her job and supporting the LGBTQ+ community
#RTEGuide
#PrideIssue
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On Raglan Road, mid-interview, Paddy Maloney takes a tin whistle from his inside pocket and unprompted, begins to play. For a moment there was Paddy, me, Ken the camera op, and *that* tune. Magic.
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A 20ft ‘I’...
One of 80+ EIRE signs around the coast has been found and painstakingly restored in Dalkey.
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One night. Two matches.
🇮🇪 Bohs v Rovers = 100 fans.
🇩🇰 Denmark v Russia = 25,000 fans.
A stark contrast in Covid responses so tonight
@RTE_PrimeTime
I’ll ask why can’t we do what Denmark has done?
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Rest in peace, Paddy.
And I said, let grief be a fallen leaf at the dawning of the day.
On Raglan Road, mid-interview, Paddy Maloney takes a tin whistle from his inside pocket and unprompted, begins to play. For a moment there was Paddy, me, Ken the camera op, and *that* tune. Magic.
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"I'm standing outside here locked out of this estate."
Really grateful that Peter spoke to me in Maynooth today. His frustration reflects the worries of lots of buyers.
"You are taking these homes away from the buyers"
@LouiseByrneNews
speaks to Peter Melrose, a disappointed first-time buyer who was hoping to purchase a home in Mullen Park in Maynooth |
#rtept
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"If we stand by and allow frontline health workers and vulnerable people in developing countries not to be vaccinated while the rich north gets on with vaccinating perfectly healthy young people - then I hope the history books write that down."
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If someone doesn’t launch something from here really soon I’ll be disappointed.
Mountmellick... not Dublin 4.
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10 weeks later Batman and Spider-Man are back in school.
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Some GREAT news.
Two months after contracting Covid-19 in hospital, Paddy Clancy tells me he is being discharged today.
Paddy was readmitted to hospital after his powerful contribution to
@RTE_PrimeTime
but he's finally going home this afternoon.
"It kills people like me. It can kill people like me. And I'm not ready to go."
77-year-old Paddy Clancy tells
@LouiseByrneNews
about contracting Covid-19 in Sligo Hospital |
#rtept
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Happy New Year.
Here’s to a different version of this photo in 2022.
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New one for the housing lexicon from
@RoryHearne
on The Tonight Show - Vampire funds.
"They're not vulture funds anymore, they're vampires feeding off generation rent."
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Approximately three thousand people attended the demonstration against the visit of Donald Trump in Dublin.
@rtenews
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My thoughts on 2020...
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Trump balloon is up at the Garden of Remembrance, Dublin City Centre. All six meters of it...
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Today (it was busy, so it’s not really today anymore) was my birthday which means I am now the same age as my European shoe size. Ht
@janegarvey1
Delighted to reach this important shoe-related milestone.
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Eir CEO tells
@DuncanSmithTD
that some of the staff hired to run Eir customer care this year couldn't work from home because, in some cases, their connection wasn't good enough.
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All this week
@RTE_PrimeTime
we're shining a light on the problem of a generation - unaffordable housing.
How did we get here, how big is the challenge, and can the Government plans work?
🏠Watch, read, listen 🏠
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"Baton down the fear or it will take over.
"One hour at a time."
Nurse Lisa dispensing with platitudes and offering pragmatic, reassuring advice to a desperately worried ICU patient.
The small details in this doc that would floor you.
#RTEInvestigates
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This is Ian. A homeless man who rescued a 14 year-old girl when the Manchester bomb exploded. An extraordinary story on
@morningireland
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Six months after a mechanical digger destroyed Lidl in Fortunestown during the snow of Storm Emma the store has reopened. Coming up
@morningireland
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Very lucky he wasn’t lost to us just yet. Couldn’t have asked for a better co-presenter. Big thanks to
@mcculld
and the brilliant
@RTE_PrimeTime
team for a super two weeks.
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Where do you start?
Hello and welcome, anyway.
Really excited to join
@MiriamOCal
on
@RTE_PrimeTime
tonight.
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Stunning images. German Luftwaffe plane transporting Corona patients from Bergamo to Cologne.
Gelebte europäische Solidarität: seit 6.00 Uhr morgens fliegt das
@Team_Luftwaffe
italienische
#Corona
-Patienten von
#Bergamo
nach
@koeln_de
, die dann in nordrhein-westfälischen Kliniken behandelt werden. 🇪🇺
#covid19
#gemeinsamgegencorona
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The first steps to a new life in Ireland. ..11 Syrian refugee families arrive at Mosney. There were 23 children in this group. The youngest just 5 months.
@rtenews
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The pick of an extraordinary series of post-match interviews.
This team is full of articulate, inspirational ambassadors 🇮🇪
'This is for all the young kids growing up - now they have something to dream for'
Wrapped in her Donegal flag, goal hero Amber Barrett speaks to
@Corktod
📺 Watch live -
📱 Updates -
#rtesoccer
#SCOIRL
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What an incredible team for little girls to look up to. Literally.
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Conor Skehan in today's Sindo -
"Studies all over the world show that, in the long-term, the renter edges ahead of the owner in terms of lifelong social and economic advantages."
Can anyone point me to one of these studies?
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“It was that tough I considered pulling out. I’m so glad I kept going.”
A Fingal councillor who was assaulted during the local election campaign has topped the poll in Ongar.
Independent, Tania Doyle said she was "very emotional" after receiving 2,057 votes.
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This, in effect, holds open the door to big funds to bulk buy housing estates and then lease them to the State.
The only funds being penalised for buying houses are those who want to rent them privately.
If the fund buys and then rents to the State they are exempt.
Institutional funds bulk buying homes to lease to the state will avoid the new 10% rate of stamp duty that was introduced to stop such investors buying up houses ahead of first-time buyers
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Sam was extremely kind to me and the crew when we met at her Lucan home.
Thinking of her family, friends and boyfriend who must be devastated.
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“What if you’re a normal c*** who doesn’t have a garden?”
Quite the quote from one of the contributors in Dublin City centre on
@RTE_PrimeTime
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"If the love of a newsroom could cure you, it would" - Hilary McGouran beautifully summing up the affection for Keelin.
Thank you
@theonlymrsoft
and family for sharing so much and creating a gorgeous, inspiring documentary.
#Keelin
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Current view from the Kylemore Rd. This is where tens of thousands of parish buses have parked. Here’s the crowd on its 5k walk.
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UPDATE 💉
@IrishPharmacy
says pharmacies could give the J&J vaccine to under 40s "tomorrow".
As soon as there is a revised protocol it will be implemented "that day", IPU confirms.
"Pharmacists want to play their part. We hope that the HSE will empower us to do so."
NEW 💉
@IrishPharmacy
is warning that Covid vaccines are going in the bin.
"If each pharmacy had just one or two wasted doses, there could be up to 1,600 unused doses."
Spare vaccines can only be given to over 50s, the majority of whom have already been vaccinated.
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Tried to export one still image from tonight's report
@RTE_PrimeTime
Somehow exported many thousands.... to the shared desktop.
Colleagues will be delighted.
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You bet I took a selfie with the giant spider on our giant
@RTE_PrimeTime
graphics wall
#rtept
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Reunited - Darren Jackson and his Eagle Owl, Tank. The owl was spotted by an eagle-eyed member of the public in a field close to the family home in Newbridge.
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I spoke to Julia on
@morningireland
early in the lockdown. She was worried living in a nursing home as the pandemic developed. So fantastic to see her in her new home.
A nursing home resident has been given the keys to her new home after a 12-year campaign. Julia Thurman, who acquired a disability in adulthood, was one of 1,300 people under 65 forced to live in nursing homes due to a lack of funding for specially-adapted homes
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‘Piece to camera’ goals.
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What role should big investors have in our housing market? I’ll be reporting from Maynooth tonight where buyers have been left disappointed.
@RTE_PrimeTime
#rtept
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Crossing my fingers for a belter of a sunrise as consolation for the
@morningireland
alarm clock.
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*Man walks towards reporters gathered at late-night pay talks*
Who is that?
No idea.
He looks important.
Crap.
Ingrid?
That’s John Doe of the BWTSU.
Great.
Em, Ingrid?
What’s the BWTSU..?
How she didn’t kill the rest of us is a mystery. Very best wishes, Ingrid!
Some personal news ... today is my last day with
#RTE
after too many years to count. Thanks to all the wonderful colleagues and friends I’ve worked with in radio television and news - and to all who trusted me to tell their stories. Still excited to go to work on the last day...
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End of an era - Liam Lambert explains his decision to sell the iconic Lambert Puppet Theatre. Hear him exclusively on tomorrow’s
@morningireland
@rtenews
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Thanks to
@NiamhHoran
for the chat and the kind words.
Also thanks to the woman on the Pier with the friendly, jumpy, muddy-pawed dog who intervened just in time to save the red coat from disaster 🐾
RTÉ's Louise Byrne speaks to Niamh Horan about her job, her postponed wedding and working from home with twins
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Who will check the tanker of milk the day after a no-deal Brexit? I've been trying to get to the bottom of *that* question. Tomorrow
@morningireland
@rtenews
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A prized possession. London 2012 tickets signed by Katie. 🇮🇪
Still the best sporting event I’ve ever been to.
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Scrawled on a door at the US Capitol.
“Murder the media”.
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“Have you heard that?!?”
Mid-interview the building shook.
@maria_avdv
jumped.
3,500km away on the Zoom call I also jumped.
Maria’s building in Kharkiv was rocked with a huge explosion.
Her extraordinary interview produced by
@lydiamurph
is coming up
@RTE_PrimeTime
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Tonight
@RTE_PrimeTime
I’ll report on the saga of the Derrybrien wind farm.
Why are 70 turbines turned off at a time of energy shortages?
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The humanity shown by support worker, Lisa Connolly, was a highlight in a programme full of devastating highlights.
A look at the realities of life and death in one of the country's biggest hospitals as it fights Covid-19
#RTEInvestigates
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Wobble, wobble, gone.
The missing first tooth had to be drawn for the Tooth Fairy instead.
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Just spoken to 'David's' mother. She strongly refutes Conor Skehan's assertions on gaming the system. As we reported last year, the house offered was not on a regular bus route for David to attend medical supports or school. "He (Skehan) obviously doesn't know my story at all."
#MyNameIs
David. I am 9 years old. I have cerebral palsy and have been homeless for nearly two years.
#morningIreland
#liveline
#sixone
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Wondering how Denmark 🇩🇰 had 25,000 fans watching the Euros last night?
@Mie__Olsen
explains how the country’s massive, free testing system is unlocking society.
The Danes are using a daily supply of 500,000 rapid tests to access bars, events and stadiums.
#rtept
Last night's Russia v Denmark game showed that Danish stadiums are holding volumes of fans that Ireland can only dream of.
How is Denmark, which has similar Covid case rates to Ireland, so far along its road to reopening? |
#rtept
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“All I can hear is the noise of the fridges we have left on, and the air fans literally talking to me.” In an eerily silent Foyle Hotel
@ChefBrianMcD
is counting the cost of Covid closure.
@morningireland
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Coming up
@RTE_PrimeTime
tonight - the future of live music.
While Belfast bounces, in the south gigs are limited to 200 people. I’ll ask the Government what is the reopening plan.
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Taoiseach tells the Dail the largest ever delivery of Pfizer Biontech vaccine has arrived - 191,000 doses.
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On the road with
@dlrcc
gritters. People waving and taking photos. The truck is a snow celebrity! You can hear more
@morningireland
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📞 "You would want to have nothing to do only ring them."
📞"We were over seven weeks without coverage. It was horrendous."
📞"It was like a verbal lockdown."
On tonight's
@RTE_PrimeTime
the CEO of Eir will respond to an "avalanche" of complaints.
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Now up to one million views. Dr Motherway’s message has had a huge reach.
Dr Catherine Motherway, Intensive care physician at UH Limerick discusses how well provided with ICU beds Irish hospitals are, and steps the community might take to prevent the spread of Covid 19
#RTEPT
|
#COVID19
|
#coronavirus
|
@mcculld
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🚨NEW
“We could go in parallel. People in 40s as well as 50s might be offered an appointment.”
Tanaiste
@LeoVaradkar
explains to
@MiriamOCal
how J&J (50+ only) delivery timeline could impact vaccine rollout.
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Three classes in the PE hall - illustrative layout of how secondary schools might manage social distancing. Issued by the Department this evening.
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Yeah, this is the moment, isn't it?
The smile. The wave. The clap.
Just gorgeous.
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This year, of all years, the Toy Show was important.
It happened because there's a team of talented, committed people who made it happen.
It happened because of the resilience and fortitude of everyone who took part.
Hats off.
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The hallowed occupations deemed suitable to witness a passport form 🤔
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An alternative Pride is under way at Rosie Hackett Bridge.
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NEW 💉
@IrishPharmacy
is warning that Covid vaccines are going in the bin.
"If each pharmacy had just one or two wasted doses, there could be up to 1,600 unused doses."
Spare vaccines can only be given to over 50s, the majority of whom have already been vaccinated.
Pharmacists have warned that unused Covid-19 vaccines are being wasted in Ireland because of rules over the administration of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine,
@LouiseByrneNews
explains
#rtept
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The Sunday Game analysis has been super tonight.
As much as what's on the pitch, the success of women's sport depends on analysts making the coverage exciting and engaging.
@duckie15
and
@DeniseMasterso6
delivered a masterclass this eve 👏
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I’m in London’s most Eurosceptic area, Romford, to report for tomorrow’s
@morningireland
. 70% originally voted in favour of Brexit. Is there any sign of ‘Regrexit’ as a possible extension to Art 50 looms?
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🏡 You can argue whether or not we have a historical fixation with home ownership in Ireland, but what we definitely have is a very entrenched focus on houses rather than apartments.
European countries by share of population living in flats. It is a myth that Continental cities have no suburbia, but there is a very real difference nonetheless. From: .
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A French view of les États-Unis d'Amérique...
Simple and really effective.
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May not ever have cause to say *that* word on the tele again.
Europe Correspondent for Euronews
@ShonaMurray_
brought us the latest from Brussels, where a senior conservative Hungarian MEP has resigned following a curfew-breaking sex party.
#rtept
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Ireland’s first female participant in the Freediving World Championships. Excited to be in Villefranche to cheer on
@clairewalshlife
!
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An insidious virus.
This month alone.
87 people died after catching Covid-19 in hospital.
282 people died after catching the virus in nursing homes.
Figures confirmed
@HSELive
press conference.
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There's a lad on Youtube live streaming the planes landing in ferocious winds at Heathrow complete with his own commentary.
"He's not having any of that!"
"Well done that woman or man!"
"Go on my son!"
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