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Journalist & author, News Editor at @irishtimes Past: Finance & US Correspondent, Public Affairs Editor Email: firstname.lastname{at}
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In other news… thrilled and honoured to be taking over as News Editor of
@IrishTimes
and to be working with such a great team in the IT on Tara Street and beyond, in Ireland and overseas.
#OnwardsUpwards
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American democracy under fire...
Amazing photo from
@andyharnik
of
@ap
- US Capitol Police with guns drawn at barricaded door as protesters attempt to break into US House of Representatives chamber
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Raucous crowd greeted
@BernieSanders
on stage. "Sounds like you want to make a political revolution," he says.
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‘The chaos that I have had in my mind is far more terrifying than anything I have encountered, even at the riot that day at the Capitol’ -
@CNN
reporter
@donie
tells me about his mental health struggles & the importance of getting help via
@IrishTimes
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Trump boards Air Force One for the first time as POTUS for flight to Republican summit in Philadelphia - no wave
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Just a fox taking a lunchtime stroll on the Luas tracks between Pearse Street Garda Station and Trinity College Dublin...
#CityWildlife
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Fascinating
#Brexit
poll on Northern Irish voters in
@IrishTimes
...
Voters overwhelmingly reject a hard Brexit, would vote to remain in a second referendum & would prefer checks on goods travelling between Britain & NI rather than on the Border
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Desperately sad at losing friend &
@IrishTimes
colleague Dave McKechnie. A top bloke; warm, funny & kind - a guy you’d want at the end of a phone on the foreign desk or beside you at five-a-side; he always had your back. Cruel & unfair that he’s gone so young. Rest easy, Dave.
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‘This is not the House of Commons, this is the European Parliament’ - Irish MEP
@MaireadMcGMEP
takes on hecklers during
#Brexit
debate
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Some work news about me: I have been appointed Public Affairs Editor of the
@IrishTimes
with responsibility for covering relationship between business & State, regulatory authorities &
#Brexit
. Important beat, fascinating times...
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A day after watching 37-year-old Cristiano Ronaldo score a hat-trick at Old Trafford, 44-year-old NFL quarterback Tom Brady cancels his retirement and will be back for another season at Tampa
These past two months I’ve realized my place is still on the field and not in the stands. That time will come. But it’s not now. I love my teammates, and I love my supportive family. They make it all possible. I’m coming back for my 23rd season in Tampa. Unfinished business LFG
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Reminder...
▫️Nphet advice on 26/11: don't reopen hospitality AND allow households to mix over Christmas period (see attached from letter to Govt)
▫️Govt action on 27/11: let's do both!
▫️Now:
#coronavirus
'absolutely rampant' & 'out of control'
More:
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This is startling admission from Taoiseach... Varadkar says, that after receiving call from Trump, he contacted Clare County Council about a wind farm that Trump didn't want built near Doonbeg golf resort and that the planning permission was subsequently declined.
The Taoiseach explains how he got a surprise call from Donald Trump a few years ago
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Ireland’s geographical advantage as an island in dealing with
#coronavirus
is ‘being squandered’ by very serious differences in approach to the disease North and South, says Northern Irish public health specialist
@GabrielScally
via
@IrishTimesOpEd
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BBC: Sinn Féin's Martin McGuinness calls for referendum on Irish reunification after
#Brexit
vote
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Love on the Luas - spotted on the green line at Charlemont
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More
@DrMikeRyan
: Ireland has taken 'v measured approach', says he is proud to be Irish watching how public has responded... 'Nothing is perfect. Things change every day but I think if you look around Europe at... other countries I think Ireland can say that it is doing well'
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Largest Irish Sea ferry operator cuts sailings due to post-
#Brexit
supply chain problems
Stena temporarily cancels sailings on Dublin-Holyhead and Rosslare-Fishguard routes
FULL STORY: via
@IrishTimesBiz
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Third flight of
@U2
-bought personal protective equipment for health workers lands in Dublin
2.1 million face masks and 32,000 surgical gowns - on Airbus chartered by
@avolon_aero
& paid for donors/crowdfunding - arrives from China
via
@IrishTimes
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Mary Lou McDonald putdowns of Micheál Martin & Leo Varadkar - one of her strongest moments tonight
#ge2020
#CBLive20
#leadersdebate
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Donald Trump’s Doonbeg golf resort refused permission to build sea wall
Co Clare resort had warned that failure to protect course against coastal erosion would bring viability of the entire resort and its potential closure into question
via
@IrishTimes
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Oh interesting, Stormy Daniels was born on St Patrick's Day. There's an icebreaker for the Taoiseach's Oval Office meeting with Trump this week.
@EcoSexuality
I'm both intrigued and scared. And I've gotten some "unusual" requests via Twitter before but you win. I was born at 1:10am on March 17th.
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Fifty years ago, the Abercorn bomb in Belfast ended and changed lives.
My parents were nearby and helped the injured, and knew the two young women killed in the blast.
It was a reason why my family left Belfast.
This is the story of those it affected.
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Boris Johnson is proposing customs clearance centres 5-10 miles 'back' from the Border as part of a plan to replace the
#Brexit
backstop
This customs clearance centre in Newry was four miles from the Border when it was blown up in 1972 killing 9 people
Death at a hard border: family of Monaghan lorry driver killed in worst IRA attack on a Northern Ireland customs office warn about the risk of
#Brexit
, politicians getting it wrong & their fears of a return to the Troubles - video & long read -
@IrishTimes
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The real transfer of power in Washington - handing the reins to
@suzannelynch1
, the new
@IrishTimes
US Correspondent
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Milwaukee Sheriff David Clarke, tough-on-crime conservative, gets loudest cheer of first night of
#RNCinCLE
by saying: "Blue lives matter."
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This story still top of
#MostRead
on
@IrishTimes
online this morning....
UK immigration rules ‘deny’ NI-born Irish citizens access to EU rights via
@IrishTimes
cc
@EmmandJDeSouza
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Russian TV host refuses to apologise for report on mock nuclear attack on Ireland
Kremlin state broadcaster says it ‘wasn’t nice for Ireland to become collateral damage’
via
@IrishTimes
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67% - NI voters who say DUP is doing bad job at Westminster
59% - NI voters who want special arrangement for NI for no checks on Border (even if it means NI-GB checks)
67% - NI voters who want soft
#Brexit
; UK to stay in single market & customs union
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U2’s Bono and poet Paul Muldoon having the chats on Father’s Day in Finnegan’s pub of Dalkey for ‘Two Fathers, Two Friends’ event at
#DalkeyBookFestival
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People are good
This paramedic's entire street came out to applaud her before her shift began 👏🏻👏🏻
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US politicians and Brexiteers clash on ‘concocted Border issue’ at heated London meeting -
@IrishTimes
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#Hillary2016
launch is in NYC park dedicated to FDR's famous 1941 'Four Freedoms' State of the Union speech
http://t.co/ciXSB6fMtc
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What
@paddycosgrave
leaves out here is that this is from a report IN the Irish media, from today's
@IrishTimes
(lead on page 5 w ref in front-page lead) based on comments Jeffrey Donaldson made to me in a call I made to him yesterday - full story here:
That it takes the DUP’s Jeffrey Donaldson and not the Irish media to call bullshit on the horseshit crocodile tears electoral strategy of
@FineGael
+
@fiannafailparty
should tell you all you need to know about the media in Ireland. Truly surreal.
#GE2020
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BREAKING:
#Covid19
: Backlog forces HSE to skip calls to thousands of close contacts
HSE to send texts on Wed to 2,000-2,500 people asking them to tell their own close contacts to contact their GPs immediately to seek a
#Covid19
test
via
@IrishTimes
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Trump’s sons Donald jr and Eric go on pub crawl in Doonbeg buying rounds and thanking locals for their support for the Trump family’s West Clare golf resort - via
@IrishTimes
#TrumpVisit
#TrumpInIreland
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White House pool report: Obama is reportedly playing basketball with friends today, an Election Day tradition dating back to his campaigns
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BREAKING: Coombe doctor brought
#Covid19
vaccines home for family members, report finds
Review of vaccine doses administered to 16 family members published by Dublin hospital
via
@IrishTimes
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Reaction of former Taoiseach Bertie Ahern to being asked at UK parliamentary committee about how suggestions that Ireland should leave the EU and rejoin the UK as way of solving
#Brexit
border issue have gone down in Ireland - ‘Well, I’ll just be kind and say, not very well’
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A moving evening in Achill...
‘We’ll bring him home, le cúnamh Dé’: Finbar Cafferkey remembered at Achill memorial
Among mourners were about 40 Ukrainians carrying a wreath celebrating ‘our hero’ who died near Bakhmut
via
@IrishTimes
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Death at a hard border: family of Monaghan lorry driver killed in worst IRA attack on a Northern Ireland customs office warn about the risk of
#Brexit
, politicians getting it wrong & their fears of a return to the Troubles - video & long read -
@IrishTimes
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Eric Trump toasts locals in Doonbeg pub: ‘You guys are so important to us… You are truly some of the most incredible people in the world... I hope we’ve made you proud & I hope we’ve made Ireland very proud’
Don Jr: ‘This is a lot better than New York City’ - via
@IrishTimes
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FT reporting that Johnson offering big cash payment - in the billions - for Northern Ireland to bring DUP onside for the 'double customs' plan
UK and EU locked in race to broker
#Brexit
deal via
@financialtimes
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In tomorrow's
@IrishTimesMag
,
@donie
speaks frankly & bravely about his struggles with depression & anxiety, the importance of asking for & seeking help, and the hard work required in managing mental health issues
#mustread
Tomorrow's
@IrishTimesMag
:
@SiCarswell
has an incredible interview with
@donie
on his mental health challenges & how important it is to ask for help if you're struggling;
@PatrickFreyne1
on a year of lockdown love; the
@IrishTimesFood
team have Valentine's dinner covered...
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He died in New York in 1989. Now Ferg Griffin is coming home - tragic, amazing story of an Irishman who disappeared and his family’s search for him -
@IrishTimes
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Powerful
@IrishTimes
front page today on risks from
#Brexit
& reminder of the danger to life from a hard border - compulsory reading for politicians as EU leaders gather in Brussels for summit to try to crack the negotiations deadlock
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"Goodbye America. And good luck" - a farewell letter to my four-year adventure reporting on the US for
@IrishTimes
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Atlantic quietly closes its doors in Ireland after 30 years of philanthropy - historic act of extraordinary generosity comes to an end
via
@IrishTimes
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Visual proof: it actually happened - Cagney & Lacey singing at the
#DemConvention
#lawandorder
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Taoiseach
@LeoVaradkar
greets
@realDonaldTrump
on his arrival at Shannon Airport - interesting handshake
#TrumpInIreland
#TrumpVisit
via
@IrishTimes
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#Brexit
: A day in the life of an Irish Border crossing
@endajodowd
& I spent a day at Ireland’s busiest Border crossing speaking to some drivers in the 25,301 vehicles which crossed hearing their concerns about
#Brexit
- via
@IrishTimes
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Meanwhile, in Washington...
US Democrats put forward resolution that would block EU-UK trade deal should
#Brexit
undermine the Good Friday Agreement/Northern Irish peace process - from
@IrishTimes
US Correspondent
@suzannelynch1
Resolution in support of
#GoodFridayAgreement
introduced in Congress via
@IrishTimes
#Brexit
#NorthernIreland
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US judge rules against Paddy Cosgrave over investment fund dispute
Web Summit company directed to enter private arbitration to resolve row as Californian legal case is put on hold
via
@IrishTimes
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Facebook loses High Court bid to block inquiry by Irish data privacy watchdog that could halt social media giant's data flows from the EU to the US via
@IrishTimes
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UK government rejects its own idea for customs clearance zones in ‘non-paper’ discussion document sent to Brussels
NEW: Boris Johnson tells
@BBCBreakfast
that customs clearance zones will NOT be part of the UK’s final proposals on Brexit
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A very deserving winner for
@newsbrandsirl
features (broadsheet) journalist of the year -
@ConorGallaghe_r
- for his superb reporting, particularly on the Ana Kriegel trial for
@IrishTimes
#journoawards19
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Mother of alleged IRA victim urges voters to remember her son in
#ge2020
Son of an Irish Army soldier killed by the IRA said it would be 'extremely difficult' to see Sinn Féin enter government or SF minister for defence or justice
via
@IrishTimes
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Carnival atmosphere in Doonbeg for the visit of
@realDonaldTrump
to West Clare - - via
@IrishTimes
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How one couple’s weekend away resulted in 30
#Covid19
cases - an example of how the virus can spread through social contacts via
@IrishTimes
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Superb three-part doc series from RTÉ on
#crimesandconfessions
ended tonight - hard-hitting journalism about the Garda
#HeavyGang
, miscarriages of justice & innocent lives ruined. Tragic & enraging. Well done producer-director John Downes, reporter
@mick_peelo
& team
#mustwatch
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Ireland a potential ‘weak link’ for Russia money, says anti-corruption campaigner
Financier Bill Browder says State is a ‘soft touch’ in fight against human rights violators
via
@IrishTimes
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#Brexit
: Senior US congressional figures tell UK to uphold Belfast Agreement if it wants US trade deal as Irish foreign minister visits Washington
via
@IrishTimes
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“I said to the nun, ‘where’s my baby?’ And she didn’t answer me. I asked her again and she said, ‘he passed away.’ I screamed, ‘what do you mean? Where is he? He can’t be dead! He was a healthy baby two hours ago!’" - horrific story from
@KittyHollandIT
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Thrilled to win a Justice Media Award with my
@IrishTimes
colleague
@MaryCarolanIT
for our in-depth feature on the workings of the District Courts - article here:
#JMA22
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#Brexit
: Irish bakeries turn from Britain and look to EU and NI
British flour exports to the Republic slide by 25% since January in wake of EU departure
via
@IrishTimes
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‘Boris’s magical pen’ - Twelve-year-old girl living at the Irish Border - fearful about what
#Brexit
might bring - writes poem to British prime minister Boris Johnson; sent to me by her father in recent days - via
@IrishTimes
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On the death of Prince Philip, remembering this anecdote from David Cameron’s book when he wrote about the Duke of Edinburgh’s encounter with poet Seamus Heaney at dinner in Dublin Castle during Queen’s visit in 2011: ‘Bejaysus, that man’s a card.’
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Most people want more, not fewer, restrictions, survey shows – ESRI expert
Tracking poll shows public debate against restrictions is 'miles off' quiet majority's concern about virus
via
@IrishTimes
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Acclaimed Connemara writer Tim Robinson dies in London at 85 from
#coronavirus
-
#Covid19
virus claims one of the best non-fiction writers not just in Ireland but anywhere in the world; his Connemara trilogy is a masterpiece via
@IrishTimesBooks
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Why did the chicken cross the border? To truly understand
#Brexit
-and its potential negative fallout for businesses - haul €60,000 worth of food from Northern Ireland to England via Dublin - my long read on a 12-hour lorry-ferry odyssey -
@IrishTimes
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More anti-Trump protesters in Doonbeg... ‘We are here because we feel Donald Trump represents everything that is bad that the United States is doing around the world’ - Ken Mayers (R) from New Mexico via
@IrishTimes
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‘A giant of Irish trad music’: The Chieftains fiddle player Seán Keane dies -
@jadeswilson
reports
Musician joined trad band in 1968 and recently performed for US president Joe Biden in Ballina
via
@IrishTimes
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Looking back at text messages with Emma Mhic Mhathúna and one she sent me in May (before her €7.5m settlement with lab) asked about Govt supports announced for women affected by
#CervicalCheck
non-disclosure:
“Can you ask will the package cover funeral expenses please xoxo”
RIP
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A rare anti-Trump protester in Doonbeg, John Lennon from Cork, says he is ‘ashamed’ that the Taoiseach is meeting someone at Shannon Airport who has ‘no respect for women or the truth’ -
@IrishTimes
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A good news story... Girl (5) injured in Parnell Square incident moved from intensive care -
@paulcullenit
reports via
@IrishTimes
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YouTube terminates Gemma O’Doherty’s account over breach of ‘hate speech’ policy
via
@IrishTimes
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Stephen Donnelly queries why his department’s tweets don’t mention him
Analysis carried out for Minister shows Dept of Further Education Twitter feed had 10 references to Simon Harris
via
@IrishTimes
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Difficult to read this but essential to understand what
#CervicalCheckScandal
families have gone through & what is driving critical advocacy of people like
@Stephenteap
- Cancer scandal: ‘Irene just wanted to live long enough to see Oscar start school’
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Record 900,000 passport applications in 2019 – 94,000 from UK via
@IrishTimes
‘
#Brexit
saw a surge in demand for passports from Irish citizens living in the UK. The tallies for February and March cleared 11,000 each month coming up to a Brexit deadline’
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BREAKING: Irish woman (22) missing after Hamas attacks rave in southern Israel
‘She’s a happy kid trying to have fun. They shot them down like ducks,’ says Kim Damti's mother who is from Portlaoise
via
@IrishTimes
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‘One nurse for 76 patients’: Taoiseach warned about care home staff shortages
Emails released by his department show nursing homes and families pleading for help from Leo Varadkar
via
@IrishTimes
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Schoolgirls on
#Brexit
: ‘The adults are not thinking straight’ - spoke to six kids who live at the Border in Crossmaglen, Co Armagh (one lives right on the Border) to hear what they think of the UK leaving the EU & how it might affect them -
@IrishTimes
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BREAKING: Dublin hospital gave leftover vaccines to 16 relatives of staff
Two children of Master of Coombe maternity hospital understood to be among those vaccinated
via
@IrishTimes
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This is heartbreaking...
Knowing she is dead ‘is best of the possibilities’, says Irish father of girl (8) killed in Israel
Thomas Hand said he felt nothing but relief his daughter’s body was recovered & that she hadn’t been abducted
via
@IrishTimes
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Beautiful goodbye from Patti Smith to Sam Shepard in
@NewYorker
featuring their visit to Dublin and the Cobblestone
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Clinton emails ARE boring, but there are fun bits: like this advice on not talking to Ulster Protestants on Sundays
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Irish replaces French as second most popular language in North’s A-levels -
@freyamcc
reports
Optional Irish available in only 35 per cent of schools but held firm as other languages declined
via
@IrishTimes
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Dreadful debate, poorly moderated; undecideds likely to have switched off early on to wait for better platform to weigh choices, consider candidates and policies. And we move on.
#TonightVMTV
#LeadersDebate
#ge2020
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VIDEO: Some of the two million face masks and 32,000 surgical gowns being unloaded this am at Dublin Airport from third flight of
@U2
-bought personal protective equipment for health workers; A330 plane chartered by
@avolon_aero
via
@IrishTimes
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Prince Harry & Meghan, the Duke & Duchess of Sussex, meeting guests, including
#CervicalCheck
campaigner
@PhelanVicky
, at Dublin garden party at UK ambassador’s residence -
@IrishTimes
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Rosslare port in talks for new daily direct ferry service to continental Europe
Port says road hauliers want a frequent service to avoid landbridge congestion in Britain post-
#Brexit
via
@IrishTimes
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Congrats to a great journalist and top bloke,
@cpkeena
Irish Times journalist wins outstanding achievement award via
@IrishTimes
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Great altruism from
@HotelDoolin
for the most vulnerable in the Co Clare village who have concerns about going out during
#coronavirus
outbreak -
#inthistogether
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