Evelyn O'Rourke
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@rtenews RTÉ Arts & Media Corr - #GE24 leader’s trail 🎙️🎤
Dublin, Ireland
Joined August 2010
Tonight as we celebrate @anpostibas I miss my friend Keelin. We shared this event for so many years together . here’s a favourite photo from a book awards night. We loved the gúna chats . the book reviews . the ‘what’s he really like’ author discussions etc. grá anocht ❤️
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A bit of personal news as they say … Delighted to be the new RTÉ Arts & Media Corr. Ag tnúth go mór leis! 😉.
Evelyn O'Rourke has been appointed as Arts and Media Correspondent for RTÉ News following an internal competition
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Crowd singing along with every word at #Coldplay tonight. He welcomed the crowd with cupla focal ‘The singer greeted the capacity crowd by saying, "Céad mile fáilte go Croke Pairc" and added, "Tá áthas orainn anseo I Croke Pairc."
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My documentary is on tonight. in it, we talk to so many brilliant people to try to learn from my own cancer experience and untangle it a bit! We’d like you to watch if you’re in tonight & the remote is handy! 🌸 9.30pm ‘Ailse & Ise’ (Cancer & Her) @tg4tv.
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Heartbreaking news about Pat Smullen tonight. He raised close to €3 million!!! - for pancreatic cancer. Amazing man. Here’s a clip of him speaking to me so modestly about his astonishing fundraising achievements for @cancertrials_ie last November. Love to Frances and the family
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Huge thanks to everyone for all the kind messages & wishes! Am feeling v mixed emotions tuday - so delighted to start next chapter as Arts & Media Corr @rtenews but very sad to leave my 2nd home for many years @RTERadio1 . thanks to all my amazing colleagues x @TodaywithClaire
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This is such wonderful, wonderful news! 12 years ago I was pregnant - dealing with cancer treatment with an 8 month old baby at home ( I know! The draaaaa-maaa) …but any positive supports are so welcome . at a time when your world has smashed into pieces around you xx hurray.
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So myself & my pal Ger spotted a Mama Duck marching her 10 little ducklings down the main Ranelagh road towards the canal today. Ger guided them as cars, pedestrians, trucks stopped to help get them there safely! Magical moment!
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Private Sean Rooney’s funeral procession arriving at Holy Family church Dundalk from his grandparents house. Huge crowd gathering to support the family and friends. @TodaywithClaire
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Great reaction to Bambie Thug from fans leaving Malmö arena, saying how proud they were of Ireland’s 2024 entry. I spoke to Bambie Thug after the contest, and they said to me that says 'no one screams louder than the Irish' via @rtenews
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Not cool. but so ridiculously chuffed! #jma24 National broadcast radio winner with @niamh_lyons on @TodaywithClaire @RTERadio1 Huge congrats to my lovely pal /frenemy @oconnellbrian too! Delighted our report on Childrens’ Court got recognition. They were so welcoming to me!
Congratulations to colleagues @evelyn_orourke and @niamh_lyons for their award win at the #JMA24 in the radio broadcast journalism category for their important reports on the Children’s Court @TodaywithClaire @RTERadio1
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I met this smiling lady, Emer @DublinAirport She tells me that she’s taken precautions so she can protect her parents as she flies in for Christmas! Meanwhile visitors are not allowed in to the Arrivals hall so stand outside windows peering in . all coming up @TodaywithClaire
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Chris Martin now singing songs for random people in the crowd! Everyone having a ball here #coldplay
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🌸Listen . you’ve watched all of Netflix. so you need something new to watch and discuss! Sooo. tune in to our doc ‘Ailse&Ise’ shortly on @tg4tv at 9.30pm and you may even feel a bit hopeful and inspired by the end. 🌸😉
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‘Peig was their Netflix in nDún Chaoin’. clár iontach suimúil @TG4TV anois PS How beautiful does Kerry look in this doc?! #Peig #reclaiming @philipnolan1.
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The amount of young people living in nursing homes, who are under 65 years of age is ‘a violation of human rights’ says advocate 35 year old Rosie Mangan - click here for my report @TodaywithClaire
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Coming up @TodaywithClaire this morning, I visit three remarkable women - combined aged 247 years! - who face lockdown restrictions in in #Nenagh #SueRydercentre by hauling their chairs out on to the landing to do their own exercise sessions. #determination
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I was lucky enough to join Gay’s radio team as a researcher for the final season of ‘The Gay Byrne Show’. I still reminder the thrill you got when he’d read a script you’d written. He’d make the words sing. #Gaybo.
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My head is spinning with the beautiful messages I’ve been getting since the doc last night. Míle Míle Buíochas. I did the talkey-talk stuff but the real work was done by Rachel Moriarty (Director) @farleyjanee (Producer) Matthew Kirrane shot it so skilfully. Grá! @tyronetv_irl 🌸.
Féach ar @evelyn_orourke : Ailse & Ise , aon am aon áit ar sheinnteoir TG4. Catch up on Evelyn O' Rourke : Ailse & Ise, from anywhere in the world on the TG4 Player. ⬇️.
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Big day in the RTÉ newsroom, as we bid a fond farewell to Bryan Dobson… “RTÉ's Bryan Dobson retires after 37 years in newsroom” via @RTENews
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‘Gobsmacked’ … ‘dream come true’… an emotional Patrick Kielty tells media that ‘back then growing up. the idea of a parade celebrating this was not a thing!’ … @rtenews
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Absolute privilege for me that Colm spoke to us about the loss of his wonderful sister and played the piece he composed in tribute. Ba mhór an onór dúinn! RT@TG4TV: Beidh ceol álainn ag @cmacconiomaire ar @evelyn_orourke : Ailse & Ise, Dé Céadaoin 9.30 TG4
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Have you been wondering what that new thing stretching up into the Dublin skyline is??! I got the chance to visit the new Air Traffic Control Tower @DublinAirport A beautiful day -stunning 360 views. It’s now Ireland’s tallest occupied structure. coming up now @TodaywithClaire
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Great news for @LeagueofIreland with crowds flocking to matches. Attendance up 27% - I went along to @ShamrockRovers on Friday night to meet the new fans . and hear from @Corktod @HoopsJfc Click here!
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Have been standing at the exit for #Penneys on Parnell Street to talk to customers and only one (male) customer has actually left since they opened the doors at 8.30! @TodayRadioRTE Queuing since 4am here.
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Lively scenes here at #themater hospital on the picket line this morning as @dubfirebrigade deliver trays of tea to picketing nurses @TodaySOR #nursestrike
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‘I can talk now . but I’ve to pick up Oisin from scouts in 20 minutes. ’ 😉 I’m always rushing!🙄 GRMA to @EavanMurray for this lovely interview 10 years after my own breast cancer, our doc ‘Ailse & Ise’ @tgtv4 is on next Wed 9.30pm @tyronetv_irl
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“I’m passionate about the work in trials. as I believe that I’m healthy today because of the trials women took part in in the years before I was ill. ” Me again. mise arís. banging on about cancer trials from our new doc ‘Ailse & Ise’ @tyronetv_irl @TG4TV next Wed 9.30pm. 🌸.
Ó tháinig biseach ar @evelyn_orourke , tá sí ag tacú go paiseanta le @cancertrials_ie agus buailfidh sí le @EibhlinMulroe lena fháil amach cé chomh maith is atáimid ag tabhairt tacaíochta agus airgid do thrialacha cliniciúla. Ailse & Ise .12ú Bealtaine
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What an entrance! #BambiThug enters #Malmo media centre in their dress down comfies to meet us for interview @rtenews - stay tuned #Eurovision2024
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Heartbreaking and beautiful words from #marian son Jack and beloved husband John at the funeral just now. “I did want to talk about Marian - my Marian - a woman I have loved for 40 years. We were like two 15 year old adolescents - we were addicted to each other” - John Clarke.
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Crowds gathering here for #ShaneMacGowan funeral procession… here are some local women from Irishtown/Ringsend community - they all loved him! Report coming up shortly @todaywithclaire
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Two major announcements from RTÉ this lunchtime. @rte Appoints new Dir of Audio - Patricia Monahan, (currently Managing Ed of Newstalk) and new Dir of Video - Steve Carson (currently Director of BBC Scotland. #newppointments Huge congrats to both!.
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Masterclass in stage acting @AbbeyTheatre this evening with Aidan Quinn & Steve Buscemi on stage for reading of #LoveatFirstSight. Nice to see a bit of Hollywood supporting them with Tim Burton, Jenna Ortega & ‘Wednesday’ friends in the house. Kudos @TraBreaga - great project!
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Am so sad to hear about death of #FrJimmyDoyle. Last year I did a report with him @RTERadio1 with @MiriamOCal He was driving homeless siblings to school every day, so they would get an education - a very vulnerable family living in bleak conditions. He was a remarkable man!.
The prayers and thoughts of all of us in @KANDLEi are with the sisters, nephews and nieces of Fr. Jimmy Doyle PP Staplestown & Cooleragh who died suddenly while out walking in his home parish of Clonegal today. May his gentle soul rest in peace. @CathNewsIreland
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It’s only 7.30am and I’m already making friends with the early swifties @morningireland at #Aviva. Maya flew in from LA last night with her 50 friendship bracelets and Vivienne (pic 3) was up at 4am in Warrenpoint to get make up ready before heading here! #Taylor #ErasTour
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“I feel good, I’m happy with my results. ” student Aima Ugbiyobo to me earlier @TodaywithClaire as she downplayed her great achievement of 500 points plus in the #leavingcert calculated grades system #fingalcommunitycollege
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On Mon September 27th - fire ripped through @Glenisk factory in Co. Offaly - but a few months later, they’ve an interim setup organised! When you see the damage, it’s amazing they will be able to get yogurt back on the shelves soon! Great team! My report @TodaywithClaire now
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Nice news! The #Larryisback! @Fishamble has confirmed this lunchtime that the prestigious award, stolen from their offices in Saturday night, is back!.
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Really moved by the lovely messages we’re getting about our cancer documentary! Míle Buíochas to @irishexaminer as ucht an tuaraisc seo. Our doc called ‘Ailse & Ise’ is on Wed 12th May at 9.30pm (And yes, there will be subtitles!!😉) @tg4tv @tyronetv_irl .
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“I’m going home to have a rasher sandwich now” Barry Laffey - a happy leaving cert student at #Fingalcommunitycollege told me this morning @TodaywithClaire after he’d collected his calculated grades
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Such a lovely event @anpostibas this evening from @MoLI_Museum Buckets of congrats to the writers . we will hopefully see each other in real life next year xx thanks for all the lovely comments and sweet messages about our award winning writer 😉and journalist #Keelin
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Morning! I’m on duty in the playback@rte.ie chair 9am @RTERadio1 & I’ve been listening to EVERYTHING to grab the best of the week’s radio so join us to hear why @bglendenning dreads Eng winning ⚽️, @AkaPaulHoward on loss & grief, 🏊♂️ on @MiriamOCal & Luna’s 🐶debut @RTENewsPaulC.
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I cannot explain how helpful & supportive @DonnellSiobhan has been to me over the years when I had to visit @DublinAirport for reports! I’ve been annoying her with requests since my #GerryRyanShow days & she always been such a great help! Have a ball Siobhan 🌸 I’ll miss you tho.
An absolute lady @Kelly64kg gave me a lovely hug when I told her she was my last big homecoming gig after 37+ years. A lovely highlight to my last week ☘️💚🇮🇪
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Just caught up with @SileSeoige documentary - such an honest and moving programme! Comhgairdeas mór Síle agus an foireann! Scéal cúmhachtach agus tábhachtach - @TG4TV @tyronetv_irl #DeireadhTochta Wonderful reaction to it 🌸
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Amazing tribute to #patsmullen just now on @rtedrivetime with @boucherhayes from Prof Ray McDermott. Pat and Frances raised almost €3 million and as Ray said, the funds are potentially a game changer for pancreatic cancer research in Ireland - donated to @cancertrials_ie.
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I’m really looking forward to sitting in the #Playback @RTERadio1 presenter’s chair over the next two weeks! Email with any ideas or top audio moments that you think we might enjoy from this week’s radio . Playback@rte.ie
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@JohnCoster19 ‘Film censorship in Ireland 1930 to 1950’. My favourite example was an American movie called ‘The Gay Divorcee’ which was changed here to ‘The tragedy of divorce’ . .
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Bleak scenes after funeral #PrivateSeanRooney in #Dundalk - family, friends & military leave church to move on to barracks -then burial. Beautiful dignified ceremony here. Fr Derek Ryan did a wonderful job - reminding us of the young man behind the military role @TodaywithClaire
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I look at every box and tin differently now. #homeschooling Instead of chucking them . I look at them and think . I’ll get 45 minutes entertainment and a robot out of you yet buddy 😬😬
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I had such a lovely day on the road with #TracyCarroll & her wonderful family @carersireland Tracy makes a strong case about impact of the rising cost of living on carers & how they need supports ie fuel allowance. Listen back here
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This Sunday night - to help support @womens_aid - watch Ireland’s most talented women artists @MaryBlackSinger @ImeldaOfficial & @MuireannNic and many others for a very special concert on TG4. Ná caill #Meitheal na mBan Dé Domhnaigh 21:30.
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We just spoke live to #katietaylor @TodaySOR Taylor still signing autographs and taking pictures with fans @DublinAirport. Great atmosphere here
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Deeply shocked at news that lovely Ocky Job has died. Only in April, so many in Sligo were mourning his wife, Vanessa’s death from cancer -Vanessa had been an amazingly brave & funny guest in my @TG4TV doc #Ailse&Ise. Remarkable people! Huge condolences to their beautiful family.
‘True gentleman’ (40s) who died following Benbulben accident had recently lost his beloved wife #Sligo
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One of my most enjoyable reports this year was highlighting the work of @TheBikeHub_ie - you donate a bike, their volunteers upcycle it and then they deliver to DEIS schools … great to see the project getting so busy! nod to @GoodGrubDublin
11 bikes being distributed today to St Aidan's, St Ultan's and St. Dominic's in D8 and D10, made possible with the great van hire sponsorship by @GoCarIreland.
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And familiar O’Connell street begins to emerge … 1st pic 7am. 2nd 12pm #OConnellStreet @RTERadio1 Cleanup operation doing its job!
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So how many screen hours did children clock up during lockdown?? 😉Do your children love homework? 📚📖🤓 I’m co-presenting a new bilingual TV parenting series FULL of practical advice & tacaíocht from @stellaomalley3 Starts amárach @RTEOne ‘Cad faoi na tuismitheoirí?’ 7.30pm
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Listening to this #GerryRyan special this morning is bittersweet . @RTE2fm The Ryan line is open. one last time.
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Cancer research is a cause that’s close to my heart - delighted to help 3 charities in a fundraising campaign #faceuptocancer @BreastCancerIre @MarieKeating @BreakthroCancer with pals @MiriamOCal @bobbykerr - it’s v easy, just upload a selfie & donate -
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Writers! Awards! Excitement building! Tomorrow at 6pm all will be revealed. as we celebrate the best in Irish writing 2021! I’m delighted to be presenting the An Post Irish Book awards results event @Anpostibas @RTE so join us tomorrow 6pm @RTE_Culture.
There are just 2⃣ days until we reveal the winners of the 2021 An Post Irish Book Awards!!. REMINDER: the awards will be streamed LIVE on @RTE_Culture LIVE from 6pm! . See you there! 📺 . #APIBA #ReadersWanted
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“Larry Gogan was voted Ireland’s favourite DJ in 1964. If that poll was taken last year, Larry Gogan would STILL be voted Ireland’s favourite DJ!” - Fr Brian Darcy to a packed church at #larrygogan funeral. “Everyone gathered here is a blink of an eye away from a tear”.
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Chuffed to have just won this. It's such a privilege to be allowed in to the family courts courts @TodaySOR #JMA17
.@RTERadio1's @evelyn_orourke wins overall radio reporting Justice Media Award for her reports from the family law courts #JMA17 @TodaySOR.
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My pal Vanessa who I met for our cancer doc is painting through her cancer. She says ‘I haven't been able to work due to bowel cancer & rely on illness benefit. If you’d like to donate a coffee to help with scans, travel etc, I’ll raffle a painting!’ 🌸
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To see this film as Gaeilge, getting such acclaim across the board is just so …. I just can’t describe . Tá mo chroí lán #ancailinciúin- téigh! Briseadh sé do chroí…in a beautiful way… iontach.
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I had such a fascinating visit to @bfcdublin to hear all about the proposed new plans …thanks to all the gang there for talking to us!
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Anyone need Christmas PJ’s?? #penneys @blanchardstowncentre opened 6.45am this morning for very excited customers. report coming up @TodaywithClaire 🎄 pic taken 6.45am! Met one lady who was at her gym at 5.45am then at Penney’s by 7.05am . now for you! 😉
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Go raibh maith agaibh - for all the extraordinary messages about the doc. Buíochas ó chroi le gach duine a labhair linn! HUGE thanks to everyone who spoke to us & keep speaking up! #trials #hope @cancertrials_ie PS you all loved the sea bit so here you go xx🌸togs on telly😳😉🐟.
Tugann Evelyn O'Rourke spléachadh ar sheirbhísí ailse do mhná in Éirinn. @evelyn_orourke investigates cancer care for women in Ireland tonight on Evelyn O' Rourke : Ailse & Ise @ 21:30. @cancercarewest @SligoCancerSupp @RealtanNiL @CancerIreland
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Again, huge deep buckets of thanks for all the lovely comments about our documentary #ailse&Ise It’s on again this evening at 11pm @tg4tv if you’d like to hit record! 🌸 Míle Buíochas 🌸 (and yes I got those togs online) 😉 #unlikelyinfluencer.
"This was magnificent telly!! Bravo @evelyn_orourke and yes it was hopeful and uplifting and heartbreaking! But so needed!" - @DeirdreOKane1 . Féach anois ar Evelyn O' Rourke : Ailse & Ise aon am aon áit ar sheinnteoir TG4: .
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You know when children are doing school projects and throw random facts at you. usually you nod along, busy. but I paused today when my son told me that if you die in Amsterdam and have no friends or family, a poet will write a poem for you and recite it at your funeral 😢.
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Am lucky today to spend the day with the wonderful crew of the Emergency Aeromedical Service, “EAS" . @TodaySOR
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Huge thanks to all the parents who spoke to me today for this moving report - a heartfelt plea from parents with children with complex needs for summer education supports
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Delighted to be joining @daithi_ose later today . after 5pm to talk about my new documentary tomorrow on @tg4tv at 9.30pm #ailse&ise. @BrendaDonohue says the team @RTEToday will be very very very nice to me 😉🌸 EVEN Daithí 😉.
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Pro Palestinian demonstrators have taken to the streets of #Malmo just hours before the opening of the Grand Final. Waving Palestinian flags and banners, they are protesting Israel's participation in the #Eurovision2024. @rtenews
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“150 friends came and adapted my home so I could get home for Christmas. ” Martin - just one of the amazing patients I met #NatRehabHospital for @TodaywithClaire coming up this morning! I also got to meet 14 yr old #AmyMulcahy and her mum. (note Christmas nails!) 🎅🏼😉
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Such a treat today - opera came to Cahirsiveen, Kerry! Packed house, #DanielOConnell church with hundreds packed in for a fantastic performance #LaBohème - standing ovation! Local boy @GavanRing sang & co-produced this magic gem - bringing opera to rural Ireland @artscouncil_ie
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‘My nanny told me to sanitise my whole body’. I talk to passengers as @dublinairport sees it’s busiest departures board in months . and yet it’s still quite quiet here. Report coming up on @todayradio @rteradio1 at 10am
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This is the scene on O’Connell street this morning after the shocking scenes yesterday - as the burnt out buses get moved away… Full coverage on @todaywithclaire @RTERadio1 this morning ftom 10am #OConnellStreet
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A Gerry Ryan tribute unveiled today outside the radio centre.'The Ryan Line Is Open'. and always will be 'round here http://t.co/7jfdOVoqBH.
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Loved ‘That they may face the rising sun’… It’s so beautiful! It would make you want to get into your car … drive through the night and wake up in Connemara . #JohnMcGahern Éacht!.
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Beautiful beautiful movie - such a treat to be at the premiere of #ancailínciúin @dublinfilmfest Oiche tábhachtacht! First Irish language movie to open the festival - audience loved it - go see! Writer/Director Colm Bairéad just speaking now
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From being worried to drag the bins out after cancer treatment … @TodaywithClaire to patients planning marathons - I was so impressed with physio support for oncology patients @sheillg at St James’ - @CancerInstIRE
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Lovely chats and laughs coming up shortly with children who grew their hair vvvvv long during lockdown and then donated to wigs charity @rapunzelfound @reggi33 @TodaywithClaire
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Myself and @MiriamOCal had such a brilliant night interviewing the writer-y people on Wednesday night . ! Tune in shortly for TV highlights tonight 11.15pm @rteone @AnPostIBAS #anpost #irishbookawards
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Thanks to all the great advocates and artists who spoke to me today about the barriers facing black artists as they try to navigate arts sector funding to develop their careers . @artscouncil_ie @rtenews
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I was proud to be #larrygogan top IT assistant when I was @RTE2fm I used to help him retrieve emails AND unjam the paper in his (very busy!) fax machine, so listeners’ requests could get out during the #goldenhour Lovely to hear him discussed today @RTE2fm 7pm ‘Cloch le Carn’.
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