Hugh Linehan
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Writer & editor @IrishTimes. Presents Inside Politics podcast. Same handle at Bluesky. [email protected]
Dublin
Joined May 2009
SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT. The @IrishTimes Inside Politics podcast will be recording its Yuletide Ask Me Anything show this week. Send your questions to politicspodcast@irishtimes.com by 10am on Dec 18. Or DM me here.
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RT @IrishTimes: 🎧Today on In the News, Hugh Linehan and Laura Slattery join Bernice Harrison to discuss the newly-appointed arts minister i…
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‘You won’t get any of them to admit it, but there will have been glum faces among those who run the State’s culture industries when O’Donovan’s name was pulled out of Micheál Martin’s hat nine days ago.’ My @IrishTimes column today.
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Today’s podcast with @fotoole @Jennifer_Bray and @JackHoJo: Are ‘super-juniors’ unconstitutional?
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@DonaldClarke63 Weeeellllll…. Yes, of course. But part of the job is killing your babies and hacking the hunk of marble to reveal the smaller jewel within. And other stuff too, obviously.
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Chaos in Leinster House: how the vote for taoiseach went off the rails
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‘Trump’s success was built on a motley gang of media outsiders from the worlds of podcasting, gaming and martial arts. The mainstream entertainment establishment got a bloody nose. It will surely take note,’ My @IrishTimes column today.
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Nicely done
Me on David Lynch, a piece I'd rather never have had to write. An uncompromising American original. As a kid from before the VHS era, my earliest memory of his work is watching that single tear go down Hopkins's face in THE ELEPHANT MAN on release in 1980.
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‘One can only wonder what Kubrick would have thought of people being able to watch Barry Lyndon on their phones.’ My weekend @IrishTimes column.
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It’s Christmas Eve, which means it’s time for the @IrishTimes Inside Politics team to answe listener questions in the first instalment of our FESTIVE AMA. @PatLeahyIT @Jennifer_Bray @harrymcgee @JackHoJo
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@TheRealCulls @IrishTimes I stand reproved. Too many hours spent in windowless rooms trying to figure out how to make things work across multiple platforms.
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RT @BrendyBoyle: Hugh Linehan in The Irish Times on why so many news websites currently look so boringly similar.
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RT @Jennifer_Bray: Our last Friday Wrap of the year on the Inside Politics podcast, recorded this morning, is up now. It's been a blast thi…
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So when I wrote my article about polarisation, @jessesingal and the future of Bluesky, I didn’t expect quoting Kevin Kruse would turn out so badly. This is pretty appalling. ..
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