Jordan Kenny
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Normally talking about the news on @BBCR1 & @1Xtra | ✉️ jordan.kenny @bbc .co.uk
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I got to spend some time at home recently meeting lots of peace babies who, like me, were born after the Good Friday Agreement was signed.
Loads of interesting people, like John Hume’s grandkids to hear from.
📺: 22:30 on
@BBCNewsnight
.
🎥:
@Liamweir14
Prod:
@JudithWelikala
The first ‘peace baby’ to be born after the Good Friday Agreement was signed, Kerrie Patterson, speaks to Newsnight about how it changed the lives of her generation for the better
🎥 Watch our film on the agreement's 25th anniversary tonight | 10.30pm, BBC Two
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really enjoying Ekin Su’s pronunciation of Limerick on her insta stories 💀
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2022 is my fifth year at the BBC and with it comes a new challenge…
Today is my last day at
@BBCNewsNI
- the newsroom that’s taught me everything I know.
From next week, I���m joining BBC Radio 1 & 1 Xtra’s
@BBCNewsbeat
as a reporter.
Very excited for what’s ahead 🎙📻
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“I don’t think we have any representation at all in Northern Irish Media.”
Young and black in Northern Ireland
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Mum and Dad have come to visit London this weekend… Dad was only able to bring one outfit as Mum had stuffed four packets of soda farls into the carry on case
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Some of us are struggling with the one walk per day policy more than others...
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one year today
@BBCNewsbeat
… so here’s me staring off into the distance to mark the occasion.
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I’ve been speaking to the
@RMTunion
’s Mick Lynch for
@BBCNewsbeat
.
He says PM Rishi Sunak’s calls for “grown-up” talks about strike action are “patronising”.
📻 Hear more at 17:45 on
@BBCR1
&
@1Xtra
.
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Filled a flask of tea and surprised my Nan with a (socially distanced) visit. She’s all bizz.
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One of these people looks fresher than the other after a 5k run through Belfast this morning… See more later on
@BBCNewsNI
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Arrived home to find there’s been a new addition to the family...name suggestions welcome!🐶
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Met
@Keir_Starmer
in a coffee shop this morning. We talked about Labour’s plans for student fees, barges and Stormzy…
📻 You can hear the interview on
@BBCNewsbeat
on Radio 1 & 1Xtra at 17:45
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Today was my last day as a Digital Journalism Apprentice... what a crazy exciting two years it’s been
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Was introduced with a new title on the radio today…
Excited to be taking over the politics gig at Newsbeat for a bit 🤓
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first time on the Six and Ten O’Clock News last night - speaking to young potential voters in Liverpool as part of
@BBCNewsbeat
’s Race Across The UK.
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The real reason Taylor Swift is in Belfast... if the plastic letters on the BBC fridge are to be believed.
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In news news,
@BBCNewsbeat
sounds different… We’ve got some jazzy new beds - here’s
@RoisinHastie
giving them their first run on the airwaves at 06:30 this morning.
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I’m in Germany with
@BettyGlover_
, we’ve spent the past few days pitch-side with
@BlackYellow
&
@dynamokyiven
players ahead of tonight’s Match for Peace.
See and hear what we’ve been up to on
@BBCNewsbeat
and
@BBCNews
today and tomorrow 🇩🇪🇺🇦
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It’s happening.
#DeathTo
Robot bees could be deployed if natural population continues to collapse
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A year ago today I started at the BBC (and also lost my contact lenses).
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Places I didn’t expect to be heading when I got up this morning… Belfast.
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The last link and last Newsbeaters standing in 82H. End of an era ❤️
Some
@BBC
history happens today. After 49 years in London. Newsbeat broadcasts there for a final time before going live in Birmingham next week. The kit and the smoking rules have changed a bit over that time (this picture is the programme in 1994). Emosh to host the last one.
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Finally ticking Mussenden Temple off my list of places I deffo should have already visited but haven’t ✅
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All chuffed for my sister
@KennyCherith
graduating from her nursing degree today.
Didn’t expect to start her career in the middle of a pandemic but is a proper trooper doing a stellar job 👩⚕️
We’ll celebrate properly (without the masks) sometime soon!
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I’ve had a chat with the brill
@DaisyEdgarJones
about her first lead film role in the movie Fresh.
You can hear it on
@BBCNewsbeat
today…
📻12:45 on
@BBCR1
,
@1Xtra
&
@bbcasiannetwork
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I’ll be keeping you across the election fall out and allll your other news this weekend on
@BBCR1
,
@1Xtra
and
@bbcasiannetwork
📻
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It’s me behind the mic today presenting the main Newsbeats (for the first time!!).
On Radio 1 & 1Xtra at 12:45 & 17:45 and talking Northern Ireland.
📻 tune ur radio!!
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Wrapping up a crazy year of being a BBC Next Generation Committee member - one of the most exciting things I’ve had the chance to be involved in at the BBC.
Keep an eye out for where the next committee take things, it’ll be big!
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Really fun night hosting a special
@BBCNews
show counting down to Results Day with
@KIRSTYGRNT
And no, we’re not AI generated x
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My first BBC article. Have a read. 😁
Freshers' Week 2017: Freshers praise Belfast universities
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To be honest, I don’t even know if I’ve brought the right dog home...
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Caught the sunset over a frozen Hillsborough lake earlier. C'était magnifique.
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Tomi and Susan are some of the most remarkable people I’ve ever met. They’re both Holocaust survivors liberated at Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. They met for the first time recently in Belfast, 74-years after the liberation.
Read about it here👇🏻
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I spoke to Benedict about what it’s like being 18 on Rathlin Island. Have a watch 👀
Being 18 on UK's Rathlin Island
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You can meet the man inside the bubble here 👇🏻
'I did actually come up the Lagan in a bubble.'
Actor Shaun Blaney kept a lockdown promise by taking to the River Lagan in a bubble.
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Probably my 800th lap around this lake during lockdown but it still manages to impress me
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Chatting all things burnt bagels and broken toes at the BBC Celebrating Excellence ceremony. W/
@TherealNihal
@stephbreakfast
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In a change to the billed schedule, my birthday hasn’t been overshadowed by Christmas celebration this year
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🏁 RACE ACROSS THE UK 🏁
The next 3 weeks on
@BBCNewsbeat
we’re racing from Newquay to the top of Scotland (hopefully) in time for polling day on 4 July.
Listeners are setting checkpoints and chatting to us along the way about issues important to them.
See you on the road 👋
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🏁 WE MADE IT!
@BBCNewsbeat
’s election Race Across the UK is complete. 🏁
Cornwall to Inverness, via Wales and Northern Ireland. A mad three weeks.
Heard from so many people on why they’re voting - or why they aren’t - and what’s most important to them.
Now ready for a nap.
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On
@BBCNewsbeat
at 12:45 I’m chatting to Napa who’s leaving her NHS job to become a cam girl.
She feels like she has no other choice because she doesn’t want to get a Covid jab - which will be mandatory for frontline health care staff in England from April.
📻Tune in
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I’m presenting a new podcast about the Good Friday Agreement!
Spoke to people from Northern Ireland’s music, arts, sports and media worlds for this - lots of really interesting takes.
A Peace of Us is out on Thursday 🎧👇🏻
Only two days until our 'A Peace of Us' podcast is live! Check it out at all your usual podcast hosts or at our
#GFA25
OpenLearn hub:
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Really enjoyed putting this piece together with
@x_ToxicTears
. Have a watch👀
Being a goth is thankfully easier in 2018, says YouTuber Toxic Tears
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Sorry but Pete from Gogglebox called me a legend. Nobody can chat to me for the rest of the day 💀💀💀
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The Speaker of the House of Commons has been telling me why he thinks it’s important people in their teens and twenties to get into politics.
Hear the interview on
@BBCNewsbeat
today…
📻 17:45 on
@BBCR1
&
@1Xtra
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!! we made a documentary !!
I got to spend some time at home recently speaking to people who, like me, were born after the Good Friday Agreement was signed and hear their thoughts on the future.
It aired on BBC One this morning & you can watch here:
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Talking about Northern Ireland dramas on
@BBCNewsbeat
tonight, both fictional and political - even bumped into Bran Stark on the way!
📻5:45 on
@BBCR1
&
@1Xtra
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Got to join the BBC Share Your Story tour today… lots of fun trying to explain how/why on earth I’m a journalist
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These guys from
@NIYF
have been trying to make sure that young people’s voices are heard during the pandemic 👇🏻
'Young people's voices need to be amplified during the pandemic'
Young people in Northern Ireland have their say about what's going on.
#coronavirus
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Just been sent this in the post from back home… not entirely sure what to make of it
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BNE - big newsbeat energy coming at u this weekend. Catch u on the radioooo
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Talking football tonight on
@BBCNewsbeat
ahead of the England vs Northern Ireland Euros match ⚽️
I’m at Seaview Stadium in Belfast with the NI fans,
@BettyGlover_
is in Southampton with the English ones.
📻 17:45 on
@BBCR1
&
@1Xtra
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Here’s me trying to explain the Good Friday Agreement in under 2 minutes...
Here's our brief guide to the Good Friday Agreement, 20 years on from its signing
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A celebratory run through the leaves to see off two weeks of isolation 🍁
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Setting up ahead of tonight’s Coronavirus Catch-up live from
@SSEBelfastArena
.
@LouiseMCullen
will have the latest on restrictions and
@AlanStout19
will be answering your questions.
We’re live at 19:00 on
@BBCNewsNI
and
@BBCiPlayer
- tune in!
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Spoke to
@SaoirseJackson
last week and heard alllll the bizz on the third (and final 🥲) series of Derry Girls. We had a bit of a laugh - you can hear it on
@BBCNewsbeat
shortly.
📻12:45 on BBC Radio 1, 1Xtra & Asian Network
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After more than a year of Zooms,
@mlchealth
is with me in person on tonight’s Coronavirus Catch-up!
We’ll be chatting about the Indian variant in NI.
@BBCJayneMcC
has the latest on restrictions and the answers to your questions.
See you at 7pm on
@BBCNewsNI
&
@BBCiPlayer
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Keeping the presenter seat warm on Reliable Sauce for a couple of weeks while
@JonelleAwomoyi
is off.
@KIRSTYGRNT
and I had a right old laugh.
Listen now on
@BBCSounds
🌶️🔥
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“All I could wish is for her to be herself.”
Transgender: Reacting to my dad's transition
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Todays office… a very sunny Brighton ☀️
Hearing how people here think Jake Daniels coming out could make football a safer space for LGBT+players and fans.
📻1245 Radio 1, 1Xtra & Asian Network
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My brother getting his uniform and buzzin for A levels. Young & naive, escape while you can.
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South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands have made NI’s travel green list.
If like
@BBCJayneMcC
and me you haven’t a baldy where they are, I did some Googling..
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had a chat with
@BBCCareers
about what we get up to at Newsbeat 👇🏻
Reporting on culture and the big issues that matter to young people reporter
@jordken
connects with audiences from across the UK
He tells us about his role at
@BBCNewsbeat
🎤
We welcome him to
#Birmingham
in 2022 🙌
#Newsbab
#newsbeat
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