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Vinnie O'Dowd

@VinnieoDowd

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journalist with BBC News. signal: +44 7764802194

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Joined February 2009
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@VinnieoDowd
Vinnie O'Dowd
3 years
Outside Downing Street, @beastieboys blares: You’ve gotta fight… for your right…
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Violence against police this afternoon at Parliament square.
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More violence against police on Bridge street, next to Big Ben.
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Projectiles and, what appears to be a flash grenade, thrown at police on Trafalgar Square this afternoon
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3 years
Insulate Britain protestors Inked this morning on A40
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*context* Prior to road blockage- protestor explains what and why
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Protestor describes his nerves prior to protest
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Injured man leaves Trafalgar Square escorted by police
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My esteemed colleague @AndySmithTV has been in journalism for 37 years. He’s never been spat on until today. By the supporters of Stephen Yaxley-Lennon aka Tommy Robinson.
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5 years
Fergie has justarrived at Buckingham Palace... in a good mood. tea & cake it is, then.
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4 years
Interview with the protestor/defacer who ‘tagged’ the Churchill statue on Parliament square.
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10 months
‘Palestine Protestors’ and ‘Counter Protestors’ clash on Trafalgar Square
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8 years
"Police came to Hyde and said to us 'don't play that type of music[bashment] here', then it kicked off."
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4 years
Police officer hit by a thrown traffic cone recieves attention
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4 years
Sgt Matt Ratana sent a WhatsApp message to his players at East Grinstead rugby team @ 0134am this morning: “good session tonight team”. Matt Ratana was shot less than an hour later, at 0215am.
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4 years
Rioting protestors hurling objects at a police vehicle. Victoria area central London
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10 months
Police prevent ‘counter protestors’ getting to ‘Pro Palestine’ March just north of Vauxhall Bridge. Warning: quite a lot of swearing.
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To those talking about the ‘awful’ news re lockdown. This was sent to me on Friday by the daughter of a man, in his 50s, who died from Covid 19.
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@VinnieoDowd
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3 years
A man has climbed ladder outside BBC News Headquarters and is using a mallet to chip away at a statue
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5 years
. @SquiresGC hi there, one of your colleagues just asked my wife “to cover up” while breastfeeding our 1 month old child. My wife refused, however your colleague then proceeded to threaten her with “getting the manager and then proceeded to hold a serviette over the child.
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4 years
Yesterday’s madding crowd
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8 years
Remnants of a #riot in #hydepark ... Police on edge.
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4 years
Riots on King Charles Street, which runs between U.K. Treasury and Foreign Office. You can see a broom and a Boris bike being flung at police.
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4 years
Another friend on Ratana: “A few years ago I was experiencing financial problems. He came in one day and gave me 200 quid out of the blue, I said ‘no no, I can’t accept that’- and gave it back to him. But the next day he wired it into my account. That’s the sort of guy he was.”
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2 years
Excl: Migrants detained illegally, official email claims & Police investigating alleged assault on Manston asylum seeker by home office official
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6 years
Irish Times poll says 60pc of voters in rural Ireland voted to repeal. The final light is out for Christian conservatism in Ireland. #ReferendumDay #Repeal8th
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Vinnie O'Dowd
11 years
Editing @PantiBliss #C4news int from 9 mins down to 4 was a tough one! Many good answers left on floor.
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3 years
I not going to do a sophisticated/sickly tweet about someone like @SamMcAlister1 leaving BBC news. She’s kind and is a fucking scoop queen. That’s it.
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Rugby friend of Matt Ratana: “One of the funniest things Matt used to say was: ‘D’you know the All Black side step?’ And you’d go ‘No’. And he’d say: ‘there isn’t one’.”
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Vinnie O'Dowd
3 years
Lesia says gooodbye for now to her husband Volodymer who leaves for Ukraine today “maybe he’ll be away for a week, maybe a month… maybe two months… as long as he and Ukraine needs”
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3 years
Driver on other side of road made counter protest
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4 years
@SunVideo No sorry
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10 years
Protester gets bashed by police #freeeducation
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5 years
@RobBurl I think people are disconcerted by Laura K’s point since it is the PM who has lied. He was caught lying to a distressed parent by a camera that he said wasn’t there. The distraught parents political beliefs are not the point.
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@EwanMacKenna I was at the ‘serious unrest’ in London yesterday. Millwall matches(which I have also attended) are more worthy of the description. It was several thugs out looking for a fight, from what I saw. Not sure why Irish papers would bother covering.
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3 years
A40 west rn
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4 years
@tweetymonkey @OrlaGuerin Clougherhead side of Terminfeckin?
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Vinnie O'Dowd
2 years
Chancellor Jeremy Hunt leaving the Carlton Club tonight after briefly attending the birthday party of the 1922 committee.
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3 years
List of items requested to be donated to the Ukrainian Social Club, London.
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4 years
Paralysed in June. Pumping it in Feb. @CaldwellPhilip has spent the last seven months learning how to walk again. El’done Flip.
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7 years
OXFAM resignation: deputy Chief executive, Penny Lawrence to resign
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11 years
Dr Shah Khan to the congregation: "Try and live by the ideal 'of helping others' as he did.
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Cont’d: “But he was most generous with his time. There was no one he wouldn’t speak to - there was no one he wouldn’t help.”
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Vinnie O'Dowd
10 months
A group of c. 60 ‘counter protestors’ approached about a dozen ‘Pro Palestine’ protestors who were heading north on Lambeth bridge. A stand off ensued, police intervened as you can see and bottles thrown etc.
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2 years
100s of Migrants were detained illegally in the UK & Police investigating alleged assault on a Manston asylum seeker by a Home Office official. BBC News report here: edited by @adamwalkertv and produced by @JJ_Bryant
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10 months
Angry ‘counter protestor’ unsuccessfully tries to barge through police lines. Again, a lot of swearing here.
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Vinnie O'Dowd
9 years
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9 years
8 yr old kid just walked past me waiting for Nrthrn line. "3 minutes is quite a long time, mom". Try the DART kid
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4 years
Love this ‘Google Review’ response by the owner of an outdoor shop in Galway ( @WildGalway ). Zero tolerance for racism, all ears on service. It’s good that bosses front-up when it comes to abuse of this kind. #Ireland
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4 years
Powerful read on an insidious child abuser by ⁦ @TomLyonsBiz ⁩ “If you don’t get into my car, I will take that as you saying to me ‘F*** you’”
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4 years
Excellent interactive piece on masks. Thanks for flagging @gavinsblog
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5 years
Dominic Cunmings blew me a kiss this morning.
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"A walk in the park? Who said this would be a walk in the park?" - Dominic Cummings to reporters this morning
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You’re right, @RenatusCapital . it isn’t just “copy-and-pasting”. It’s cutting, copying and then pasting. @TomLyonsBiz
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10 years
Green Caroline Lucas MP addresses the crowd. Govt policy is "morally bankrupt. #freeeducation
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Vinnie O'Dowd
6 years
. @RebeccaMoth ’s debut novel launches today. Go get yourself one. #ThursdayThoughts
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Vinnie O'Dowd
8 years
Where is this referee from? What passport does he hold? #COYBIG   #IRLBEL
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6 years
Taximan in Salisbury: Did you hear about this spy thing? Me: Yes TM: you just never know who’s around you, do you? M: no, you don’t. TM: not being funny, mate, but that means you could work for the I.R.A. M:🤔
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Vinnie O'Dowd
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My first Sunday Independent: page 1 with @TomLyonsBiz http://t.co/KTR7NTJ2Vs
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9 years
Investigation into the Catholic Church in Uganda by myself and @dannydvincent will be published shortly on @BBCWorld
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7 years
And so it begins.. my final rugby season. #frogchampions2018
@haz214
Harrison Collins
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Great to see so many boys bracing the weather last night. Fantastic first session back. Big year ahead @LondonFrenchRFC 🏉
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5 years
This is what happens when hacks get bored waiting for @BorisJohnson to come out of his home and speak to the press. Red Kites get snapped.
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11 years
PSNI's Alastair Finlay about to brief the press re the security surrounding G8 next month.
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10 years
Watching the fireworks on TV tonight? How'd ye think that works? #londoneye #fireworks
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10 years
Caroline Lucas criticises govt for taking it easy on the big companies and cracking down on students #freee ...
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4 years
@McDonnellDan You’d think that they could resolve this in a WhatsApp group or something... 😉
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EXCL: Man on the run - sentenced to 12 years for shooting girlfriend in 2003 - we tracked down to Reunion island
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2 years
The @CollegeTribune is an independent paper which has been pumping out great journalism for 34 years at University College Dublin. It's where I got my only crash course in journalism. It needs a bit of help now to stay alive. give dem man a score.
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Hello. My old paper, @CollegeTribune is in a bit of financial difficulty due to massive inflation and advertising drying up. The current editors have started a GoFundMe to try and cover the cost of running the paper for semester 2. ?
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2 years
Watched @Evan_Ferguson9 with @callummay and @crowemo10 batter L’pool yesterday - wishing Ev a full recovery
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Happy day today at @SquiresGC . Unreserved apology and lovely flowers gladly accepted by @govan_vanessa . #Breastfeedingmoms
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Dr Shah Khan in eulogising his br Dr Abba Khan: kindest and simplest man I've ever met. He believed in living and dying by his principles.
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5 years
Here’s footage of a guy who tried to hop over the gates at Downing Street tonight. A fool’s errand. #Brexit
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Kevin Spacey out of car on way to court
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Former Irish International rugby player who played wing and scored one try in eight appearances. Now thinks he should go dog whistling on Twitter. Hopefully he is the type of wing we(Ireland) will never produce in a 1st XV again.
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To play for YOUR country is the highest honor you can bestow on any sports player...not sure about playing for a different one..just saying.
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“I’m proud of what my son did” More of this please. 👍👍👍👍👍
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4 years
32,000, the biggest number in the world rn
@reidepstein
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4 years
Joe Biden now has a narrow lead in Wisconsin after City of Milwaukee absentees come in. Still 32,000 absentees left to come in from Green Bay, a Democratic city.
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Reporting on #BLMLondon protest today for the BBC. Protestors enroute to US embassy. There’s a giddiness in their step, and a seriousness in their voice. Send any tips my way
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LIVE on #Periscope : Marble Arch, London, "riot" here earlier.
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4 years
Assange arrives at Westminster Magistrates Court, London
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Vinnie O'Dowd
6 years
I hope you were also ‘confiscating’ that bike that was being sold to one of your staff members this evening. I’ve got footage of the sale/confiscation, if you need it. Looking forward to seeing the confiscation tweet.
@OfficialFayrooz
Fayrooz Resturant
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Hi Everyone,We Confiscated a phone a robber was trying to sell at our shop and we would like to reach out and find the owner for this phone.Attached photos please retweet and let’s find the owner of this phone! If no one collects within 2 days device will be passed to the police.
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Olly Murs arrives for #BandAid30 Paps loving it...
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Brilliant reporting inside the Capitol
@itvnews
ITV News
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Watch @robertmooreitv 's report from inside the Capitol building as the extraordinary events unfolded in Washington DC
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Petro(49) and Volodymer(44) have volunteered to go and fight in Ukraine. They leave today.
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10 years
#EricGarner video here: http://t.co/0l3qzvQMVM Distressing viewing. Make your own mind up.
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Vinnie O'Dowd
1 year
Happy mothers Day Mammy. Love you x.
@Fergusodowd
Fergus O'Dowd
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Happy Mother's Day Agnes !
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Kevin Spacey helped into court
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hen den hell
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5 years
I’m away on a training day for work. However can you please state whether this is company policy or not. Thanks
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Vinnie O'Dowd
3 years
Go Sam!
@SamMcAlister1
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3 years
“This is for producers everywhere!” @WFTV_UK #producers #newsnight
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Vinnie O'Dowd
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@declanwalsh also alerts one, as a journalist, to the sensitivities that may exist in one’s own reportage, past and future. And the imperative to get stuff factually correct.
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Vinnie O'Dowd
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Royal Marine Konstandinos Erik Scurfield - 1st Briton killed fighting w/ Kurds against IS. Beret in background. http://t.co/YWQ7f1t7ea
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