Flor MacCarthy🇺🇦🇵🇸 @florNEWS Twitter profile

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Flor MacCarthy🇺🇦🇵🇸

2 months

Fake news, propaganda, censorship & spies.. 🕵️‍♀️🗞️📻 Ireland in the years 1919-23. Tune-in for some fascinating stories in our new 8-part series Fake News and Irish Freedom. Sundays at 7:30pm, @RTERadio1 You can listen back to Ep 1: ‘Breaking the Paper Wall’ on the RTÉ Radio app.

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Flor MacCarthy🇺🇦🇵🇸

@florNEWS

2 years

A great story about Queen Elizabeth’s historic speech at Dublin Castle in May 2011: we’ve traced the envelope on which then President of Ireland, Mary McAleese, had scribbled phonetically ‘A Uachtaráin, agus a chairde’ (President and friends) and which secretly made its way to

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Flor MacCarthy🇺🇦🇵🇸

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3 years

Highlight of the summer. Must have been 50 dolphins in this pod this evening! Wait ‘til the end….just wait! #Baltimore #westcork #❤️ #sherkin

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Flor MacCarthy🇺🇦🇵🇸

@florNEWS

2 years

@sommervilletv Historic, not ‘history’! As a former tv news reporter (with lots of out-takes) I still show it to media students as a reward at the end of a class. Here’s another favourite 1/3

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Flor MacCarthy🇺🇦🇵🇸

@florNEWS

5 years

Italian friend in Dublin: her grandmother in Northern Italy died at the weekend (covid19 confirmed); her father is now in hospital; she’s an ‘only child’; she’s not allowed to visit him. Big stats, a million individual heartbreaks #COVID2019 #CoronaVirusitaly #coronavirus

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Flor MacCarthy🇺🇦🇵🇸

@florNEWS

2 years

Special night tonight for the wonderful ⁦ @DunneEileen ⁩ - no introduction needed! Our best-known news presenter, journalist, and much loved friend & colleague. Presenting her final news bulletin on ⁦ @rtenews ⁩ at 9pm. Thanks for everything, Eileen!🥂 #rte #news #rtenews

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Flor MacCarthy🇺🇦🇵🇸

@florNEWS

2 years

@charliebird49 Oh Charlie…you did exactly the same for me - this week 4 yrs ago. A close family member had died and you found me in a café, as the tears hit. You took my arm, led me to a table at the back, ordered tea and sat with me until my lift arrived. I will never forget your kindness. Xx

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Flor MacCarthy🇺🇦🇵🇸

@florNEWS

4 years

BREAKING: (hearts💘!) Special message just now from the lovely lad next door, for the 6th yr girls, Loreto Abbey Dalkey. Cool surprise org by their amazing teachers on what would have been their final day in school. Fair play #MattDamon #LeavingCert

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Flor MacCarthy🇺🇦🇵🇸

@florNEWS

2 years

Epilogue: Frances Campbell is now Vice Chancellor of a university in Fremantle, Western Australia. Thanks to Mary McAleese he found the envelope for us in a drawer in his desk, and was delighted for it to be included in the collection: #ThePresidentsLetters @PresLetters 📚💌

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Flor MacCarthy🇺🇦🇵🇸

@florNEWS

3 years

We should be so proud: the first successive female heads of state to be elected in any country in the world. Mary Robinson & Mary McAleese #LateLateShow #LLS (And both wrote superb essays in my book @PresLetters on history, politics, diplomacy, peace, women, the Irish presidency)

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Flor MacCarthy🇺🇦🇵🇸

@florNEWS

1 year

Just discovered how you can experience the very worst & best days in the same week. Sailing for home with our daughter, who last Fri suffered serious injuries in a road accident in Lyon. Been at her bedside in ICU ‘til this morn. We’re so lucky, & thanks for all your messages🙏🏻❤️

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Flor MacCarthy🇺🇦🇵🇸

@florNEWS

2 years

almost speechless and clearly delighted Mary McAleese can be seen exclaiming just one word: ‘wow!’.

The Queen's Speech in Dublin Castle

Britain's Queen Elizabeth II caps off the 2nd day of her historic state visit to Ireland with a speech delivered in Dublin Castle.

www.youtube.com

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Flor MacCarthy🇺🇦🇵🇸

@florNEWS

3 years

Take it from me - if you’re walking fast, your keys digging into the palm of your hand, feeling for your phone & too afraid to look behind you, the *last* thing on your mind is the nationality of the person who may be following you.

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Flor MacCarthy🇺🇦🇵🇸

@florNEWS

4 years

Just when you thought you couldn’t love a place more... cellist on the rocks, early this morn, the rest of the village still asleep #Baltimore #westCork 💚

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Flor MacCarthy🇺🇦🇵🇸

@florNEWS

4 years

My son, over breakfast: “Mum, do you realise I was 13 when the lockdowns began, and I’ll be 15 next month!” It’s not easy on these kids. And though I do give out about time spent on X-box, at least it let’s them chat with their pals. Been told I’m getting a lesson in Fifa later!

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Flor MacCarthy🇺🇦🇵🇸

@florNEWS

4 years

Goodnight from Baltimore, west Cork🧡

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Flor MacCarthy🇺🇦🇵🇸

@florNEWS

3 years

Get this for customer service: With NO warning, Eir blocked our home wifi & my mobile due to an outstanding bill of..... 25c! The charge was an error on their part. Held to ransom for almost 24 hours, I tried to pay the .25 but was told there’s a minimum payment! @eircare @eir 🤯

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Flor MacCarthy🇺🇦🇵🇸

@florNEWS

9 months

Great story! Friend of my brother got chatting to a man in Cork today whose phone kept ringing. He ignored it as their chat was so interesting. Finally the friend said: Jeez, you better answer that..”Ah, it’s only @RTERnaG for an interview, my son’s been nominated for an #Oscar ”!

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Flor MacCarthy🇺🇦🇵🇸

@florNEWS

4 years

So sorry to hear of the closure of @VikingSplash The good-humour of the drivers & guides created a great sense of fun on the streets of Dublin. For those of you listening to @TheBusinessRTE here’s the video of they played of 1 journalist trying to do her work, enjoy! @RTERadio1

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Flor MacCarthy🇺🇦🇵🇸

@florNEWS

3 years

What an absolute bastard of a week. Murder of Ashling; suicide of Shane and a little 12 year old girl; deaths of Michael Laffan, Jim Fahy & so many others. 3rd anniversary of my darling brother Gerry; and next week the 6th anniversary of my Mum. Trying hard to keep positive❤️❤️❤️

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Flor MacCarthy🇺🇦🇵🇸

@florNEWS

4 years

Spectacular sunset just now #Cove #Baltimore #westCork #StatusOrange

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Flor MacCarthy🇺🇦🇵🇸

@florNEWS

1 year

What an incredible find…30 minute in-depth interview with Sinéad O’Connor from 31 yrs ago. Marian gave her space to discuss abortion rights, abuse, divorce, sexism, motherhood, inner strength, love.

KM2 archive

@KillianM2

1 year

Marian Finucane in conversation with Sinead O'Connor. Very rare interview (the internet doesn't seem to know about it!) just a few months before the Pope picture rip incident on MTV. This is worth half an hour, if you have it to spare. (RTE1 - April 1992)

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Flor MacCarthy🇺🇦🇵🇸

@florNEWS

3 years

Beyond belief, especially on a crucial news night like tonight, that we have Ant & Dec pushing the 9tv News bulletin to 9:28?! News, and not ‘lite entertainment’ should be the mainstays in a schedule. Am saying this as a vocal supporter of @rtenews & public service broadcasting.

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Flor MacCarthy🇺🇦🇵🇸

@florNEWS

4 years

Actually that was a helluva desperately awful 5 years. Losing my Mum, my two brothers, dear friends. Moving country with kids, pressing eject on my career. Other big stuff. Then this pandemic wipe-out of a year. Longing for calming times. I’ll settle for boring in 2021 (maybe).

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Flor MacCarthy🇺🇦🇵🇸

@florNEWS

4 years

15 today🎈James’ 2nd birthday in lockdown. Gone from 13 to 15 without: his friends; his wider family; sports training; drum lessons; school. He walks the dog a lot. But ...it’s his birthday!!🥳(maybe send a few bday wishes?)

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Flor MacCarthy🇺🇦🇵🇸

@florNEWS

2 years

would have coached the queen to say. Reluctantly she did so, warning him that the plan was ‘off the table’. But Elizabeth had other ideas. As she rose to her feet in Dublin Castle, the first British monarch to visit Ireland began her speech: ‘A Uachtaráin, agus a chairde..’ An

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Flor MacCarthy🇺🇦🇵🇸

@florNEWS

3 years

Still bright here ‘til 5:15pm. Baltimore beacon & Sherkin lighthouse silhouetted against the last rays of the winter sun.

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Flor MacCarthy🇺🇦🇵🇸

@florNEWS

7 years

If ever I’m tempted to write a novel, I have the opening scene: man ahead of me at #AerLingus desk Paris, checked-in this as luggage, This, and nothing else.

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Flor MacCarthy🇺🇦🇵🇸

@florNEWS

8 months

Found it. My RTÉ exit package! (Got a DVD of the visits by QEIl & Obama. Still in its wrapper from when I was lucky enough to receive it from management in June 2011, as I left after 15 years as a news journalist/presenter).

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Flor MacCarthy🇺🇦🇵🇸

@florNEWS

2 years

“Just going off with the lads to celebrate for a while” texts the Junior Cert son, “see ya later!”. He’s done one exam, a 2-hr English paper. One!😂😳

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Flor MacCarthy🇺🇦🇵🇸

@florNEWS

2 years

Buckingham Palace. Both women had hoped that the speech could begin with a few words in Irish, but the plan was vetoed by the protocol teams- too risky - they thought - if she stumbles in her Irish, that’s all that will be remembered. A week before the state visit, former British

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Flor MacCarthy🇺🇦🇵🇸

@florNEWS

2 years

@jamesrbrophy1 James, the point is not that QEII managed to get out four words in Irish. Rather that she ignored advice, side-stepped the protocol experts, and recognised the symbolic importance of a British monarch speaking Irish - in Dublin Castle!

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Flor MacCarthy🇺🇦🇵🇸

@florNEWS

4 years

Jumbled, cluttered, messy - but still my favourite corner in the house. 15-yr-old bookshelves, designed by me, made by an old-style carpenter; we were both very happy with the results! #WorldBookDay2021 #books

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@florNEWS

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As news breaks re #Gaza & the pause in fighting to allow mass #polio vaccinations of children - it's worth remembering this was driven by Irishman Aidan O'Leary who died suddenly this month: Aidan O’Leary, leader of WHO’s global polio-eradication campaign

Obituary: Aidan O’Leary, former soldier who rose to become leader of WHO’s global polio-eradication...

Aidan O’Leary, who has died at the age of 59, was an inspiring humanitarian who was latterly head of the World Health Organisation’s (WHO) polio eradicatio...

www.independent.ie

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Flor MacCarthy🇺🇦🇵🇸

@florNEWS

3 years

Happy Birthday @PresidentIRL And what an ad for 80! Still writing books, poetry, speeches; still a voice for human rights, civil rights, women's rights; still standing up for the underdog (& all dogs!) Thanks for everything, esp at the moment. Hope you take today off. #MichaelD80

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Flor MacCarthy🇺🇦🇵🇸

@florNEWS

4 years

Bit of a Leonard Cohen sky at Seapoint tonight #Dublin #howthelightgetsin #twilight

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Flor MacCarthy🇺🇦🇵🇸

@florNEWS

3 months

I realised as I threw this question to Tommie that it might just be an impossible one to answer. Not for him. 30 years of The Troubles summed up in 30 seconds. #GFA #TommieGorman

Flor MacCarthy🇺🇦🇵🇸

@florNEWS

3 months

Very sad news, Tommie was a wonderful colleague, always so generous with advice (not always about work!) and a brilliant and original journalist. We last worked together on our Good Friday Agreement anniversary special in 2023 #TommieGorman #RIP #OireachtasTV

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@florNEWS

1 year

Spent the evening with my lovely neighbour whose late husband worked in RTÉ outside broadcast unit (OBs) for decades. He missed most birthdays, all New Year’s Eves etc. But RTÉ, she said, was a place you were proud of, a sense of ‘all hands on deck’, 18 hr days cos you wanted to

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Flor MacCarthy🇺🇦🇵🇸

@florNEWS

2 years

diplomat Francis Campbell paid a courtesy call on McAleese at Áras an Uachtaráin (both from Northern Ireland, they’d been students together at QUB). As he was leaving, Campbell pulled an old envelope from his jacket and pocket and persuaded the president to jot down the line she

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Flor MacCarthy🇺🇦🇵🇸

@florNEWS

5 months

If only we could harness this - the collective marvelling at the beauty of our little planet! Dublin tonight #auroraborealis #northernlights #magic

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Flor MacCarthy🇺🇦🇵🇸

@florNEWS

1 year

Oops! Just typing the date on a work email and realising it’s our wedding anniversary! And was my turn to organise a surprise this year🫣How’s this @RTENewsPaulC ? #Surprise ! Happy 14th anniversary!🥂💘

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Flor MacCarthy🇺🇦🇵🇸

@florNEWS

3 years

Cape Clear ferry catching the last light at Baltimore beacon now #westcork #winterlight

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Flor MacCarthy🇺🇦🇵🇸

@florNEWS

3 years

Not that we needed any excuse to climb the spectacularly beautiful Knockomagh Hill, Lough Hyne, - but delighted to for our old pal @charliebird49 #ClimbwithCharlie

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Flor MacCarthy🇺🇦🇵🇸

@florNEWS

3 years

This lovely old girl found wandering this morning on Mounttown Road Lower in Dun Laoghaire. Red collar, no name tag. A neighbour is bringing her door to door. Please RT #stray

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Flor MacCarthy🇺🇦🇵🇸

@florNEWS

3 years

Oh look, we have the 9 o’clock news delayed again to make way for Ant & Dec’s “biggest cash prize in British history”. With Ukraine being pulverised, it seems especially vulgar tonight. RT if you’d prefer to watch the @rtenews at 9pm?

Flor MacCarthy🇺🇦🇵🇸

@florNEWS

3 years

Beyond belief, especially on a crucial news night like tonight, that we have Ant & Dec pushing the 9tv News bulletin to 9:28?! News, and not ‘lite entertainment’ should be the mainstays in a schedule. Am saying this as a vocal supporter of @rtenews & public service broadcasting.

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Flor MacCarthy🇺🇦🇵🇸

@florNEWS

2 years

Dun Laoghaire Baths: open for biz. Dec 2022

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Flor MacCarthy🇺🇦🇵🇸

@florNEWS

2 years

This is problematic. Just heard the @rtenews News @One headline: “As Leo Varadkar and Mary-Lou clash”. Referring to politicians by their first name only is happening too often, and it’s not just on RTÉ. But if it has to happen it should at least be consistent, no?

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Flor MacCarthy🇺🇦🇵🇸

@florNEWS

3 years

Temped to hire a chainsaw…

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Flor MacCarthy🇺🇦🇵🇸

@florNEWS

6 years

Poor @Jacob_Rees_Mogg has his nose seriously out-of-joint that it was @tconnellyRTE who broke this evening's major #Brexit news "and not the British Broadcasting Corporation" saying it was "discourteous to the nation". @drivetimerte @rtenews @BBCBreaking #backstop

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Flor MacCarthy🇺🇦🇵🇸

@florNEWS

2 years

Really @rtenews ? An interview with Ray Bassett for your coverage of the 50th anniversary of Ireland’s membership of the EEC/EU? Just, why? If this is some sort of box-ticking exercise in ‘balance’ it’s disproportionate. Look at the stats. #EU50 #IRELANDEU50

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Flor MacCarthy🇺🇦🇵🇸

@florNEWS

4 years

She ate the face off him 🤯

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Flor MacCarthy🇺🇦🇵🇸

@florNEWS

2 years

Thinking of the Fitzsimons family today, & all who loved this gorgeous, talented, brave, adventurous, darling friend. She lit-up the RTÉ studios in Cork & none of us got any work done when #Uaneen arrived for No Disco. 22 years on I can still hear her ‘Wait til I tell ya..’❤️

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Flor MacCarthy🇺🇦🇵🇸

@florNEWS

3 years

And lo, on the 6th day (of #IrishBookWeek ) I finally get my hands on this! 📚📚📚My first copy of my first book! #ThePresidentsLetters @PresLetters @NewIslandBooks

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Flor MacCarthy🇺🇦🇵🇸

@florNEWS

3 years

Remembering tonight how, as a rookie reporter, I witnessed the @rte newsroom light-up as Charlie would burst through the door with yet another scoop. Like all the lights going on. This was coalface journalism at its best.Thanks for the masterclasses CB! #LateLateShow #charliebird

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Flor MacCarthy🇺🇦🇵🇸

@florNEWS

7 years

@MrPaulDuane Brilliant! Please tell her we'd love to hear more... 🐱

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Flor MacCarthy🇺🇦🇵🇸

@florNEWS

3 years

What a huge honour to have had Mary Robinson, former President of Ireland, launch my book @PresLetters She had us all captivated with a brilliant and often hilarious speech. Am bowled over by her wonderful reaction. And thanks to @niamhnicharra for perfect musical accompaniment!

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Flor MacCarthy🇺🇦🇵🇸

@florNEWS

1 year

Solidarity with my former colleagues in RTÉ News & Current Affairs. When you believe in public service broadcasting it’s way more than a job. Time for proper funding, pay & conditions for all in news #journalismmatters

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So proud of all my RTÉ colleagues standing up today and speaking out loud and clear for ethical public service broadcasting. ⁦ @NUJofficial ⁩

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Flor MacCarthy🇺🇦🇵🇸

@florNEWS

3 years

Village!😂 @morningireland just called #Skibbereen a village!This morning it’s the centre of the known world #skibb2tokyo 🥇🥇🚣🏻‍♂️🚣🏻‍♂️🤸🏼‍♀️🤸🏼‍♀️🤸🏼‍♀️🤸🏼‍♀️🤸🏼‍♀️🤸🏼‍♀️🤸🏼‍♀️

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@florNEWS

4 years

Breathtaking! For the first time in its 5,000 year history, the winter #solstice at #Newgrange was live streamed for us all to experience. And what a lightshow: a clear sky, the sun piercing the roofbox and filling the chamber with new light for a new year. Never more welcome☀️

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@florNEWS

4 years

BREAKING: It's a YES! Ireland wins vote for a seat on the UN Security Council #UNSC Canada 108 Norway 130 Ireland 128

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@florNEWS

5 months

It’s happening!!!!! From my garden in Dun Laoghaire just now!

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@florNEWS

3 years

Reader, I married him. My Dr. of Mixology (NY Bartenders’ Assoc, weekend course J1!) 12th wedding anniversary today and I’m working like a divil. But loving the deliveries (not to mention the barman) @RTENewsPaulC 🍸🍸💞 #cosmopolitan & #fancycrisps

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@florNEWS

1 year

A real #marriagebar story for you: Bridget Murphy was secretary to Pres. Douglas Hyde but lost her job due to the 'bar'. 51 yrs later she was among the first to volunteer on the pres. election campaign of #MaryRobinson who as a lawyer, had fought the ‘bar’👏 More in @PresLetters

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50 years ago today, 🇮🇪 removed the Marriage Bar in the public service – the requirement for women to resign once married. This was a key milestone in our journey towards equality. Find out how EU membership supported social change in our #EU50 series 👉

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Flor MacCarthy🇺🇦🇵🇸

@florNEWS

8 months

Interviewed John Bruton several times for @rtenews but the first was the most memorable. We finished a tetchy political interview in his home in Meath and as I walked to my car he offered me a kitten! A huge political figure, a very decent man. #RIPJohnBruton

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@florNEWS

3 years

Spare a thought for this #fella who, in the line of duty, has to wait here to go live into the @rtenews 9tv bulletin, at 21.15! And what’s worse, won’t get home ‘til 21:45. Should I wait..? #LineOfDuty #MotherOfGod @RTENewsPaulC #NOspoilers

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@florNEWS

3 years

Her favourite way to travel, ears flapping in the summer breeze. #Luna #lunatic #Baltimore ⚓️

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@florNEWS

3 years

When you hit ‘send’ on your first book and it’s your birthday! @PresLetters 📚

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Flor MacCarthy🇺🇦🇵🇸

@florNEWS

3 years

Happy New Year from Baltimore and wishing us all a safe passage in 2022⛴⚓️🌍 #beacon #westcork #ireland

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@florNEWS

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From Baltimore #WestCork we don’t think twice about nipping over to Clon, just a short hop. When you think this is the length of the Gaza Strip, with 2.2 million people, almost 50% under the age of 18 - under sieg & now starving. The Hamas horrors of Oct 7th do not justify this.

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@florNEWS

2 years

Paradise, aka Baltimore, over the past 90 mins or so. #WestCork #home #heatwave

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@florNEWS

3 years

The morning after my Mum’s funeral we wrote messages in the sand, on the beautiful Creggane Strand, and watched as they were taken by the sea. Florence, 7 years today💕

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Flor MacCarthy🇺🇦🇵🇸

@florNEWS

4 years

Friends, if anyone would like to send birthday wishes to a wonderful woman stranded in lockdown in Australia please do & I’ll send them on. Eileen Twomey flew to attend her grandson’s wedding in Feb & is v homesick now. An artist, an adventurer, a loyal friend, she’s 86 today🥂🎈

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@florNEWS

2 years

When you’re clashing on a rival channel with your fella🤷‍♀️9pm tonight ⁦ @OireachtasNews ⁩ & ⁦ @rtenews ⁩

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Flor MacCarthy🇺🇦🇵🇸

@florNEWS

3 years

Made the BESTSELLERS!📚Straight in at No.3 in Hardback Non-Fiction. And ok, they forgot to include my name, but that’s ok! (Maybe it didn’t fit!) Thanks to you 902 wonderful people who picked up your copy of @PresLetters #ThePresidentsLetters 🙏🏻💌📃

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@florNEWS

4 years

Glandore on a summer high today #westcork #summer2020 #WhoNeedsTheMed 🏝ireland

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Flor MacCarthy🇺🇦🇵🇸

@florNEWS

2 years

@sommervilletv And not forgetting this classic from my great friend and former colleague @rtenews @Aengy2 2/3

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@florNEWS

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Please remember this when voting:🗳️Ireland is one of only 9 countries in the world to get the top score for democracy (EIU/Economist Democracy Index ‘22). Let’s ensure we protect our values & give a massive NO to candidates who want to lead us to the far right & authoritarianism.

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@florNEWS

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Forever grateful to have had the most wonderful parents-in-law in the world. Mary and Connell, due to celebrate their 65th wedding anniversary this summer, and they’re gone just 10 weeks apart. We’ll miss them every day (they loved this pic I took as they visited us in Baltimore)

Paul Cunningham

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Dad and me ❤️

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@florNEWS

4 years

Sun back tonight after 5 days of drizzly, misty, seafog. The Cove, Baltimore, west Cork #heaven

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@florNEWS

3 years

Superb reporting there from @BDUTT on the horrific scenes in #India . Quoted one hospital doctor: “Dying from a lack of oxygen isn’t dying from natural causes, it’s murder”. @TodaywithClaire #IndiaNeedsOxygen

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@florNEWS

4 years

Breathtaking sunset tonight over Roaringwater Bay, #WestCork Beautifully photographed (again!) by @terri_kearney1 : instagram.

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@florNEWS

2 years

For #InternationalWomensDay Bridget Murphy was secretary to President Douglas Hyde but lost her job due to the ‘marriage bar’. 51 yrs later she was the first to volunteer on the election campaign of #MaryRobinson , who, as a lawyer, had fought the ‘bar’. #IWD2023 @PresLetters ⁩

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@florNEWS

4 years

Bowled over by this. A really special present out of the *blue*! I posted this photo on my mum’s 6th anniversary, and they’ve colourised it for me! (An old b&w of my parents on honeymoon, La Baule, France, June ‘54)Will frame with the original, thanks so much @irelandincolour 💝

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@irelandincolour

4 years

@florNEWS Thinking of you and your mum 💚

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@florNEWS

3 years

Such sad news. Shay Healy was brilliant and brave, and with Nighthawks broke new ground on Irish tv. Even in recent years, he never lost that streak of divilment. #ShayHealy

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@florNEWS

2 years

Breaking: RTÉ has announced the appointment of its new managing director of News and Current Affairs. Congrats to Deirdre McCarthy - the first female in the top job! @rtenews @Mccarthy_deirdr #journalismmatters @rte

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@florNEWS

3 years

In town for a mooch & find this! Thanks @Hodges_Figgis @PresLetters

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@florNEWS

3 years

@CatJarman Nice! Here’s our beautiful Lexicon 📚 @dlrLexIcon Dun Laoghaire, Dublin.

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@florNEWS

7 months

Me on MonacoTV, interviewed in French, about my book & Princess Caroline?! Never in a million years could I have dreamt up this one (excuse the Franglais!) Thanks so much @PrincessGraceI2 ⁩ & ⁦ @TheIrelandFunds ⁩ 🎬🇲🇨🇮🇪

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@florNEWS

4 years

Caught red handed #Zoomclass #chancer #homeschooling

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@florNEWS

3 years

Would love to be home in #westcork tonight. All the shenanigans re #Russia reminds me of my Dad who had a passion for Russian history & would go off to the USSR (Moscow, Leningrad, Samarkhand, Tashkent) in the 1970/80s from Skibbereen on his hols. His friends were convinced he…

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@florNEWS

3 years

home #baltimore #westcork ❤️

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@florNEWS

2 years

So, as a self-styled ‘breaker’, (see bio) what is it you break, Mick? Do you break news? Or stories? Do you break silence, or bread, or banks, balls? Or is it wind?

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@florNEWS

3 years

First sunset of the new year🧡 #Baltimore #WestCork #2022

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@florNEWS

4 years

Found this photo of #Peig in an old family album recently. The inscription on the back reads: “Peig Sayers (with priests & boys from Farranferris)”. The tall ‘boy’, 3rd from the left, was my uncle. @TG4TV No date, guessing ‘30s.

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@florNEWS

8 months

Sat in the park and watched it like a movie. Sunset, Dun Laoghaire.

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@florNEWS

10 months

What a gorgeous little city is Porto. Cruised the majestic Douro & wandered the cool indie cafés & wine bars in the winter sun.

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@florNEWS

2 years

Like living in a painting (view from my bedroom window) #menton #paulc ézanne

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@florNEWS

5 years

Told him once, on one of those long corridors at the back of RTÉ that, as a teen, I used to bunk off school to catch the Gay Byrne Show. “Explains a lot”, he said. #Gaybo @RTERadio1

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@florNEWS

4 years

First time cycling the new Dun Laoghaire bike paths & they are wonderful! This space here overlooking Scotsman’s Bay & Sandycove, used to be a car park. Well done ⁦ @dlrcc ⁩ 🚴🚴🏻‍♂️

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@florNEWS

4 years

Not a puff of wind in the harbour - hard to imagine what’s about to slam into us here #StormEllen #westCork #redalert #weatherwarning

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@florNEWS

3 years

Passing Leinster House and just had to drop this guy some flowers! Thanks Michael ‘Butch’ Cassidy for all the brilliant shoots, the stories, the last minute dashes to make the news, & all the great fun!

Colm Hand

@ColmHand

3 years

RTÉ News #Cameraman Michael ‘Butch’ Cassidy retires today after 43 years behind the lens. A remarkable career which saw him travel to over 50 countries - covering wars, famines & natural disasters. Putting some of the most important stories from around the world on our TV screens

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