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Europe Correspondent @IrishTimes (acting). Got a story/tip? Get in contact in confidence jack.power @irishtimes .com Threema ID 9EXYWHJB

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Jack Power

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I’ll be taking over as Europe correspondent for @IrishTimes while @NaomiOhReally is on leave. If you have any stories, gossip or tips Brussels-related or otherwise get in touch. Details for how you can contact me (in total confidence if needs be) are in my Twitter bio

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3 years

Hundreds of Muslims celebrate Eid in Croke Park today, for the second year in a row

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At the rate the banks are dipping out of the Irish market we’ll be left getting our mortgages from Revolut

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Are they going to legalise yokes again?

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Tánaiste @LeoVaradkar says to young people in Ireland "you've given up two years of your youth to help keep others safe," and added, "in 2022 we will do what we can to make it up to you." | More:

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So in other news Peter Casey is now having a go on Twitter with a Luke Ming Flanagan parody account from 2013

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Some of the nearly 100 Irish doctors who returned from Perth today to help hospitals here fight the coronavirus. Absolute legends, full story up shortly on @IrishTimes

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Behind every number each evening is a person. We sadly said goodbye to my 92-year-old grandad Jim last week, who picked up the virus while in hospital. We are all in for a rough few weeks, so #StayHome to give our healthcare workers the best chance at fighting this surge

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Chants of Free, Free Palestine from the crowd of thousands gathered in Dublin

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A homeless father and son have been sleeping rough in tents a hundred yards from where Richard Bruton bared his abs in a viral Fine Gael video yesterday in Clontarf

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“You can stick your co-living up your arse” protesters chant at Housing Minister Eoghan Murphy at count centre

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We’ve had to slap an @IrishTimes logo on this, *stares at Fianna Fáil*

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Former taoiseach Bertie Ahern was speaking at a Cambridge University online talk when the power went out in north Dublin there, leaving him to tune back in as a shadowy figure on his phone...

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Interestingly, the Tánaiste’s department previously responded to an FOI request from myself and clearly stated there was no records of any texts between Leo Varadkar and Katherine Zappone about the Merrion event, which we now know was not the case

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Some people haven’t taken too kindly to the St Stephen’s Green bandstand being closed off..

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1982: I was a garda. I was gay. I lost my job “I see gardaí in the Pride march recently and with the patrol cars decked out in the Pride colours. But I have no pride. They took that from me and I want them to acknowledge that much.”

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1982: I was a garda. I was gay. I lost my job

‘I was a good policeman, thrown on the scrapheap. I want them to acknowledge the reason’

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The front of tomorrow’s New York Times is chillingly stunning

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Some good Christmas Day news that the Grandad who is in hospital with the virus is a bit better and sitting up in bed today 🎄

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The roommate has said there’s no difference between Barry’s and Lidl-brand tea. Sigh. Those who know need no explanation, those who don’t will never understand

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Activists occupying North Fredericks removed from the property, by men in balaclavas, garda public order unit also on the scene outside the building

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Pretty needless cheap shot at the north inner city here @JohnBurnsST - and for what it’s worth Ann (the woman of “ahh here leave it out” video fame) is a lovely woman

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If anyone working in the Twitter Dublin office wants to confidentially contact a journalist with internal documents or information they feel is worth looking into, you can message me securely on the Threema app, where my ID is YNAB9FFT

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I’ve seen Micheál Martin address the nation more than I’ve seen my own nanny this year

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Some nights I still wake up in a cold sweat thinking about the Gareth Brooks fiasco

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Breaking🚨: Gardaí now investigating alleged criminal damage at Berkeley Road property following the eviction of tenants this week, and also will conduct a review of Garda involvement in the eviction itself @IrishTimes

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Very poor form from the Phoenix here. If any other newspaper pulled this you can imagine the stick they would dish out

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Queues about two hours long in the Croke Park walk-in Covid vaccination centre on Monday morning, as hundreds turn up to get the vaccine

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O’Connell Street, 8pm

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Lads, I actually just can’t anymore

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President Higgins announces death of his dog Síoda

With Bród, the Bernese mountain dog has welcomed numerous dignitaries to the Áras

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Lads my attempt at baking banana bread turned out pretty weird 🍳

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Yeah you’ve had a bad pandemic but have you dropped four beautiful pints of takeaway Guinness? Handle of the dodgy cardboard carrier gave way. Heartbreaking

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Jack Chambers having a go at the media, blaming the SF poll rise on the lack of scrutiny of their policies. I don’t think Sinn Féin would think they’ve ever gotten a particularly easy run from the Irish press. But sure blame the meeja #cblive #GE2020

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Worth remembering the advice of WHO’s Mike Ryan that if you wait until you’re certain to act, you’re too late

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Don’t know if I can hack a return to the endless Zoom quizzes

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The aftermath of the fire at a makeshift camp for homeless asylum seekers on Sandwith St last night, tents, sleeping bags, half cooked meals, burnt out couch, books and chairs among the debris. Gardaí say there were no injuries from the fire

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One major overlooked issue I feel has been coronavirus outbreaks in residential centres for people with disabilities. Two weeks ago there were confirmed outbreaks in 32 centres, that has now nearly tripled to 82 centres, with very little public attention on the growing problem

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Burritos have now become the latest battleground in the UCD student union president impeachment vote

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Fianna Fáil candidate’s old blog criticises tenant for cooking dinner in kitchen

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Fianna Fáil candidate’s old blog criticises tenant for cooking dinner in kitchen

Dublin Bay South byelection candidate complained about Latvian tenant’s “rancid” cooking

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Activists from Take Back the City say they have occupied the Dublin offices of AirBnB, to protest the letting platform, which they say has “excacerbated the housing crisis in Dublin” #TakeBackTheCity

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‘Nine tenants evicted from north Dublin property by men in masks and dark clothing’ - my story up now @IrishTimes

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Nine tenants evicted from north Dublin property by men in masks and dark clothing

‘This is our home, in the middle of the pandemic you threw us on the road’

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A six month long investigation by @IrishTimes in partnership with 16 other newsrooms examined a huge leak of documents, related to a fraudulent financial trading scheme that siphoned billions from EU countries’ tax authorities. Here’s what we found: /1

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Young journalist of the year, still the same old trademark cheeky smile

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Five vacant properties in Summerhill, which housing activists occupied in protest last August, still remain empty nearly a year on #TakeBackTheCity

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In this latest piece in our Tusla investigation, we detail how much the biggest providers of unregulated accommodation for children in care were paid last year. Accounts show multi-million euro profits and remuneration for directors upwards of €800k

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Ten companies paid €58m to run unregulated accommodation for children in care last year

Two directors of one company running emergency accommodation for children in care shared €866,000 in remuneration

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4 years

Can the nation collectively please ship @donie some proper teabags after all this

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UCD students holding a sit down protest blocking the door to a meeting of the college governing authority, over 12% on campus rent hikes

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I have a longread on a story I’ve been investigating for a number of months: Tusla placed vulnerable children into unregulated emergency accommodation run by a company which “fabricated” pre-employment screenings of staff and “altered” Garda vetting files

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Care home used by Tusla ‘fabricated’ pre-employment checks of staff, posing major risk to young...

Company who ran emergency accommodation for children in State care ‘fabricated’ staff checks and Garda vetting

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There will be a minutes silence at 1pm today outside the GPO for the lad in Longford who shifted Maura at a teenage disco but nobody believes him now #LoveIsIand

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Huge swing in France, the left and the centre overtake the far right in the second round of voting in a major upset

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The Department of Taoiseach has just released a long delayed batch of records a large number of journalists had requested under FoI on the SCU advertorial controversy ... on a Friday evening ... on the day of the abortion referendum

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That’s a front page that won’t be forgotten quickly

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This is Dublin, Henry Street.

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The department header being the only text in this 37 page document they didn’t redact in this FOI

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Public service announcement🚨: HSE chief clinical officer Dr Colm Henry asked on RTÉ about “intimacy” during the coronavirus. He said it’s okay, even if partners are living in separate homes. “We don’t expect people to stop all aspects of their lives, intimate or not,” he says

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1 year

Not sure reporters or journalists should be taking selfies with politicians really

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7 years

I just saw this room on Gardiner St advertised to rent for €375. The catch? You have to share the bed with a tenant currently living there

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One of the most disheartening things about this UK election was the normalisation of disinformation tactics by the Conservatives and the failure of the media to challenge it (Thread time) /1

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'I was only a kid, I couldn't fight him off' - words from ⁦⁦ @Mick_Finnegan ⁩, who has led the campaign to hold St John Ambulance accountable over past child abuse

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Mick Finnegan: 'I was only a kid, I couldn't fight him off'

Mick Finnegan from Dublin was 14 when he was sexually abused by a senior figure in St John Ambulance Ireland, the voluntary First Aid organisation.

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Over two years on from the first piece in @IrishTimes investigation of Scouting Ireland. #Journalismmatter

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Lovely ceremony in UCD this evening for those who donated their bodies to science in the last two years, including my late (badass) granny

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When one of the lads asks if it’s your round...

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Happy and proud to vote, Ireland’s new citizens exercise their democratic right via @IrishTimes

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Another fine example of transparency from a State agency in response to an FOI request. In this case the Western Development Commission going as far as redacting the names of its own board members, and pretty much everything else from minutes of its board meetings

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If you’re going to ban your staff from having @IrishTimes journalists on air, it’s a bit rich to consistently rip off their stories and polls without credit @NewstalkFM

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This story being discussed on @PatKennyNT show now. Pat reads out the first few paragraphs of the piece, without one mention of @IrishTimes who broke the story🙄

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I remember regularly serving the Monk while working in an Amiens St chipper through college - his order was a small regular burger with extra onions

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Gerry Hutch arrested in Spain on foot of European warrant

Dubliner faces extradition to Ireland over Kinahan-Hutch feud allegations

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Resharing this piece with a new photo of the Brazilian family reunited this evening back in their home @IrishTimes

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This surely would be a massive infringement on civil liberties, and press freedom

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Justice Minister Charlie Flanagan says he supports legislation to outlaw photographing gardai in the course of their duties #TodaySOR

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Today we publish a major investigation into child sexual abuse in St John Ambulance, with three survivors speaking about their abuse at the hands of a former senior member of the voluntary organisation. Read the full @IrishTimes story here:

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‘Thousands of north Dublin homes hit by power outage’ - including me writing this piece

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Dublin Fire Brigade last night responded to a fire in a building in Ringsend that had been earmarked to house homeless families, but was subject to protests over fears it would be used to accommodate asylum seekers

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The tenants have now gained re-entry into the property, supported by a group of housing activists

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‘Nine tenants evicted from north Dublin property by men in masks and dark clothing’ - my story up now @IrishTimes

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Myself and @PatrickFreyne1 investigate the huge concentration of homeless accommodation on Gardiner Street, speaking to homeless people living there and support workers, as well as digging into who owns the properties

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‘The most disadvantaged neighbourhood in Ireland’: The Dublin street providing housing for many of...

Our reporters investigate support workers’ concerns about the huge concentration of homeless accommodation on Dublin’s Gardiner Street, with fears the area will be ‘ghettoised’

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If you want the future of news to be increasingly akin to the dodgy free-to-view articles your auntie shares on Facebook be my guest. If you want quality journalism start paying for it. #journalismmatters

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Rory Hearne to seek nomination to stand for Social Democrats in European elections

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Rory Hearne to seek nomination to stand for Social Democrats in European elections

Academic and housing policy commentator is seeking to run in the Midlands North West constituency

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La Marseillaise on Place de la République

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“My office is downstairs and beside the kitchen, so we don’t advise cooking” Conroy told the young woman

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Fianna Fáil councillor Deirdre Conroy told lodger, paying €260 a week, not to cook in kitchen

Young woman renting room from Conroy was told to wash dishes in the bathroom sink

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Phrases such as “Dublin Slay North” and “constich” currently being thrown around the group chat discussing the constituency boundary reviews. Admittedly both by me

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6 years

If you’re scratching around for a New Years resolution, why not subscribe to a newspaper this year? The survival of a healthy press is going to increasingly rely on people currently reading online content for free choosing to support and pay for good content #journalismmatters

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Fairly chuffed to be nominated for three separate Newsbrands Journalism awards this year, for investigative journalism, young journalist and business story. Among very good company 🗞📰

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The content we need right now folks, family pics from that BBC interview Dad

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Robert E Kelly

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People keep asking what it’s like to be in South Korea during corona. So no, it’s not World War Z; it’s this. I can’t go to work, and my kids can’t go to school. So we’re playing a lot of Connect 4 at home. /1

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The vast majority of secondary schools should be mixed. It gave me a much healthier outlook, seeing women as absolute equals to men. One that a lot of guys in boys-only schools don’t properly experience until college #InternationalWomensDay

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The good news is after working for a lot of the Christmas period it looks like this full Level 5 lockdown will begin just as I’m due to start a week off

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The Tusla story leads on the front page again today, we reveal that after Ideal Care was found to have fabricated screenings of staff, the couple behind it set up a new company with the intention of running homes for children in care. Read the story here:

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Not the Department of Children releasing an FOI on a Friday evening of correspondence between Katherine Zappone and senior officials on the Merrion Hotel gathering (with the exclusive invite attached)

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Now there’s a headline - piece by myself in today’s @IrishTimes ‘Former priest who embezzled £63,000 running for Fine Gael’

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Former priest who embezzled £63,000 running for Fine Gael

Kildare local election candidate pleaded guilty to fraud charges in mid-1990s

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The moment Irish boxers Amy Broadhurst and Lisa O’Rourke returned from the World Championships with gold medals around their necks

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One thing I’m really not looking forward to after all this is the first dope at a Halloween party who dresses up as Covid-19

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We’re all going mad about John King, but the professionalism of all the @CNN broadcasters, reporters, producers, and backroom staff to run such really clear, informative, near 24/7 coverage over the last three days on a fraction of sleep has been something to watch

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It’s one of those kinda days...

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Retired High Court judge Mary Laffoy said she resigned as chair of the Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse in 2003 because of “resistance” to the commission by the Department of Education. @RTEOne documentary ‘Redress: Breaking the Silence’ on now

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Indemnity deal with congregations over redress was mistake, says Martin

Mary Laffoy tells documentary government ‘resistance’ led to resignation from abuse commission

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Thread: Several inaccurate comments from UCD’s Katie Ascough on #Marian /1

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I just can’t stop thinking that Bród is going to be lonely now, especially with the lack of events and functions on in the Aras meaning no pets from excited guests either

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President Higgins announces death of his dog Síoda

With Bród, the Bernese mountain dog has welcomed numerous dignitaries to the Áras

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I have to say it’s increasingly depressing to watch our key piece of transparency law, the Freedom of Information act, being rolled back and diluted down in real time

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Want to know how much former Taoisigh, Ministers, and Presidents are paid in pension by the Dept of Finance??? Tough, you can't anymore. That's the latest decision by the Information Commissioner overturning a decade of transparency around publication of political pensions:

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Masked men secure Dublin property after housing activists removed

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Masked men secure Dublin property after housing activists removed

Six arrested as gardaí in balaclavas block protesters from entering building on North Frederick Street

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Delighted to be shortlisted for the @newsbrandsirl journalism awards, in the investigative and young category for our work on historical child sex abuse in St John Ambulance and failings at Tusla. Among very fine company in both categories

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3 years

What about screaming into the void?

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NPHET tells Govt that activities like dining, drinking, exercising, singing or shouting are associated with higher Covid-19 risks.

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Protesters have now surrounded Minister for Housing Eoghan Murphy at a count centre in the RDS

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My ticket to this game cost €15, don’t tell me @Shane_RossTD snook in on a student ticket...

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Bohs @bfcdublin leading UCD 3-0 here at Dalymount Park . Paschal will be pleased ! Good game . Well worth €10 entrance ticket

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