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Mark Hennessy

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A life of wisdom, and the lessons learned along the way - former Irish diplomat, Noel Dorr: ‘To understand the Troubles, you must go back much further’

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Noel Dorr: ‘To understand the Troubles, you must go back much further’

Forty years after the Anglo-Irish Agreement, the former diplomat still sees Sunningdale as the peace deal that got way

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November 17, 2025 at 10:12 AM

Mark Hennessy

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Flautist James Galway to be honoured in native Belfast for ‘extraordinary contribution’ to music

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Flautist James Galway to be honoured in native Belfast for ‘extraordinary contribution’ to music

James Galway says his home city gave him his ‘grounding in music’

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November 14, 2025 at 8:35 PM

Mark Hennessy

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The Irish expert helping Ukraine reclaim its dead: ‘You feel responsibility to every one of them’

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The Irish expert helping Ukraine reclaim its dead: ‘You feel responsibility to every one of them’

Limerick’s Niamh Smith oversees exchanges of fallen soldiers at border with Russia as part of the International Committee of the Red Cross

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November 13, 2025 at 7:35 PM

Mark Hennessy

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Forty years on, the Anglo-Irish Agreement has proved its worth, writes former diplomat, Sean Donlon

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Forty years on, the Anglo-Irish Agreement has proved its worth

Treaty ‘normalised’ relations between Dublin and London

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November 12, 2025 at 7:56 PM

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Amanda Weaver

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Fuck 'em up.

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“authors & publishers who filed a lawsuit against the Sam Altman-led firm have secured access to internal Slack messages… discussing the mass deletion of a pirated books dataset… A NY district court ordered OpenAI to hand over the communications regarding data deletion”
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OpenAI in Danger After Authors Suing It Gain Access to Its Internal Slack Messages

Authors and publishers, who are suing OpenAI, secured access to internal Slack messages and emails discussing the deletion of pirated books.

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November 6, 2025 at 12:14 PM

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Irish Literary Times

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"There was sleeting rain, sheeting rain, and rain turned to ice that fell in the form of furious hailstones. It was the most elemental of weather for those gathered there at Uisneach, ...to honour a man who chose to live his life woven tightly into nature."

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At Uisneach, the sacred centre of Ireland, 2,500 people gather to scatter Manchán Magan’s ashes

Month’s memorial hears world will be a less kind, generous, curious and gentle place with the writer’s passing

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November 1, 2025 at 6:50 PM

Mark Hennessy

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Ivan Yates’s role on Path to Power podcast ended following revelations that he coached Fianna Fail’s presidential candidate, Jim Gavin

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Ivan Yates’s role on Path to Power podcast ends following presidential campaign revelations

Undeclared involvement with Fianna Fáil candidate caused difficulties for podcast creators and co-host Matt Cooper

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November 1, 2025 at 4:03 PM

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Emily Atkin

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A scoop that I’m not happy to report:

CBS News has gutted its climate change reporting team, one of the best in the business, and one of the only ones on cable news that consistently called out fossil fuels as the main source of climate pollution.

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CBS News kills its climate unit

David Ellison, the new pro-Trump chief executive of Paramount Skydance, has dismantled the best climate change reporting team in cable news.

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October 31, 2025 at 3:51 PM

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Bellingcat

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Children tear-gassed. Teenagers tackled to the ground. Bellingcat analysed footage of clashes between federal officers and civilians after a judge issued a restraining order on crowd-control tactics in Illinois: www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/10...

Tear Gas, Pepper Balls Among Weapons Deployed Against Illinois Protesters

A judge issued a restraining order on crowd-control tactics by federal agents, including those involved in Operation Midway Blitz in the Chicago region.

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October 31, 2025 at 7:15 PM

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Donncha O’Connell

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Death announced of Mary ‘May’ McGee who won historic Irish Supreme Court contraception case

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Death announced of Mary ‘May’ McGee who won historic Supreme Court contraception case

Landmark 1973 case found married couples had right to make private decisions on family planning

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October 28, 2025 at 9:45 PM

Mark Hennessy

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Unionists shocked by level of sectarian abuse during election, says Humphreys

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Unionists shocked by level of sectarian abuse during election, says Humphreys

FG candidate says unionist asked ‘if that’s what they put you through, Heather, what hope have the rest of us?’

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October 25, 2025 at 7:57 PM

Mark Hennessy

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Feeds the soul, this - Two years ago we planted 24,000 native saplings – now our forest is thriving

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Two years ago we planted 24,000 native saplings – now our forest is thriving

We planted on the cheapest land we could find in Ireland. These small wet fields now hum with life. This habitat is healing

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October 19, 2025 at 8:57 PM

Mark Hennessy

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Irish State must offer same honesty it demands from Britain on Troubles, Belfast meeting told

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Irish State must offer same honesty it demands from Britain on Troubles, Belfast meeting told

Member of Northern Ireland legacy commission said Republic must do more to properly address the past

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October 18, 2025 at 5:25 PM

Mark Hennessy

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Eastern EU states ‘in fear of Russian invasion’, claims Irish Ambassador

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Eastern EU states ‘in fear of Russian invasion’, claims Irish Ambassador

‘Absolute imperative’ to expand European Union’s defensive capacity, says Martin Fraser

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October 13, 2025 at 10:59 PM

Mark Hennessy

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National security in Ireland must be debatable amid growing Russian threats, says Richmond

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National security must be debatable amid growing Russian threats, says Richmond

Minister of State for Foreign Affairs addresses danger at meeting of British-Irish Parliamentary Assembly

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October 13, 2025 at 10:58 PM

Mark Hennessy

@markhennessy.bsky.social

If you read nothing else this day, this week, this year, read this - the most beautiful ode imaginable to life, love and friendship
Manchán Magan was a great man for a video message. You’d never know what you might get

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Manchán Magan was a great man for a video message. You’d never know what you might get

One of the most precious gifts cancer has given me is a deep friendship with this extraordinary Irish man

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October 8, 2025 at 4:23 PM

Mark Hennessy

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‘The Republic needs to start listening’: Young SDLP members on Irish unity

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‘The Republic needs to start listening’: Young SDLP members on Irish unity

The Republic needs to start listening, young SDLP members say at this weekend’s party conference

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October 6, 2025 at 12:23 PM

Mark Hennessy

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London’s two big Irish centres celebrate combined 100 years helping emigrants

Irish Cultural Centre and London Irish Centre are keeping an eye on future generations’ needs too

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October 6, 2025 at 12:06 PM

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Joe Noonan

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“We knew the Irish would stand with us,” - Max Levitas (102)
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October 4, 2025 at 10:02 AM

Mark Hennessy

@markhennessy.bsky.social

Former Irish Prime Minister, Leo Varadkar says he has ‘not lost hope’ that the Irish Government will lead Irish unification preparations, even it abandoned election pledges
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Irish Government must lead unification preparations, says Varadkar

Former taoiseach says Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil dropped unity objective from manifestos

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October 4, 2025 at 10:11 AM

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The Irish Times

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Robin Glendinning: Founder member of North’s Alliance Party was noted playwright and poet

Teacher, politician and Irish-language enthusiast wrote dramas that reflected on the wider politics of Northern Ireland

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October 4, 2025 at 7:37 AM

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The Irish Times

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Irish in Australia: ‘Assimilating isn’t easy, take this minor cultural difference when paying’

It’s easy for an Irish person to presume assimilating in Australia will be straightforward, but this isn’t always the case

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October 1, 2025 at 6:41 AM

Mark Hennessy

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Why I didn’t nominate Maria Steen for the presidency - Michael McDowell

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Michael McDowell: Why I didn't nominate Maria Steen for the presidency

As a liberal, I felt Maria Steen’s election would have been a step backwards for the Ireland I believe in

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October 1, 2025 at 6:42 AM

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Kyle Griffin

@kylegriffin1.bsky.social

BREAKING NYT:

Trump just fired a U.S. attorney who insisted on following a court order.

Michele Beckwith, the top federal prosecutor in Sacramento, was fired hours after she reminded a Border Patrol chief to abide by court-ordered restrictions on immigration raids.