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Emmet Malone

@emmetmalone.bsky.social

Work Correspondent at The Irish Times

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Local news in crisis: ‘We spend all of our money all of the time so we’re always short and scrambling’ It’s a tough time for the local titles, but they have one ‘superpower’ - the trust of their community
13.12.2025 07:00 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

#journorequest - anyone in Ireland going out for dinner on Christmas day (or staying in a hotel and having dinner there) and would like to chat to me for a piece. DM if any thoughts. Shares appreciated. #Christmas2025 #Christmas #restaurant

15.11.2025 10:16 — 👍 1    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0

This is amazing stuff. Really wonderful…

20.09.2025 10:48 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
'Our Genocide': How do Israelis feel about the war in Gaza? | On the Ground
YouTube video by The Guardian 'Our Genocide': How do Israelis feel about the war in Gaza? | On the Ground

I thought this was very good

www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMyy...

17.09.2025 17:15 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Video: Videos Contradict Israel’s Rationale for Deadly Hospital Attack The strikes on Nasser Hospital in Gaza killed at least 20 people. A Times visual analysis calls into question what the Israeli military was initially targeting there, and why its troops attacked a sec...

www.nytimes.com/video/world/...

31.08.2025 15:20 — 👍 2    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Sally Hayden: Israel’s targeting of journalists is an attack on truth and history Journalists’ lives are not more important than those of other civilians, but when you attack journalists you stop the world from learning about what is happening

Sally Hayden: Israel’s targeting of journalists is an attack on truth and history

27.08.2025 05:07 — 👍 26    🔁 21    💬 3    📌 3
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Strike on Gaza hospital that killed at least 20 a ‘tragic mishap’, says Netanyahu Four journalists and a rescue worker among those fatally injured in incident at Nasser Hospital on Monday

Strike on Gaza hospital that killed at least 20 a ‘tragic mishap’, says Netanyahu

25.08.2025 17:50 — 👍 0    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 1
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‘Israel, stop killing journalists’: Protest held in Dublin after killing of Gaza reporters Tánaiste Simon Harris encourages Israeli protests against Netanyahu government

‘Israel, stop killing journalists’: Protest held in Dublin after killing of Gaza reporters

12.08.2025 05:32 — 👍 17    🔁 11    💬 5    📌 2
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Children’s Ombudsman stopped visiting asylum seekers due to budget cuts Dr Niall Muldoon warned his office could not fulfil its statutory obligations with existing resources

Children’s Ombudsman stopped visiting asylum seekers due to budget cuts

31.07.2025 05:34 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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Delay of law proposal adds to uncertainty around redress for clerical abuse survivors Assets of many religious organisations remain beyond reach of courts, even when members are found liable for damages

A proposal for a law that would allow religious organisations to be held liable for abuse by their members will not be considered by the Government until 2027 at the earliest.

Delay of law proposal adds to uncertainty around redress for clerical abuse survivors

www.irishtimes.com/ireland/soci...

28.07.2025 07:18 — 👍 0    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Gaza running out of specialised food to save malnourished children, UN says Israel says it will allow foreign countries to parachute aid into Gaza starting on Frida

Gaza running out of specialised food to save malnourished children, UN says

25.07.2025 12:52 — 👍 3    🔁 10    💬 2    📌 2

Spoke with Bernie sanders ahead of his appearance on Saturday evening at the Robert Tressell festival in Liberty Hall…

23.05.2025 09:04 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Trump draws ire of US bishops with AI image of himself as pope ahead of papal conclave ‘There is nothing funny or clever about this, Mr President. Do not mock us,’ say Catholic leaders

Trump draws ire of US bishops with AI image of himself as pope ahead of papal conclave

03.05.2025 19:45 — 👍 16    🔁 6    💬 9    📌 2
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In The Settlers, Louis Theroux does something we have rarely seen him do in 30 years of TV Louis Theroux has encountered such people before but they have tended to be fringe propositions with no real power. The Israeli settler movement is different

In The Settlers, Louis Theroux does something we have rarely seen him do in 30 years of TV

03.05.2025 06:29 — 👍 32    🔁 19    💬 3    📌 3
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In the Liberties, a soccer pitch mostly funded by the council is closed to local sports clubs - Dublin Inquirer The pitch on Long’s Place is owned by CBS James’s Street, which has not responded to queries about why, and how that could be changed.

In the Liberties, a soccer pitch mostly funded by the council is closed to local sports clubs. The pitch on Long’s Place is owned by CBS James’s Street, which has not responded to queries about why, and how that could be changed. dublininquirer.com/2...

06.04.2025 08:45 — 👍 12    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 0
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Video Shows Aid Workers Killed in Gaza Under Gunfire Barrage, With Ambulance Lights On (Gift Article) The U.N. has said Israel killed the workers. The video appears to contradict Israel’s version of the incident, which described the vehicles as “advancing suspiciously” without headlights or emergency ...

Video obtained by my colleague Farnaz Fassihi shows how the IDF deliberately attacked, over several minutes, a convoy of ambulances and other emergency vehicles in #Gaza. #Israel wrongly claimed that the vehicles drove without emergency signals and headlights. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/04/w...

05.04.2025 00:50 — 👍 1464    🔁 885    💬 68    📌 134

The Migrant Rights Centre, which represented the man in this case, said they’ve seen a doubling in the number of people coming to them with cases of workplace exploitation…

05.04.2025 12:45 — 👍 1    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Mmm, yes, good point.

05.04.2025 12:38 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

The Migrant Rights Centre, which resented the man in this case, said they’ve a doubling in the number of people coming to them with cases of workplace exploitation…

05.04.2025 10:05 — 👍 4    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0
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Finland and Sweden’s entry into Nato will reduce tolerance for Ireland’s neutrality, department officials warn Harris Warning contained in departmental briefing prepared for incoming Minister for Defence Simon Harris

Finland and Sweden’s entry into Nato will reduce tolerance for Ireland’s neutrality, department officials warn Harris

28.01.2025 12:10 — 👍 9    🔁 8    💬 2    📌 2

The Minister was also warned that it is proving difficult to meet Ireland’s financial commitment to Ukraine through solely non lethal donations. Such is the demand for lethal weapons @emmetmalone.bsky.social reports.

28.01.2025 12:24 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

This is powerful stuff by Derek Scally on the enduring struggles of Holocaust survivors to understand the hatred displayed then and the sense we are seeing it reemerge…

26.01.2025 14:45 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Taoiseach refuses to be drawn if Fine Gael claimed worker who confronted him had Sinn Féin allegiance

www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...

27.11.2024 21:45 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Disability worker says she was ‘shaken’ and in tears after exchange with Simon Harris

www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...

23.11.2024 15:00 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

That’s gonna feel weird. Was generally fortunate enough on Twitter, rarely got much grief, but you never felt very far away from it.

19.11.2024 21:38 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Bluesky, the non-toxic alternative to X, has had a glow-up. But is the app here to stay? Social media app that feels a lot like early Twitter has attracted millions of new users this month and, so far, is not annoying like Threads

For the day that’s in it (my Bluesky debut) here’s a really good piece by my colleague @lauraslattery.bsky.social on making this very switch…

Bluesky, the non-toxic alternative to X, has had a glow-up. But is the app here to stay?

www.irishtimes.com/business/202...

19.11.2024 21:36 — 👍 10    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

So, everyone’s absolutely lovely on here, yeah? Looking forward to a bit of that after getting sucked many too many responses to tweets, often from strangers, over on X.
Cheery stuff.
Anyway, thanks for follows. Have a bit of following to do myself.

19.11.2024 21:13 — 👍 22    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0