Hannah McCarthy
@hannahmcccarthy.bsky.social
Irish journalist covering MENA
My latest for The Currency: The Irish architecture firm behind the Grand Egyptian Museum and the two decades it took to finish thecurrency.news/articles/228...
The Irish architecture firm behind the Grand Egyptian Museum and the two decades it took to finish - The Currency
The carved faces of several pharaohs sail by me as I glide up the travelator in the Grand Stairs that bisects the newly opened Grand Egyptian Museum. Around the start of the stairs are statues and obj...
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Wonderful conversation between @lisehand.bsky.social and @MattCooperlastword.bsky.social - two friends of the late, great Irish journalist Veroninca Guerin who was gunned down in the line of duty 30 years ago. podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/r...
Remembering Veronica Guerin
Podcast Episode · Path to Power · 20 June · 1hr 6min
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President Trump, who turned 80 today, will spend this evening hosting Ultimate Fighting Championship bouts on the South Lawn of the White House. Historians say the event, which was estimated to cost more than $60 million, is unprecedented. Follow live updates.
Trump Live Updates: President to Host White House UFC Fight Card
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Lebanon under siege: 'Without UNIFIL, we will become the next Gaza' After three years of war, a terrible new normal emerges in southern Lebanon as UN peacekeepers prepare to withdraw. Hannah McCarthy meets the residents trying to survive. www.thejournal.ie/gaza-and-leb...
Lebanon under siege: 'Without UNIFIL, we will become the next Gaza'
After three years of war, a terrible new normal emerges in southern Lebanon as UN peacekeepers prepare to withdraw. Hannah McCarthy meets the residents trying to survive.
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Ukraine strikes St Petersburg as Putin’s forum gets under way ft.trib.al/2ZpjZKF
Ukraine strikes St Petersburg as Putin’s forum gets under way
Kyiv hits oil terminal after deadly Russian strikes on Ukrainian cities
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My RTE World Report on life in southern Lebanon amid the ceasefire is on playback now. www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...
World Report
From the unusual to the topical, World Report brings you interesting stories from around the world.
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My RTE World Report on life in southern Lebanon amid the ceasefire is on playback now. www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...
World Report
From the unusual to the topical, World Report brings you interesting stories from around the world.
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“Boy, leave me alone before I give you a knuckle sandwich with real cheese” - My 5yo threatening her brother
I will be moderating a conversation on Iran: Women, Life, Freedom between Sepideh Farsi and chowra makaremi tomorrow evening at 6pm as part of the International Literature Festival Dublin. Tickets available here: ilfdublin.com/whats-on/fes...
Iran: Women, Life, Freedom Sepideh Farsi & Chowra Makaremi
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Israel has seized about 1,000 sq km of territory since Hamas’s October 7 2023 attack as Benjamin Netanyahu forged a new, more aggressive military doctrine in the wake of the nation’s worst security failure ft.trib.al/CwvMjuZ
EU expected to agree to place sanctions on extremist Israeli settlers
EU expected to agree to place sanctions on extremist Israeli settlers
Expected breakthrough would see EU agree to blacklist several extremist settlers for first time in nearly two years
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‘Palestine’s Mandela’: concerns grow for unifying leader jailed by Israel 24 years ago Latest from the West Bank for @irishtimes.com www.irishtimes.com/world/middle...
‘Palestine’s Mandela’: concerns grow for unifying leader jailed by Israel 24 years ago
Marwan Barghouti retains broad support among fractured Palestinian factions, and calls for his release have become louder
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My latest on the West Bank: Wine and the Holy Land. www.thejournal.ie/settler-viol...
One Palestinian winemaker refuses to give up amid illegal settler expansion in the West Bank
Reporter Hannah McCarthy meets Sari Khoury, a winemaker fighting to preserve Palestinian identity in an increasingly dangerous occupied West Bank.
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My world report on India's last 'royals' is on RTE World Report's podcast now. podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/i...
‘It’s a psychological war’: A family divided by Cuba’s quiet exodus Latest for @irishtimes.com www.irishtimes.com/world/americ...
‘It’s a psychological war’: A family divided by Cuba’s quiet exodus
Inflation, migration barriers and distance weigh on a family divided between Havana and the United States, as Cuba’s slow drain of people continues
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The Palestinian Authority, which governs the Israeli-occupied West Bank, is holding municipal elections in a single city in Gaza on Saturday. This will be the territory's first election in 20 years.
Gaza Set to Hold First Local Election in Two Decades
Hamas said it was not participating in the municipal elections in Deir al-Balah, set for this weekend. Residents said it was a long-awaited opportunity to address the city’s problems
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Regret to inform everyone that Peter Magyar beat the world’s smartest illiberal populist in large measure by working incredibly hard for 2 straight years, meaning the rest of us are just going to have to get off our asses and do shit rather than just complaining.
Fuel protest leader James Geoghegan has animal cruelty convictions and Revenue judgments www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/20...
Fuel protest leader James Geoghegan has animal cruelty convictions and Revenue judgments
Geoghegan (57), who has come to prominence in this week’s protests, claims to have settled tax bills
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In an extraordinary move, Hegseth reverses Apache helicopter crew suspension before Army even investigates the incident, undercutting the service's authority and underscoring his contempt for legal guardrails in the military www.nytimes.com/2026/03/30/u...
Hegseth Reverses Helicopter Crew Suspension Over Kid Rock Flyby
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After less than 90 minutes of watching several of his own handpicked justices tear his arguments apart, the president abruptly left.
Humiliated Trump Storms Out of Catastrophic SCOTUS Hearing
The president couldn’t get back to the White House quickly enough!
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I spoke to Irish people living in Havana about how the Cuba medical system has collapsed and daily life is grinding to a halt, as the Belfast rap group Kneecap join a humanitarian convoy to the Caribbean island facing a so far unrelenting US oil blockade. www.irishexaminer.com/news/spotlig...
'It doesn't feel like it can get any worse': How Irish families in Cuba are navigating a country in crisis
A decade after Cuba’s opening to the world sparked optimism, Irish families who built their lives there are confronting failing hospitals, evaporating tourism and a fuel crisis
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Power blackouts, fuel shortages and mass emigration: Cuba’s crisis weighs heaviest on the elderly My latest dispatch from Havana for @irishtimes.com www.irishtimes.com/world/americ...
Power blackouts, fuel shortages and mass emigration: Cuba’s crisis weighs heaviest on the elderly
The country’s ageing population is growing more isolated as mass emigration, inflation and fuel shortages leave older citizens struggling to cope
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seems like the clearest purpose of the war is to reopen the thing that closed because of the war?
NEW: A fundraising email from President Donald Trump’s political action committee has a provocative pitch: using an image from Saturday’s dignified transfer honoring six fallen US soldiers, it promises access to the president’s “private national security briefings.” www.cnn.com/2026/03/13/p...
