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Scott Colom wins historic Senate race in Mississippi
Democrat becomes the first Black man to represent the state since reconstruction
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A small glass workshop in the heart of Nairobi's largest slum turns old Guinness bottles into art www.irishtimes.com/video/video/...
Old Guinness bottles given new lease of life in Kenya
Old Guinness and Jameson bottles are being recycled into glassware and sold in an art studio in Kibera, Nairobi, Kenya. Video: Hannah McCarthy
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Irish children’s book author arrested as part of UK ‘terror’ crackdown on Palestine Action
Irish children’s book author arrested as part of UK ‘terror’ crackdown on Palestine Action
A total of 28 Irish people have been arrested at Palestine Action protests, the largest cohort of non-British-national terror suspects arrested in the UK
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Ex-US media regulator Tom Wheeler: “I think we have a lot to learn from the EU” The former FCC chair discusses big tech and AI, the need for a new approach to regulation in the US, and mounting pressure on broadcasters ahead of the US midterms. Latest from D.C. thecurrency.news/articles/244...
Ex-US media regulator Tom Wheeler: “I think we have a lot to learn from the EU” - The Currency
My interview with Tom Wheeler is briefly interrupted by a phone call from the Republican senator Rand Paul. Wheeler, an Obama appointee who chaired the influential Federal Communications Commission (F...
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“Like a shark-infested water”: Tariffs or not, Irish whiskey brands face a crowded US market There is room for other spirits, however. Latest from NY for The Currency thecurrency.news/articles/243...
“Like a shark-infested water”: Tariffs or not, Irish whiskey brands face a crowded US market - The Currency
While I was working in New York on a graduate visa, I would occasionally accompany my friend around nice cocktail bars that I couldn’t afford while he pitched a then-fledgling Irish whiskey brand. We ...
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Texas backlash raises doubts for Irish companies’ bet on US data centres My latest from the Lone Star state for The Currency thecurrency.news/articles/245...
Texas backlash raises doubts for Irish companies' bet on US data centres - The Currency
On Monday evening, I stood in a large crowd in Austin, Texas who had gathered to see the Democratic Senate candidate James Talarico speak on the eve of the elections that would see him secure a stunni...
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US elections: Voters reject Trump and the politics which divided America Latest from Texas for @irishexaminer.bsky.social www.irishexaminer.com/news/spotlig...
US elections: Voters reject Trump and the politics which divided America
The Republican election postmortem has already pointed to a failure to talk about the issues that really mattered to American voters this year, writes Hannah McCarthy from Texas
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Republicans messaging during the midterms, and particular in Texas, relied heavily on culture war talking points, such as trans people and shariah law. - Hannah McCarthy @hannahmcccarthy.bsky.social
US elections: Voters reject Trump and the politics which divided America
The Republican election postmortem has already pointed to a failure to talk about the issues that really mattered to American voters this year, writes Hannah McCarthy from Texas
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“Like a shark-infested water”: Tariffs or not, Irish whiskey brands face a crowded US market There is room for other spirits, however. Latest from NY for The Currency thecurrency.news/articles/243...
“Like a shark-infested water”: Tariffs or not, Irish whiskey brands face a crowded US market - The Currency
While I was working in New York on a graduate visa, I would occasionally accompany my friend around nice cocktail bars that I couldn’t afford while he pitched a then-fledgling Irish whiskey brand. We ...
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Texas backlash raises doubts for Irish companies’ bet on US data centres My latest from the Lone Star state for The Currency thecurrency.news/articles/245...
Texas backlash raises doubts for Irish companies' bet on US data centres - The Currency
On Monday evening, I stood in a large crowd in Austin, Texas who had gathered to see the Democratic Senate candidate James Talarico speak on the eve of the elections that would see him secure a stunni...
thecurrency.news
Ex-US media regulator Tom Wheeler: “I think we have a lot to learn from the EU” The former FCC chair discusses big tech and AI, the need for a new approach to regulation in the US, and mounting pressure on broadcasters ahead of the US midterms. Latest from D.C. thecurrency.news/articles/244...
Ex-US media regulator Tom Wheeler: “I think we have a lot to learn from the EU” - The Currency
My interview with Tom Wheeler is briefly interrupted by a phone call from the Republican senator Rand Paul. Wheeler, an Obama appointee who chaired the influential Federal Communications Commission (F...
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At an outdoor amphitheatre in downtown San Antonio, locals lining up to enter Talarico’s concert file past a large inflated puppet featuring businessman Elon Musk as Paxton’s puppetmaster. - Hannah McCarthy @hannahmcccarthy.bsky.social www.irishexaminer.com/news/spotlig...
In the final days of the midterm campaigns, Republicans and Democrats descend on a divided Texan border city
Stakes are high in the most expensive senate race in the history of the US, writes Hannah McCarthy
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Election Eve in Austin at a rally for Democrat senate candidate James Talarico.
In the final days of the midterm campaigns, Republicans and Democrats descend on a divided Texan border city My dispatch from San Antonio. www.irishexaminer.com/news/spotlig...
In the final days of the midterm campaigns, Republicans and Democrats descend on a divided Texan border city
Stakes are high in the most expensive senate race in the history of the US, writes Hannah McCarthy
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My dispatch from James Talarico’s Halloween rally in Houston ahead of the elections on Tuesday for @thejournal.ie jrnl.ie/7212092
Texas has voted Republican for decades. This 37-year-old may be about to change that - but it's close
At a Halloween rally in Houston, Democratic candidate James Talarico makes a final appeal to Republican voters: “Do right, and risk the consequences”.
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My world report for RTÉ on how the US midterms are going in Texas is on playback now. www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...
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US: Hannah McCarthy reports on the upcoming Mid-Term electionsSERBIA: Guy de Launey examines what happens next, after a two-year long campaign by students ends the 14-year rule of Aleksandar Vučić ARM...
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Coming up on RTE Radio 1 tomorrow at 8am, a cracking “World Report” with @hannahmcccarthy.bsky.social on the stump for the US mid-terms; @guydelauney.bsky.social is in Belgrade with the victorious Serbian Student List; and what happened at the UN Biodiversity summit in Armenia
‘Clear eyes, full hearts’: Can James Talarico pull off a historic Democratic victory in Texas? My latest dispatch from Texas for The Irish Examiner www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...
‘Clear eyes, full hearts’: Can James Talarico pull off a historic Democratic victory in Texas?
The Democrat is seeking to break a three-decade Republican hold on the Senate seat, campaigning on affordability, immigration and political corruption
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I spent today at JD Vance’s rally in Weatherford, a conservative ranching town in Texas. You can read my dispatch here. jrnl.ie/7209586
JD Vance rallies Texas Republicans as Democrats gain ground in tight Senate race
Texan cowboys and queries about the Dublin Rape Crisis Centre’s consent ad – inside JD Vance’s Texas warehouse rally.
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US-style abortion wars are reaching Kenya, while the Trump administration is agreeing aid deals that involve African governments handing over their citizen’s data Latest from Nairobi in today’s The Irish Times www.irishtimes.com/world/africa...
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Irish President, Israeli forest. @hannahmcccarthy.bsky.social writes
How Éamon de Valera came to be honoured with a forest in Israel — and why it’s now forgotten
A neglected woodland in northern Israel offers a window into Éamon de Valera’s legacy and a lost moment of Irish-Israeli goodwill
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Popping the link to this recent excellent report, by @hannahmcccarthy.bsky.social and @rachellevine.bsky.social here for anyone who may have missed it. www.irishtimes.com/world/2026/1...
Game over: Inside the ruins of Gaza’s football stadiums
Sports stadium, bomb site, detainment yard, refugee camp – the three-year evolution of Gaza’s football stadiums
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Delighted to have been nominated for two Irish press awards for my foreign reporting from Cuba, Guatemala and Palestine and my video reporting with Emmanuel Balam in Guatemala. lnkd.in/eJBeeUgr lnkd.in/etCVPDPz lnkd.in/ge7hTXYM
‘Young people are being put in jail for nothing’: Inside Kenya’s battle over cannabis My latest for @irishtimes.com www.irishtimes.com/world/africa...
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