Audrey Carville
@audreycarville.bsky.social
Journalist. BBC/RTÉ Dublin Ireland
Gorgeous writing by @patrickfreyne.bsky.social Glen Hansard was Ireland’s band leader, something Bono or Geldof couldn’t be www.irishtimes.com/culture/musi...
Glen Hansard was Ireland’s band leader, something Bono or Geldof couldn’t be
The Frames’ frontman was the still-yet-chaotic centre of an indie-folk storm, whose job was to hold it all together
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The World Tonight & Crossing Continents were the last BBC programmes that dealt in depth with global affairs. Their demise says everything you need to know about priorities in British public life, which is mired more than at any time in monolingual mediocrity and insularity. You reap what you sow.
The Guardian@theguardian.com · 4mo agoBBC to axe Radio 4’s The World Tonight after more than 50 years
Ciara Mageean: ‘I probably won’t make my 40th birthday. That’s rough’ www.irishtimes.com/sport/athlet...
Ciara Mageean: ‘I probably won’t make my 40th birthday. That’s rough’
The Co Down athlete and reigning European 1,500m champion was diagnosed with stage four cancer just over a year ago
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The same victim of the North Belfast attack, tortured in Scotland 25 years ago by Loyalist paramilitaries (via the Times)
🔵 DUBLIN CENTRAL 11am and I'm calling it. Daniel Ennis (SD) to win the Dublin Central by-election.
A calendar featuring close-ups of young, handsome men in priestly attire has been a perennial Rome souvenir for the last two decades – but few, it seems, are actually men of the cloth. https://cnn.it/4vatNYV
‘Shedsit’ garden cabins could become a rental black market www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2026...
Lorcan Sirr: Shedsits in back gardens have potential to be an unpoliceable, cash-rent black market
Housing without planning permission in back gardens is a prime example of a government accepting a populist idea without proper interrogation
irishtimes.com
Journalism is publishing something that someone does not want published. Everything else is public relations.
“Almost all the 165 people killed in the attack were girls aged between seven and 12, according to local officials. There were around 170 girls at the school in southern Iran’s Minab at the time.“ A double-tap strike on little girls at school.
Megan O’Toole@meganotoole.bsky.social · 7mo agoThe girls’ school in Iran, where 165 people were killed by an apparent US-Israeli attack, was hit with two strikes, with the second missile killing sheltering survivors, two first responders and the parent of a slain child have told Middle East Eye.
This IPSO adjudication against the Telegraph is quite something Confirms their story titled: ‘We earn £345k, but soaring private school fees mean we can’t go on five holidays’ was completely fabricated, with the family involved non-existent and stock pictures used www.ipso.co.uk/rulings/0210...
02104-25 Fraser v Telegraph.co.uk - IPSO
Ian Fraser complained to the Independent Press Standards Organisation that Telegraph.co.uk breached Clause 1 (Accuracy) of the Editors’ Code of Practice in an article headlined “We earn £345k, but soa...
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Are you one of nearly 70 million American women who changed their names when they got married? 🙋♀️ Republicans in Congress want to make it harder for you to vote. Tell your senator to oppose the SAVE Act. indivisible.org/actions/stop...
The Jeffrey Epstein files have shattered Norway’s illusions about itself | Sindre Bangstad
The Jeffrey Epstein files have shattered Norway’s illusions about itself | Sindre Bangstad
Norway built its global brand on diplomacy and egalitarianism. The cosying up of its elite to the sex offender can only boost the far right, says the academic Sindre Bangstad
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#Breaking Man, 20s, arrested on suspicion of the murder of Dublin child Daniel Aruebose
Man arrested on suspicion of murder of Daniel Aruebose
A man in his 20s has been arrested on suspicion of the murder of Daniel Aruebose.
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Tomorrow: The first of two reports from women speaking out for the first time about having their images manipulated explicitly without their consent. They've suffered years of trauma, panic attacks and unsolicited messages from men. This is why the Grok issue matters. @virginmedianews.bsky.social
Section 5(1)(f) of the Child Trafficking and Pornography Act 1998 (as amended) makes it a criminal offence to knowingly facilitate the production or distribution of sexualised images of children. The problem here isn't the law - it's the political willingnesss to enforce it against X.
Richard Chambers@newschambers.bsky.social · 9mo agoMy word. (Again.) Media Minister Patrick O'Donovan: "At the end of the day, it's the choice of a person to make these images... technology is moving so fast... even if the law is changed there's no doubt about... the advances are far faster than law is able to respond..."
BBC Verify has a slow motion breakdown of the video which shows very clearly the truth.
How the ICE shooting in Minneapolis unfolded
BBC Verify breaks down how the shooting which killed a 37-year-old woman in Minneapolis unfolded.
bbc.co.uk
There are 62,000 people who are homeless in Northern Ireland. 19,000 children. And people in domestic violence refuges &those at risk of becoming homeless for the previous 28 days. It's staggering. I talk to someone trying to help, for Sunday Sequence on BBC Sounds viewdigital.org/urgent-need-...
Urgent need for additional funding for social housing provision as NI homelessness numbers continue to spiral upwards - VIEWdigital
The Department for Communities released the latest edition of its Housing Bulletin for April to June 2025 today. The statistics show that the number of households with homelessness status in Northern ...
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Every ten minutes last year a woman somewhere in the world was killed by a person close to her, the United Nations has said, as it decried a lack of progress in the battle against femicide
One woman killed by someone close every ten minutes - UN
Every ten minutes last year a woman somewhere in the world was killed by a person close to her, the United Nations has said, as it decried a lack of progress in the battle against femicide.
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A vicious, orchestrated, and unchecked campaign of violence by weak men against women and girls is raging like wild fire. As we start 16 Days of Activism, we must stand with survivors, with partners supporting them, and hold perpetrators to account. #16Days
Have been sent the clip of Bernese Mountain Dog owners sending off Michael D twice by heart-melted people outside of Ireland. What a country.
Virgin Media News@virginmedianews.bsky.social · 11mo agoPresident Michael D. Higgins and his wife Sabina are preparing to leave Áras an Uachtaráin for the final time this evening as his term comes to an end. Catherine Connolly will be inaugurated tomorrow as Ireland’s next president. #VMNews
Vital piece of investigative reporting from Sky. They've uncovered the X algorithm which feeds users extremist right wing material from the moment they join the site. It is a far-right radicalisation engine, by design. news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how
Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how
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