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Conor Humphries
6 months
Lots of journalists physically attached and threatened in Dublin tonight including myself and my colleague. Photographers and anyone identifiable as a journalist seen as a target by elements in the crowd
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Hundreds gather on Dublin’s O’Connell Street for a rally against the far right, days after anti-immigrant protesters triggered a rampage through the city centre, torching busses and smashing up shops
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6 years
Huge crowd at pro-choice rally in Dublin this eve #RepealThe8th
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Over 100 people by my count have replied to this by welcoming targeting of journalists/saying journalists deserve no sympathy. Grim.
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6 months
Lots of journalists physically attached and threatened in Dublin tonight including myself and my colleague. Photographers and anyone identifiable as a journalist seen as a target by elements in the crowd
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6 months
No exaggeration to say police have lost control of centre of Dublin
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March for Choice stretching from Eden Quay/Liberty Hall to Pearse St
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Pearse Doherty addresses a couple of hundred supporters who were unable to get in to Dublin’s Liberty Hall #SinnFein #GE2020
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He doesn’t hang around #PopeFrancis #Popemobile
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Macron at Sweny’s Pharmacy in Dublin - a mini shrine to James Joyce’s Ulysses… site of a scene in the book. now hosts daily readings
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Clerical abuse survivor Colm O'Gorman not happy with Pope’s Dublin speech. ‘. He could have talked to the people of Ireland ... in a way that was blunt, that was frank, that was human and was accessible. He refused clearly to do so and that’s a huge shame.’ #popeInIreland
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When you misspell ‘attacked’ in a tweet and it gets viewed 1 million times 🤦🏻‍♂️
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6 months
Lots of journalists physically attached and threatened in Dublin tonight including myself and my colleague. Photographers and anyone identifiable as a journalist seen as a target by elements in the crowd
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@BloggingWasJP @TomMcTague I’m guessing big chains also pay a much lower effective tax rate than small traders
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2 years
Reception centre at Dublin airport for arrivals from Ukraine
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Graeme McQueen
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Spent some time in the new hub for Ukranian arrivals at @DublinAirport earlier. Amazing response from corporate Ireland. Stacks of toys donated by @SmythsToysIRE . Lorry loads of food from @TescoIrl , @Aldi_Ireland . And much more. Awesome work by daa, @DeptJusticeIRL & @IRLDeptPER .
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Conor Humphries
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#Dublin Customs House cycle lane finally getting proper barriers this morning (ending its proud history as parking spot of choice for city’s coaches) #greenwave ? @dublincycling @DublinInquirer
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@higginsdavidw @CillianDeGascun "if you look online at what's being published about this particular variant, or other variants, you'd be forgiven for thinking that the world is coming to an end.. some of the commentary, speculation and coverage internationally of variants ..is really disproportionate '
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Conor Humphries
6 months
Dublin city centre right now
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Conor Humphries
9 years
Stunning December afternoon in Dublin @PhotosOfDublin http://t.co/ojHFzCIvXf
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2 years
Russia to sit down for peace talks... with Irish fishermen @RTENewsAtOne says Russian ambassador offering to meet fishing groups to address concerns naval maneuvers next month would damage biodiversity Background:
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Conor Humphries
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Irish PM on death of journalist Lyra McKee in Derry overnight: ‘an act of hate... an attack on the nation’
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My report from Mykolaiv on farmers near the front line despairing as Russian shelling threatens their harvest while the Black Sea blockade leaves them without funds to sow new crops . West must arm ukraine faster or watch global grain supply crisis deepen, they say
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Ukraine's besieged farmers fear war-time harvest 'hell'
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Biden arriving at hotel next to Belfast City Hall..
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2 years
Thinking of all the people in Ukraine whose lives will be scarred forever by what is unfolding this morning. And of those in Russia outraged by what is being done in their name. Dark dark times
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7 years
Father Ted eat your heart out...
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4 years
Interviewing Michael O'Leary on Skype this morning in a very serious voice when I accidentally turn on video revealing crazed hair, unkempt beard and crumpled shirt. Cue laughter at Rya HQ". 'Jesus man, have a shave.'
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6 years
@gavreilly is he considering yoga photos for his election posters?
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5 years
The #Trump brothers get rock star welcome in #Doonbeg #TrumpInIreland
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10 years
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2 years
Ukrainian mother + son (+ 4 chihuahuas) urgently seeking place to stay in Ireland/Dublin
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ada wordsworth
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Please share widely.
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2 years
I got a few hours break from editing war stories this weekend took a wander around a Kyiv that was tantalizingly close to its glorious old self.. So much pain. But for a few hours it felt like the nightmare never happened
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4 years
Overflow queue outside Liberty Hall for Sinn Fein Dublin rally
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3 years
Geese flying past Dublin’s Poolbeg chimneys on Sunday @ClodaghKilcoyne @reuterspictures
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2 years
A few days ago I sent a friend visiting Kyiv a suggested walking route to take in the nicest city centre tourist sites. Three points on the walk took direct hits from Russian missiles this morning.
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Conor Humphries
4 years
Irish daily case numbers down by 30% in a week. 7-day average falls for seventh day in a row. Something's working
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4 years
I should have tagged the author @PatLeahyIT
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Conor Humphries
9 years
Typo of the year from the Washington Post: "Prince Charles has always denied he's a member of the IRA" http://t.co/oBg2IWzKXF @TJ_Politics
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Conor Humphries
3 years
Russian man turns spare room into train carriage (complete with plasma screen of passing countryside) to get drunk in. Genius
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Scotland cracks social distancing in pubs
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Fritters
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Three Men, Three Pints - Seaforth Bar, Glasgow, 1966. Photo Steven Berkoff
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3 years
Cliff Diving. Downpatrick Head, Co. Mayo. Pics by @ClodaghKilcoyne @reuterspictures
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Conor Humphries
7 years
Thousands await Martin McGuinness funeral procession. Coffin expected to be carried from house in a few minutes
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Conor Humphries
6 years
#RepealThe8th rally Dublin
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Conor Humphries
10 months
Nice long-read on New York’s office apocalypse (long-term values down 44%, according to one estimate)… and whether office buildings can realistically be repurposed for housing
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New York Magazine
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The city’s mega-office landlords are panicking, pivoting, and shedding what’s worthless. @riceid reports on office glut for our new cover story:
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Conor Humphries
9 years
. @Ryanair says its regulations require two crew members in cabin at all times (cabin crew stands in when pilot in bathroom) #Germanwings
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Conor Humphries
5 years
Huge congrats to Reuters Dublin photographer @ClodaghKilcoyne shortlisted for world agency photographer of the year by the Guardian
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Conor Humphries
6 years
#Croatia fans are the ones celebrating on O’Connell Street right now #Dublin #WordCup2018 #FRACR0
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2 years
Jaw-dropping before + after pic of restoration on Fenian St in Dublin city centre
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An Taisce
2 years
Rare early-Georgian house 24 Fenian St, Dublin, vacant for many years but now happily restored for use. 2017 app. 2837/17 to add 2 floors directly on top was refused & it seemed destined to remain vacant, but subsequent permitted app. 2177/18 for refurb & dev. at rear proceeded.
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Conor Humphries
10 years
#Right2Water crowd at GPO before main protest columns arrive http://t.co/9nhvbkNlAH
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Conor Humphries
5 years
The Irish border in two pictures...
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Seán Kelly
5 years
Border crossing between Co. Louth in the Republic and Co. Armagh in Northern Ireland - before and after the Peace Process, just in case people forget how far we have come. Let’s not let Brexit destroy our peace and our economy 🙏 @fiannafailparty
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6 months
Two lines of riot police defending entrance to the Irish parliament (Leinster House). Surroundings streets closed
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5 years
At the end of the rainbow
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7 years
March for Choice .. biggest rally I've seen in Dublin since water protests
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Conor Humphries
2 years
Humiliation for Moscow however they spin it. Up there with withdrawal from Kyiv outskirts + collapse east of Kharkiv.
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Bakhti Nishanov
2 years
This is massive: Shoigu orders Russians troops out of Kherson.
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Conor Humphries
7 years
Irish political graffiti in Porto #repealthe8th
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Conor Humphries
9 years
Irish High Court Judge says to keep brain-dead mother alive for sake of unborn would be a 'distressing exercise in futility' #lifesupport
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9 years
Dublin celebrates gay marriage #MarRef http://t.co/vCA86nVR0M
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1 year
"I don't believe in a major offensive, or in the possibility of a Russian victory against the whole civilised world” said a senior source close to the Kremlin. Russia is at a disadvantage in both military technology and motivation, but the war will continue "for a very long time"
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Guy Faulconbridge
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Putin, secure in power, sets stage for long and draining war
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Conor Humphries
4 years
Submitted this question twice via journalist hotline but was not put to panel - how many suitable masks has Ireland received from China so far? @HSELive
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4 years
@HSELive First 10 flights were supposed to deliver 1.6 million masks. How many suitable masks do you have in stock now ?
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Conor Humphries
9 years
One poor man accidentally mails 33,000 co-workers. 432 angrily reply all. #Reutersreplyallgate starts trending ..
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Peter Thal Larsen
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Now convinced this is some kind of behavioural experiment. Researchers would kill for this kind of data. #Reutersreplyallgate
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9 years
Photo of the day! @RTENewsPaulC : 'David David David' #MarRef http://t.co/D7gMqUIVRl”
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Incredible really. Four years after coming out to Irish public for the first time, Leo Varadkar representing Ireland at the White House with his partner
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Melania Trump 45 Archived
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Yesterday Prime Minister Leo Varadkar @campaignforleo visited the @WhiteHouse to honor #StPatricksDay . Thank you for joining us in celebrating the many wonderful traditions of Ireland!
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Aaannd we’re back! *takeaway only, but still...
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A united Ireland ‘certainly for me wouldn’t look like a unitary 32-county republic, the kind of thing that was envisaged by the founding fathers of the state’...which was perhaps ‘one of the flaws of founding project of my state’.. strong words from Varadkar to Belfast NewsLetter
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Grafton St pretty much back to normal #Dublin
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Reuters’ @ClodaghKilcoyne on the front page once again @reuterspictures @IrishTimes
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Dublin at dusk from the Gardai chopper via @gardainfo http://t.co/Fh7onHggBx
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@DubCityCouncil 20 bikes nicked in a matter of seconds. Dublin really going to the dogs
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Sunset over Dublin (Drumcondra) @PhotosOfDublin http://t.co/zbKpcyz0Fs
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Dublin Gospel Choir in vigil for Aleppo on Grafton Street this eve
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Just managed to accidentally replace my profile picture with a bag of spinach. How’s your day going
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. @DublinInquirer spends six months mapping Dublin’s vacant and derelict sites @simoncoveney @EOBroin @PMVTrust
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Liam O Maonlai singing at start of #Stand4Truth #PopeFrancis protest in Dublin
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Irish politicians *trying* not to look too smug as British politics descends into full #Brexit meltdown
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My office for the past two days, the room where Titanic was designed
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Paddy’s night in Dublin ☘️
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A beautiful Bloomsday morning in Sandycove @JJ_Gazette
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Clinton working the crowds after McGuinness oration
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@kieranarose The trees pre-construction
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3 years
OUAGADOUGOU, April 27 (Reuters) - Three hostages, two Spanish citizens and an Irish national, abducted in Burkina Faso have died, two senior Burkina Faso security sources said. The hostages were taken after an ambush on an anti-poaching patrol in eastern Burkina Faso on Monday.
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Riot police reach O’Connell Bridge after clearing O’Connell Street. More riot police approaching from Westmoreland St
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My dream car just drove past...
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8 years
What have the Hungarians got against Scotland? @tggrove @Amazing_Maps : Who do Europeans joke about the most? - ”
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Conor Humphries
4 years
Russia finally drops paper visas for foreign tourists. List includes Schengen + Ireland (but not UK, US). Petersburg to be the new Prague?
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Anton Barbashin
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I can only welcome this development. Russian e-visas for foreigners - stay up to 16 days; - visa application, photo, passport scan, $40 to apply (no booking or anything else is needed); - waiting period is up to 4 days. Quite revolutionary, really.
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@samtranum I cycle a lot in city centre and there’s a minority who consistently cycle far too fast. If you are cycling too fast to stop safely for a pedestrian stepping onto road randomly without looking, you are cycling too fast…
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Conor Humphries
6 years
The tidal wave of vitriol that Paddy Jackson just triggered on twitter is something to behold #SueMePaddy
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2 years
Ласкаво Просимо 🇺🇦
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@DaraDoy 👋🏻
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Dublin’s wonderful Joycean refuge Sweny’s Pharmacy is looking for donors to give 5 eur a month to keep their 100-yr-old shop (as described in Ulysses) intact after a €1500 rent increase .. and keep their dozen weekly reading groups alive @swenyspharmacy
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@DublinInquirer ⁩ ⁦ @libertiesdublin ⁩ Planning app in for Blackpitts Mosque: 7-storey cultural centre with 27 apartments. New mosque on ground and mezannine level
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