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Darragh Mc Donagh

@darraghmcdonagh

Journalist

 Mayo, Ireland
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Joined January 2010
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Germany ramping up military spending...
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Germany plans to spend a massive 730 billion Euros on defence by the end of 2030 making it the most powerful military in Europe and one of the most powerful in the world-FT Insane amount of militarisation...
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A priest has dismissed comments about Baptism by former President Mary McAleese as "nonsense" and "grotesque". He identified signs of "an unhealthy obsession" and said her behaviour towards the Church was "really quite weird". 🧵
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Fr Brendan Kilcoyne claimed Dr McAleese's interventions on religious matters were getting "increasingly grotesque" and likened them to "a macabre carnival". 2/
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The Houses of the Oireachtas Service has signed a contract worth an estimated €400,000 plus VAT for the supply of its own-brand wine to Leinster House. 🧵
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The bespoke-labelled booze has proven a hit since it was introduced in 2013, accounting for 17% of all drinks revenue at the Dáil Bar last year. A total of 4,851 glasses and 1,063 bottles were sold, along with two whole cases at a cost of €180 each. 2/
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A number of greyhound breeding facilities in Ireland are set to feature in an investigative documentary tomorrow. The documentary featured undercover footage obtained by Animal Aid - the charity behind a Panorama exposé on horse slaughter a few years ago. 🧵
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The Secret Lives of Greyhounds will show that dogs bred in Ireland are being kept in barren concrete pens for up to 23 hours a day. It will also show animals being kicked, stamped on, and dragged by their necks. 2/
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A blast from the political past as 75-year-old former minister Frank Fahey backchannelled between Galway City Council and the last remaining legal objector to the Galway City Ring Road, leading to a deal that resulted in the withdrawal of High Court proceedings. 🧵
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Fahey's engagement with council officials and active-travel advocate Shane Foran paved the way for marathon negotiations at City Hall last Friday, and the agreement that was struck saw proceedings struck out in the High Court on Monday morning. 2/
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A total of 240 Ukrainian BOTPs living in 12 accommodation centres in Galway have been told that they will have to source private accommodation by the end of January.
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240 Ukrainians told to leave twelve Galway accommodation centres

240 Ukrainians told to leave twelve Galway accommodation centres

Ukrainian refugees living at 12 Galway centres were told last week that they must find private accommodation by the end of next January

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A takeaway delivery driver convicted of murdering a 19-year-old man in 2023 took his own life using plastic bags given to him by prison authorities to pack his belongings for a transfer at Mountjoy Prison, an investigation has found. 🧵
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Earl McKevitt, 53, was delivering food to the home of Conor O'Brien in Enfield on August 26, 2021 when he shot him in the chest with a semi-automatic handgun. The victim was beginning an apprenticeship and had no connection to crime. McKevitt continued his delivery route. 2/
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Did you hear the one about the hospital that spent €5.4m on a multi-storey car park that resulted in 80 fewer spaces than the surface car park on which it was built, and then they decided to demolish it to the ground? 🧵
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The multi-storey car park was built at University Hospital Galway in 2016, and reduced the number of car spaces at the cramped hospital campus by 80. To make matters worse, the reduction in parking spaces had a knock-on effect on bed capacity at the hospital. 2/
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Vinnie Jones tried to declare for Ireland before the 1994 World Cup, saying a grandparent was born in Dublin. Just listening to the @louistheroux podcast. Vinnie says he has a tattoo of Winston Churchill on his back. Wonder how that would have gone down in the changing room.
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New €60m Galway hospital surgical hub delayed after water leak causes major damage connachttribune.ie/news/new-…
New €60m Galway hospital surgical hub delayed after water leak causes major damage

New €60m Galway hospital surgical hub delayed after water leak causes major damage

The leak occurred during the final phases of construction at the €60 million facility, and has necessitated a programme of “corrective works” to address damage

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€5.4m Galway hospital car park that resulted in fewer spaces to be demolished connachttribune.ie/news/galw…
€5.4m Galway hospital car park that resulted in fewer spaces to be demolished

€5.4m Galway hospital car park that resulted in fewer spaces to be demolished

The demolition is part of a masterplan for the redevelopment of the UHG campus, which will see certain services permanently transferred to a new site in Knocknacarra

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Cromwell was a bad bastard but I think now we can call it quits.
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MPs in London are gonna copy Ireland's Re-Turn scheme
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Ukrainian man who fled war in ambulance set to celebrate 107th birthday in Ireland leinsterexpress.ie/national/…
Ukrainian man who fled war in ambulance set to celebrate 107th birthday in Ireland

Ukrainian man who fled war in ambulance set to celebrate 107th birthday in Ireland

Petro Motorny was born in Cherasky Oblast, around 100 miles south of Kyiv, on November 5, 1919

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LIVE: Gardaí at scene of incident on Prospect Hill in Galway, reports of bomb threat connachttribune.ie/news/live…
LIVE: Emergency services at scene of incident taking place in Galway city

LIVE: Emergency services at scene of incident taking place in Galway city

Gardaí have closed Bohermore to traffic as they respond to an incident in the area

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Minister of State Robert Troy has been ordered to pay €500 in damages to a tenant of one of his properties in Westmeath after leaving her without a functioning oven for at least three months. 🧵
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A Residential Tenancies Board (RTB) tribunal found that the Fianna Fáil TD had breached his obligations as a landlord under Section 12 of the Residential Tenancies Act 2004 concerning the letting of Apartment 2, 4 Mary Street, Mullingar. 2/
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I think someone has turned Danny Healy-Rae into a cat. youtu.be/gXAvu9cEhTg?si=4Mvy…
Big Billy the talking cat [original]

Big Billy the talking cat [original]

Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.

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Here's something that's likely to erase a few eyebrows. I'll get my coat...
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In a scene reminiscent of The Field, a rural Galway landlord told an uppity German tenant who protested about his rights, "You don't give that sh*t about termination... We're from Connemara." Noel King had changed the locks of the property without notice. 🧵
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Jakob Gartner, who had been renting on Inishnee, Roundstone, had come back from Paris to find himself locked out of his house and all of his property inside. Mr King texted him that he was "taking (sic) over my house today".
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The Government spent more than €150,000 on a children's book explaining Ireland's EU presidency to every sixth-class pupil in the country. It printed a total of 89,850 copies of the book. 🧵
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'Ireland's EU Presidency - Ní neart go cur le chéile' was commissioned by the @dfatirl. Minister Helen McEntee said she was "satisfied" that the costs represented good value for money. Read more: connachttribune.ie/national/…
Government spent over €150,000 on children's book about Ireland's EU Presidency

Government spent over €150,000 on children's book about Ireland's EU Presidency

Minister Helen McEntee said she was ‘satisfied that these costs represent value for money’

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