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Mark Hennessy

@MarkHennessy

Ireland and Britain Editor. The Irish Times, now leading the "Common Ground" project: https://teapawt.net/t.co/sn4E6KLfZV @itcommonground

 Dublin City, Ireland
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Start sovereign wealth fund to pay for costs of unification, says Fine Gael irishtimes.com/politics/2026…
Start sovereign wealth fund to pay for costs of unification, says Fine Gael

Start sovereign wealth fund to pay for costs of unification, says Fine Gael

Party’s ‘blueprint’ follows Micheál Martin’s plan for new Government body to examine unity options

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Bad manners are bad manners, regardless of which side of the aisle it comes
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Michigan's Democratic candidate for Senate Abdul El-Sayed confronted @jamesmatthewsky, telling him he wouldn't answer his questions as he wants "zero" votes in the UK. Watch the heated exchange between the two. Watch our live coverage of the US midterms➡️ trib.al/BikRSb2
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Former Northern Ireland Chief Constable Hugh Orde: Risk-taking is a skill that is sadly disappearing in modern policing irishtimes.com/life-style/pe…
Hugh Orde: Risk-taking is a skill that is sadly disappearing in modern policing

Hugh Orde: Risk-taking is a skill that is sadly disappearing in modern policing

Ahead of the 25th anniversary of the Police Service of Northern Ireland in November, its first chief constable reflects on his time in the nascent force

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‘Businesses that export cross-border on the island of Ireland are more profitable, more resilient’ irishtimes.com/business/2026… @itcommonground #Ireland #business
The Irish firms trading North and South: ‘Dublin has become metropolitan. Ulster people tend to be...

The Irish firms trading North and South: ‘Dublin has become metropolitan. Ulster people tend to be...

Defying ‘unnecessary’ barriers, services trade between the Republic and Northern Ireland has bloomed into a €4.2bn relationship

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"I’m Irish. But I’m British and an Ulsterman, and Orange," says leading Belfast Orangeman, Noel Liggett, who was awarded an MBE last year for his cross-community efforts over 30 years irishtimes.com/ireland/2026/…
‘Catholics seem to see the Orangeman as the bogeyman. They have this visceral hatred’

‘Catholics seem to see the Orangeman as the bogeyman. They have this visceral hatred’

Orange Order veteran Noel Liggett says Drumcree was ‘moment of clarity’ for unionist community

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The inside story of feared loyalist paramilitary Johnny ‘Mad Dog’ Adair - the latest Irish Times podcast irishtimes.com/podcasts/in-t…
The inside story of feared loyalist paramilitary Johnny ‘Mad Dog’ Adair

The inside story of feared loyalist paramilitary Johnny ‘Mad Dog’ Adair

In the News podcast

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A reminder that I will be at @SHHomePlace at 7.30 pm on Friday 30 October discussing history, literature and diplomacy with @MarkHennessy. See you there. seamusheaneyhome.com/upcomin…

Upcoming Events | Seamus Heaney HomePlace | Northern Ireland

We run a programme of regular events and activities at Seamus Heaney Homeplace. Check out what's happening…

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The paedophile George Gibney has been sentenced to 15 years and six months in jail. Johnny Watterson kickstarted the process of bringing him to justice over 30 years ago. This is a long read and a brilliant read. irishtimes.com/crime-law/cou…
A shameless risk-taker and predator: How George Gibney groomed children

A shameless risk-taker and predator: How George Gibney groomed children

Former swim coach is jailed for more than 15 years for indecent assault and attempted rape, over three decades after earlier court case perished

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Seanín Graham@SeaninGraham22Oct 11
A group of lads in a loyalist area of Portadown were more interested in the Arsenal match than Drumcree yesterday Three were in their 20s & mixed - 4 Protestant, 3 Catholic "Let them live in peace", a Brownstown lad said about Garvaghy Rd residents irishtimes.com/ireland/2026/…
‘Let them live in peace’: Protestants and Catholics alike express relief in Drumcree

‘Let them live in peace’: Protestants and Catholics alike express relief in Drumcree

On Garvaghy Road the last of the tents that filled the road during the standoff are being dismantled

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Exactly……
Ruby Dunn (@ruby_dunn01) profile pictureRuby Dunn@ruby_dunn01Oct 8
The BBC needs better comms people, because R4 is emminently marketable to Gen Z / millenials if you get the pitch right. It's analogue, it's clippable, it's essentially a series of curated podcasts. Gutted about this, Thinking Allowed is fab.
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A real pity….
Matthew Sweet (@DrMatthewSweet) profile pictureMatthew Sweet@DrMatthewSweetOct 8
Sorry to inform you that @BBCFreeThinking (and Thinking Allowed) have been cancelled as part of cost-saving measures. Last show will go out in April. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cmly…
BBC to cut raft of Radio 4 programmes including You and Yours

BBC to cut raft of Radio 4 programmes including You and Yours

The corporation said it would be investing in a new consumer programme, while announcing more cuts.

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Republic must acknowledge forgetting northern nationalists, Leo Varadkar says irishtimes.com/politics/2026…
Republic must acknowledge forgetting northern nationalists, Leo Varadkar says

Republic must acknowledge forgetting northern nationalists, Leo Varadkar says

Former taoiseach says reconciliation process required to ‘say sorry for the fact that happened’

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Republic must acknowledge forgetting northern nationalists, says former Irish taoiseach, Leo Varadkar #ireland irishtimes.com/politics/2026…
Republic must acknowledge forgetting northern nationalists, Leo Varadkar says

Republic must acknowledge forgetting northern nationalists, Leo Varadkar says

Former taoiseach says reconciliation process required to ‘say sorry for the fact that happened’

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Find the time, a terrific piece
Seanín Graham (@SeaninGraham22) profile pictureSeanín Graham@SeaninGraham22Oct 4
Shankill rapper Young Spencer says he couldn't have performed with Kneecap 30 years ago because "someone was getting killed". This interview took place before the current crisis but has never been more relevant. It is a story of hope. irishtimes.com/life-style/pe…
‘There’s so much change’: Young Spencer on finding common ground with Kneecap in Belfast

‘There’s so much change’: Young Spencer on finding common ground with Kneecap in Belfast

Rapper says music is bringing young people together in Northern Ireland and talks about how his association with nationalist rap trio ‘divides opinion’

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Gerard Moriarty@GerryMoriartyITOct 4
Back on the Garvaghy Road, people are wary and rather worried irishtimes.com/life-style/pe… @freyamcc @SeaninGraham22 @MarkHennessy @SiCarswell @minihanmary
Back on the Garvaghy Road, people are wary and rather worried

Back on the Garvaghy Road, people are wary and rather worried

More than 20 deaths have been linked to Drumcree, a problem most people thought was settled. On Portadown’s Garvaghy Road, its resurrection is causing deep apprehension

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Crisis must not ‘derail’ peace process: church leaders urge restraint over Drumcree irishtimes.com/ireland/2026/…
Crisis must not ‘derail’ peace process: church leaders urge restraint over Drumcree

Crisis must not ‘derail’ peace process: church leaders urge restraint over Drumcree

Catholic Archbishop of Armagh Eamon Martin and Church of Ireland’s John McDowell call for tempered language

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A Jesuit priest at Drumcree church: ‘They even called me up to say a prayer’ irishtimes.com/politics/2026…
A Jesuit priest at Drumcree church: ‘They even called me up to say a prayer’

A Jesuit priest at Drumcree church: ‘They even called me up to say a prayer’

Fr Brendan McPartlin lives off Garvaghy Road and believes negotiation is the only way to break the standoff

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Who is Breandán Mac Cionnaith, the Garvaghy Road protest leader for decades? irishtimes.com/ireland/2026/… @freyamcc @SeaninGraham22 @MarkHennessy

Breandán Mac Cionnaith profile: The ex-IRA man who Tony Blair said ‘took unreasonableness to an art...

Former IRA prisoner split with Sinn Féin over policing, but remains as committed as ever to his cause

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The warning from the Police Service Northern Ireland to Garvaghy Road protestors angry at the midnight decision of the Court of Appeal in Belfast to allow the Orange Order parade along the road for the first time in 30 years
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Gavin Bazunu tells Irish squad he does not want to participate in games against Israel irishtimes.com/sport/soccer/… #uefa #ireland #Israeli_apartheid_regime #football
Ireland to fulfil Israel fixtures after player vote as Bazunu tells squad he will not play

Ireland to fulfil Israel fixtures after player vote as Bazunu tells squad he will not play

Manager Heimir Hallgrímsson says the pressure is almost at breaking point, with players not to shake hands

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