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Mary Cate Smith

@marycesmith

Human interest/mental health story? DM me. Journalist with 10 years experience across national broadsheet titles & glossies. Opinions are mine, all mine.

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Joined October 2014
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@irishexaminer21 Dec 2024
Phoebe Edmondson: 'When I walked up to the front door, it was what you see in all the movies' irishexaminer.com/property/h…
Phoebe Edmondson: 'When I walked up to the front door, it was what you see in all the movies'

Phoebe Edmondson: 'When I walked up to the front door, it was what you see in all the movies'

The Waterford-born interior designer and Instagram star shows her Boston home and reveals how to create the ultimate Christmas haven

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Hell's Kitchen winner Ryan O'Sullivan: 'I thought it was fixed' irishexaminer.com/food/arid-…
Hell's Kitchen winner Ryan O'Sullivan: 'I thought it was fixed'

Hell's Kitchen winner Ryan O'Sullivan: 'I thought it was fixed'

He almost headbutted Gordon Ramsay over a lamb chop but the humble Corkman spent the last month working in the hot-headed chef's eponymous restaurant in London.

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Lean with Lesley: ‘The more you move your body, the more the mind will follow’ irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/…
Lean with Lesley: ‘The more you move your body, the more the mind will follow’

Lean with Lesley: ‘The more you move your body, the more the mind will follow’

With September standing in as ‘the new January,’ Mary Cate Smith signs up for a Lean with Lesley training session to see if she can develop and maintain a healthier relationship with working out

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Kathryn Thomas on the Rose of Tralee and RTÉ: 'It's not been an easy time for anyone'  irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/…
Kathryn Thomas on the Rose of Tralee and RTÉ: 'It's not been an easy time for anyone'

Kathryn Thomas on the Rose of Tralee and RTÉ: 'It's not been an easy time for anyone' 

'The culture that we’re living in now is a very different media landscape from when I started 20-odd years ago'

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David O'Mahony@DavidOMahony23 May 2024
A personal piece about my son in today’s ⁦⁦@irishexaminer⁩ - might be of interest to the good people at ⁦@AsIAmIreland⁩ as well #autism irishexaminer.com/opinion/co…
Looking after a child with autism in Ireland is a constant fight for support

Looking after a child with autism in Ireland is a constant fight for support

Why do parents and educators have to fight tooth-and-nail for the promised State services for their disabled children? It’s time for the HSE to be pressured into doing what it is claiming to do,...

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Twitter folk- anyone know of good therapists in Dublin 7 or city centre that would be willing to work with me please. I have a support letter from my psychiatrist too if that helps. Willing to pay anything just to have someone to talk to. Thank you 🙏 – at Dublin City, Ireland
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For Mental Health Journalism | National Print & Online. The Shortlist: ⭐️Mary Cate Smith | @ST__Ireland ⭐️Noel Baker | @irishexaminer ⭐️Shane Phelan | @Independent_ie ⭐️Catherine Fegan | @Independent_ie ⭐️Malachy Clerkin | @IrishTimesPol
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@irishexaminer22 Oct 2023
I'm Grand Mam's Kevin Twomey: 'I didn't know that was going to be my last New Year's with him' irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/…

I'm Grand Mam's Kevin Twomey: 'I didn't know that was going to be my last New Year's with him'

'I didn’t go home and I know it’s not a major thing but I wish I had. You never think it’s going to be your last one, you know?'

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Business Post@businessposthq3 Oct 2023
A new study has found that the €220 per week paid to Ukrainian refugees without employment in Ireland is the highest of any EU country businesspost.ie/politics/leo…
Leo Varadkar and cabinet sub-committee discussed cutting Ukrainian refugee benefits

Leo Varadkar and cabinet sub-committee discussed cutting Ukrainian refugee benefits

A new study has found that the €220 per week paid to Ukrainian refugees without employment in Ireland is the highest of any EU country

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Suicidal children in Cork and Kerry waiting more than 50 days for help irishexaminer.com/news/arid-…
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This is the superb young irish journalist who exposed the #GolfGate Covid partygoers and broke the entire story. We need more real journalists like #AoifeMoore who have the courage to take on the arrogant Irish elite. Expose the trolls. Name and shame. irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/…
Aoife Moore: 'I have had people threaten to skin me alive'

Aoife Moore: 'I have had people threaten to skin me alive'

Aoife Moore speaks to Nicole Glennon about her new podcast Trolled, and her personal battle with online abuse which started days after she began working for the Irish Examiner

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@irishexaminer23 Jul 2023
Jacqui Hurley: I already know what the worst looks like because it’s happened to me  irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/…

Jacqui Hurley: I already know what the worst looks like because it’s happened to me 

'My brother was only 25 when he died. There was a lot of life still to be lived'

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Gillyflower@GbertSteelios20 Jul 2023
Yes yes! WOTE back on your digital airwaves for your Friday lunch time buzz. Thanks to all the guests who have held the fort over the last while, it's little ol me at the controls tomorrow. Ambient/downtempo/mid tempo afro boogie secret weapons/dub/club✌
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Yo, Disabledsphere I am looking to see what disabled graphic novel / comic book artists there are in Ireland. Do you know any? Tag below, please. #DisabilityTwitter #ComicBook #GraphicNovel #IrishArtist #Ireland #Irish – at Omagh, Northern Ireland
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If you’re with someone who tries to extinguish the light you bring into this world by making you become something they’re more comfortable with, you need to leave. They will not get better. Your life will become very miserable very quickly. Walk away. /end.
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Mary Cate Smith@marycesmith8 Jul 2023
#Cork hurler @Hoggie088 is a straight shooter - on the field and in life. You couldn't meet a more plain-talking man who values the simple things in life. Read my interview with the #GAA star now @irishexaminer. irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/… #patrickhorgan #hurling

Patrick Horgan: 'My nephew Charlie is in a wheelchair. His first year or two was very hard'

'As long as it was daylight outside, it was going to be about hurling'

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Mary Cate Smith@marycesmith27 May 2023
"I remember choosing to get knocked down." @rte's #AineLawlor loved a bit of mischief when she was a child - and she hasn't lost that spark. irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/… Thanks @McCormackBrian1 for organising this interview for the @irishexaminer.
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Áine Lawlor: When people go through cancer, there's a lot expected from you in terms of attitude irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/…
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Stevie G@StevieGrainger20 May 2023
Thanks @marycesmith & @irishexaminer for the feature. I’m about to announce a date for the next “Everybody Dance” soon (@MarinaMktCork); and I’m DJing in Le Cabaret next Saturday night ❤️‍🩹irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/…
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