Executive Director @rorypecktrust, non-profit protecting independent journalism across world. Board @pressfreedom. Ex MD @rtenews, Foreign Editor @abc & @bbc
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Thrilled to be joining @rorypecktrust. Values & purpose matter. @ClothildeR leaves big shoes to fill. Sadly, as #RPT approaches 30th anniversary, it’s vital work more need than ever. Excited to join the team supporting freelance journalists around the world. 1/3 #pressfreedom
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The Trustees of the Rory Peck Trust have appointed @WilliamsJon as its new Director. Jon, former Managing Director of RTÉ News and Current Affairs, will join the Trust in mid-April.
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Clip that will be on every TV screen around the world tonight. Asked did he totally exonerate #Trump in #Russia investigation, Mueller answers no... #MuellerHearing
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#France's most famous cartoonist, 87 year old Uderzo - father of Asterix - comes out of retirement for #CharlieHebdo.
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Can you hear the people sing? ICYMI protestors at #HongKong airport singing Les Mis. #China banned track from streaming services in #PRC! #HongKongProtests
Joshua Wong 黃之鋒 😷
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Perhaps most incredible photo of #HongKong you will ever see: protests last night via @hkdemonow
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Thank you for many kind words about #KeelinShanley. Hope knowing impact she made, source of comfort & pride for family. Tonight candles burn on her desk @rtenews. But Keelin would be first to say show goes on. We will make her proud.
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With heaviest of hearts, just announced that our friend #KeelinShanley died today. She fought cancer with same equanimity & good humour brought to everything else. Our hearts are breaking for Conor, Lucy & Ben. Keelin was the best of us. Ar dheis Dé go raibh a hanam.
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Taliban ordered #Afghanwomen on TV to cover their faces on-air. This from those who stopped girls going to school. We stand with our friends in #Afghanistan - and demand Taliban #freeherface.
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In 150 year history, few more embarrassing pressers at FCO as @StateDept pool tears into #BorisJohnson. Mortifying. snpy.tv/2a6c8vb
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Prince George given 15 minute bedtime extension so he could meet POTUS & FLOTUS. Dog in center gift from Obamas.
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We were wrong not to make clear connection between recent extreme weather events & climate change. Sin of omission & reported in good faith. But truth matters. So when we get it wrong, we should say so. Lesson learned. Work to do.
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Before & after #ItalyEarthquake: #Google street-view shows scale of devastation in #Amatrice theguardian.com/world/live/2…
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9 dead in #Munich horrific. But 80 dead in #Kabul. Maybe #EiffelTower should be in #Afghanistan colors not German
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Don’t normally comment on politics, but when theTaliban seized #Afghanistan in Aug 2021, #SimonCoveney helped save dozens of Afghan journalists & their families whose lives at risk. He got them to safety. They - and I - forever grateful. #pressfreedom independent.ie/irish-news/po…
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Berlin's Brandenburg Gate lit up with Turkish al-bayrak in honor of #IstanbulAttack victims
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This how I’ll remember Keelin. Her smile could light up any room. Not a corner @rtenews untouched by Keelin’s fearless, generous & passionate journalism. For #KeelinShanley, story never about her - always about others.
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Wow! @FiveThirtyEight's latest projection: if election was today - even after #DemsInPhilly - #DonaldTrump to win.
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350 years ago tonight, London burned to ground in Great Fire. Tonight spectacular commemoration of #LondonsBurning.
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Earlier today I was privileged to welcome the first two journalists from #Afghanistan offered international protection by #Ireland. Both fled Kabul as the Taliban seized the city. Grateful for Irish generosity & support for #PressFreedom. Óró, sé do bheatha 'bhaile.
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500 drones light up the Dublin sky to wish the world a happy #StPatricksDay from #Ireland - part of #StPatricksFestival.
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William & Kate try out their Irish to wish #Ireland “beannachtaí na Féile Pádraig oraibh”: happy #StPatricksDay
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US spends 10 times as much on its military as India does - but tells Americans in #Yemen to call the Indians if they want a lift out!
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Guess you have to laugh! Next week's @NewYorker cover an homage to #MontyPython's Ministry of Silly Walks. #Brexit
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Fortunate to have worked with great colleagues. Few as kind or naturally gifted as Huw. 9/11, 7/7, General Elections and royal deaths, Huw was there, on air, when we needed him most. And for his friends, off air too. From a lifetime ago, but simply the best. #HuwEdwards
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As #LyraMcKee’s funeral began in Belfast, team @rte gave her a minute’s round of applause in Dublin to show #WeStandWithLyra. United in grief & a demand for justice.
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Heartbreaking. A master of storytelling. RIP #anthonybourdain
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This is disgraceful attack on #pressfreedom by #Israel. Been in that building many times. One thing I guarantee you: Israel will not silence #Gaza’s journalists. apnews.com/article/israel-we…
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Quite a moment! Women liberated from #ISIS controlled areas remove their veils & burn them #Iraq (via @RudawEnglish)
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Amazing photo: @BILD captures Helmut Kohl in front of Brandenburg Gate, 25 years after helped bring down #BerlinWall.
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Every night at 8pm, the people of Spain are coming onto their balconies & open windows to applaude #healthcare staff & others working to fight outbreak of #COVIDー19. This was Madrid tonight! (Via @rtve)
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Crazy scenes in #NYC. City echoing to sound of sirens & horns as #EricGarner protestors swarm over #Brooklyn Bridge
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US confirms shot down #Syria SU-22 fighter jet "in accordance with rules of engagement & collective self-defense". A 1st in 6 year war.
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Brilliant, inspired @Reuters photo that says so much about US & #Cuba. 90 miles & worlds apart. #ObamaInCuba
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If you read just one thing today, please make it this: @donie on why none of us should be defined by our mental health.
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"You were indispensable". Former First Minister David Trimble releases extraordinary letter written to #MartinMcGuinness just last week.
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Amazing photo of #911anniversary #TributeInLight. 88 searchlights at #GroundZero recreate #TwinTowers (via @ABC7NY)
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A lot of love on social for @donie. From Cahersiveen to Washington DC. On eve of first anniversary of Capitol Riots, if you missed 'Capitol Man', watch @RTEplayer. #donie rte.ie/player/movie/donie-o-…
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#Ireland bans anti-#LGBTQ preacher Steven Anderson “on grounds of public policy”. independent.ie/irish-news/an…
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Incredible photo by Henrik Moltke as lightening hits Empire State Building in #NYC thunder storm. Now dark as winter
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Just said goodbye to @ciaranmullooly. Terrific storyteller & great colleague. As Midlands correspondent for >25 years, been an important voice for local journalism @rtenews. Wish him, Angela & the boys all the best for their next chapter. #JournalismMatters
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French ambassador to US: "After #Brexit and this election, anything is now possible. A world is crumbling before our eyes." #ElectionNight nitter.app/gerardaraud/status/796…
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Saluting the great @lawlor_aine - clapped out of the studio after great 7 year lunchtime run. Thrilled she’s returning to @morningireland next week. And excited for @RTENewsAtOne with Bryan Dobson from Monday. GRMA & ádh mór to both. #radio #rte
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A year ago today, our friend #KeelinShanley lost her fight with cancer. We miss her every day. At Christmas her dad gave me a beautiful lamp, made by her brother @CopperFishIrl. Pride of place at home. Our thoughts with Conor, Lucy & Ben. Truly, the light that never goes out.
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Father of #SavitaHalappanavar: “We have one last request, that the new law, is called ‘Savita’s law’. It should be named for her.” #8thRef
Sitting in car at Savita mural for hour this morning filing. Just extraordinary outpouring of emotion. People in tears, hugging each other, reflecting. One man covered in tattoos pulled up in SUV double parked, jumped out, placed bunch of flowers and left again. Tears in my eyes
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#Putin's latest hunting trophy! Cartoonists go where commentators can't: @BrookesTimes on tragedy of #MH17 #Ukraine
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“The healing power of kindness.” Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe watched #AndyMurray win #Wimbledon from her cell in #Iran’s notorious Evin Jail. Yesterday he got her tickets for #wimbledon2023. And she watched him win again. This time from the Royal Box.
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To those who demand that #AlJazeera be shut down, we too have demands. It matters to us all.
#DemandPressFreedom
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Delighted @vincekearney to be next Northern Editor @rte. Bittersweet. #TommieGorman retiring in April, after 41 years as beating heart @rtenews. Beloved by colleagues, trusted by our audiences - and by all sides in Northern #Ireland. #JournalismMatters. Forever grateful. #GRMA
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Streets of Tehran alive with cheering and honking of car horns after end of #IranTalks. #Iran (Pic: @AP)
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Incredible: Labour take final seat in UK #GeneralElection - Kensington. One of wealthiest seats in UK, 25% work in finance! Sums up #GE2017.
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Incredible image in Europe’s last dictatorship. Totalitarian regimes only survive as long as their people fear defiance. #Belarus no longer frightened. Really does have feeling of end of days for #Lukashenko.
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Last year, police in UK discharged their weapons just 7 times. In entire UK.
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WATCH: Utterly heartbreaking. #Orlando mom on her missing son: "I left him with I love you". #PulseShooting
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All of us @rtenews hugely proud of @tconnellyRTE. Peerless in his coverage of #Brexit & reporting #EU. Vote @Europarl_EN carried live yesterday, headlined at 6 & 9. Criticism bizarre. And disappointing.
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French PM announces France to close all places “not essential to life of the country” - restaurants, cinemas, nightclubs & some shops - from midnight tonight until further notice. nitter.app/Figaro_Live/status/123… #COVIDー19
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When Keelin’s cancer first diagnosed in 2011, she worked through chemo & treatment. When it returned, she did so again - defying pain to present Six One. Determined to live life to the full, until no longer possible to do so. #KeelinShanley
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Incredible. On #Inauguration Day, headlines not about #DonaldTrump taking oath but questions about links to #Russia nytimes.com/2017/01/19/us/po…
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Obama to #BBC: “number of Americans killed since 911 by terrorism less than 100; number killed by gun violence tens of thousands” #Lafayette
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Really was a night to forget for #PhilHogan. Spox confirms @rtenews that #EU Commissioner stopped by Gardai for using mobile phone while driving to #golfgate dinner.
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A man transformed. Biden at his very best as America’s dad. #EvanGershkovich
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UN Human Rights Council votes for Commission of Inquiry on alleged war crimes in #Gaza. 1 country voted against: USA
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Very sorry to report that #GayByrne has died. No exaggeration to say he was a legend. 37 years @RTELateLateShow, career spanning 6 decades @RTERadio1 & @RTElyricfm. Ar dheis De go raibh a anam dilis.
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Exit poll @rtenews/@IrishTimes/@TG4/@ucddublin suggests #GE2020 effectively tied:
FG: 22.4%
SF: 22.3%
FF: 22.2%
BUT margin of error of 1.3%
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Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo? Golden Retriever called Romeo rescued from #ItalyQuake rubble after 9 days!
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For nearly six years, #TommieGorman was counsellor, confessor, friend. Spending time with him in his beloved Sligo was the greatest privilege. The kindest, wisest of men. The very best of #Ireland. My heart goes out to Ceara and the kids. Ar dheis Dé go raibh a anam
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Dreadful news: thoughts with friends @Reuters after missile hits hotel in eastern Ukrainian city of Kramatorsk - one of team missing, two others hospitalised. Reminder, if needed, of terrible toll 2024 taking on journalists - from #Gaza to #Ukraine & beyond. #protectjournalists
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Extraordinary state of affairs when next President of United States actually has to deny being a stooge for #Russia. #DonaldTrump
Russia has never tried to use leverage over me. I HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH RUSSIA - NO DEALS, NO LOANS, NO NOTHING!
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Every war defined by a photo: from Vietnam, to Bosnia to #Syria. Too much to hope one child can make a difference?
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Remarkable image captured @AP- rioter lifted off his feet as PSNI use water cannon in west Belfast.
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“The loss of a journalist, at any time, in any part of the world, is an attack on truth itself.” @PresidentIRL leads tributes to #LyraMcKee, murdered in Derry. #PressFreedom
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Statements by #robinwilliams' wife & press rep. "Had been battling severe depression". Utterly tragic.
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Forget message in a bottle - this is a warning in a drone & aimed at #DonaldTrump: don't mess with One #China policy theguardian.com/world/2016/d…
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#DonaldTrump: Steve Bannon Chief Strategist & Senior Counselor to President, Reince Priebus WH Chief of Staff, "working as equal partners"
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Terrifying image of #Israel-i airstrike today on #Gaza's Tuffah neighborhood on front page of @Independent (Pic: EPA)
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41 years in broadcast journalism- all but two @rte. Few tracked story of this island with such insight, or heart. Slán @joelittlerte. Míle Buíochas!
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