Investigative journalist @ The Journal Investigates ➡️ thejournal.ie
Co Derry/Dublin, Ireland
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In March this year, my niece Caitlin-Rose passed away after she was knocked down after getting off her school bus. Her mummy wants to help other children who need the help of emergency care in Caitlin-Rose’s memory.
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Conor McGregor being told he looks like a kerbstone on the Shankill is the entertainment I needed today.
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R*ped by a man 5 months before she was murdered by her own brother, who sexually assaulted her before callously ending her life. Even when she was lifeless, another man, completely unconnected to her or her killer, found her body and committed vile acts.
RIP Amber Gibson. You should have been safe 💔
Man found guilty of sexually assaulting and murdering his 16-year-old sister, Amber Gibson bbc.in/3O9qltp
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Young Derry boy rescues 18 year-old girl as three men tried to force her into a van in the Bogside.
Tiernan McCready definitely deserves to be called a hero 💪
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Widowed just eight months ago at the age of 27, with four children under the age of six, Sandra Isirima has today graduated from Queen’s University with a Master’s degree.
What an amazing woman 👏
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Remembering Jason, Mark and Richard Quinn, three innocent children who had their lives stolen 23 years ago today in an act of pure sectarian hatred.
May we never go back to those days.
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Thank you to the many people in east Belfast who made me aware of this sinister graffiti today.
I think it’s clear to everyone who and what is behind it, and why.
I will continue to report on the thugs and bullies terrorising their own communities.
sundayworld.com/news/norther…
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No sugar coating from the PSNI in Carrickfergus tonight.
'While we waste our time parenting your children we can't get on with detecting drink drivers before they kill someone....'
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In 1986 when former GMP officer John Stalker was about to publish his findings on a ‘shoot to kill policy’ in Northern Ireland, he was suspended from duty and falsely accused of associating with criminals. He was cleared. But the report’s findings never saw the light of day.
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This is amazing. Tyrone fisherman Raymond McElroy caught this in his fishing net while out on Lough Neagh today...the antlers and skull of a Great Irish Elk! An animal that has been extinct for thousands of years.
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The real headline missing here is that, good old Prince Andrew, who paid £12 million to a woman he says he didn’t abuse when she was underage, is fully back in the Royal family fold and doing public engagements. Apparently, we should all just pretend this is normal. Meanwhile, Meghan Markle opened a door *fury* #epstein
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Geraldine Finucane on UTV: “It would seem to me there is a lot to hide. So the idea is to just delay and delay and and to hope as I get older I will pop my clogs and the investigation will stop. But believe you me with every breath in my body I will fight them to the bitter end..
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Prince Andrew files sealed until 2065.
Consigned alongside the thousands of hidden files on the Northern Ireland Troubles that clearly breaches the government’s own 30 year rule.
independent.co.uk/life-style…
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Three children burned to death in their beds after their home was targeted in a sectarian petrol bomb attack in 1998. No one was ever convicted of their murders, just one individual who was jailed on a lesser offence, despite naming the killers in court.
Under Westminster’s legacy bill, those people will never face justice.
Three of many more innocents, loved ones denied of basic human rights.
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From around Feb last year, I started receiving vile, sectarian and threatening abuse, whipped up by someone Stephen has on his programme regularly. Someone who rang around asking people to post negative tweets about me. Even release statememts. I was heavily pregnant at the time.
It has been confirmed by Caroline Flack’s lawyer that she took her own life.
We all have weaknesses as human beings , and the vile , aggressive pursuit of people on social media needs to stop .
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I'd never spoken to @LyraMcKee until yesterday.
Out of the blue she sent me this lovely message.
I've been getting hassle over my coverage of loyalist paramilitaries for the last month.
Her message really meant a lot to me because I felt very alone.
It means more now. RIP X
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Tomorrow I will file a Police Ombudsman complaint on what I feel has been a PSNI failure to adequately investigate an online threat to rape my newborn son sent almost 12 months ago.
The suspect is known to them, they have evidence. He has not been questioned let alone arrested.
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I can’t stop laughing at this 🤣 #JesusChrist
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In the queue at Tesco and the man in front of me was asked if he’d like to use the self service checkout.
‘I’d rather die’, he replied.
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The emotion in his voice 🥲 #LateLateShow #patrickkielty
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New footage shows moment loyalist rioters hijack bus in west Belfast.
One man can be heard shouting, ‘Tell the driver to drive it down... where’s the driver?’
Another shouts, ‘petrol bomb it’.
Rioter in driver seat releases brake before getting off. Bus seems to have free rolled.
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Standing at the site where three little boys lost their lives 25 years ago today.
Richard (10), Jason (8) and Mark Quinn (9) were murdered in their beds in a sectarian petrol bomb attack on their Ballymoney home.
A children’s park and memorial garden marks the place where their lives were cruelly cut short. The boys have never been forgotten by the close knit Carnany community.
This morning, along with some members of the boys’ family, dozens in the community came out to release balloons into the sky.
Jason’s dad Davy was one of the first to let off a balloon. He told me how his son would have celebrated his 33rd birthday on Saturday.
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Serious questions as to why this information, which came to light a month ago, has not been acted on. The individual who made these claims is still in prison and could easily be accessed to either discount them or progress the ongoing investigation into Noah’s death.
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‘You’ve been a champion all your life’ - no truer words spoken by the man interviewing Carl Frampton tonight in the ring after his loss. He represents all that is good in this wee place. We need more like him.
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A known criminal, arrested over a fatal shooting, who has paramilitary and neo nazis links, sends a threat to rape a journalist’s newborn baby. Police confirm they have traced it to him. Decision: No prosecution (after over a year and a half of deliberations). This isn’t about the journalist, it’s about the most vulnerable of all; the child. Failed. @CFWIJ @WIJ_UK
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I want to be Anne when I grow up 😍 What a lady.
📹 by photographer Christopher Ward (his TikTok channel is excellent 👌)
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Five daughters of former Ireland rugby international David Tweed have stood together publicly to call on politicians who lauded him to accept their father was a monster. Jim Allister yesterday refused to alter his tribute to the man named by his daughters as a paedophile.
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Spoke to a family today taking it in turns to sit in the car park of their 94 yr-old mum’s care home where she is dying, in isolation, from Covid-19. Haven’t seen her since the start of March, won’t ever get to see her again. Granddaughter said they just want to be close to her.
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Alot of u will have read my tweet about the family taking it in turns to sit in a nursing home car park as their mum fought Covid-19 inside.
Her name was Teresa Brady (94) and she sadly passed away last night.
She was from west Belfast and was a much loved mum and grandmother.
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I was sexually assaulted by a stranger walking back to my car after a nightshift in Dublin (2016). When I reported it, I was told that Gardai ‘were aware of young fellas groping people’ in area. Don’t know what’s more depressing, it was known or no action #AshlingMurphyRIP
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Over a quarter of a million people have now signed this petition against the use of Public Interest Immunity (PII) certificates in the case of Noah Donohoe, a schoolboy who went missing and whose body was found in a drain with no explanation. I hope news outlets report on this
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What on earth is going on when a pregnant woman can be violently murdered in her own home and the killer - apparently known to her according to police - is still roaming the streets almost a month later? The pain I feel for Natalie’s family when I see them on TV having no other
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.@MarkCarruthers7 is a gem in NI journalism. @J_Donaldson_MP I can provide you with the evidence you say you don’t have. This is not about bias, or politics. It’s about the right people representing our communities.
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I was lucky enough to meet Jim McCabe, who sadly passed away at the weekend. Jim lost his wife Norah (33) after she was hit by a plastic bullet as she walked to shop for milk in west Belfast in 1981. He was left to bring up their 3 children, youngest 3 mths, on his own. The RUC
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Some good news. The PSNI informed me today that after sending a file to the PPS on an individual I reported last year for online abuse, and who also contacted my place of work, will now be formally interviewed. It’s a small but positive step 🤞
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“You don’t get to take the ball and go off the pitch because it’s something you don’t like”.
What a powerful speech by @SorchaEastwood calling out serious hypocrisy by Jeffrey Donaldson. No matter your political persuasion, she’s certainly hit the nail on the head on the hurt a lack of government is having on everyone here.
Ooooof @SorchaEastwood 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
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Tomorrow marks 1 year since 14 yr-old Noah Donohoe’s body was found in a Belfast storm drain. So many questions remain over his disappearance and death. In tomorrow’s @sundayworld there will be a special tribute to Noah, highlighting his family’s continued fight for answers.
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Apparently after a recent podcast, I’m very ‘taigy’ because I speak to victims about collusion. I’m not going to apologise that I feel strongly about the State being involved in murder. It should concern us all, no matter what our religion.
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Firstly, it’s very strange you appear to be triggered about a “platitude” (🙄) to a 16 year-old girl who was raped, sexually assaulted, murdered and then once again violated after her death, all within five months, by 3 different men.
Secondly, it’s not my job to offer a “solution”, whatever you mean by that. But if you have one about how we can stop another girl like Amber being violently abused and murdered, do let those that can make that happen know.
Thirdly, if the only thing you can offer in response to such an abhorrent, tragic and devastating case like Amber’s is *that* response, walk to a mirror and take a good look at yourself.
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We have no government, a police force in disarray, the highest suicide rate in the UK and fall just behind Romania for the number of women being murdered in Europe. Not to forget the stripping of human rights for every single victim of the Troubles under the so-called Legacy Bill. Sensational indeed.
The quality of life in Northern Ireland is "sensational".
Trade Minister Lord Johnson - speaking to me at yesterday's investment conference.
#BBCTheView
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Fiona Donohoe and her family spent their first Christmas Day without Noah by taking part in a special sea swim in his memory. A mother’s love will never die.
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Man who ran social media hate campaign against an Irish language nursery school in east Belfast is a former Red Hand Commando who bombed a Catholic-owned pub in the early 70s. @sundayworld
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Phone containing picture of individual suspected of assaulting schoolboy Noah Donohoe handed in to PSNI after family’s heartfelt plea.
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Breaking: A man has been arrested on charges related to the discovery of late teenager Noah Donohoe’s backpack, discovered by police a number of days after the 14 year-old went missing in June.
It’s understood he will appear before a court in Belfast this morning.
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This art piece was made from stones washed up on Cushendall beach, Co Antrim by a Ballymena man called Joe Keenan. So beautiful.
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What a brilliant history lesson by former Irish President Mary McAleese tonight about this island and what those in the north suffered. The special mention to Patrick Kielty’s father was so poignant #LateLateShow
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A beautiful family 💔
John Mullan and his children Thomas, 14, and Amelia, 6, died after their car plunged off the road on Co Donegal into Lough Foyle last night. Mum Geraldine managed to escape. They had been on their way home from a family day out.
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Fiona Donohoe goes to bed every night not knowing how her only child came to lose his life.
Noah left home to meet friends on June 21, 6 days later his body was found in a storm drain.
She needs to know how and why that happened and so deserves all our support #RememberMyNoah
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Forget about John Lewis, this ad from Charlie’s Bar in Enniskillen, Co Fermanagh has me in bits. 😭
It was posted with the WB Yeats quote: “There Are No Strangers Here; Only Friends You Haven’t Yet Met”
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Fiona Donohoe speaks today about the moment she was told her son may have been subjected to a terrifying assault in Belfast city centre on the day he disappeared.
"They said about an injection....that he could have possibly been injected with heroin or threatened with a needle.”
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Pictures of teenager Noah Donohoe were projected on to iconic buildings across Dublin tonight.
I’m told this will also happen in other cities over the coming days.
A beautiful tribute to the 14 year-old.
📸 @dazlites
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The amount of media people, (some not all), over the last few days posting tributes to their ‘dear’ or ‘close’ friend Sinead O’Connor makes my stomach turn, especially due to the fact a few of them were publicly lambasted by Sinead for their treatment of her.
Expect to read a few “stories” from said individuals over the coming days which they know will never be clarified because sadly, she is no longer here. #NothingCompares2U
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Want to know what it feels like to be ‘silenced’? Try going through years of orchestrated trolling campaigns, intimidation, harassment, threats to u and ur children, graffiti on walls, vexatious complaints to ur work place. Then being gaslit by the shadowy
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That video of the young mum in Lurgan being intimidated in her own home is one of the most ugliest sectarian attacks I’ve ever seen on video in recent times. I hope she is safe.
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Was able to witness the support and love for the Donohoe family in Belfast tonight. Never seen like anything like it. #RememberMyNoah
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Almost 24 hours on and no contact from @J_Donaldson_MP or anyone in the DUP to request the evidence they say they don’t have. Maybe it’s just me, but if I was a leading politician and someone selected to represent my party was accused of posting vile racist, sexist and sectarian online abuse *for years*, I’d like to know whether that was true or not. (Just me then)
.@MarkCarruthers7 is a gem in NI journalism. @J_Donaldson_MP I can provide you with the evidence you say you don’t have. This is not about bias, or politics. It’s about the right people representing our communities.
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As another year draws to a close I’m thinking of @FIONADONOHOE2 and her family. 79 weeks of grieving Noah with no answers.
#RememberMyNoah
#Week79
#NoahDonohoe
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May we never - ever- forget Danny Dyer’s contribution to the Brexit debate.
*With appearances from Jeremy Corbyn and Pamela Anderson.
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According to reports today, the individual convicted of trolling Fiona Donohoe, whose 14 year-old son Noah died in unexplained circumstances in 2020, is the relative of a high ranking UVF police informant who was literally paid to get away with murder by the state. One of many murders carried out by his gang was that of Raymond McCord Jnr. As a result of his father’s campaign work, the gang and its leader were exposed as agents.
New Podcast🎙: Raymond McCord Jnr was brutally beaten to death by a UVF unit in 1997. His death would lead to the exposure of high ranking police informants within the loyalist gang including Mark Haddock, who ordered his death. Raw interview with his father, Raymond Snr.
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“People say he was a great rugby player and brilliant unionist politician. “But to me, he was the dark shadow who entered my bedroom every night to abuse me.
“But it’s over now. He can’t hurt me or anyone else ever again.” David Tweed’s daughter Victoria
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Over the moon my little boy has been given a place at an integrated primary school for September. They were over subscribed when we applied but just got a phone call to say a place has become available.
It’s made my year 🥰 #IntegratedEducation
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Very important information to be released later this evening regarding the investigation into the disappearance and death of Noah Donohoe from @donalmacintyre
As ever, @FIONADONOHOE2 you are in my thoughts. 💙
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Carl Frampton shows support for Noah campaign during Dubai weigh-in belfastlive.co.uk/sport/boxi…
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26 years.
Richard, Jason and Mark Quinn.
Standing at the site where three little boys lost their lives 25 years ago today.
Richard (10), Jason (8) and Mark Quinn (9) were murdered in their beds in a sectarian petrol bomb attack on their Ballymoney home.
A children’s park and memorial garden marks the place where their lives were cruelly cut short. The boys have never been forgotten by the close knit Carnany community.
This morning, along with some members of the boys’ family, dozens in the community came out to release balloons into the sky.
Jason’s dad Davy was one of the first to let off a balloon. He told me how his son would have celebrated his 33rd birthday on Saturday.
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Speaking to an audience in the south of Ireland, Bernadette Devlin says, ‘We don’t intend on joining you’.
‘If you think we spent two generations, and traumatised two more yet to come, by what we’ve been through to live in this godforsaken state, you have another thing coming.
‘We have paid the price for better, and better we will have’
📹 @LeftBlocIreland
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Taking a Twitter break for a while.
Stay safe folks and make time for the people that really matter in your life.
💙💙❤️
See you all soon 😄✌️
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If you ever need to know what accounts to block on here, just go through some of the comments underneath this post from last night.
It won’t be hard to spot them, multiple flags in bio, speaks mostly in emojis (usually🤡 or 🐀) and will post **anything** for a bit of attention, because in the real world, no one would entertain them for a second.
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I remember someone tweeting at the start of Lucy Letby’s trial that if she was innocent or guilty, both outcomes would be horrific. Either we have someone wrongly accused of such heinous crimes or we have the most trusted of carers capable of unspeakable evil. Back then we didn’t know the great lengths people like Dr Ravi Jayaram went to stop her, and was not only ignored but ordered to apologise to her and work alongside her so she could continue murder to babies. Those involved in the latter should all be sacked, imo.
“I'm not a hero, I was just doing my job”, says the doctor who helped catch killer nurse Lucy Letby.
I caught up with Dr Ravi Jayaram following her sentencing.
I told him the police and families have described his crusade for answers as “heroic”.
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This is Johnny Mercer’s response to the brother of 12 year-old Majella O’Hare, who died after being shot in the back by a British soldier as she walked to church. ‘No good options left’ he says. There were plenty, your government got rid of them all.
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I'd like to dedicate this huge achievement to those closest to me.
My friends, my family and especially my Twitter comrades who have been with me throughout it all. The highs, the lows. The laughs, the tears. It was worth it all. Thank you.
Thank you very much.
*Takes a bow*
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A man who paid £12 million to settle claims he abused an underage girl sitting beside the future Queen. Never mind though, Prince Harry just breathed.
The real headline missing here is that, good old Prince Andrew, who paid £12 million to a woman he says he didn’t abuse when she was underage, is fully back in the Royal family fold and doing public engagements. Apparently, we should all just pretend this is normal. Meanwhile, Meghan Markle opened a door *fury* #epstein
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Am I the only one who did not know there was a place called Ballywatticock in NI? Everyday’s a school day. Thanks @barrabest ☀️
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Thank u from the bottom of my heart to each and every person who tweeted, messaged or called me today. I am going to respond to each and every one. Thank u to the media who highlighted my case, and again thank you to @PatrickCorrigan @KRWLaw for their invaluable support and help.
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Remember, when you are watching these videos tonight of the disorder on Sandy Row, these are kids.
And I guarantee you they didn’t organise any of this. The people that did though will be gloating as they keep well out of the road, and their faces off camera.
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Me in 2065 on my way to the National Records Office to get the Prince Andrew files because I’m not letting this go …
Prince Andrew files sealed until 2065.
Consigned alongside the thousands of hidden files on the Northern Ireland Troubles that clearly breaches the government’s own 30 year rule.
independent.co.uk/life-style…
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Very important information to be released later this evening regarding the investigation into the disappearance and death of Noah Donohoe from @donalmacintyre
As ever, @FIONADONOHOE2 you are in my thoughts. 💙
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Can you imagine if the @BylineTimes accusations, which include the despicable crime of sextortion, were levied at someone in the BBC, ITV, Sky etc? The baying of blood for accountability would be relentless until action was taken. The same response should be applied to Wootton. ecially those still on air (unbelievably).
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Internal UVF ‘investigation’ accuses members of terror gang’s east Belfast battalion of murder, rape and causing the deaths of six people through drug dealing. One gangster named is alleged to have carried out five sex attacks, including one that led to victim taking her own life
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What an amazing turnout for the Donohoe family and most importantly, for Noah. Well done Strabane @councillor_barr Cllr Gallagher and all those who turned out.
Justice for Noah Donohoe protest at Strabane PSNI station Cllt Paul Gallagher speaking. The people want justice NOW!
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So, today I was informed that after a review, the PPS said that the individual police told me sent me the rape threat to my the newborn son could not be prosecuted. Why? Because the “intelligence” the PSNI had on the mobile number used to send message, which clearly linked the suspect, would be “inadmissible” in court.
Take from that what you will.
I know it’s reaffirmed everything I believed.
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I see that a lot of clearly sectarian (and notably anon) accounts being toxic against an ongoing campaign by the family of Noah Donohoe. Noah’s family want transparency in the inquest into his death. That is a fight they never wanted nor should have had to take.
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‘It should be Noah’s sweet 16th today, he should be standing with me celebrating. But I have to say there is nothing sweet about me standing here fighting for answers for Noah’
@FIONADONOHOE2
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It’s not like me to make posts like this but after both me and two children were left in tears I think I have to. Wandering around St George’s Market this morn with the boys and walked up to this jewellery stall 🧵
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I don’t object to anyone using ‘the North’, ‘Northern Ireland’, ‘NI’, ‘Norn Iron’, ‘Londonderry’, ‘Derry’, ‘Legenderry’...
What I do object to is being “corrected” and made to feel like there’s a sectarian element to the reason I am using any of the above.
Live and let live.
Is it ok for civil servants to use the term ‘The North’ rather than N Ireland❓
Contact us @BBCTalkback 🔜
We are on air at 12 noon. 🕛
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This is what happens when authorities fail to pursue and hold to account vile creatures using fake accounts to make threats.
Impunity emboldens these sickos. When did it become OK to threaten children with rape?
Received yesterday after coming back on social media after 2 weeks
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It’s well over a year now since a file was sent to the Public Prosecution Service on the Neo Nazis supporting loyalist I’m told sent a rape threat to my three month old (via my private Facebook page) in 2019. What’s taking so long on a decision on whether to prosecute or not?
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Mind boggling that evidence like this was kept outside a police station.
BREAKING: A car seized by police in relation to the Ards feud has been torched outside Dundonald police station where it was being kept.
The car was seized on Friday in connection with an attack in the Newtownards shopping centre. @BelTel
belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/…
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Is this the same Ian McLaughlin who ran the West Belfast UPRG Twitter account, who at the time that I was told by police they had received intelligence I was going to be “shot dead” by west belfast UDA, tweeted that I was a discredited journalist and no such threats existed? I’d love someone to clarify this.
Disgusted to hear from our DUP candidate Ian McLaughlin that people putting up his election posters at Twaddell Ave / Woodvale Rd this eve were attacked with bottles thrown by youths from Ardoyne
Thankfully no-one injured but a passing car was struck and damaged. PSNI informed.
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Proud to be wearing my @MyNoah8 jersey today. Not only a beautiful tribute to a special little boy but the proceeds go to #NoahDonohoeFoundation to help other children.
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Disgusted by this UVF linked community group statement, minutes after an anonymous account accused me of being involved in the distressing and disgusting graffiti against myself. I won’t be intimidated or bullied for my reporting on the criminal cartel that is EB UVF.
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Just an update on my ongoing battle with the PSNI to appropriately investigate a rape threat to a baby (my son). Chief Con has been put on notice that if he can’t give assurances of immediate & effective investigation @KRWLaw will apply for Judicial Review before the High Court.
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