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Liam Tunney | Journalist @ismiseliam.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

🎉 Very satisfying to be shortlisted for a second year running in the Regional Investigation of the Year category at the Society of Editors Media Freedom Awards. Well done to my @belfasttelegraph.co.uk colleagues and all who made shortlist.

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Liam Tunney | Journalist @ismiseliam.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

🔴 | The jury has now been deliberating for more than 21 hours. Press, lawyers, Noah's family and several supporters remain in court waiting. 📰 | @belfasttelegraph.co.uk

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Liam Tunney | Journalist @ismiseliam.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

⚖️ A day of legal arguments at the Noah Donohoe inquest today - here's why there was no evidence. Inquest coverage here: 🔗 tinyurl.com/6vxms6yh 📰 | @belfasttelegraph.co.uk

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Liam Tunney | Journalist @ismiseliam.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

🌧️💨 Getting in with this umbrella was like a pulling match with a corner forward

A cold and wet Liam underneath a Belfast Telegraph unbrella

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Liam Tunney | Journalist @ismiseliam.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

🔴 | An interlude at Laganside Courthouse as the building is briefly evacuated after an alarm was triggered. All back in, slightly damp. Jury selection continues in the Noah Donohoe inquest. 📰 @belfasttelegraph.co.uk 🔗 tinyurl.com/49fevd4b

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Liam Tunney | Journalist @ismiseliam.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

🔴 UPDATE: As of 8pm, the error appears to have been resolved. 112-minute average wait at present. Much more reasonable!

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Liam Tunney | Journalist @ismiseliam.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

📈 Latest figures as of 7pm. It would be good if the Dept/NI Direct could get this figure fixed so genuinely ill patients have access to accurate information on wait times. The DoH has been approached in relation to the error. 2/2

ED waiting times
Mater - 147m
RVH - 148m
Royal Children's - 74m
Antrim Area - 208m
Causeway - 128m
Craigavon Area - 110m
Daisy Hill - 6,563m
Ulster - 209m
Altnagelvin - 332m
SWAH - 84m

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Liam Tunney | Journalist @ismiseliam.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

Just clocked off after my Boxing Day shift - all these headlines and stories are from today. Tragedy has unfortunately visited a lot of families over the festive period. Horrible shock and sadness at any time of year but especially when families are together at Christmas 🙏

Headlines:

Top (L-R):
Teen suffered 'life-changing injuries' in Boxing Day crash that claimed life of GAA player (20)
Body found off north Down coast in search for missing man
Man in his 40s dies following house fire in Co Antrim

Bottom (L-R):
Fans fall silent in memory of tragic footballer killed in Christmas Eve accident
'He will be missed by many': NI community 'devastated' at death of 'gentleman' two days before Christmas
PSNI probing two sudden deaths at Belfast property

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Liam Tunney | Journalist @ismiseliam.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

🎄 Everyone is bedded down for another year. One by one the twinkling lights on the houses flicker off. Preparation done and a few hours sleep before the little footsteps come running to ask if it's too early to go downstairs yet. At least they still ask. 1/

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Liam Tunney | Journalist @ismiseliam.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

🙌 A nice surprise on Fionnuala's birthday yesterday to find myself shortlisted for Daily Reporter of the Year at next year's Regional Press Awards in London. Congratulations to all who were shortlisted, especially my @belfasttelegraph.co.uk and Sunday Life colleagues.

Shortlisted
2026
The Regional Press Awards

Photograph
Liam Tunney
Belfast Telegraph

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Liam Tunney | Journalist @ismiseliam.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

When Daddy and daughter sit down to do a bit of silent reading 😂😂 you can decide who is reading what 👀

Two books:

Kinahan Assassins by Stephen Breen and John Hand

Dork Diaries: TV Star by Rochel Renée Russell

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Liam Tunney | Journalist @ismiseliam.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

Any wonder the world is couped? TikTok won't let me report on the sale of Nazi memorabilia at auction in NI, but live stream a race riot or walk around sticking phones in immigrants' faces and you can fill your boots 🤷‍♂️

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Liam Tunney | Journalist @ismiseliam.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

📰 Delighted to pick up Regional Investigation of the Year at the Media Freedom Awards in London on Wednesday for my work on the FBA Brand Builder. 👏 Thanks to all sources, ex-clients, our news room and our legal team for their support on this story. #MFA2025

Receiving the award from Lucrezia Millarini of ITV who hosted the awards

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Liam Tunney | Journalist @ismiseliam.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

Oul hands before social hurling vs during social hurling

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Liam Tunney | Journalist @ismiseliam.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

⛔ Belfast has consistently recorded the highest figures for immigration raids in the UK since 2018 That's according to a recent report compiled by the @migrantsrights.bsky.social It found some 1,277 raids had been carried out in the BT3 area alone between Jan 2022 and Sept 2023. 1/2

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Liam Tunney | Journalist @ismiseliam.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

⚡ NI's Energy Strategy is failing considerably in some of its key targets despite a £107m spend since 2020. Just 90GWh of a targeted 8000GWh in savings has been achieved while there is a 35% shortfall in renewables goals. 📰 | @belfasttelegraph.co.uk 🔗 tinyurl.com/2rraeztr

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Liam Tunney | Journalist @ismiseliam.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

🍂 Autumn always enhances Clarendon Dock - 5pm views today...

Cobbled streets of Clarendon Dock flanked by browning trees as the sun peeks through them.

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Liam Tunney | Journalist @ismiseliam.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

In the spirit of Baby Loss Awareness Week, sharing my daughter Fionnuala's story and highlighting the importance of marking this week. Full video: tinyurl.com/2w7whzh

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Liam Tunney | Journalist @ismiseliam.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

💬 During the event Mac Giolla Bhéin also expressed solidarity with @naomilong.bsky.social and @michaelalong.bsky.social whose home was targeted by masked men overnight. "We stand in solidarity with Naomi and Michael in the face of intimidation and threats," he told the crowd.

Conradh na Gaeilge president Ciarán Mac Giolla Bhéin

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Liam Tunney | Journalist @ismiseliam.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

🏛️ An event has been held at the gates of Belfast City Hall to mark the passing of the Council's new Irish language policy. @cnagaeilge.bsky.social President Ciarán Mac Giolla Bhéin told the crowd the language has grown "in every part of the city". 📰 | @belfasttelegraph.co.uk

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Liam Tunney | Journalist @ismiseliam.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

He did indeed. That was the only mention. Scunthorpe steel and even "the data centres of Essex" got a mention. Humberside too.

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Liam Tunney | Journalist @ismiseliam.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

🚨 The reaction to this PSNI training exercise to test preparedness for a terror incident has been amusing. TikTok: Full Matt Le Tissier - "makes you think" Instagram: Roy Keane - "it's their job" More details here: tinyurl.com/mvpm95bn

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Liam Tunney | Journalist @ismiseliam.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

🔴 | A murder investigation has been launched following the death of a man in Newcastle , Co Down. Forensics officers remain at the scene in the Slievenabrock Avenue area of the town. It is the ninth murder in eight weeks in NI. 📰 | @belfasttelegraph.co.uk

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Liam Tunney | Journalist @ismiseliam.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

📉 The number of people seeking asylum in NI has fallen by more than a fifth since September 2023. Some analysis of the current Home Office figures amid the fallout from the Bell Hotel/Epping Forest court ruling. 1/2

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Liam Tunney | Journalist @ismiseliam.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

Things looking ever more bleak for the Lough Neagh eels and the industry they support. Fishing season cancelled for this year as levels plummet and putrid blue-green algae making things less sustainable by the day. 📰 | @belfasttelegraph.co.uk 1/3

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Liam Tunney | Journalist @ismiseliam.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

🔥 Vigilantes, protests and 5G mast fires - Belfast or Black Mirror?

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Liam Tunney | Journalist @ismiseliam.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

Liquidation proceedings, civil action and a dramatic return to social media for its former CEO: what's next for the legacy of the FBA Brand Builder? 📰 @belfasttelegraph.co.uk #ni #news #fba #business #brandbuilder

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Liam Tunney | Journalist @ismiseliam.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

💻 Sunday shift al fresco as the sun goes down. Heatwave set to come to an abrupt end tomorrow...

Laptop in the garden at dusk. Belfast Telegraph website on screen and phone to the left of laptop on a glass outdoor table.

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Liam Tunney | Journalist @ismiseliam.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

⚾ The lads making the most of the balmy Belfast evening with a wee puck about beside the Lagan. That green area used to be home to the occasional full-scale game of cricket too before the Loft Lines development took over.

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Liam Tunney | Journalist @ismiseliam.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

⚖️ Two Stormont ministers are on a collision course for the High Court after a judge rules Gordon Lyons can give evidence into a judicial review taken by Jamie Bryson over dual language signs at Grand Central Station. 📰 @belfasttelegraph.co.uk 🔗 tinyurl.com/2wxe79ab

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Liam Tunney | Journalist @ismiseliam.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

🇦🇺 New experience today speaking to an Australian audience about Kneecap rapper Liam Óg Ó hAnnaidh's Westminster court appearance. 📡 ABC Australia | The World 🔗 Link below at 30:24

Appearing on ABC Australia's The World speaking about Kneecap.

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Liam Tunney | Journalist @ismiseliam.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

🔥 NI race riots - leadership needed to both end the violence and address the issues that have allowed it to fester.

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Liam Tunney | Journalist @ismiseliam.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

📹 Mr Henry told BBC NI in Dec '24 that the videos would be delivered in Jan '25. They haven't been - most couples have not heard from the videographer since the morning after their wedding. Some even paid an extra £300 for a fast track service. 2/2

Jude and Clint White who were married in June 2024

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Liam Tunney | Journalist @ismiseliam.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Even now, reviews continue to be posted on the site. This one was posted 16 hours ago, claiming to have accessed services on March 26 - while the company was in disarray and all calls cancelled. The 'masterminds'? Never happened. 📰| @belfasttelegraph.co.uk

Danny S - 16 hours ago
(5 stars) - (Redirected)
Breakthrough Insights from Multiple Masterminds
I've been to four masterminds, and each one has given me new insights and breakthroughs. Unbelievable experience!
Date of experience: 26 March 2025

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Liam Tunney | Journalist @ismiseliam.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

📱 Video summarising our reporting on the FBA Brand Builder to date. It's been a long road since last summer but great to finally give those ex-clients a voice. 📰 @belfasttelegraph.co.uk

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Liam Tunney | Journalist @ismiseliam.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

📡 Mairfidh an cás seo trí lá san Ardchúirt - muna bhfuil an bua ag an Roinn, beidh orthu pleananna úra a chumadh. The AA5A's challenge is based on their claim the project does not comply with the Climate Change Act (2022). 2/2

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Liam Tunney | Journalist @ismiseliam.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

📡 Ag caint le @nuachttg4.bsky.social ar an chás cúirte reatha faoin tionscadal A5 i dTÉ. Families of those killed on the road held a protest outside the High Court as the Alternative A5 Alliance launch another challenge to the Dept's plans. 1/2

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Liam Tunney | Journalist @ismiseliam.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

👤 When challenged on his claims, business owner Mark Young said his remarks were 'not aimed at the disabled', but doubled down on them. 💬 "It is what it is and people have and can take whatever they want from it," he said. 3/3

Shop front for Belfast Breakfast Baps on the Woodstock Road

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Liam Tunney | Journalist @ismiseliam.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

🗣️ Mr Devlin said the fact business owners felt emboldened to take online swipes at the disabled community for likes and engagement was part of a wider issue. 💬 "With everything that is happening in politics, we are feeling more and more disenfranchised as a community." 2/3

NI disability campaigner and My Way Access founder Dermot Devlin

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Liam Tunney | Journalist @ismiseliam.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

👏 @president.ie Michael D Higgins congratulates @raidiofailte.bsky.social on 40 years of broadcasting. 📰 @belfasttelegraph.co.uk piece from Saturday here: 🔗 tinyurl.com/3e3b6me6

Post: @PresidentIRL

Congratulations to Raidió Fáilte on 40 years on air. Traoslaím libh, tá éacht déanta agaibh

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Liam Tunney | Journalist @ismiseliam.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

✍️ Maidin shultmhar istigh le @raidiofailte.bsky.social inniu ag cur Eoghan Ó Néill faoi agallamh. 🎙️ The community radio station is celebrating 40 years since the late Gearóid Ó Cairealláin led its first broadcast in March 1985. 📰 Keep an eye out for the final piece next week!

Liam Tunney interviewing Eoghan Ó Néill from Raidió Fáilte

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Liam Tunney | Journalist @ismiseliam.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

⚡️ We asked the overseeing Dept - Economy - to comment. It confirmed the Department "can amend the existing Regulations through the normal scrutiny process in the Assembly". As customers react to the lack of compensation, there will undoubtedly be calls for them to do so. 5/5

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Liam Tunney | Journalist @ismiseliam.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

⚡️ That same proposal was included in a consultation six years later, which closed in Nov 2023. Available here on p27: tinyurl.com/4txh4p6c The Regulator has said it is still "progressing its decision". 4/5

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Liam Tunney | Journalist @ismiseliam.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

⚡️ In a 2017 consultation, NI's Utility Regulator recommended a similar scheme was introduced here. Customers would have been able to claim up to £700. 3/5

We propose to introduce a GSS standard for cases of severe weather which mirror the provisions currently in GB. Regulations 5, 6 and 7 of the Electricity (Standards of Performance) Regulations 201527 provide three categories of severe weather events as follows:-

Category 1 (medium events) includes lightning events – where there are at least 8 times the daily average amount of faults in a 24 hour period affecting less than the category 3 threshold number of customers; and non-lightning events– where there are between 8 and 13 times the daily average amount of faults in a 24 hour period affecting less than the category 3 threshold number28 of customers. In category 1 events supply is to be restored within 24 hours

Category 2 (large events) includes non – lightening events where there are at least 13 times the daily average amount of faults in a 24 hour period affecting less than the category 3 threshold number of customers. In category 2 events supply is to be restored within 48 hours.

Category 3 (very large events) applies to both all severe weather events in which supply is to be restored in a period as calculated by the following formula:-

48x {total number of customers interrupted/category 3 threshold number of customers} (squared)

In relation to all three categories of severe weather events, we propose that a payment of £70 is triggered where there is a failure by the distributor to meet the standard. We also propose that for each subsequent period of 12 hours after the initial prescribed period has passed, an additional compensation payment of £70 is made, subject to a maximum cap of £700.

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Liam Tunney | Journalist @ismiseliam.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

⚡️ In GB such a scheme has existed since it was introduced by Ofgem in 2005, with the amounts increased three times since then (2010, 2013, 2023). 💷 Currently affected households receive £85 if power off for > 48 hrs, with another £40 for every subsequent six-hour period. 2/5

2005 - Introduction of Severe Weather
£25 (domestic and non-domestic customers)
Cap - £200

2010 - Update for Inflation
£27 (domestic and non-domestic customers)
Cap - £216

Post 2013 Storm Review
£70 (domestic and non-domestic customers), de-linked from inflation
Cap - £700

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Liam Tunney | Journalist @ismiseliam.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

🚑 The NI Ambulance Service has said the proposed changes were an attempt to "align resources more effectively with peak periods of patient need". "The Trust continues to engage with all trade union colleagues and the staff involved," added a spokesperson.

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Liam Tunney | Journalist @ismiseliam.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

🚑 The union said the new plans would result in longer ambulance journeys, leaving areas of NI with "insufficient cover". 💬 "Ambulance workers will not pay the price for a crisis they didn’t cause," said Unite general secretary Sharon Graham.

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Liam Tunney | Journalist @ismiseliam.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

💬 "Back at the height of the Troubles I remember carrying a banjo down through checkpoints, getting searched going into the town to go to Comhaltas classes." 🎶 Derry branch Chair Brendan Molloy on how far trad music in NI has come. 🔗 tinyurl.com/ndy2rpds

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