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Mandy McAuley

@mandymcauley.bsky.social
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Mum, Investigative reporter, BBC Spotlight: Secret History of the Troubles, Pitbull Sting, Howell Trilogy, RedSky, NAMA, Drugs, Poverty, Paramilitaries, Policing, VAWG

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Mandy McAuley @mandymcauley.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
We filmed with the Extern crisis team in Derry for a 2020 Spotlight programme about rising suicide rates. In one 24 hour period staff were a life line for the most vulnerable, many in desperate situations. Where will they go now?
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Mandy McAuley @mandymcauley.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
Derry / Mental health - Extern NI's community crisis intervention service (CCIS) closes due to lack of funding. It provided out-of-hours care for people in social or emotional crisis. x.com/mandy_mcaule...
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Mandy McAuley on X: "Derry / Mental health - Extern NI's community crisis intervention service (CCIS) closes due to lack of funding. It provided out-of-hours care for people in social or emotional crisis. https://t.co/GgjmvBEEGs" / X
Derry / Mental health - Extern NI's community crisis intervention service (CCIS) closes due to lack of funding. It provided out-of-hours care for people in social or emotional crisis. https://t.co/GgjmvBEEGs
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Mandy McAuley @mandymcauley.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
ABC barred from Trump’s UK press conference after his clash with Australian journalist John Lyons | Australian Broadcasting Corporation | The Guardian www.theguardian.com/media/2025/s...
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ABC barred from Trump’s UK press conference after his clash with Australian journalist John Lyons
Exclusive: London bureau of Australia’s national broadcaster informed accreditation removed for ‘logistical reasons’
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Mandy McAuley @mandymcauley.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
ABC pulls late-night host Jimmy Kimmel off air indefinitely over comments he made about Charlie Kirk shooting. Celebrating the announcement, President Donald Trump said it was "great news for America". www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Jimmy Kimmel taken off air over Charlie Kirk comments
The late-night host said on Monday that Trump's allies were
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Mandy McAuley @mandymcauley.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Israel's culture minister threatens to axe funding for the country's national Ophir film awards - Israel’s equivalent of the Oscars - after The Sea, a story about a 12-year-old Palestinian boy, wins top award. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Israel threatens national film awards after Palestinian story wins top prize
The Sea follows a boy from the occupied West Bank who wants to visit Tel Aviv to see the sea for the first time.
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Mandy McAuley @mandymcauley.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
Foster sister of little Daniel Aruebose tells @thejournal_ie “we’re more angry than anything. How could this happen?…We didn’t want him to go [out of our care].” www.thejournal.ie/donabate-dan...
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Foster sister of Daniel Aruebose, little boy found dead in Donabate, says he was 'special and loved'
Speaking to The Journal, Danny’s foster sister remembers a young boy with a ‘strong personality’ who loved dancing and laughing.
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Mandy McAuley @mandymcauley.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
Co Dublin: Skeletal remains found of young boy who had been missing and presumed dead in Donabate. Gardaí believe the remains are of Daniel Aruebose, not seen for a number of years and who would now be seven. BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Dublin: Skeletal remains found in search for missing boy
Gardaí say they believe the remains are of Daniel Aruebose, who was believed to be about two years old at the time of his disappearance.
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Mandy McAuley @mandymcauley.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
An admission by Mi5 that raises very serious questions. Are we to believe that these were isolated breaches ? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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MI5 'illegally obtained communications data' from phone of former BBC journalist Vincent Kearney
The Investigatory Powers Tribunal has heard that MI5 conceded unlawfully obtaining communications data twice.
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Mandy McAuley @mandymcauley.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
MI5 'illegally obtained communications data' from phone of former BBC NI Spotlight journalist Vincent Kearney. A BBC spokesperson said: "MI5's admission..is a matter of grave concern. It raises serious & impt questions that we will continue to pursue." www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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MI5 'illegally obtained communications data' from phone of former BBC journalist Vincent Kearney
The Investigatory Powers Tribunal has heard that MI5 conceded unlawfully obtaining communications data twice.
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Mandy McAuley @mandymcauley.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
UN commission of inquiry says Israel has committed genocide against Palestinians in Gaza since 2023. Killing members of a group, causing serious bodily and mental harm, deliberately inflicting conditions calculated to destroy the group, preventing births. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Israel has committed genocide in Gaza, UN commission of inquiry says
The panel finds that four of the five genocidal acts defined under international law have been carried out against Palestinians during the war.
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Mandy McAuley @mandymcauley.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
Delighted to speak at the NI premiere of Gerard Gorman’s life story, BOY at the Linenhall. Ground breaking, brave work that explores the devastating fall out of child sexual abuse while touching and lifting the soul through music and poetry. Bringing understanding, hope, & healing.
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Mandy McAuley @mandymcauley.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
Presbyterian presidential candidate, Heather Humphreys, says she feels she is an example to NI unionists of a new Ireland…”a tolerant, inclusive Ireland that can accommodate different traditions and viewpoints.” @rtenews www.rte.ie/news/2025/09...
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Humphreys takes message of unity to campaign trail
There was fervent support for Heather Humphreys at her campaign launch in Monaghan town yesterday, an event which was packed to the rafters, writes Paul Cunningham.
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Mandy McAuley @mandymcauley.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
Anti-Islamic US biker gang members run security at Gaza aid sites - BBC “Putting the Infidels biker club in charge of delivering aid in Gaza is like putting the KKK in charge of delivering humanitarian aid in Sudan.” Council on American-Islamic Relations www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Anti-Islamic US biker gang members run security at deadly Gaza aid sites
BBC identifies members of Infidels MC gang hired as armed security at US and Israel-backed aid sites.
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Mandy McAuley @mandymcauley.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
Dublin - A year after Kyran Durnin was first reported missing Irish police are searching for another child missing for a significant period of time, now feared dead. Frightening. www.rte.ie/news/dublin/...
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Garda probe into disappearance of child feared dead
Gardaí are investigating the disappearance of a child whom they fear may have died in unreported and suspicious circumstances in Dublin.
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Mandy McAuley @mandymcauley.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
The UDA have set themselves up as housing officers..” Victims campaigner, Raymond McCord @StephenNolan as catholic families intimidated out of north Belfast development by the west Belfast UDA and ethnic minority households living in fear of attack.
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Mandy McAuley @mandymcauley.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
A privilege to be part of the NI premiere of the searingly powerful BOY by Damian Gorman @thelinenhall 11 Sept. The story, in words & music, of his brother Gerard who endured horrific abuse at the hands of Fr Malachy Finegan. Gerard’s courage inspired many other men to come forward.
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Mandy McAuley @mandymcauley.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
I’ll have more on this story in BBC Newsline
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Mandy McAuley @mandymcauley.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
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Winston Irvine: PSNI footage shows moment guns found in loyalists car boot
Extracts from police body-worn video recording the arrests of Winston Irvine and Robin Workman are released to the BBC.
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Mandy McAuley @mandymcauley.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
“It is more harmful to have a strategy that will not address poverty, than no strategy at all.” Almost 50 charities & anti-poverty orgs in Northern Ireland call on executive to drop anti-poverty strategy saying families “deserve better”. BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Stormont: Charities call for executive to drop anti-poverty strategy
The letter says families
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 29/06/2025
Hundreds of households celebrated Christmas in June for a little girl with cancer who might not make it to December. In the thick heat and humidity, neighbors dressed in holiday apparel gathered to help one family find happiness in the face of tragedy.
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Hundreds of neighbors rally to give a 9-year-old with cancer one last Christmas
The days leading up to the Saturday night event were hot and humid but that didn’t stop the community from decorating miles of houses for Kasey Zachmann.
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Mandy McAuley @mandymcauley.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
A picture of violence @ItaDungan 27 women killed since 2020 in Northern Ireland as young pregnant mother Sarah Montgomery latest name to be added to devastating roll call. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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A picture of violence: The 27 women killed in four years
In at least 20 of the 27 deaths, the killers - or the suspects in their killings - were well-known to the women.
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Mandy McAuley @mandymcauley.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
A young pregnant mother murdered in Co Down. Just three days ago NI Womans Aid described the grim daily reality of violence against women & girls to the NI Affairs Committee 👇 @https://x.com/commonsniac/status/1938146149333938532?s=46
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Northern Ireland Affairs Committee on X: "Violence against women and girls in Northern Ireland is not just a statistic – it is a grim daily reality for many. We heard from @WomensAidNI about the extent of the problem and the UK Government's role in tackling it. https://t.co/9qGvkgU3L4" / X
Violence against women and girls in Northern Ireland is not just a statistic – it is a grim daily reality for many. We heard from @WomensAidNI about the extent of the problem and the UK Government's role in tackling it. https://t.co/9qGvkgU3L4
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Mandy McAuley @mandymcauley.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
Another woman, a young mother, murdered in Northern Ireland. “Unfortunately Sarah isn't the first woman to pass away in Donaghadee in the past year, or in Northern Ireland. "I've almost lost count on how many women have passed away in tragic circumstances since 2020."
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BBC News NI on X: "A man has been arrested over the murder of a pregnant mother of two in Donaghadee. https://t.co/778EyB2w4M" / X
A man has been arrested over the murder of a pregnant mother of two in Donaghadee. https://t.co/778EyB2w4M
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Mandy McAuley @mandymcauley.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
When everyone turns up for the #doggydander! @gymforthesoul.bsky.social Great people and their pups - so many different breeds, shapes and sizes 🐶❤️
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Mandy McAuley @mandymcauley.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
senior doctor in emergency medicine has said “almost every hospital is treating patients in corridors and car parks” after a hospital posted adverts calling for nurses to take on 12-hour “corridor care” shifts. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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A&E ‘corridor care’ now normal at NHS hospitals in England, senior doctor says
Consultant’s comments come as north London hospital posts specific ad for corridor care nurses
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Mandy McAuley @mandymcauley.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
Must Read @mlchealth @BBCNewsNI Two elderly patients in the emergency department of the Royal Victoria Hospital in Belfast for more than 5 days. Over 500 patients unable to be discharged on Sunday night, despite being medically fit. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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NI emergency departments: Elderly patients spend five days in hospital ED
At 17:00 GMT on Monday, 1,052 people were in Northern Ireland's nine EDs, up from 797 on Sunday night.
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Mandy McAuley @mandymcauley.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
Some people love park runs. I prefer #DoggyDanders. A brilliant, uplifting morning. Doggy people really are the best ❤️🐶
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Mandy McAuley @mandymcauley.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
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Mandy McAuley @mandymcauley.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
Northern Ireland EDs : 'We're at breaking point…We say it every year but it's never been as bad, morale has never been as low in the departments I've worked in, never in my entire career.” Dr Clodagh Corrigan has worked in EDs for 14 years - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Emergency departments: 'We're at breaking point,' says NI doctor
Dr Clodagh Corrigan, who works in emergency departments, says this winter the pressure has not let off.
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Mandy McAuley @mandymcauley.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
Ready now for #NYE24 #MountainEnergy #Divis Raising a flask to the fellow travellers who left us in 24 and those we’ll journey with in 25 ❤️🔥
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Mandy McAuley @mandymcauley.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
Lifeline - 0808-808-8000 A day that stirs a million emotions. If you’re struggling you are not alone. Talk to people who will listen and understand. Call free 24/7
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Mandy McAuley @mandymcauley.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
Killed women count 2024 - The Guardian Horrific roll call and portraits of the 80 women whose deaths have led to a man being charged across the UK in 2024. Nurse Karen Cummings from Co Down is currently at the top of the roll 🙏 www.theguardian.com/uk-news/ng-i...
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Killed women count: 80 women allegedly killed by men in UK in 2024
Throughout the year the Guardian aimed to report on every woman whose death has led to a man being charged
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Mandy McAuley @mandymcauley.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
As 100s wait for admission, some up to 19 hours in ambulances @BelfastTrust appeals for help discharging medically fit patients. “Our hospitals are in crisis…If we can’t get patients out of hospitals who no longer need to be there we can’t get seriously ill patients in.” x.com/belfasttrust...
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Mandy McAuley @mandymcauley.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
“I am seeing an increasing number of people asking for a private referral, people who can little afford it and are turning to credit or their meagre life savings to pay for it.” Dr Michael McKenna, Falls Rd @IrishTimes www.irishtimes.com/health/2024/...
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A doctor writes from the North: The grass is looking greener down the road
While the NHS as a whole in the UK falls down the world league of health systems, here in the North we are in a league of our own – and it isn’t a very good one
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Mandy McAuley @mandymcauley.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
Sky watching. A beautiful day to walk the legs of yourself. #MussendenTemple #Downhill
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Mandy McAuley @mandymcauley.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
As hundreds wait on hospital beds important analysis on how we got here @mlchealth @BBCNewsNI “A major part of the problem is there hasn't been enough done to support people and staff in the community to prevent hospital admissions..” 👇 x.com/mlchealth/st...
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Mandy McAuley @mandymcauley.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
Almost 400 people are waiting for a hospital bed in Northern Ireland @BBCNewsNI 35 ambulances are unable to offload at emergency departments as there isn't the space to facilitate crews or patients. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Almost 400 people waiting to access hospital beds in NI
Most of the extra beds which are used in an emergency are already occupied, BBC understands.
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Mandy McAuley @mandymcauley.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
“Well, did you make it through Christmas?” Another great video to watch during these “quiet days” from Mrs J @CMJohnstonNI #MentalHealth x.com/cmjohnstonni...
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Mandy McAuley @mandymcauley.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
#Gaza - Five more journalists killed inside their press vehicle in Israeli strike. It comes after a father of a two-week-old Palestinian girl told the BBC how his baby daughter froze to death in a tent in Gaza - the third child in a week to die in similar conditions.
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Mandy McAuley @mandymcauley.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
Dayla Durnin - Nicola Donnelly @nikkide2012 @IrishMirror find Kyran’s mum on her way to a Premier League football match in England. She refuses to answer questions on her son’s disappearance.https://www.irishmirror.ie/news/irish-news/kyran-durnins-mother-refuses-comment-34362327
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Kyran Durnin's mother refuses to comment on son's disappearance
EXCLUSIVE: Dayla Durnin has been living in England for the past few months and was questioned by our reporter while attending a football match in Ipswich at the weekend
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Mandy McAuley @mandymcauley.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
#Kyran - Photographs from phone given to gardai last week provide proof of his last known location. Drogheda, early June 2022 @Independent_ie Maeve Sheehan
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Mandy McAuley @mandymcauley.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
DROGHEDA - Caravan Of Love @StOliversCC If you need some light and joy today watch this brilliant, heartfelt Christmas video by the St Oliver's Community College music pupils - YouTube www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3GO...
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Caravan Of Love - St Oliver's Christmas 2024
YouTube video by StOliversCC
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Mandy McAuley @mandymcauley.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
2024. Another year working with brilliant @BBCSpotlightNI teams, sources, and contributors. Thank you for going ‘above and beyond’ and have a very happy Christmas 🎄🙏
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Mandy McAuley @mandymcauley.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
Landmark family court ruling @BBCNews Journalists & legal bloggers will be allowed to report on family court cases in England and Wales from early 2025. Transparency no longer restricted to pilot courts and will be permanent. #FamilyCourt www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Landmark new rules to bring transparency to family courts
The changes will allow meaningful reporting on cases in England and Wales for the first time.
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Mandy McAuley @mandymcauley.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
France - 51 men convicted in horrific mass rape trial. Brought to justice by an incredible woman who waived her anonymity to make “shame swap sides”. #GiselePelicot
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Mandy McAuley @mandymcauley.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
A man who choked his partner and pulled clumps of hair as he repeatedly slammed her head against a toilet avoids jail @BelTel www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/courts/...
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Thug who forced victim to flee topless to neighbours for help avoids jail
A thug who choked his partner and pulled clumps of hair as he repeatedly slammed her head against a toilet has narrowly avoided jail.
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Mandy McAuley @mandymcauley.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
Kyran - an appeal to the people out there who know what happened @DroghedaLifecom “It goes beyond human imagination that anyone could keep such a matter secret…inconceivable that anyone could live with themselves. You need to come forward..” droghedalife.com/news/the-peo...
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Drogheda Life | The people who know what happened to Kyran need to come forward now
There are people out there who know what happened to eight year-old Kyran Durnin, and where his body is, but they are keeping quiet about it. These people need to come forward NOW and help An Garda Siochána put an end to this nightmare.
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Mandy McAuley @mandymcauley.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
NI Secretary Hilary Benn must set up public inquiry into the murder of GAA official Sean Brown, High Court judge orders "No viable alternative to a public inquiry has been advanced” “..a clear and unambiguous obligation” to establish a statutory probe. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Sean Brown: Judge rules government must set up public inquiry
Sean Brown was shot dead near Randalstown in County Antrim in 1997 after being abducted by loyalists.
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Mandy McAuley @mandymcauley.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
The Police Service of Northern Ireland and Metropolitan Police acted illegally by spying on two Belfast journalists' to identify their sources. Landmark ruling made by the Investigatory Powers Tribunal www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Police acted illegally by spying on journalists, court finds
The landmark ruling was made in a case brought by Barry McCaffrey and Trevor Birney.
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