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MOTH News @mothnews.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Tim Westwood has been charged with further sex offences against two more women this week. We're looking for people in Ireland to come forward with any experiences or insight into him and his gigs in places like Dublin.
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MOTH News @mothnews.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The reality of fighting an institutional machine is that public funds are often used to erect hurdles against the very people seeking answers.
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MOTH News @mothnews.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The inquest was meant to provide answers, but for everyone who has followed Noah Donohoe’s story, it has raised more questions than closure. The institutional process may be "over," but the pursuit of truth and real accountability is just beginning.
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MOTH News @mothnews.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Ireland hosts hundreds of data centres, primarily centred around Dublin, serving as a major European digital hub for tech giants like Microsoft, Google, Amazon, and Meta.
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MOTH News @mothnews.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
The Noah Donohoe case, marked by controversial Public Interest Immunity (PII) certificates to redact police documents, police investigative failures, and the delicate political landscape of Belfast.
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MOTH News @mothnews.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
The PSNI will hide behind this for years to come. #ireland #NoahDonohoe #JusticeForNoahDonohoe #Belfast #JusticeForNoah
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MOTH News @mothnews.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Thirteen failings are not a vague complaint. They mean concrete errors, missed evidence, bad records, and delays that should never have happened. #NoahDonohoe #JusticeForNoahDonohoe #Belfast #JusticeForNoah
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MOTH News @mothnews.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Watch today's episode now on Spotify & YouTube - Link in bio and comments. Six years after 14-year-old Noah Donohoe disappeared in Belfast, the inquest into his death has concluded.The jury found Noah drowned in a storm culvert and identified serious failings in the subsequent investigation which
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MOTH News @mothnews.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
LIVE TODAY 11AM NOAH WAS FAILED, WHAT NOW? “I came to this inquest seeking answers, and I leave it with one clear answer. Noah was failed.” Those were the words of Fiona Donohoe following the conclusion of the inquest into the death of her 14-year-old son Noah.
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MOTH News @mothnews.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Very little action or care regarding Irish names tied to Epstein. People are right to ask why there’s no urgency. #epstein #irishmedia #ireland #accountability #news
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MOTH News @mothnews.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Sean Quinn was declared bankrupt in the Irish Republic, owing £2bn ($3bn) to the then Anglo Irish Bank. The bank was taken over by the state and its only role now is to recover money for the Irish taxpayer. #news #ireland #irish #journalism
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MOTH News @mothnews.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Ehud Barak and Jeffrey Epstein turn up in emails with Irish financial companies around companies that will go on to pitch to modernise Ireland's emergency services call system. #ehudbarak #epstein #emails #ireland #finance
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MOTH News @mothnews.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Watch the latest episode now on YouTube & Spotify This week on MOTH News Live, we hear extraordinary audio from Seán Quinn's new podcast, where Quinn recounts a private conversation with then-Taoiseach Brian Cowen during the crisis surrounding his business empire. open.spotify.com/episode/09LK...
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MOTH News @mothnews.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
People were destroyed over trace residue in older cases, yet now we're talking about actual Semtex and a timer, and bail is granted? Explain that. #semtex #bail #ireland #justice #security
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MOTH News @mothnews.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Did Irish business and tax loopholes enable Jeffrey Epstein and his business associates? #news #ireland #irish #journalism #epstein
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MOTH News @mothnews.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Keith is heading to the High Court in Dublin, claiming damages from his days as an RTE radio presenter. His claim is that RTE deprived him of employment rights and also concealed a report which vindicated his claim. Hundreds more employees are in the same situation. #rte #employmentlaw #ireland
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MOTH News @mothnews.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Will increased defence spending make Irish people safer? Who benefits? #russia #defence #ireland #fearpolitics #media
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MOTH News @mothnews.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
From Friday's show: Public health data, emergency tech, and the networks around it. #publicdata #healthtech #investigation #ireland
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MOTH News @mothnews.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
The Exchequer got its money, but the workers were left carrying the cost. Dragging people out until they give up is not accountability. #workersrights #ireland #rte #employmentlaw #accountability #rte
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MOTH News @mothnews.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
We've lived through WMD fear before with Blair. Meanwhile, the emergencies people actually feel are housing, waiting lists, and care they still can't get. #wmd #ireland #defence #housing #healthcare
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MOTH News @mothnews.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
The future of emergency services is not a small thing. The infrastructure we rely on deserves much harder scrutiny and transparency. #emergencyservices #healthtech #investigation #ireland #security
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MOTH News @mothnews.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Watch now on YouTube, Apple Podcasts & Spotify. WHO'S PUSHING IRELAND TO SPEND MORE ON DEFENCE? Is Ireland really a weak link in Europe's defences and should Irish journalists be campaigning for increased military spending? open.spotify.com/episode/2rQQ...
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MOTH News @mothnews.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
COMING UP SHORTLY AT 11AM: WHO’S PUSHING IRELAND TO SPEND MORE ON DEFENCE? 🇮🇪 Is Ireland really Europe’s “weak link” when it comes to Russia, and where does journalism end and political advocacy begin? 📺 MOTH NEWS LIVE Today | 11am YouTube • X • Twitch • Links in Bio Join us live and have your say
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MOTH News @mothnews.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Looking back at when RTÉ was fined €200,000 by the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland (BAI) for its 2011 Prime Time Investigates program titled "Mission to Prey".
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MOTH News @mothnews.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Spotify & Apple Podcasts: Johnny Vedmore investigates Ireland's elite schools. Which schools have educated some of the country's most powerful figures, and do the friendships and networks formed there continue to matter in politics, business and public life? open.spotify.com/episode/1Yeu...
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MOTH News @mothnews.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Ideas move when they get treated as normal options. Once Brexit entered respectable debate, the frame around it changed. #brexit #overtonwindow #politics #media #debate @brokenbottleboy
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MOTH News @mothnews.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
News used to feel like somewhere you went. Now it’s a permanent river that never really starts or finishes, and that scrambles how we understand events. #news #attention #information #media #medialiteracy Keith Walsh with with Mic Wright @brokenbottleboy
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MOTH News @mothnews.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Mic Wright (@brokenbottleboy) on Alfred Harmsworth, the Dublin-born founder of the Daily Mail, and the man who helped transform popular journalism more than a century ago. #news #ireland #irish #journalism
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MOTH News @mothnews.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
MOTH EXTRA: Keith Walsh sits down with journalist, author and media critic Mic Wright (@brokenbottleboy.bsky.social) to talk about who really decides which stories become news. open.spotify.com/episode/2zwO...
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MOTH News @mothnews.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
SCHOOL OF POWER 🇮🇪 Where Ireland's Elite Come From Where do Ireland's most powerful people go to school, and how much do those connections matter later? 📺 MOTH NEWS LIVE Friday 28 August | 11am
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MOTH News @mothnews.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
After repeated youth violence and major stories in the news, it’s fair to ask whether Ireland needs a harder conversation about criminal responsibility and where the line should be. #criminalresponsibility #ireland #youthcrime #policy
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MOTH News @mothnews.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Starting with the Taoiseach's constitutional power to nominate 11 senators and Haughey's 1987 decision to give one of those seats to a rising figure in the Irish bloodstock industry: John Magnier. open.spotify.com/episode/7EPt...
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MOTH News @mothnews.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Ireland’s upper house is a strange mix of patronage, vocational panels and university seats. Some of the problems they face make sense in this context. #seanad #irishpolitics #institutions #ireland
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MOTH News @mothnews.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Haughey’s legacy is complicated: anti-Thatcher, pro-modernisation, and tied to a style of power that shaped Ireland in ways people still debate today. #haughey #ireland #legacy
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MOTH News @mothnews.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Taxpayers are covering €600,000 a month, but what conditions are actually being funded, where is the money going? And can this site cope at all? #dundrumhouse #ipas #ireland #taxpayermoney
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MOTH News @mothnews.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
If the profits leave, the ownership leaves, and the real value leaves, is it really Irish? #irishbrands #ownership #guinness #ireland
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MOTH News @mothnews.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Billionaires buying up castles while ordinary people struggle for housing, the joke almost writes itself. #zuckerberg #ireland #housing
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MOTH News @mothnews.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
THE SHAM-tocracy - Haughey, Magnier and the Politics of Influence. Charlie Haughey had the power to personally appoint 11 people to the Seanad. Among his choices: playwright Brian Friel, broadcaster Éamon de Buitléar... and a rising bloodstock businessman called John Magnier.
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MOTH News @mothnews.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Kinahan: is there a message behind the message? #kinahan #crime #ireland
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MOTH News @mothnews.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
How many deaths might be a good question to lead with rather than a lot of hype about an extradition? #kinahan #media #extradition #ireland
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MOTH News @mothnews.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Economy class, batch bread, and King Crisps...is this notorious Irish crime figure trying hard to be seen as normal? #kinahan #ireland #crime #danielkinahan
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MOTH News @mothnews.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Available on Spotify Now; KINAHAN: WHAT DOES HE KNOW? We examine the extraordinary circumstances surrounding his return, his claims about corruption within Irish systems, and his decision to publicly state that he is "not suicidal". open.spotify.com/episode/2Plh...
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MOTH News @mothnews.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
When the number housed in one centre is bigger than the whole local population, nobody can pretend the scale question is a minor one. #dundrum #population #planning #ireland
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MOTH News @mothnews.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Taxpayer money going to a site with no planning permission says everything. Try that yourself with a hotel across the road and see how far you get. #taxpayermoney #planning #ipas #ireland
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MOTH News @mothnews.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
If a Jeff Leo & shell-company setup can keep pulling in over €600,000 a month after liquidation and court drama, who exactly is this system built for? #dundrum #corruption #planning #ireland
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MOTH News @mothnews.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
A magistrate kills a maid, gets sent away, then is quietly released years later. The kind of story that exposes what class protection looks like. #history #scandal #ireland #class
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MOTH News @mothnews.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
LIVE IN ONE HOUR (Friday 11am) KINAHAN: WHAT DOES HE KNOW? Daniel Kinahan is back in Ireland, and talking about corruption, his safety and what he says he knows. Plus: 🇮🇪 Bono's landed ancestors 📱 The Tates & the manosphere 👦 Is Ireland losing the argument for young men? MOTH NEWS LIVE
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MOTH News @mothnews.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Public money and fraud at that scale that deserves a lot more scrutiny than it’s getting right now. #dundrum #publicmoney #ireland #contracts #planning #news #ireland #irish #journalism
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MOTH News @mothnews.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
When two people are tied to the same case but the court treats them very differently, what should we think? #ireland #courts #justice #news #news #ireland #irish #journalism
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MOTH News @mothnews.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
The question is, who supplied it? #news #ireland #irish #journalism #ni
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