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Shauna Corr

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Investigative reporter | UCD Earth Institute journalist-in-residence | SCI fellow | Former Mirror/Irish Star environment correspondent | 📇 linktr.ee/ShaunaCorr

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Shauna Corr @shaunacorr.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
GOLD MINE: Inquiry latest as company argues their project will reduce water pollution levels amid plans to use 44,000 tonnes of ammonium nitrate explosives which could add to nitrogen pollution of groundwater, that already breaches conservation limits #environment #pollution #mining
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Caroline O'Doherty @codohertynews.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
.....while @shaunacorr.bsky.social stresses the value of recording and hearing the stories of the victims of climate change.... www.irishtimes.com/environment/...
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If we don’t listen to the science on climate change, can we at least hear its victims?
The stories of people whose lives, livelihoods and cultures have been destroyed should resonate clearly with Ireland’s famine past
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Shauna Corr @shaunacorr.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
LATEST: Dalradian gold mine to carry on regardless of NIEA’s bombshell its discharge (water pollution) models were fed the incorrect stats, are wrong and will have to be redone. See what DfI and NIEA had to say 👇 #environment #pollution vm.tiktok.com/ZN8rvFoRC/
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TikTok - Make Your Day
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Shauna Corr @shaunacorr.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
BREAKING: Northern Ireland Environment Agency pulls water pollution limits set for Dalradian gold mine, telling public inquiry chiefs they got them wrong. Asks (rather angry) PAC carry on regardless. “How am I supposed to do that?” says lead commissioner. #WatchBelow
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Shauna Corr @shaunacorr.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Anyone know the legal arguments for/against the Garvaghy Road parade? Understand initial JR was won on a technicality, then Parades Commission approve march.. residents then take JR and win with one judge but another allows appeal against block. What’s the weight given to each side?
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Shauna Corr @shaunacorr.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Lough Neagh eel fishers and hauliers to get £700k support package... “This is not a decommissioning scheme - it is about supporting fishers through necessary conservation action” says @daera_ni Minister Muir theearthscorr.substack.com/p/lough-neag...
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Lough Neagh eel fishers and hauliers to get £700k support package
“This is not a decommissioning scheme - it is about supporting fishers through necessary conservation action” says Minister Muir
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Shauna Corr @shaunacorr.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Absolutely agree with this sentiment @micheal-martin.bsky.social - would also love to see your government taking Irish food security seriously given mounting climate threats. Or should we just leave that to chance, allowing ever rising grocery costs?
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Shauna Corr @shaunacorr.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The stories of people whose lives, livelihoods and cultures have been destroyed should resonate clearly with Ireland’s famine past. My latest piece @irishtimes.com www.irishtimes.com/environment/...
irishtimes.com
If we don’t listen to the science on climate change, can we at least hear its victims?
The stories of people whose lives, livelihoods and cultures have been destroyed should resonate clearly with Ireland’s famine past
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Shauna Corr @shaunacorr.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Very strange… What’s happened @channel4.bsky.social ? 🫪
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Shauna Corr @shaunacorr.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
My latest piece for @irishtimes.com asks, after the recent disaster in Nepal, why we’re not listening to the victims of the climate crisis?
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Shauna Corr @shaunacorr.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Investigations into our chicken waste problem continue. With Lough Neagh high on the agenda this week maybe you’ll have a read of this very important work with @tbij.bsky.social Andrew Wasley @tommygreene.bsky.social and myself 👇 www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2026...
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The Muck Files: Dishing the dirt on the UK’s chicken waste trade
UK farm animals produce a monumental amount of waste. But where does it all go?
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Shauna Corr @shaunacorr.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Looks like my latest article from the Omagh gold mine inquiry for @thedetailtv.bsky.social made the ‘tailings news’ in Australia - a mining industry publication
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Shauna Corr @shaunacorr.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Antrim, Derry and Tyrone hardest hit Northern Ireland counties for weather related school closures theearthscorr.substack.com/p/extreme-we...
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Extreme weather having rising impact on children’s education, new research finds
Antrim, Derry and Tyrone hardest hit counties for weather-related school closures
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Shauna Corr @shaunacorr.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Objectors to a proposed gold mine in the Sperrin mountains have said a Stormont department is failing to properly assess the potential risks from a 50-metre-high waste facility. Full story here 👇 www.thedetail.tv/articles/sal...
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Salmon and water supplies could be at risk from Sperrins mine waste facility, inquiry hears
Objectors to the proposed Sperrins gold mine said a Stormont department is failing to properly assess the potential risks
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Shauna Corr @shaunacorr.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
World map that shows true size of countries approved by the United Nations - here’s a great depiction of the change by @thenationalnews.com The old map, by geographer Gerardus Mercator in 1569, made countries further from the equator appear much bigger than they actually are!
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Ola Løkken Nordrum @olaln.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
“Make no mistake: this decision to raise fares is an attack on public health and wellbeing.” Well said @orlaghgaynor.bsky.social and @irishdocsenv.bsky.social!
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Increase in public transport fares ‘a Trumpian policy’ that will ‘cost lives’, Dublin protest told
Decision-makers ‘don’t step foot on the Dart or Dublin Bus’, says Green Party leader Roderic O’Gorman
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Shauna Corr @shaunacorr.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Why is it so important to the Orange Order that 60 Protestant men walk down a mainly Catholic road? And, is it really worth restoking tensions that saw many lives - including the three young Quinn boys - lost in the past?
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Shauna Corr @shaunacorr.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Latest from the Omagh goldmine inquiry… £400,000 government outlay for a report that didn’t even make it into evidence. My story in today’s @irishnews.com
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Shauna Corr @shaunacorr.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Not the first major boo-boo by NI’s Department for Infrastructure in relation to the Dalradian gold mine application. Now they’ve paid around £400,000 for a report they didn’t even submit into evidence 👀 www.thedetail.tv/articles/400...
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Stormont department spent £400,000 on gold mine report rejected as late evidence by Sperrins inquiry
This is the second time Stormont officials failed to submit documentation to the inquriy on time
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thedetailtv.bsky.social @thedetailtv.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
A Stormont department spent almost £400,000 on a gold mine report, but submitted it too late for it to be included as evidence at a public inquiry, it can be revealed. By @shaunacorr.bsky.social
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Stormont department spent £400,000 on gold mine report rejected as late evidence by Sperrins inquiry
This is the second time Stormont officials failed to submit documentation to the inquriy on time
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Shauna Corr @shaunacorr.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
We ****** it 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
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Geoff Brumfiel @gbrumfiel.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
New from @vantortech.bsky.social. Absolutely astonishing images of the China-Nepal Gyirong Port/Rasuwagadhi border post. Literally nothing is left. (Before 19 April, After 27 Aug)
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Shauna Corr @shaunacorr.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Sharana Sherpa told me what her people face as a result of the climate crisis two years ago at COP in Baku. No one listened and we’re still burning fossil fuels while her people drown beneath collapsing glaciers. Just devastating #Nepal
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Damian Carrington @dpcarrington.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
25 Aug: UK to warn citizens to stock up on #food amid threat from #climatecrisis and hostile states 1/3 www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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UK to warn citizens to stock up on food amid threat from climate crisis and hostile states
Government resilience campaign aims to ensure people can cope in a national disaster, in order to free resources for most vulnerable
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Shauna Corr @shaunacorr.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Tinkering around the edges was never a real solution to the completely avoidable crisis at Lough Neagh #bluegreenalgae #pollution theearthscorr.substack.com/p/opinion-lo...
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Opinion: Lough Neagh has no hope if we continue spreading huge amounts of animal shit in its catchment
Tinkering around the edges was never a real solution to this completely avoidable crisis
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Shauna Corr @shaunacorr.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
*if… be great if it did but honestly not sure how I feel about mechanical solutions when leaving fossils in the ground is better in every way - except for capitalism 🫣. Cheap energy bills anyone? 🫠
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 01/08/2026
Powerful winds are expected to raise the risk of fire to critical levels across the northwestern U.S. on Saturday. Forecasters with the National Weather Service have issued their most urgent alert for parts of Washington and Oregon, where dozens of large fires are already burning.
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Wildfire Weather Poses ‘Particularly Dangerous Situation’ in Pacific Northwest
Forecasters in Washington and Oregon are using their strongest language this weekend to signal a worst-case wildfire threat and get people’s attention.
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ABC News Australia @news.abc.net.au · 01/08/2026
Fires in France, Spain wear 'the fingerprints of climate crisis'
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Climate scientist caught up in Europe's 'dystopian' summer
Stefan Rahmstorf was holidaying in southern France when he came face to face with the climate future he has tried to fight.
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 01/08/2026
Colombia's government has reported a slight increase in deforestation in 2025, but it still surpassed its four-year reduction target under President Gustavo Petro.
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Colombia's deforestation rises slightly as Amazon forest loss holds steady
Colombia’s government has reported a slight increase in deforestation in 2025, but it still surpassed its four-year reduction target under President Gustavo Petro.
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RTÉ News @news.rte.ie · 28/07/2026
Enough wind energy to power 667,000 homes, or roughly every household in Dublin, Westmeath and Wicklow combined, was lost in the first half of 2026 as the grid struggled to keep pace with Ireland's renewable energy growth, Wind Energy Ireland has said
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Investment needed in grid as wind energy lost - expert
Enough wind energy to power 667,000 homes, or roughly every household in Dublin, Westmeath and Wicklow combined, was lost in the first half of 2026 as the grid struggled to keep pace with Ireland's re...
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Shauna Corr @shaunacorr.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Why is Lough Neagh still green? Some of the answers are here… Read the story via @desmog.com and @thedetailtv.bsky.social You can also get the full @friends-earth.bsky.social report here 👇 lnkd.in/eGCQ2PeG
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Shauna Corr @shaunacorr.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
The chart below shows why Lough Neagh is still green. Learn about how the rise of factory farming in Northern Ireland, its manure and the plight of our great lake are intertwined in my report for @thedetailtv.bsky.social on research by @friends-earth.bsky.social 👇 www.thedetail.tv/articles/moy...
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Shauna Corr @shaunacorr.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Ever wondered where Northern Ireland's ten of millions of chickens and pigs live? – Here's the map. If you'd like to learn why having so many in the Lough Neagh catchment is bad, read my report on some major new @friends-earth.bsky.social research for @desmog.com www.desmog.com/2026/07/08/n...
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Shauna Corr @shaunacorr.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Why is Lough Neagh still green? Some of the answers are in my report for @desmog.com on major research mapping Northern Ireland's pig & poultry farms, rising manure, pollution increases in a lake that provides 50% of the region's drinking water & where the meat goes 👇 www.desmog.com/2026/07/08/n...
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Northern Ireland Turned Into 'Sacrifice Zone’ to Feed UK’s Appetite for Meat, New Report Finds
A version of this article also appeared on investigative site The Detail Northern Ireland’s largest source of drinking water is besieged by toxic pollution linked to a government drive to accelerate p...
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Shauna Corr @shaunacorr.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Why is Lough Neagh still green? Some of the answers are here… Read the story via @desmog.com and @thedetailtv.bsky.social You can also get the full @foe_ni report here 👇 policy.friendsoftheearth.uk/download/map...
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Mapped: the Scale of Pig & Poultry Farms in Northern Ireland (mobile friendly) | Policy and insight
This report illustrates the spread of pig and poultry production over the past 13 years by showing farm placement, those that hold intensive permits, their proximity to Lough Neagh and where their was...
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thedetailtv.bsky.social @thedetailtv.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
There will be "16 explosions a day" at the proposed Dalradian gold mine in the Sperrins, an inquiry has heard. @shaunacorr.bsky.social reports.
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16 explosions a day at proposed Sperrins mine, inquiry hears
Dalradian says underground "firings" would take place during two daily blasting windows
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Shauna Corr @shaunacorr.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Major new report on NI pig & poultry boom/resulting ‘shit’/Lough Neagh pollution & exports finds: 🔥Moy Park farms spreading 20x more manure on fields than agreed w/officials 🔥huge gaps in water testing 🔥NI a ‘sacrifice zone’ to GB meat wants @foe_ni 👇 bit.ly/4b3wT9B
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Mapped: the Scale of Pig & Poultry Farms in Northern Ireland (mobile friendly) | Policy and insight
This report illustrates the spread of pig and poultry production over the past 13 years by showing farm placement, those that hold intensive permits, their proximity to Lough Neagh and where their was...
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thedetailtv.bsky.social @thedetailtv.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Moy Park farms spread 20 times as much poultry manure on Northern Irish fields as the major meat producer promised environmental authorities. The revelations are contained in a major report which tracks the growth of agri-food industries alongside declining water quality. ✍️ @shaunacorr.bsky.social
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Moy Park farms spread 20 times more poultry manure on Northern Irish fields than agreed with environmental authorities
Around 138 million chickens are slaughtered in Northern Ireland every year
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DeSmog @desmog.com · 09/07/2026
🔴 NEW: Northern Ireland Turned Into ‘Sacrifice Zone’ to Feed UK’s Appetite for Meat Nearly two thirds of country’s pig & poultry farms leach polluting manure into lough supplying half region’s drinking water, latest research finds. 📝 @shaunacorr.bsky.social👇 www.desmog.com/2026/07/08/n...
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Northern Ireland Turned Into 'Sacrifice Zone’ to Feed UK’s Appetite for Meat, New Report Finds
A version of this article also appeared on investigative site The Detail Northern Ireland’s largest source of drinking water is besieged by toxic pollution linked to a government drive to accelerate p...
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Shauna Corr @shaunacorr.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
🚩High Court rules Stormont department breached law for 20 years on MOT tests for diesel vehicles 🚩Mr Justice Colton highlighted a lack of political will to deal with the 'crucial issue' Read more at #TheEarthsCorr theearthscorr.substack.com/p/high-court...
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High Court rules Stormont department breached law for 20 years on MOT tests for diesel vehicles
Mr Justice Colton highlighted a lack of political will to deal with the 'crucial issue'
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Shauna Corr @shaunacorr.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Fianna Fáil/Fine Gael & Co “rammed” through a Bill paving the way for US fracked gas despite a COP vow to allow no new fossil fuel infrastructure. The coalition has been accused of putting Ireland’s climate targets on a bonfire.. to “satisfy” Donald Trump at the expense..
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Shauna Corr @shaunacorr.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
A damning new UK watchdog report about how NI’s Executive is failing to meet most of its own legally binding targets to provide its people with a ‘healthier environment’ dropped today. You can read all about it at the link... bit.ly/4alLKvE
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Damning new report finds NI Executive failing majority of targets for 'a healthier environment'
The UK Office for Environmental Protection says "there is an absence of credible action or delivery plans" in its first progress report on NI's Environmental Improvement Plan
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Shauna Corr @shaunacorr.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Irish Government providing three quarters of funding for new 'Shared Island' investment to improve Lough Neagh water quality open.substack.com/pub/theearth...
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Irish Government providing three quarters of funding for new 'Shared Island' investment to improve Lough Neagh water quality
Some £49.3m has been earmarked for the new 2027-2031 cooperative Lough Neagh Catchment Area Water Quality programme
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Leo Hickman @leohickman.carbonbrief.org · 22/06/2026
After 18 months of R&D with a team of specialist academics, I'm VERY excited to say that @carbonbrief.org has just launched 'Project Cosmos'... ...the world's largest database of climate research Our hope is this becomes a major new resource interactive.carbonbrief.org/cosmos/index...
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Project Cosmos – the world’s largest database of climate change research
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PoliticsJOE @politicsjoe.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
The former leader of the DUP Jeffrey Donaldson has been found guilty of rape, 13 counts of indecent assault and four counts of gross indecency. The charges spanned a period from 1985 to 2008 and related to two women.
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Colin Murray @colinmurray.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
This will get lost in today's national news, but the finding that Jeffrey Donaldson is guilty on all counts, only after decades of multiple people having concerns, speaks to how powerful abusers can use their status in a small society like NI to deflect attention: www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cw...
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Jeffrey Donaldson: Found guilty of all sex abuse charges including one count of rape
Former Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) leader Sir Jeffrey Donaldson faces 18 sex abuse charges, including one count of rape, all of which he denies.
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Shauna Corr @shaunacorr.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
A busy week.. mother&baby home interviews; goldmine inquiry; learning from @c4dispatches.bsky.social @roganproductions.bsky.social about making films; a law society event on Lough Neagh and leading a Q&A @docsireland.bsky.social on an amazing film about @irishrainforest.bsky.social
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Shauna Corr @shaunacorr.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
The amazing work of ordinary folks who stepped up to help hundreds left in fear in Belfast this week leads this report on what happened by @eithnedodd.bsky.social @rteradio1.bsky.social 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...
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Migrant families in fear in Belfast
Our reporter Eithne Dodd went to Belfast to speak to members of the migrant community in the aftermath of riots that took place earlier this week. Paul was joined by Patricia MacBride, who is a former...
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Shauna Corr @shaunacorr.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
You can support the people and groups being impacted by racist attacks in Northern Ireland here 👇 chuffed.org/project/1854...
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Support people and groups impacted by racist attacks
We are raising funds to support people who have been attacked, displaced and traumatised in racist attacks in Belfast.
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Shauna Corr @shaunacorr.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
The leaders of Northern Ireland's five main political parties have called for "calm" following an "horrific incident" in North Belfast last night, and urged people "not to share the deeply disturbing images or videos" being shared online. Read the full statement here..
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