Barry Lenihan
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Presenter & Reporter RTÉ | Got a story ? [email protected] & DMs open | All feedback welcome | Views are but my own | IMRO News Reporter of Year 2024
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Joined February 2012
Families react to Operation Denton findings on 1974 Dublin Monaghan bombings Investigation head says no evidence of British state collusion with loyalist paramilitaries - but neither can he rule it out Report from Belfast for @drivetimerte
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Barry Lenihan reports from Belfast
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Operation Denton finds no evidence of collusion between British state & Loyalist paramilitaries in the 1974 Dublin-Monaghan bombings But investigators add "this cannot be categoricaly excluded" "The prospect of of any successful criminal justice outcome..is extremely unlikely"
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Tommy Meskill has been announced as the new co-presenter of RTÉ's Six One News https://t.co/nRUxuxF4eI
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Tommy Meskill has been announced as the new co-presenter of RTÉ's Six One News, while Sarah McInerney and Justin McCarthy join Morning Ireland and Paul Cunningham takes the helm at This Week.
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Renowned election analyst and pollster Seán Donnelly dies via @RTENews
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Renowned election analyst and pollster Seán Donnelly has died. He was a regular contributor to RTÉ's election coverage for several decades.
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President Catherine Connolly returns for tonight’s state reception at Dublin Castle with invited dignitaries Music will include Johnny Og Connolly - son of Connemara melodeon player Johnny Connolly, Moynihan’s from Galway, Cavan’s Lisa O’Neill & Dingle’s Cormac Ó Beaglaoich
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President Catherine Connolly and husband Brian meet local children from Francis School in Dublin’s Liberties near Dublin Castle
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Members of defence forces getting ready for new President to inspect guard of honour
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President Elect Catherine Connolly and husband Brian McEnery greeted by Tanaiste Simon Harris & Finance Minister Pascal Donohue before proceeding into St Patrick’s Hall
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Taoiseach Michael Martin and Mary Martin arrive at Dublin Castle with the inauguration shortly due to get underway
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Sinn Féin’s Mary Lou McDonald and Michelle O’Neill arrive at Dublin Castle ahead of inauguration
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Mark Connolly from Barna among the early arrivals to see his relation Catherine Connolly become President Mark’s grandfather Martin is a former Mayor of Galway President elect due here before 12
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Kevin O’Donoghue among the early arrivals at Dublin Castle for the inauguration A former neighbour of Catherine Connolly’s husband Brian McEnery in Ennis in Clare, he says the couple will look forward to bee-keeping at Aras an Uachtarain
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‘I don’t think he has accepted his crimes…all the symptoms of being delusional I’d apply to DJ Carey’, says friend of hurler John Crowley Report & reaction from Criminal Court as DJ Carey sentenced to 5 & half years in jail for cancer fraud https://t.co/VPHt19XEqX
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Kilkenny hurler DJ Carey has been jailed for five-and-a-half years for defrauding people by falsely claiming he had cancer and needed money for treatment. Our reporter Barry Lenihan was in court.
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DJ Carey sentenced to 5 and a half year’s imprisonment ‘I could not imagine a more reprehensible fraud’, said Judge Martin Nolan in passing sentence
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Fianna Fáil Kildare South TD Sean O’Fearghail says he tried to raise similar points to John Collision’s on infrastructure at FF meetings but ‘to no avail’ ‘Question is…can we expect those who helped bring about current situation to be the ones to take the daring leap of fate’
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What’s the level of threat to the Taoiseach from within the Fianna Fáil parliamentary party? Joined @franmcnulty & @evelyn_orourke on Behind the Story podcast with all the latest whispers https://t.co/pwS8CPbc9o
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As the dust settles on the presidential election, some Fianna Fáil members are questioning how their campaign went so wrong – with pressure said to be growing on Micheál Martin. Fran and Evelyn sit...
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Fianna Fáil Cork East TD James O’Connor criticises a list of ‘rebels’ opposed to Taoiseach allegedly circulated by senior officials He says ‘it’s deeply hypocritical of the calls for unity from Ministers when a well co-ordinated effort is underway to smear fellow colleagues’
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In the history of Tuesday Clubs, has there ever been one like this? Tyrone champions Loughmacrory welcome Armagh champions Madden. Both first-time winners, with brothers on both teams. Even for the GAA, this is so unique https://t.co/V8BGtGHdgF
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Fianna Fail Galway Councillor Michael Regan says FF Ministers who said they'd vote for Fine Gael's Heather Humphreys should be expelled from the party Cllr Regan says Michael Martin should resign & 'it's time for Jim O'Callaghan to stand up & be counted as we are in a crisis'
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In the Presenter Chair on @drivetimerte between 5 and 6 Will Michael Martin face down latest disquiet within Fianna Fail? @MaryButlerTD Health of President Higgins @KennyAKE Gardai chase new leads in case of unidentified woman in Cork @ralphriegel Sport @Joanne_Cantwell
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