Jennifer O'Connell
@jenoconnell
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Opinion Editor @IrishTimes @IrishTimesOped.
Waterford and Dublin
Joined May 2009
RT @IrishRainforest: "By and large, farmers are decent, honest, hardworking people, who want to do right by future generations. With progre….
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Eoghan Daltun: I have restored a small Irish rainforest and can’t bear to watch millions of hectares of forest burn
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RT @BrianNolan1974: “If it is going to change things, it has to change them well. We’ve heard enough from people who clearly don’t know wha….
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What about creativity-first, or people-first?
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RT @BrianNolan1974: “I don’t think any of us at RTÉ have any boasting left in us after the last few weeks. But I am still, after everything….
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We have seen behaviour more befitting the series finale of Mad Men than a statutory body in receipt of public money
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RT @BrianNolan1974: “Tubridy repeated over and over on Tuesday that he wants to go back to that ‘great old place’. He wants to be part of t….
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Tubridy started out as Logan Roy but lapsed into Cousin Greg whenever the subject of money came up
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Great read by @lisatk: I was a writer on Toy Show the Musical. It has been a weird time
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Lisa Tierney-Keogh: I can’t tell you what I earned for my work on this show, but I can tell you I hope it becomes public knowledge. It should be. It’s your money
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RT @IrishTimes: RTÉ was looking for a warehouse for the Toy Show musical set while TG4 was at the Oscars via @irishtimesoped. https://t.co….
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TG4’s breakout film, An Cailín Ciúin, cost less than half of what RTÉ’s musical frittered away
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RT @BrianNolan1974: “Two weeks into the RTÉ crisis over secret payments, the organisation is still faffing about looking for the first aid….
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Does it really matter if Doireann Garrihy eats her #sponsored porridge in an RTÉ studio or Marty Morrissey has a borrowed car? The short answer is yes
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RT @IrishTimes: Justine McCarthy: The next time committee members make snide remarks about RTÉ managers taking the “hubby” on foreign trips….
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RTÉ payments crisis: Revelations of a them-and-us culture at the top in RTÉ are not new
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What do university performance rankings really mean? And should Ireland be chasing them at all? Interesting explainer on what those sought-after university rankings show us
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Seven Irish universities rose in recent international rankings but such indicators seen as a ‘joke’ by some
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"We just need to zoom out. The greatest marketing win in Ireland in recent years was the Wild Atlantic Way. Nobody built anything, it was just about connecting the dots" - @UnaMullally has a big idea for Dublin's O'Connell Street
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Consider the success of our Wild Atlantic Way. Nobody built anything, it was just about connecting the dots. We need to do the same for the capital
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RT @Ger_Leggett: Great points here by @jenoconnell. People constantly spin the need for more hotels as a binary choice (more hotels = less….
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Deep dive by @CliffTaylorIT into RTÉ’s Bosco accounting is well worth a read
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The next focus will be the basis on which the broadcaster decided to write down Turbridy’s earnings between 2017 and 2019 by €120,000
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RT @IrishTimesOpEd: Frank McDonald: Dublin’s runaway growth is bad for the rest of the country, and worse for Dublin via @IrishTimesOpEd ht….
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Frank McDonald: Dublin’s runaway growth is bad for the rest of the country, and worse for Dublin
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Noel Kelly: Who is the behind-the-scenes agent, seen as RTÉ's ‘real director general’? .
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Dublin talent agent, who played a key role in funneling hidden payments to Ryan Tubridy, was considered more powerful than broadcaster’s own director general
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RT @BrianNolan1974: Dublin hotel prices in “the realms of the utterly fantastical,” writes @jenoconnell @IrishTimes, adding “That’s where….
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Dublin needs more hotel rooms, but what it might need even more desperately is some kind of long-term vision
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RT @clare_egan_: 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️"While Irish people voted overwhelmingly in support of marriage equality, we still have a long way to go". Wrote….
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While Irish people voted overwhelmingly in support of marriage equality, we still have a long way to go
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RT @BrianNolan1974: “The chasm in the response to the two events almost a week apart – the contrast in the level of public interest; the re….
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As the days rolled by, the chasm in the response to the two events was increasingly uncomfortable
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With my brilliant colleague @davidmcw and the fantastic @janabakunina @dalkeybookfest for our talk last night on the world at a tipping point. We're on day two already.
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RT @dalkeybookfest: And we’re off again!. Listen to the Land happening right now at the Seafront . @ManchanMagan and @jenoconnell kicking o….
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Loved this - what a panel.for my first Dalkey 2023 event. More to come for the next three days.
The World at a Tipping Point . 📍The Vico. @danariely @davidmcw @peterfrankopan @janabakunina @jenoconnell
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