
Michael O’Toole
@mickthehack
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Crime and Defence Editor, @isfearranstar, @irishmirror. Linguist: 🇮🇹🇫🇷🇪🇸🇸🇦. Crime novelist. Signal: Mickthehack.1970. #MCFC fan. Sopratutto, papà.
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Joined February 2009
Updating my pinned tweet for contacts as @signalapp now has the facility of getting in touch via username, no number needed. My @signalapp username is: Mickthehack.1970 - I do find Signal is the most secure means, but there are others: .-Threema, which is anonymous. My ID:.
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RT @JohnMooneyIRL: @mickthehack I hope Mick knew how respected and liked he was by everyone in the profession. He was one of us. Lost for w….
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RT @PaschalSheehy: This is just the saddest news. Mick O’Neill was a great colleague on the road and, as you say @mickthehack, was so easy….
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RT @davidcoughlan_: Mick O’Neill was beloved by all who knew and worked with him. He was a guiding light for many cub sports reporters taki….
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RT @gardarep: The GRA family is incredibly sad to hear of the passing of Photo Journalist Mick O’Neill who was taken too young in a motorcy….
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RT @padraig_reilly: My pix shows the sunrise over Ireland’s Eye in Howth at 5am this was Mick’s favourite place for….
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RT @MichealMartinTD: Today, at the National Day of Commemoration in Kilmainham, we gather to remember and honour all the Irish men and wome….
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RT @lauracolgannews: Devastated by the loss of our colleague and friend Mick O’Neill. He was a talented photographer and incredibly kind. G….
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One of the best memories of my career was a trip that @Healyhack, Mick and I undertook to Marbella in April 2022. It was a wonderful fee days together.
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RT @ciaranburns1: RIP to friend and colleague Mick O'Neill. One of the nicest people you could meet, a true gentlemen that loved his job. R….
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RT @padraig_reilly: It' hard to put words to the devastation I and my colleagues are feeling today.We lost photographer Mick O'Neill sudden….
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RT @antoabs: Condolences on the loss of your colleague @mickthehack …RIP Mick O’Neill and sincere sympathies to his family and friends…he c….
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RT @BarryWhyte85: @mickthehack Terrible news. Mick was an awfully sound fella; full of chat anytime I bumped into him when out on a story.….
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He did. Here is a pic of me with Mick in the Leb from 2023. I was mildly giving out to him and he did what he usually did; just smile, call me a flute and ignore me.❤️
@mickthehack A real pro, such sad news, always loved having Mick covering @defenceforces events. Rest in peace.
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I’m going to tell you my favourite Mick O’Neill story. Sums him up. In 2010, we were despatched to Spain for a Kinahan story. Operation Shovel in Estepona. We were there for days. We had one free day and decided to drive five hours up to Torrevieja to try to interview another.
We’re all devastated by the death of our much loved photographer, colleague and friend Mick O’Neill. He died in an RTA yesterday in Dublin. Mick was the snapper’s snapper. There was nobody who came close to him. He travelled all over Ireland and the world doing a job he loved and
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