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MOTH News @mothnews.bsky.social · 21h

After the unsettling attack on drag performers Krystal Queer and Lucina Schynning in Cork City — during the early hours on Oliver Plunkett Street, we’re asking: Is Cork night-life really safe for LGBTQ+ people?

#Cork #LGBTQ #Ireland #NightlifeSafety #HateCrime #CommunityMatters #Ireland

MOTH News @mothnews.bsky.social · 22h

Noeleen Eustace’s son Kelvin Brennan, aged 26, died by suicide in May after repeated failures by Ireland’s mental-health services. #MentalHealthMatters #IrishNews #PodcastInterview #Ireland #MOTHNews @carechampions.bsky.social

MOTH News @mothnews.bsky.social · 3d

New Article: "Every October, we collectively decide that death is fun again. We carve smiling faces into vegetables and hang fake corpses in our gardens. Beneath the sugar and synthetic cobwebs, Halloween has some very real ghosts..."

Oscar Virdee for mothnews.com

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MOTH News @mothnews.bsky.social · 5d

We’re seeing a pattern. Companies gutted from within, IP siphoned off, and silence where there should be scrutiny. It's beginning to look like something bigger as the MOTH team speak to more founders.

Watch back Fridays show where Al breaks down the issue.

#Ireland #IrishTech #Investigation

MOTH News @mothnews.bsky.social · 5d

The Irish people keep receipts 🧾

#HeatherHumphreys #MotherAndBabyHomes #IrishPolitics #Accountability

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MOTH News @mothnews.bsky.social · 6d

@goodwillcxunting offers thoughtful analysis of the Soldier F acquittal, exploring its implications for accountability and reconciliation.

#SoldierF #NorthernIreland #Politics #Justice #Reconciliation

MOTH News @mothnews.bsky.social · 7d

So what can the head of state of Ireland and the supreme commander of the Irish Defence Forces do?

#Ireland #IrishPresident #IrelandPolitics #PresidentOfIreland #UachtaránNaHEireann #IrishLeadership #IrishNews #Éire #Ireland2025 #CatherineConnolly

MOTH News @mothnews.bsky.social · 11d

Election Day Ireland: Keith Walsh is live today from 11am

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#spéirghorm #ireland #áras25

MOTH News @mothnews.bsky.social · 11d

Irish healthcare under scrutiny:
75% infection rate in children’s spinal surgeries, where 2% would be an emergency anywhere else.
This was allowed to continue.
#JusticeForHarvey #ScoliosisIreland #HealthcareJustice #CHIInquiry #ChangeForChildren

MOTH News @mothnews.bsky.social · 11d

“It was such a liberation to take part in something that really represented the state of consciousness of the Italian people.”

MOTH News reporter Oscar Virdee shares the voices of those who marched.

Read more: www.mothnews.com/articles/on-...

#Protest #Solidarity #Rome #Italy #Palestine

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MOTH News @mothnews.bsky.social · 15d

You can watch back on this important interview with Gillian Sherratt and Stephen Morrison, parents of Harvey Morrison Sherratt now. mothnews.com

#JusticeForHarvey #ScoliosisIreland #ireland #HealthcareJustice #CHIInquiry #ChangeForChildren

MOTH News @mothnews.bsky.social · 17d

Watch our interview back now with Gillian Sherratt and Stephen Morrison, who lost their son, Harvey, a brave 9-year-old with scoliosis and spina bifida. They’re fighting for accountability, reform, and justice.

#JusticeForHarvey #ScoliosisIreland #HealthcareJustice #CHIInquiry

MOTH News @mothnews.bsky.social · Oct 2

MOTH journalist Oscar Virdee has done something truly radical, using research, sources, and established science to deep dive into Trump & RFK’s bizarre Tylenol claims. Cut through the noise, read it here:

www.mothnews.com/articles/no-...

#mothnews #news #paracetamol #tylenol #trump

MOTH News @mothnews.bsky.social · Sep 30

RFK & Trump have neither style or substance when delivering their strange warning about Tylenol and pregnancy…it’s as awkward as it sounds.

#trump #tylenol #pregnancy #journalism #news

MOTH News @mothnews.bsky.social · Sep 29

Meet the Final Three In Ireland’s Presidential Race 2025 🇮🇪

Heather Humphreys: Fine Gael, former cabinet minister and TD

Jim Gavin: Fianna Fáil, known previously as a Gaelic football coach

Catherine Connolly: Independent backed by Sinn Féin and others

#IrishElection2025 #ireland #politics #news

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MOTH News @mothnews.bsky.social · Sep 28

Government confirms Children’s Health Ireland will merge into the HSE by 2027 after years of failure, in a move that will almost certainly dilute any accountability.

#ireland #irish #chi #hse #news #mothnews

MOTH News @mothnews.bsky.social · Sep 28

We welcome our new journalist Oscar who jumped straight in on Fridays live show, tackling some fresh misinformation from President Trump who claimed women taking paracetamol in pregnancy causes autism.

#trump #autism #news #factcheck #journalism #mothnews #medicine

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MOTH News @mothnews.bsky.social · Sep 26

A London judge has thrown out the terrorism case against Mo Chara of Kneecap. But often, these cases aren't about winning.

#kneecap #court #journalism #mothnews #ireland #irish

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MOTH News @mothnews.bsky.social · Sep 25

Fresh from warning pregnant women about the dangers of Tylenol and hinting that vaccines might be better served in separate, gold-plated doses, Donald Trump has unveiled his latest crusade: curing the “plague” of left-handedness.

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#news #trump #usa #health

MOTH News @mothnews.bsky.social · Sep 23

Our 'Ireland Divided' Playlist take is a powerful and uncompromising series of interviews by MOTH News. We peel back the layers of social division across the fault lines of culture, history, and identity that split communities apart.

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Welcome to Divided: Tales of Division, a powerful and uncompromising series by MOTH News. In each episode, we peel back the layers of social division across ...

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MOTH News @mothnews.bsky.social · Sep 22

Al on the conversations circling Eoin Hayes being a distraction, and something that that shouldn’t even be a question. The media fixates on this while Ireland faces far bigger crises in in places like housing, healthcare, cost of living, and corruption.

#Ireland #IrishPolitics #EoinHayes #news

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MOTH News @mothnews.bsky.social · Sep 21

Majella Beattie of Care Champions Ireland on the brave actions of Antoinette Burke who confronted the Taoiseach last week over her daughter's delayed hip surgery.

@Majellabeattie1 @CareChampions2 #ireland #irish #news #podcast #care #healthcare

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MOTH News @mothnews.bsky.social · Sep 19

MOTH NEWS 11AM TODAY - Tuesday Rerun: Keith and Al bring you a news rundown, from a Cork mother’s viral confrontation with Taoiseach Micheál Martin over her daughter’s care, to the early stirrings of the presidential race, and the UN’s stark finding that Israel’s war in Gaza may amount to genocide.

MOTH News @mothnews.bsky.social · Sep 18

Apparently, to progress important cases here in Ireland, you have to bump into the Taoiseach in the street.

#Taoiseach #antoinetteburke #ireland #irish #news #podcast

MOTH News @mothnews.bsky.social · Sep 16

@philipoconnor.bsky.social was live on Friday with @keefow.bsky.social discussing the state of Irish football. Catch up now at mothnews.com

#football #ireland #FAI #COYBIG #IrishSoccer #IrelandFootball #LeagueOfIreland

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