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Mandy McAuley @mandymcauley.bsky.social · 17d

We filmed with the Extern crisis team in Derry for a 2020 Spotlight programme about rising suicide rates. In one 24 hour period staff were a life line for the most vulnerable, many in desperate situations. Where will they go now?

Mandy McAuley @mandymcauley.bsky.social · 17d

Derry / Mental health - Extern NI's community crisis intervention service (CCIS) closes due to lack of funding. It provided out-of-hours care for people in social or emotional crisis. x.com/mandy_mcaule...

Mandy McAuley on X: "Derry / Mental health - Extern NI's community crisis intervention service (CCIS) closes due to lack of funding. It provided out-of-hours care for people in social or emotional crisis. https://t.co/GgjmvBEEGs" / X

Derry / Mental health - Extern NI's community crisis intervention service (CCIS) closes due to lack of funding. It provided out-of-hours care for people in social or emotional crisis. https://t.co/GgjmvBEEGs

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Mandy McAuley @mandymcauley.bsky.social · 17d

Derry / Mental health - Extern NI's community crisis intervention service (CCIS) closes due to lack of funding. It provided out-of-hours care for people in social or emotional crisis. x.com/mandy_mcaule...

Mandy McAuley on X: "Derry / Mental health - Extern NI's community crisis intervention service (CCIS) closes due to lack of funding. It provided out-of-hours care for people in social or emotional crisis. https://t.co/GgjmvBEEGs" / X

Derry / Mental health - Extern NI's community crisis intervention service (CCIS) closes due to lack of funding. It provided out-of-hours care for people in social or emotional crisis. https://t.co/GgjmvBEEGs

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Mandy McAuley @mandymcauley.bsky.social · 21d

ABC barred from Trump’s UK press conference after his clash with Australian journalist John Lyons | Australian Broadcasting Corporation | The Guardian www.theguardian.com/media/2025/s...

ABC barred from Trump’s UK press conference after his clash with Australian journalist John Lyons

Exclusive: London bureau of Australia’s national broadcaster informed accreditation removed for ‘logistical reasons’

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Mandy McAuley @mandymcauley.bsky.social · 21d

ABC pulls late-night host Jimmy Kimmel off air indefinitely over comments he made about Charlie Kirk shooting.

Celebrating the announcement, President Donald Trump said it was "great news for America". www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Jimmy Kimmel taken off air over Charlie Kirk comments

The late-night host said on Monday that Trump's allies were

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Mandy McAuley @mandymcauley.bsky.social · 21d

Israel's culture minister threatens to axe funding for the country's national Ophir film awards - Israel’s equivalent of the Oscars - after The Sea, a story about a 12-year-old Palestinian boy, wins top award. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Israel threatens national film awards after Palestinian story wins top prize

The Sea follows a boy from the occupied West Bank who wants to visit Tel Aviv to see the sea for the first time.

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Mandy McAuley @mandymcauley.bsky.social · 21d

Foster sister of little Daniel Aruebose tells @thejournal_ie “we’re more angry than anything. How could this happen?…We didn’t want him to go [out of our care].” www.thejournal.ie/donabate-dan...

Foster sister of Daniel Aruebose, little boy found dead in Donabate, says he was 'special and loved'

Speaking to The Journal, Danny’s foster sister remembers a young boy with a ‘strong personality’ who loved dancing and laughing.

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Mandy McAuley @mandymcauley.bsky.social · 22d

Daniel has not been seen for over four years and was only discovered missing after the Department of Social Protection alerted Irish Child and Family agency, TUSLA, to irregularities in an application for child support payments.

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Mandy McAuley @mandymcauley.bsky.social · 22d

Co Dublin: Skeletal remains found of young boy who had been missing and presumed dead in Donabate.

Gardaí believe the remains are of Daniel Aruebose, not seen for a number of years and who would now be seven. BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Dublin: Skeletal remains found in search for missing boy

Gardaí say they believe the remains are of Daniel Aruebose, who was believed to be about two years old at the time of his disappearance.

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Mandy McAuley @mandymcauley.bsky.social · 23d

An admission by Mi5 that raises very serious questions. Are we to believe that these were isolated breaches ? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

MI5 'illegally obtained communications data' from phone of former BBC journalist Vincent Kearney

The Investigatory Powers Tribunal has heard that MI5 conceded unlawfully obtaining communications data twice.

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Mandy McAuley @mandymcauley.bsky.social · 23d

MI5 'illegally obtained communications data' from phone of former BBC NI Spotlight journalist Vincent Kearney.

A BBC spokesperson said: "MI5's admission..is a matter of grave concern. It raises serious & impt questions that we will continue to pursue." www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

MI5 'illegally obtained communications data' from phone of former BBC journalist Vincent Kearney

The Investigatory Powers Tribunal has heard that MI5 conceded unlawfully obtaining communications data twice.

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Mandy McAuley @mandymcauley.bsky.social · 23d

UN commission of inquiry says Israel has committed genocide against Palestinians in Gaza since 2023.
Killing members of a group, causing serious bodily and mental harm, deliberately inflicting conditions calculated to destroy the group, preventing births. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Israel has committed genocide in Gaza, UN commission of inquiry says

The panel finds that four of the five genocidal acts defined under international law have been carried out against Palestinians during the war.

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Mandy McAuley @mandymcauley.bsky.social · 23d

Thanks Seán🙏

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Mandy McAuley @mandymcauley.bsky.social · 25d

The Irish presidential candidate said she had attended Orange Order parades as a child.
While that stopped when the Troubles broke out, she said Ireland had moved to a point where Orange bands had participated in St Patrick's Day parades in Monaghan @rtenews

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Mandy McAuley @mandymcauley.bsky.social · 25d

Delighted to speak at the NI premiere of Gerard Gorman’s life story, BOY at the Linenhall. Ground breaking, brave work that explores the devastating fall out of child sexual abuse while touching and lifting the soul through music and poetry. Bringing understanding, hope, & healing.

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Mandy McAuley @mandymcauley.bsky.social · 25d

Presbyterian presidential candidate, Heather Humphreys, says she feels she is an example to NI unionists of a new Ireland…”a tolerant, inclusive Ireland that can accommodate different traditions and viewpoints.” @rtenews www.rte.ie/news/2025/09...

Humphreys takes message of unity to campaign trail

There was fervent support for Heather Humphreys at her campaign launch in Monaghan town yesterday, an event which was packed to the rafters, writes Paul Cunningham.

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Mandy McAuley @mandymcauley.bsky.social · 25d

Anti-Islamic US biker gang members run security at Gaza aid sites - BBC

“Putting the Infidels biker club in charge of delivering aid in Gaza is like putting the KKK in charge of delivering humanitarian aid in Sudan.” Council on American-Islamic Relations www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Anti-Islamic US biker gang members run security at deadly Gaza aid sites

BBC identifies members of Infidels MC gang hired as armed security at US and Israel-backed aid sites.

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Mandy McAuley @mandymcauley.bsky.social · Sep 1

Dublin - A year after Kyran Durnin was first reported missing Irish police are searching for another child missing for a significant period of time, now feared dead. Frightening. www.rte.ie/news/dublin/...

Garda probe into disappearance of child feared dead

Gardaí are investigating the disappearance of a child whom they fear may have died in unreported and suspicious circumstances in Dublin.

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Mandy McAuley @mandymcauley.bsky.social · Sep 1

The UDA have set themselves up as housing officers..”

Victims campaigner, Raymond McCord @StephenNolan as catholic families intimidated out of north Belfast development by the west Belfast UDA and ethnic minority households living in fear of attack.

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Mandy McAuley @mandymcauley.bsky.social · Sep 1

A privilege to be part of the NI premiere of the searingly powerful BOY by Damian Gorman @thelinenhall 11 Sept. The story, in words & music, of his brother Gerard who endured horrific abuse at the hands of Fr Malachy Finegan. Gerard’s courage inspired many other men to come forward.

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Mandy McAuley @mandymcauley.bsky.social · Jul 17

I’ll have more on this story in BBC Newsline

Mandy McAuley @mandymcauley.bsky.social · Jul 17

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Winston Irvine: PSNI footage shows moment guns found in loyalists car boot

Extracts from police body-worn video recording the arrests of Winston Irvine and Robin Workman are released to the BBC.

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Mandy McAuley @mandymcauley.bsky.social · Jul 17

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Winston Irvine: PSNI footage shows moment guns found in loyalists car boot

Extracts from police body-worn video recording the arrests of Winston Irvine and Robin Workman are released to the BBC.

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Mandy McAuley @mandymcauley.bsky.social · Jun 30

“It is more harmful to have a strategy that will not address poverty, than no strategy at all.”

Almost 50 charities & anti-poverty orgs in Northern Ireland call on executive to drop anti-poverty strategy saying families “deserve better”. BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Stormont: Charities call for executive to drop anti-poverty strategy

The letter says families

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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · Jun 29

Hundreds of households celebrated Christmas in June for a little girl with cancer who might not make it to December.

In the thick heat and humidity, neighbors dressed in holiday apparel gathered to help one family find happiness in the face of tragedy.

Hundreds of neighbors rally to give a 9-year-old with cancer one last Christmas

The days leading up to the Saturday night event were hot and humid but that didn’t stop the community from decorating miles of houses for Kasey Zachmann.

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Mandy McAuley @mandymcauley.bsky.social · Jun 30

A picture of violence @ItaDungan

27 women killed since 2020 in Northern Ireland as young pregnant mother Sarah Montgomery latest name to be added to devastating roll call. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

A picture of violence: The 27 women killed in four years

In at least 20 of the 27 deaths, the killers - or the suspects in their killings - were well-known to the women.

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Mandy McAuley @mandymcauley.bsky.social · Jun 29

A young pregnant mother murdered in Co Down. Just three days ago NI Womans Aid described the grim daily reality of violence against women & girls to the NI Affairs Committee 👇 @https://x.com/commonsniac/status/1938146149333938532?s=46

Northern Ireland Affairs Committee on X: "Violence against women and girls in Northern Ireland is not just a statistic – it is a grim daily reality for many. We heard from @WomensAidNI about the extent of the problem and the UK Government's role in tackling it. https://t.co/9qGvkgU3L4" / X

Violence against women and girls in Northern Ireland is not just a statistic – it is a grim daily reality for many. We heard from @WomensAidNI about the extent of the problem and the UK Government's role in tackling it. https://t.co/9qGvkgU3L4

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