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Jennifer Bray
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Jennifer Bray
@Jennifer_Bray
Political Editor, The Sunday Times 🗞️
Debut novel The Lies Between Us out now with Penguin Sandycove 📚
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Dublin
Joined February 2011
- Exc: Minister for Health Stephen Donnelly admits he failed to register rental property in Dublin on time with the RTB, and only did so late last week after Robert Troy revelations. Spokesman blamed "oversight" on failure to register since 2019
- New: All travellers flying into Ireland from any country will have to provide a negative PCR test from the previous 72 hours. Date of onset to be agreed @IrishTimes
- Lots of anger this morn. Understand the frustration with Government comms entirely. But I saw some people last night attack @ciaraphelan_ for just doing her job & it makes no sense. Political journalists are supposed to find out what’s happening, through contacts and interviews.
- Another day on Twitter. Called a despicable propagandist amongst many other slurs. Many by faceless trolls. It is most often on foot of articles about Sinn Féin. I mute and block & am totally grand but it would be nice to see SF TDs who are tagged in this stuff call it out.
- So that's a former minister resigning his seat, a spicy byelection in works, the vaccination programme being majorly recast, the DUP leader on the ropes, and a former Sinn Fein councillor charged with murder #Tuesday
- Mary Lou McDonald arrived to speak to the media at Dublin Castle and this was what happened
00:00 - Babies, brides and politicians it’s the election campaign holy trinity
- Astounding claim from Stephen Donnelly on @newstalk with @gavreilly that the deputy CMO had dismissed the idea of vaccinating younger people first, days before he told our newspaper that he was considering it. Why say it then?
- I am well used to getting abuse online and I have learned how to deal with it. But for tonight it would be very helpful to take me out of the equation and just read the story for what it is. It is not about me.
00:00- Understand there is growing unease in FG and Greens this evening re National Maternity Hospital. More shortly..
- Level 5 restrictions to remain “for the forseeable future” well into the next few months leading up to summer. Beyond schools don’t expect any moves to ease restrictions next week - that’s the message coming out of that Cabinet committee meeting this evening @IrishTimes
- NEW: Sinn Fein member says she felt forced to resign from the party after being told not to discuss internal issues in public following Stanley controversy - a member of the party called to her house to ask her to delete recent critical tweets. Read here
