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In other news… thrilled and honoured to be taking over as News Editor of @IrishTimes and to be working with such a great team in the IT on Tara Street and beyond, in Ireland and overseas. #OnwardsUpwards
Simon Carswell
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Simon Carswell
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Journalist & author, News Editor at @irishtimes Past: Finance & US Correspondent, Public Affairs Editor Email: firstname.lastname{at}irishtimes.com
- Replying to @SiCarswellAmerican democracy under fire... Amazing photo from @andyharnik of @AP - US Capitol Police with guns drawn at barricaded door as protesters attempt to break into US House of Representatives chamber
- Raucous crowd greeted @BernieSanders on stage. "Sounds like you want to make a political revolution," he says.
00:00 - ‘The chaos that I have had in my mind is far more terrifying than anything I have encountered, even at the riot that day at the Capitol’ - @CNN reporter @donie tells me about his mental health struggles & the importance of getting help irishtimes.com/life-and-style… via @IrishTimes
- Trump boards Air Force One for the first time as POTUS for flight to Republican summit in Philadelphia - no wave
- Just a fox taking a lunchtime stroll on the Luas tracks between Pearse Street Garda Station and Trinity College Dublin... #CityWildlife
- Fascinating #Brexit poll on Northern Irish voters in @IrishTimes... Voters overwhelmingly reject a hard Brexit, would vote to remain in a second referendum & would prefer checks on goods travelling between Britain & NI rather than on the Border
- Desperately sad at losing friend & @IrishTimes colleague Dave McKechnie. A top bloke; warm, funny & kind - a guy you’d want at the end of a phone on the foreign desk or beside you at five-a-side; he always had your back. Cruel & unfair that he’s gone so young. Rest easy, Dave.
- ‘This is not the House of Commons, this is the European Parliament’ - Irish MEP @MaireadMcGMEP takes on hecklers during #Brexit debate
- Some work news about me: I have been appointed Public Affairs Editor of the @IrishTimes with responsibility for covering relationship between business & State, regulatory authorities & #Brexit. Important beat, fascinating times...
- A day after watching 37-year-old Cristiano Ronaldo score a hat-trick at Old Trafford, 44-year-old NFL quarterback Tom Brady cancels his retirement and will be back for another season at TampaThese past two months I’ve realized my place is still on the field and not in the stands. That time will come. But it’s not now. I love my teammates, and I love my supportive family. They make it all possible. I’m coming back for my 23rd season in Tampa. Unfinished business LFG
- Reminder... ▫️Nphet advice on 26/11: don't reopen hospitality AND allow households to mix over Christmas period (see attached from letter to Govt) ▫️Govt action on 27/11: let's do both! ▫️Now: #coronavirus 'absolutely rampant' & 'out of control' More: irishtimes.com/news/health/ab…
