Mark Hennessy
Ireland and Britain Editor,
The Irish Times
Leading The Irish Times’ Common Ground project exploring relationships on the island of Ireland, and between Ireland and Great Britain
irishtimes.com/common-ground/
- Melania Trump is not Rapunzel in the tower, pining to be saved from the ogre imprisoning her www.irishtimes.com/world/us/202...
- Reposted by Mark HennessyI wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free
- Wouldn’t that be nice - rather than the Wild West from which all of the social networks have grossly profited for years / Social networks could be treated as publishers if they host illegal content, says Irish Minister of State says www.irishtimes.com/politics/oir...
- Reposted by Mark HennessyWalz: "To Americans who are watching this, I've got a question for you: What side do you want to be on? The side of an all powerful federal govt that can kill, injury, menace, & kidnap its citizens off the streets? Or on the side of a nurse at the VA hospital who died bearing witness to such govt?"
- More right than he knows, probably. The Titanic’s captain needed to slow down, to watch where he was going, to listen to wiser counsel, and to have turned left, or right in time to miss disaster
- File describing Sinn Féin’s Gerry Kelly as IRA leader returned to National Archives www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...
- File describing Sinn Féin’s Gerry Kelly as IRA leader returned to National Archives after being pulled the week before, and being reported on www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...
- Trade INCREASES four-fold between the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland since Brexit - ‘We haven’t had one bad experience’: Why cross-Border trade has leapt fourfold since Brexit www.irishtimes.com/business/eco...
- Irish Government withdraws file alleging Gerry Kelly IRA leadership role from National Archives www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2026...
- The future of the film industry is being made in Belfast - the single most impressive place I visited anywhere in 2025….https://www.irishtimes.com/business/2025/12/27/belfasts-field-of-dreams-by-the-lagan/
- The Christmas story of the year 😀Spanish villagers devastated by forest fire win €468m in lottery prizes www.irishtimes.com/world/europe...
- The reluctant showman ….. a fine piece, this on the life of Chris Rea Reluctant pop star Chris Rea felt ‘Monty Python-silly’ in Slane but was beloved in Ireland www.irishtimes.com/culture/musi...
- Always entertaining to start Saturday with Anton Savage on Newstalk link.goloudplayer.com/s/pN77bjedu4tf
- Billionaire, John Magnier gave ‘entirely false’ evidence in Tipperary land dispute, judge finds www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/co...
- It’s the neediness that gets you, really
- It takes hard work to be this dumb….
- Drones spotted near Zelenskiy’s flight path to Dublin, triggering major security alert www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2025...
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- “Never drive a better car than your customer”- Northern Ireland’s manufacturing firms, the community that rarely speaks of its success Manufacturing in North Ireland definitely not a thing of the past www.irishtimes.com/business/eco...
- A shameful act that will disgrace Dublin if the full council supports it - Dublin’s Herzog Park set to be ‘denamed’ by city councillors over Israel connections Dublin’s Herzog Park set to be ‘denamed’ by city councillors over Israel connections www.irishtimes.com/ireland/dubl...
- This will end well…
- Perhaps make a “favourite” of this? - let’s not complain this year about the challenges facing small Irish businesses. There are alternatives, and they are online - 100 Irish websites for all your Christmas presents: Shopping guide for the festive season www.irishtimes.com/your-money/2...
- Gill is far from being the only Brexiteer who should have faced charges - including more than a few who should have been charged with treason - Reform UK’s former Wales leader jailed for more than 10 years for taking pro-Russia bribes www.irishtimes.com/world/uk/202...
- A life of wisdom, and the lessons learned along the way - former Irish diplomat, Noel Dorr: ‘To understand the Troubles, you must go back much further’ www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...
- Flautist James Galway to be honoured in native Belfast for ‘extraordinary contribution’ to music www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...
- The Irish expert helping Ukraine reclaim its dead: ‘You feel responsibility to every one of them’ www.irishtimes.com/world/europe...
- Forty years on, the Anglo-Irish Agreement has proved its worth, writes former diplomat, Sean Donlon www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...
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- Ivan Yates’s role on Path to Power podcast ended following revelations that he coached Fianna Fail’s presidential candidate, Jim Gavin www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...
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- Reposted by Mark HennessyChildren tear-gassed. Teenagers tackled to the ground. Bellingcat analysed footage of clashes between federal officers and civilians after a judge issued a restraining order on crowd-control tactics in Illinois: www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/10...
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- Unionists shocked by level of sectarian abuse during election, says Humphreys www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...
- Feeds the soul, this - Two years ago we planted 24,000 native saplings – now our forest is thriving www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...
- Irish State must offer same honesty it demands from Britain on Troubles, Belfast meeting told www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...
- Eastern EU states ‘in fear of Russian invasion’, claims Irish Ambassador www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...
- National security in Ireland must be debatable amid growing Russian threats, says Richmond www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...
- If you read nothing else this day, this week, this year, read this - the most beautiful ode imaginable to life, love and friendship Manchán Magan was a great man for a video message. You’d never know what you might get www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...
- ‘The Republic needs to start listening’: Young SDLP members on Irish unity www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...
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- Former Irish Prime Minister, Leo Varadkar says he has ‘not lost hope’ that the Irish Government will lead Irish unification preparations, even it abandoned election pledges www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...
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- Why I didn’t nominate Maria Steen for the presidency - Michael McDowell www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...
- Reposted by Mark HennessyBREAKING NYT: Trump just fired a U.S. attorney who insisted on following a court order. Michele Beckwith, the top federal prosecutor in Sacramento, was fired hours after she reminded a Border Patrol chief to abide by court-ordered restrictions on immigration raids.
- Reposted by Mark HennessyBREAKING: President Trump promotes unproven ties between Tylenol, vaccines and autism without new evidence.
- In Heather Humphreys country: ‘It was hard to find a Protestant not in the Orange Order’ www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...
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- The Scot who has learned what "giving out" means in Ireland, and other stories of what being the British ambassador in Ireland means. www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...
- Philip Stephens: ‘I am privileged to be Irish as well as British’ www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...
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- The long arm of justice…..Forensic advances bring chance of new prosecutions for Guildford and other 1970s IRA bombings www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...
- One hopes Bluesky readers do not get their news from Fox, but its report on Ireland’s crime issues is a nonsense, as this report makes clear www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/20...
- God, this is cringeworthy
- Reposted by Mark Hennessyone of the single best deals in streaming. i've been paying for PBS Passport for years. it rules
- It will be an ‘insult’ if Fianna Fáil don’t enter presidential race, says Mary Hanafin www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2025...
- Baltic states’ ‘visceral fear’ of Russian invasion ‘almost impossible’ for Irish to understand, says ex-MEP www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2025...
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- Public opinion in Ireland is now toxic, warns former minister for health www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...
- Better-off children ‘sailing away from the have-nots’, warns Ireland’s Ombudsman for Children www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...
- Clever, in fairness - Germany might have solved the domestic EV charging problem www.irishtimes.com/business/202...
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- On RTÉ tonight: Noraid: ‘They started to run it down from the early 1990s – They said I had an image as an IRA supporter’ www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...
