Cian McCormack

Nov 17, 2024 | rte.ie | Cian McCormack

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Oct 18, 2024 | rte.ie | Cian McCormack

There's a drone flying overhead when Nour Shawaf answers her phone in Beirut. The sound is omnipresent. She said the buzzing is always there, endlessly humming above in the sky, whether it’s when she is at work or at home consoling her four-year-old son. She said the drone means nighttime is always spent sleeping next to her son. "I cannot let go of him knowing that any minute this drone could lead to an airstrike," she told RTÉ’s Morning Ireland.

Sep 30, 2024 | rte.ie | Cian McCormack |Maximum sentences

"It is a shock … people went hysterical on the streets …. regardless of whether you were a friend or a foe" … Hassan Nasrallah "was a national figure ... with him gone now the whole country is exposed". These words are that of an Irish citizen in Lebanon on the death of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah. Wissam Abdel Samad moved back to Lebanon in 2019 after living in Ireland for 12 years in Cork and Dublin, where he worked as a teacher.

Sep 27, 2024 | rte.ie | Cian McCormack

Their belongings, their lives, their homes, their dead and their memories. That is what tens of thousands of internally displaced people have left behind as they flee their homes in southern Lebanon. Mother-of-three Sara - whose second name is not being published because she is afraid she may be identified - fled the town of Tebnine after it was bombarded last Monday. Tebnine is where Irish soldiers are stationed at Camp Shamrock.

Sep 26, 2024 | rte.ie | Cian McCormack

A leading humanitarian coordinator in Beirut has warned that the possible ground offensive by Israeli troops into Lebanon would deliver a further devastating blow to the already traumatised displaced people there. More than 90,000 people have been displaced in Lebanon since Monday, the UN said. Dr Luna Hammad, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) Medical Coordinator in Lebanon, told RTÉ's Morning Ireland that Beirut is already struggling to cope with an influx of displaced people.