Colm Keena

Ireland

Reporter with The Irish Times. Member of Pulitzer winning @ICIJorg team behind Panama Papers. Author of novel Bishop's Move (now an ebook).

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Gerry Adams defamation trial: laughs from the jury, a judge’s intervention and a ‘very fine story’ about a hedgehog

5 days ago | irishtimes.com | Colm Keena

Gerry Adams, the former president of Sinn Féin, entered the witness box for a second week this week in his defamation case against the BBC. During his testimony in the High Court, Adams argued that the counsel for the British broadcaster, Paul Gallagher SC, was trying to convince the jury he had “no reputation, that my reputation is useless”.
Gerry Adams tells defamation trial he never joined the IRA

1 week ago | irishtimes.com | Colm Keena

For the second time in his ongoing defamation case against the BBC, lifelong republican Gerry Adams found himself sitting in a Dublin courtroom watching footage from the conflict years. Last week he sat through the one-hour Spotlight documentary from 2016 in which an unidentified man who said he was both an IRA member and an informer made a comment that Adams claims was defamatory and for which he is seeking damages.
Gerry Adams vs the BBC: Dublin court recalls era when ‘the consequence for informing is death’

1 week ago | irishtimes.com | Colm Keena

On Wednesday afternoon in Court 24, in the Four Courts, the chair in the witness box was moved to the body of the court so the former Sinn Féin president, MP and TD, Gerry Adams, could watch a TV documentary made by BBC Northern Ireland in 2016 about informers in the IRA.
Richard Satchwell trial hears gardaí in Youghal became increasingly suspicious during search for Tina Satchwell

2 weeks ago | irishtimes.com | Colm Keena

Gardaí became increasingly concerned as a missing persons inquiry in 2017 into the whereabouts of Tina Satchwell produced no evidence as to where she might be, the Central Criminal Court in Dublin has been told. Retired sergeant John Sharkey, formerly of Youghal Garda Station, Co Cork, said that in the two or three weeks after Ms Satchwell was formally reported missing by her husband, Richard Satchwell, on May 11th, 2017, he became suspicious something “untoward” had happened.
Electricity grids designed so generators switch off when system loses synchronicity, expert explains

2 weeks ago | irishtimes.com | Colm Keena

Data on the cause or causes of the complete blackout of the electricity grids in both Portugal and Spain on Tuesday will be examined by experts and provide valuable “learnings” for grid operators around the world, according to one Irish expert.
China exerts control from a nondescript office on Dublin’s Capel Street

2 weeks ago | irishtimes.com | Colm Keena

This article is part of the China Targets project, an investigation by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) involving 42 media partners, including The Irish Times, into transnational oppression by Chinese authorities. See also: Corrosive and dishonest and An intimidated Chinese citizen in Ireland.
‘Corrosive and dishonest’: Investigation exposes China’s oppression of its emigrants

2 weeks ago | irishtimes.com | Colm Keena

This article is part of the China Targets project, an investigation by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) involving 42 media partners, including The Irish Times, into transnational oppression by Chinese authorities. See also: An intimidated Chinese citizen in Ireland and Exerting control from a nondesctipt office on Capel Street.
China’s intimidation of an Irish citizen in Dublin: ‘I wanted to escape. It’s scary’

2 weeks ago | irishtimes.com | Colm Keena

This article is part of the China Targets project, an investigation by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) involving 42 media partners, including The Irish Times, into transnational oppression by Chinese authorities. See also: Corrosive and dishonest and Exerting control from a nondesctipt office on Capel Street.
Irish woman living legally in US for decades detained after returning from visit to Ireland to see her father

2 weeks ago | irishtimes.com | Colm Keena

An Irish woman who has been living legally in the United States for decades has been taken into detention by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) after a trip to Ireland to visit her sick father. Cliona Ward (54), who went to the US in her early teens and is the sole carer for a son with special needs, is in an ICE facility in Tacoma, Washington state, according to the enforcement agency’s website.
Everyone wants to be in the loop. But what if there is no loop?

2 weeks ago | irishtimes.com | Colm Keena

One of my favourite stories from the annals of The Irish Times concerns an incident where several editorial executives got into a fluster about something, in the aftermath of which one of them said to the other, okay, but in future I’d appreciate being kept in the loop. To which the person being addressed replied: “This is The Irish Times. There is no loop.”One of the things evolution has handed down to us is an inclination not just to believe in loops, but to desperately want to be inside them.

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10 May 25

RT @tomdoorley: The IRA man and the hedgehog. @ColmKeena's interesting piece on Gerry Adams (and his fictions): http://t.co/5ttlQvNCJv

Colm Keena @cpkeena

9 May 25

RT @MaryCarolanIT: Such sad news. I worked with Aodhán for many years. My deepest sympathies to his wife Janet, his family and his many fri…

Colm Keena @cpkeena

1 May 25

#ChinaTargets The Irish Times view on the China Targets series: Authoritarianism without borders https://t.co/1vbGWktSDu

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Articles

Gerry Adams defamation trial: laughs from the jury, a judge’s intervention and a ‘very fine story’ about a hedgehog

Gerry Adams tells defamation trial he never joined the IRA

Gerry Adams vs the BBC: Dublin court recalls era when ‘the consequence for informing is death’

Richard Satchwell trial hears gardaí in Youghal became increasingly suspicious during search for Tina Satchwell

Electricity grids designed so generators switch off when system loses synchronicity, expert explains

China exerts control from a nondescript office on Dublin’s Capel Street

‘Corrosive and dishonest’: Investigation exposes China’s oppression of its emigrants

China’s intimidation of an Irish citizen in Dublin: ‘I wanted to escape. It’s scary’

Irish woman living legally in US for decades detained after returning from visit to Ireland to see her father

Everyone wants to be in the loop. But what if there is no loop?

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