Freya McClements
Northern Editor at Irish Times
Northern Editor @IrishTimes. Award-winning author of Children of the Troubles with @joeliveline. Represent NI on Round Britain Quiz @BBCRadio4.
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3 weeks ago |
irishtimes.com | Freya McClements
In her grandparents’ home in Belfast, Nóra Quoirin is everywhere. Michael and Eithne Agnew keep photographs of their eldest grandchild in every room, just as Nóra’s parents, Meabh and Sébastin Quoirin, do in their own home in London. “I can’t bring myself to take any of them off the wall,” says Meabh, “so I just go around the house looking at them and talking to her and laughing about the stupid stuff she would laugh at and crying.
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3 weeks ago |
irishtimes.com | Freya McClements
Matt Sibanda, who died after getting into difficulty in Co Donegal’s Lough Swilly, was a “truly special soul” who “made others feel seen, valued and heard”, his funeral has heard. “That is a rare gift ... and one that touched everyone who knew him,” said Mr Sibanda’s uncle, Buhle. The 18 year old died earlier this month with his friend, 16-year-old Emmanuel Familola, after they went into the water off Ned’s Point in Buncrana, to retrieve a football.
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1 month ago |
irishtimes.com | Freya McClements
Double murderer Hazel Stewart was under the coercive control of her then lover, Colin Howell, when the couple killed her husband and his wife, the Court of Appeal has been told. Judgment was reserved on whether to grant Stewart leave to appeal her sentence of a minimum of 18 years in prison. Stewart, a 62-year-old former Sunday school teacher, and her former lover, dentist Howell, were convicted in 2011 of the murders of their spouses, Trevor Buchanan (32) and Lesley Howell (31).
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1 month ago |
irishtimes.com | Freya McClements
For businessman Dermot Johnson, Brexit has meant fewer goods but a lot more paperwork. Take organic products, he says: “We brought in – we still do bring in – some organic goods, but there’s a whole form-filling and paperwork you have to do now to send organic goods across the sea [from Britain to Northern Ireland].
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1 month ago |
irishtimes.com | Freya McClements
A “considerable body of material” has not been shared with the Omagh bombing inquiry due to applications by the UK government and the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) to redact information from documents, a hearing has been told. The inquiry’s lawyer Paul Greaney KC said there was a “brake” on disclosure due to submissions, and that even at the “early stage” of March this year “as many as 80 documents were having to be withheld from disclosure”.
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Meabh Quoirin on life after her daughter’s death in the jungle: ‘Nóra was meant to be here by our sides’ https://t.co/5SnnohvKQq
RT @GerryMoriartyIT: Spectacular walk from Giant’s Causeway to Ballintoy on a perfect day. @freyamcc @TourismIreland https://t.co/HOnnQ…
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