Maria Flannery

1 week ago | spotlight.ebu.ch | Maria Flannery

Viral footage on TikTok was posted with a claim it showed a heavy bombardment of Israel on June 17 amid the escalating conflict with Iran. The simmering conflict between Israel and Iran broke into an all-out war in recent days, with both sides trading missiles after a night of deadly Israeli attacks on Tehran in the early hours of Friday morning, June 13. Iran reported that at least 224 people were killed throughout that weekend. Israel reported 24 deaths in the same period.

1 month ago | spotlight.ebu.ch | Derek Bowler |Maria Flannery

An investigation by Eurovision News Spotlight has uncovered evidence that an agency of the Israeli government deployed cross-platform advertising and used state social media accounts to directly target and encourage the public in participating countries to vote for the Israeli entry in the Eurovision Song Contest.

Oct 30, 2024 | investigations.news-exchange.ebu.ch | Derek Bowler |Maria Flannery |Belen Garrido |Thais Porto

Targets or Collateral Damage? By Derek Bowler, Maria Flannery and Belén López Garrido A detailed analysis of visual evidence acquired through open-source investigation and  official accounts from both IDF and UNIFIL shows that at least four of these Israeli military operations have hit directly inside or immediately next to clearly identified UN posts that operate under the mandate of United Nations Security Council resolution 1701.

Oct 17, 2024 | spotlight.ebu.ch | Maria Flannery

Videos circulating on social media after news emerged of Liam Payne's death in Argentina purported to show his fall from a hotel in Buenos Aires. Former One Direction singer Liam Payne died on Wednesday, October 16, after he fell from the third storey of a hotel in Buenos Aires. The 31-year-old pop star's death was confirmed by local police soon after the incident happened. He dropped into a courtyard from a balcony at the Casa Sur Hotel in the Palermo neighbourhood of the Argentinian capital.

Sep 21, 2024 | thejournal.ie | Maria Flannery

THE NEWS THAT one of the world’s biggest employers, Amazon, is soon to enforce an end to hybrid and remote working arrangements will be met with unease by many Irish workers who have organised their lives around the new normal. This novel way of working has been with us now for about four-and-a-half years, which actually makes it not very novel at all. That is, hypothetically, long enough for someone to have had a baby who is now going to school.