
Rory Carroll
Ireland Correspondent at The Guardian
@Guardian Ireland corr - on sabbatical till March 2025. Author of Killing Thatcher/There Will Be Fire and Comandante: Hugo Chavez's Venezuela.
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kfgo.com | Rory Carroll
By Rory Carroll(Reuters) – Outworked and outplayed by Minnesota in Game One, the Lakers know they must find some toughness if they are to bounce back in the first round of the NBA playoffs while the league hopes LA’s biggest stars stick around long enough to boost viewing figures.
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theguardian.com | Rory Carroll
The Freemasons of Ireland have apologised for hosting an interview between Conor McGregor and the US commentator Tucker Carlson at the organisation’s hall in central Dublin. Philip Daley, the grand secretary of the Irish Freemasons, said the organisation regretted renting its premises for the event last week and would donate the fee to charity.
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theguardian.com | Rory Carroll
Elon Musk called him “dumber than a sack of bricks” but, in the raw contest for political power, Peter Navarro has outsmarted the billionaire. The tumult in global trade shows that for now it is the 75-year-old economist, not Musk, who has Donald Trump’s ear in the Oval Office. Navarro is the US president’s chief trade adviser and the intellectual driving force behind the global tariffs and trade war with China.
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yahoo.com | Rory Carroll
By Rory CarrollLOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Shohei Ohtani and wife Mamiko have welcomed their first child, a girl, the Los Angeles Dodgers star announced via social media on Saturday. "Welcome to the Ohtani Family! I am so grateful to my loving wife who gave birth to our healthy beautiful daughter," he said in the post.
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theguardian.com | Rory Carroll
More than 1,000 years ago, Irish monks took precious manuscripts to the European continent to protect them from Viking raids and to spread Christianity and scholarship – a glow of culture in what would be called the dark ages. The monks did not know if the books, which included religious scriptures, linguistic analysis, scribbled jokes and a collection of tomes described as the internet of the ancient world, would survive, or ever return.
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Big thanks to all at Newcastle Centre for the Literary Arts for hosting talk on Killing Thatcher. Great audience, great questions and 80s music.

.@rorycarroll72 will be in conversation w/ Sinéad Morrissey, to talk about #KillingThatcher @HarperCollinsUK @mudlarkbooks If you didn’t snag a🎟️- our events are recorded & you’ll be able to watch via our extensive archive, at a later date.#NCLAevents @UniofNewcastle @NCL_English https://t.co/YcDeZHxfzj

RT @GaschkeProds: Rory Carroll, @rorycarroll72, journalist and author, discusses his international bestseller “Killing Thatcher” about the…

Kudos to Iron Mountain Literary Festival for a brilliant weekend. Great writers, engaged audiences, fascinating talks on and off stage. Leitrim Abú!

Proud and honoured to participate in the Iron Mountain Festival in my hometown of Carrick-on-Shannon and to be in the company of many wonderful writers @rorycarroll72 @DevlinMartina @pazira1 and Denis Bradley all compered wonderfully by Vincent Woods. Well done @leitrimcoco https://t.co/rDaPyyHqtL