Sorcha Pollak
Immigration Reporter at Irish Times
@IrishTimes immigration reporter, In The News podcast presenter & author. Got a story? Get in touch - [email protected] or DM
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4 days ago |
irishtimes.com | Sorcha Pollak
Jess Murphy did not set out to build a multicultural kitchen in Galway. In fact, when her award-winning restaurant first opened in 2011, she admits her approach to operating the business was all wrong. “I was that competitive asshole chef when I opened this place,” she says. “My whole working life had been a competition, so I was competing with employees in the kitchen and not nurturing them.
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6 days ago |
irishtimes.com | Sorcha Pollak
A “deeper conversation” is needed around pregnancy and motherhood which does not stigmatise women struggling with mental health issues after giving birth, an expert in maternal health has said. Trinity College Dublin professor in midwifery Deirdre Daly said ending a woman’s postnatal care six weeks after the birth of her child also means that women struggling with potentially serious mental health issues post-partum are falling through the cracks.
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1 week ago |
irishtimes.com | Sorcha Pollak
In the early hours of Monday morning, a drone carrying a pipe bomb, a viable explosive device, crashed beside a family’s house in a north Dublin suburb. The drone was being flown by one criminal faction to target another when the intended attack went wrong. Had the bomb exploded, it could have caused serious injury or loss of life, according to gardaí. Who was controlling the drone and where was it supposed to land?
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1 week ago |
irishtimes.com | Sorcha Pollak
A photograph of the late journalist Lyra McKee has been unveiled in The Reporters Bar in Belfast to mark International Press Freedom Day. Ms McKee (29) died after being struck by a bullet fired at police during rioting in the Creggan area of Derry on April 18th, 2019. The New IRA admitted responsibility. Before her death, Ms McKee was also a campaigner for women’s reproductive rights and for equality for people in the LGBTQ+ community.
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1 week ago |
irishtimes.com | Sorcha Pollak
Two men have been arrested after almost €3 million worth of heroin was seized by gardaí in Dublin. The arrests on Friday follow an ongoing investigations targeting transnational and Dublin based organised crime gangs, an Garda Síochána said. The drugs have been submitted to the Forensic Science Ireland for examination. A man, aged in his 30s, was arrested at the scene and another man, aged in his 40s, was arrested at a different location following additional enquiries, gardaí said in a statement.
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