Demelza de Burca

Ireland Deputy Editor | The Sunday Times

[The Times and Sunday Times @thetimes]

Read The Times and Sunday Times for free this weekend at https://t.co/BamGI1zUQM

[Hugh O'Connell @oconnellhugh]

🚨SUNDAY TIMES🚨

💥Ian Bailey’s ex Jules Thomas to sue Netflix over doc on Sophie Toscan du Plantier murder, by @conwayisabel and @JulieanneCorr

💥@LindaDaly19 with a big development in Paddy McKillen-Sheikh saga

💥 @ClaireH_Scott on the scramble to form a new government

[Hugh O'Connell @oconnellhugh]

🚨SUNDAY TIMES🚨

💥In our first edition of 2025 we reveal how the outgoing government spent more than €37m on consultants in its final two years

💥Country braces for arctic blast of ice and snow

💥And @ClaireH_Scott previews the political year ahead

Loads more inside!

[Hugh O'Connell @oconnellhugh]

🚨SUNDAY TIMES🚨

➡️ SCOOP from @paddyod_97 who speaks to Nikita Hand’s mother after McGregor court verdict

➡️@ClaireH_Scott speaks to Mary Lou McDonald and Micheál Martin as #ge24 race narrows

➡️ We publish new CCTV from McGahon brawl incident that has rocked Fine Gael

[Patrick O'Donoghue @paddyod_97]

Exclusive: I spoke to Nikita Hand’s mother Debbie for tomorrow’s Sunday Times, in her first interview since her daughter’s emotional victory against Conor McGregor in a civil rape case at Dublin’s High Court.

[Hugh O'Connell @oconnellhugh]

🚨SUNDAY TIMES/OPINIONS POLL🚨

Fine Gael 24 (no change since Sept) Independents/Others 22 (+2)
Fianna Fáil 19 (-1)
Sinn Féin 16 (-2)
Social Democrats 5 (nc)
Labour 5 (+1)
Greens 4 (nc)
PBP-Solidarity 3 (nc)
Aontú 2 (nc)

Poll of 1,005 adults taken Oct 10-16

MoE +/-3pc

[Hugh O'Connell @oconnellhugh]

🚨SUNDAY TIMES🚨

New poll shows Sinn Féin facing significant seat losses in snap election to take place within 6 weeks

BUT Fine Gael hit by shock news: Heather Humphreys is standing down

AND...

✈️Simon Harris's jet-setting

🗳️The Monk Dáil bid?

👀Brian Stanley/SF latest

[Julieanne Corr @JulieanneCorr]

A dating website marketed at the sexually “open-minded” has been downloaded 33,000 times in Ireland since January 2019.

https://t.co/HEgONvEJLE

[Hugh O'Connell @oconnellhugh]

Surge in demand for sex workers at the ploughing this week

Story by ⁦@JulieanneCorr⁩

https://t.co/m2HxOCAJGx

[Patrick O'Donoghue @paddyod_97]

Otis Redding sang of sitting on the dock of the bay, wasting time, but one couple made every second count when their ship was grounded for four months.

Meet the couple planning to turn a delayed luxury cruise into a personal love boat. @thetimes

https://t.co/LRBlg692lo

[Hugh O'Connell @oconnellhugh]

🚨Sunday Times/Opinions Poll🚨

Fine Gael 24 (+5 since May)
Fianna Fáil 20 (+4)
Independents/Others 20 (+2)
Sinn Féin 18 (-9)
SocDems 5 (-1)
Labour 4 (+1)
Greens 4 (-1)
Sol-PBP 3 (nc)
Aontu 2 (-1)

Sample: 1k
Period: 13-19 Sept 2024
MoE: +/- 3pc

https://t.co/hMipaRpb44

[Hugh O'Connell @oconnellhugh]

Well, well, well.

What's all this now? 👀

After midnight on https://t.co/Ea9mxtlG3X

[Hugh O'Connell @oconnellhugh]

🚨SUNDAY TIMES: Simon Harris will talk to coalition leaders about election date after the budget

Taoiseach rules out November 15 - but doesn’t definitively squash rumours of a pre-Christmas election

Also reveals Fine Gael plans to overhaul income and inheritance taxes

[Patrick O'Donoghue @paddyod_97]

‘Inside Ireland’s second-hand electric car market — are buyers losing out?’

Car dealerships are divided about the viability of a supercharged second-hand electric vehicle market of the future.
https://t.co/anF7mO15of

[Demelza de Burca @Demelzadeburca]

Good afternoon @RadioBrendanRTE ... if Cillian Murphy wins tonight he will be the first Irish born actor to win in the 'Best Actor' category.. the great Daniel Day-Lewis was born in London.

[Irish Film & Television Academy (IFTA) @IFTA]

The Irish Academy wishes the best of luck to all the Irish contenders at tonight’s Oscars:

Cillian Murphy in Best Actor, Robbie Ryan in Best Cinematography and @ElementPictures’ Ed Guiney and Andrew Lowe, nominated producers for Poor Things.

Go n-eirí an t-ádh libh go léir 💚

[Demelza de Burca @Demelzadeburca]

Flash sale; https://t.co/qBOnIt1Sl6

[Demelza de Burca @Demelzadeburca]

A tough weekend for the government and our rugby heroes, but there's always great Irish mammies, promising Cheltenham glory, and the Oscars tonight with the nation's hopes resting on the slim shoulders of Cork's finest, Cillian Murphy

[Michael Stipe @stipemichael_]

Thats me in the corner

[Linda Daly @LindaDaly19]

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