Colm Hand

News Camera Supervisor with @RTEnews - Ireland’s Public Service Broadcaster. Tweeting from breaking news stories & behind the scenes videos

[Colm Hand @ColmHand]

#Breaking Meet Annie Lynch, the 79-year-old grandmother from Dublin who has just become the first person in Ireland to receive Covid-19 vaccine #COVID19 #rtenews

[Jeremy Diamond @JDiamond1]

As we were covering this story, my team & I were attacked by Israeli settlers. The back window of our vehicle was smashed, but we managed to escape unharmed.
This is just a sliver of the reality many Palestinians face in the West Bank amid rising settler violence.

[RTÉ News @rtenews]

A representative from the Mothers Against Genocide group has said members are taking legal advice following complaints about the treatment of a number of protesters who were arrested outside the Dáil on Sunday night https://t.co/hqT8vkYmCA

[Colm Hand @ColmHand]

@scottygb The man behind the camera for the famous clip @colmwhatyalike

[Eamonn Farrell @RollingNewsIre]

REQUEST BY GARDAI TO HAND OVER IMAGES OF THE CROWN FACTORY RIOT LAST MONDAY.
For the second time this year we have had a request from gardai to had over images from disturbances related to anti migration riots. The first was in relation to the Dublin Riots last November, the second was in relation to the Crown Paint Factory riot las Monday. This was my reply:

Dear Darragh,
I am sorry for the delay in replying to you. I was away for the weekend.

I am surprised you are requesting this data from me (please see a copy of the statement issued below in response to a previous request
for data relating to the November Riots). I understood gardai now had access to body cams and were in a position to record breaches of the law by individuals without recourse to jeopardising the independence, objectivity and safety of professional visual journalists by requesting the handing over of digital imagery captured during serious disturbances.

As you may be aware, over the last few months journalists have been intimidated, threatened, harassed, verbally abused and had their
vehicles and registration numbers photographed by supporters of anti migrant groups. The request you are making, will if acceded to, only inflame matters further and put the safety of visual journalists in further peril. I find it odd that gardai are complaining of the level of danger their own members are in, and yet are prepared to put journalists' safety at risk by requesting that they become the eyes and ears of the State.

I am sure you will understand that like the Garda Commissioner, I also have a duty of care to those who work for me and cannot accede to a request that would endanger their personal safety. I would also ask you to consider the unintended consequences if I and other media platforms were to come to the decision that in order to protect our visual journalists from the consequences
of your request, the only solution is to cease covering the type of social disturbances we have witnessed at the Crown Paint factory over the last few weeks.

For the reasons above, I cannot accede to your request and I would hope in understanding why, you will not pursue the matter.

Eamonn Farrell,
Editor,
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[Colm Hand @ColmHand]

@simesa @EmmaSJacobs @BBCiPlayer @BBCNews Hi Simon, really interesting project. What was the advantage of using TVU over Live-U Smart. Is there anything you’d do differently for the next one?

[Colm Hand @ColmHand]

Swan killed after suspected dog attack in Kilbogget Park in south Dublin

[Molly O’Connor @molly_oconnorrr]

@ColmHand showing us all how it’s done with a solid 20kg camera on his shoulder!! @news2dayRTE

[Colm Hand @ColmHand]

The Taoiseach gave the Irish athletic team medal winners a tour of his office this morning

[Séamus Dooley @Seamusdo]

Using Section 21 of the Public Order Act to prevent journalists from covering a policing operation at the Grand Canal bank, as reported on @morningireland seem inappropriate and over the top @GardaTraffic @NUJofficial

[Sinéad O'Carroll @SineadOCarroll]

From private Facebook groups to a clash with gardaí: Inside the Newtownmountkennedy standoff

Big read from @EoghanDalton and @Ste_McDermott

https://t.co/lL9cRhqBLS

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

This exchange:
- "We feel we're the most humane army that's ever existed in living memory"
- "You're shooting people with white flags, you even shot your own hostages!"

[R A W S A L E R T S @rawsalerts]

🚨#BREAKING: A Fox 7 News photojournalist has been thrown to the ground and arrested by police while covering a live broadcast during the protest at the University of Texas

📌#Austin | #Texas 

Amidst the chaotic scenes that was unfolding earlier this evening at the University of Texas, where hundreds of pro-Palestinian protesters clashed with police, a Fox 7 Austin News photojournalist who was covering a developing story live on broadcast from the state university campus was thrown to the ground and arrested by law enforcement in riot gear. Officers allege his camera struck an officer, though the photojournalist claims it was unintentional as crowds of protesters were pushing.

[Colm O'Gorman @Colmogorman]

Utterly unacceptable.

At what point do we call this out?

Our collective silence simply emboldens this sort of vile behaviour.

[Colm Hand @ColmHand]

@Daily_Millenia @Caittrainor Did you do any due diligence before your post about lack of coverage. Type Clondalkin assault RTE into google, it’s the very first result. You could also watch back the 1, 6 or 9TV news from the day after the assault or listen back to any f the main radio bulletins.

[Colm Hand @ColmHand]

@Daily_Millenia @Caittrainor Fact Check: it was covered extensively on RTÉ News across TV, Radio and Online the day after the assault happened. It was covered again when the man passed away.

[Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus @DrTedros]

.@WHO and partners managed to reach Al-Shifa — once the backbone of the health system in #Gaza, which is now an empty shell with human graves after the latest siege. The team witnessed at least five dead bodies during the mission.

Most of the buildings in the hospital complex are extensively destroyed and the majority of assets damaged or reduced to ashes. Even restoring minimal functionality in the short term seems implausible. An in-depth assessment by a team of engineers is needed to determine if the remaining buildings are safe for future use.

WHO and partners’ recent effort to support the revival of basic services at Al-Shifa are now lost, and people are once again deprived of access to lifesaving health care services.

As famine looms, disease outbreaks spread, and trauma injuries increase, WHO urges immediate:
- protection of remaining health facilities in Gaza
- protection of health and humanitarian workers
- additional land crossings to allow access into and across north Gaza
- functional deconfliction mechanism
- unimpeded access of humanitarian aid into and across the Gaza Strip
- ceasefire.

[Darran Marshall @DarranMarshall]

“Prime Minister Netanyahu, the Irish people could not be clearer. We are repulsed by your actions.”

Ireland’s incoming Taoiseach @SimonHarrisTD says “famine is a spectre no Irish person can bear.”

“Anyone who can countenance deliberate starvation has lost their humanity.”

[RTÉ News @rtenews]

A swimming coach jailed for spying on young girls as they changed their clothes, has been given an additional four-month suspended sentence for assaulting an RTÉ cameraman who filmed him leaving court https://t.co/wFGVV154O1

[Channel 4 News @Channel4News]

“I’m not attacking you, I’m just asking a simple question.”

@krishgm asks an Israeli spokesman whether the government will apologise to the families of seven people killed in a @WCKitchen aid convoy, amid reports of repeated strikes on aid agencies.