Mark Hennessy

@MarkHennessy

Ireland and Britain Editor. The Irish Times, now leading the "Common Ground" project: https://www.irishtimes.com/common-ground/ @itcommonground

Dublin City, Ireland

Joined April 2009

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Mark Hennessy@MarkHennessy · Jul 18

Public opinion is now toxic, warns former minister for health irishtimes.com/politics/2025/… #ireland #socialmedia #x

MarkHennessy's tweet card. Negative attitude toward health service is increasingly corrosive and destructive, says Stephen Donnelly

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Mark Hennessy@MarkHennessy · Jul 17

Behind Enemy Lines - Frank McNally on a little piece of Cork that is forever Tipperary irishtimes.com/opinion/an-iri…

MarkHennessy's tweet card. Although a first-class cricketer in his prime, he was probably never much of a hurling fan

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Mark Hennessy@MarkHennessy · Jul 25

A Marshall Plan is needed for loyalist communities, and so much more irishtimes.com/politics/2025/…

MarkHennessy's tweet card. Policing, education and engagement needed to set the stage for difficult period of change

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Tom Doorley@tomdoorley · Jul 21

BBC Sounds has been available to anyone on the planet and now it's being confined to the UK. Why on earth is the UK retreating from the world? It's becoming a smaller country.

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Mark Hennessy@MarkHennessy · Jul 22

Michael McDowell pushed for British amnesty for IRA members without trial, UK files reveal irishtimes.com/politics/2025/…

MarkHennessy's tweet card. Treatment of the so-called ‘on-the-runs’ later became a major controversy

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Mark Hennessy@MarkHennessy · Jul 22

Former US ambassador Jean Kennedy Smith turned against Sinn Féin after 9/11, British files claim #ireland #uk #sinnfein #northernireland irishtimes.com/politics/2025/…

MarkHennessy's tweet card. She also thought Tony Blair ‘should be much tougher with IRA’, friend told British prime minister’s chief of staff

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Mark Hennessy@MarkHennessy · Jul 19

It will be an ‘insult’ if Fianna Fáil don’t enter presidential race, says Mary Hanafin #aras #president irishtimes.com/ireland/2025/0…

MarkHennessy's tweet card. Former minister has made clear her wish to be nominated by the party

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Mark Hennessy@MarkHennessy · Jul 19

Baltic states’ ‘visceral fear’ of Russian invasion ‘almost impossible’ for Irish to understand, says ex-MEP irishtimes.com/ireland/2025/0… #ireland #baltics

MarkHennessy's tweet card. Ciarán Cuffe says Germany and Austria find it very difficult to recognise magnitude of human slaughter in Palestine

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Mark Hennessy@MarkHennessy · Jul 18

Ireland's (and the world's 😀) finest sporting final - the All-Ireland Hurling Final between Cork and Tipperary will be shown live on BBC 2TV on Sunday afternoon at 3pm. Watch and enjoy R/T

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Mark Hennessy@MarkHennessy · Jul 17

Better-off children ‘sailing away from the have-nots’, warns Ombudsman irishtimes.com/politics/2025/… #ireland

MarkHennessy's tweet card. Government unable to inform Ombudsman how much it spends on children, says Dr Niall Muldoon

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Pat Leahy@PatLeahyIT · Jul 16

Will swap for All-Ireland tickets

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Derek Scally@DerekinBerlin · Jul 14

And just like that, Germany's @RheinmetallAG solves the problem having enough, accessible public EV chargers to satisfy growing demand -- and ends range anxiety. Ahead through German engineering. You're welcome. @autocar @IrishTimesBiz @DublinCityHall irishtimes.com/business/2025/…

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Gerard Moriarty@GerryMoriartyIT · Jul 12

Waiting for the Twelfth return parade along the Lisburn Road, Belfast. ⁦@freyamcc⁩ ⁦@MarkHennessy⁩

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Gerard Moriarty@GerryMoriartyIT · Jul 12

‘It makes us look like Neanderthals’: UDA leader laments loyalist street violence but sees role for ‘paramilitary influence’ irishtimes.com/politics/2025/… @freyamcc @MarkHennessy @SeaninGraham22

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Mark Hennessy@MarkHennessy · Jul 9

Noraid: ‘They started to run it down from the early 1990s – They said I had an image as an IRA supporter’ irishtimes.com/politics/2025/… #ira #ireland

MarkHennessy's tweet card. New RTÉ documentary tells the story of Republican fundraising in the United States during the Troubles

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Mark Hennessy@MarkHennessy · Jul 9

Irony is struggling for breath here, if anyone has any oxygen to spare...

TTom Harwood@tomhfh · Jul 9

The Bayeux tapestry was commissioned and woven in Britain 900 years ago. It was subsequently taken to France. In order to bring it back to Britain - temporarily - we are having to lend Sutton Hoo discoveries, also from Britain. Some 'exchange' when both sides are British!

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Ronan McGreevy@RMcGreevy1301 · Jul 9

French embassy is looking for relatives of Liam O’Briain to attend this ceremony on Monday. Can anyone help them? My DMs are open.

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Mark Hennessy@MarkHennessy · Jul 9

Cormac Moore's new book on the Boundary Commission, "The Root of All Evil" is well worth putting on the summer list, if I may suggest - Partition was ‘designed to be intractable’, says Micheál Martin irishtimes.com/politics/2025/…

MarkHennessy's tweet card. Boundary Commission report brought ‘radicalising moment’ in Irish history, says Taoiseach

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Mark Hennessy@MarkHennessy · Jul 7

Personal injury award levels in Ireland fell by 45% to about €150m last year, Courts Service says irishtimes.com/crime-law/cour…

MarkHennessy's tweet card. There were some 25,000 applications for protection from domestic violence in 2024, with 314 for anti-stalking orders

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