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New study seeks input from Irish parents who have adopted children from outside of Ireland

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Tax incentives lead to boom in Irish film and TV industry

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First new golf links in over a century to open in Northern Ireland

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Protest and policing concerns echo past bans

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Lawyer’s bid to prosecute journalist over Sophie Toscan du Plantier case dismissed

July 18, 2025 by

A FORMER State solicitor who was involved in the case against Ian Bailey has failed in a legal bid to privately prosecute a journalist who wrote a book about the 1996 murder of Sophie Toscan du Plantier. Robert Sheehan, who worked with the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) in 2001, sought to bring a case against journalist and author Senan Molony, alleging professional … [Read more...] about Lawyer’s bid to prosecute journalist over Sophie Toscan du Plantier case dismissed

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May 5, 1867

Nellie Bly, American journalist, was born Elizabeth Jane Cochran to Irish immigrants in Pennsylvania. Born in Cochran Mill’s, an area named for her father Michael who began as a mill laborer and ended up owning the mill. Bly once faked insanity to expose inhumane practices in the Women’s Lunatic Asylum on Blackwell’s Island. In doing so she spawned a new form of “investigative” journalism. It was custom at the time for female writers to use pen names and Cochran’s first editor suggested Nelly Bly from the Stephen Foster song. At age 25, she took a trip around the world in 72 days, beating Phileas Fogg, the fictional hero of Jules Verne’s Around the World in Eighty Days. She also was the first female war reporter in WWI.

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