We filmed with the Extern crisis team in Derry for a 2020 Spotlight programme about rising suicide rates. In one 24 hour period staff were a life line for the most vulnerable, many in desperate situations. Where will they go now?

Derry / Mental health - Extern NI's community crisis intervention service (CCIS) closes due to lack of funding. It provided out-of-hours care for people in social or emotional crisis. x.com/mandy_mcaule...

ABC barred from Trump’s UK press conference after his clash with Australian journalist John Lyons | Australian Broadcasting Corporation | The Guardian www.theguardian.com/media/2025/s...

ABC pulls late-night host Jimmy Kimmel off air indefinitely over comments he made about Charlie Kirk shooting. Celebrating the announcement, President Donald Trump said it was "great news for America". www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Israel's culture minister threatens to axe funding for the country's national Ophir film awards - Israel’s equivalent of the Oscars - after The Sea, a story about a 12-year-old Palestinian boy, wins top award. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Foster sister of little Daniel Aruebose tells @thejournal_ie “we’re more angry than anything. How could this happen?…We didn’t want him to go [out of our care].” www.thejournal.ie/donabate-dan...

Co Dublin: Skeletal remains found of young boy who had been missing and presumed dead in Donabate. Gardaí believe the remains are of Daniel Aruebose, not seen for a number of years and who would now be seven. BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

An admission by Mi5 that raises very serious questions. Are we to believe that these were isolated breaches ? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

MI5 'illegally obtained communications data' from phone of former BBC NI Spotlight journalist Vincent Kearney. A BBC spokesperson said: "MI5's admission..is a matter of grave concern. It raises serious & impt questions that we will continue to pursue." www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

UN commission of inquiry says Israel has committed genocide against Palestinians in Gaza since 2023. Killing members of a group, causing serious bodily and mental harm, deliberately inflicting conditions calculated to destroy the group, preventing births. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Delighted to speak at the NI premiere of Gerard Gorman’s life story, BOY at the Linenhall. Ground breaking, brave work that explores the devastating fall out of child sexual abuse while touching and lifting the soul through music and poetry. Bringing understanding, hope, & healing.

Presbyterian presidential candidate, Heather Humphreys, says she feels she is an example to NI unionists of a new Ireland…”a tolerant, inclusive Ireland that can accommodate different traditions and viewpoints.” @rtenews www.rte.ie/news/2025/09...

Anti-Islamic US biker gang members run security at Gaza aid sites - BBC “Putting the Infidels biker club in charge of delivering aid in Gaza is like putting the KKK in charge of delivering humanitarian aid in Sudan.” Council on American-Islamic Relations www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Dublin - A year after Kyran Durnin was first reported missing Irish police are searching for another child missing for a significant period of time, now feared dead. Frightening. www.rte.ie/news/dublin/...

The UDA have set themselves up as housing officers..” Victims campaigner, Raymond McCord @StephenNolan as catholic families intimidated out of north Belfast development by the west Belfast UDA and ethnic minority households living in fear of attack.

A privilege to be part of the NI premiere of the searingly powerful BOY by Damian Gorman @thelinenhall 11 Sept. The story, in words & music, of his brother Gerard who endured horrific abuse at the hands of Fr Malachy Finegan. Gerard’s courage inspired many other men to come forward.

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“It is more harmful to have a strategy that will not address poverty, than no strategy at all.” Almost 50 charities & anti-poverty orgs in Northern Ireland call on executive to drop anti-poverty strategy saying families “deserve better”. BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Hundreds of households celebrated Christmas in June for a little girl with cancer who might not make it to December. In the thick heat and humidity, neighbors dressed in holiday apparel gathered to help one family find happiness in the face of tragedy.

A picture of violence @ItaDungan 27 women killed since 2020 in Northern Ireland as young pregnant mother Sarah Montgomery latest name to be added to devastating roll call. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

A young pregnant mother murdered in Co Down. Just three days ago NI Womans Aid described the grim daily reality of violence against women & girls to the NI Affairs Committee 👇 @https://x.com/commonsniac/status/1938146149333938532?s=46

Another woman, a young mother, murdered in Northern Ireland. “Unfortunately Sarah isn't the first woman to pass away in Donaghadee in the past year, or in Northern Ireland. "I've almost lost count on how many women have passed away in tragic circumstances since 2020."

When everyone turns up for the #doggydander! @gymforthesoul.bsky.social Great people and their pups - so many different breeds, shapes and sizes 🐶❤️

senior doctor in emergency medicine has said “almost every hospital is treating patients in corridors and car parks” after a hospital posted adverts calling for nurses to take on 12-hour “corridor care” shifts. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Must Read @mlchealth @BBCNewsNI Two elderly patients in the emergency department of the Royal Victoria Hospital in Belfast for more than 5 days. Over 500 patients unable to be discharged on Sunday night, despite being medically fit. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Some people love park runs. I prefer #DoggyDanders. A brilliant, uplifting morning. Doggy people really are the best ❤️🐶

Northern Ireland EDs : 'We're at breaking point…We say it every year but it's never been as bad, morale has never been as low in the departments I've worked in, never in my entire career.” Dr Clodagh Corrigan has worked in EDs for 14 years - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Ready now for #NYE24 #MountainEnergy #Divis Raising a flask to the fellow travellers who left us in 24 and those we’ll journey with in 25 ❤️🔥

Lifeline - 0808-808-8000 A day that stirs a million emotions. If you’re struggling you are not alone. Talk to people who will listen and understand. Call free 24/7

Killed women count 2024 - The Guardian Horrific roll call and portraits of the 80 women whose deaths have led to a man being charged across the UK in 2024. Nurse Karen Cummings from Co Down is currently at the top of the roll 🙏 www.theguardian.com/uk-news/ng-i...

As 100s wait for admission, some up to 19 hours in ambulances @BelfastTrust appeals for help discharging medically fit patients. “Our hospitals are in crisis…If we can’t get patients out of hospitals who no longer need to be there we can’t get seriously ill patients in.” x.com/belfasttrust...

“I am seeing an increasing number of people asking for a private referral, people who can little afford it and are turning to credit or their meagre life savings to pay for it.” Dr Michael McKenna, Falls Rd @IrishTimes www.irishtimes.com/health/2024/...

Sky watching. A beautiful day to walk the legs of yourself. #MussendenTemple #Downhill

As hundreds wait on hospital beds important analysis on how we got here @mlchealth @BBCNewsNI “A major part of the problem is there hasn't been enough done to support people and staff in the community to prevent hospital admissions..” 👇 x.com/mlchealth/st...

Almost 400 people are waiting for a hospital bed in Northern Ireland @BBCNewsNI 35 ambulances are unable to offload at emergency departments as there isn't the space to facilitate crews or patients. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

“Well, did you make it through Christmas?” Another great video to watch during these “quiet days” from Mrs J @CMJohnstonNI #MentalHealth x.com/cmjohnstonni...

#Gaza - Five more journalists killed inside their press vehicle in Israeli strike. It comes after a father of a two-week-old Palestinian girl told the BBC how his baby daughter froze to death in a tent in Gaza - the third child in a week to die in similar conditions.

Dayla Durnin - Nicola Donnelly @nikkide2012 @IrishMirror find Kyran’s mum on her way to a Premier League football match in England. She refuses to answer questions on her son’s disappearance.https://www.irishmirror.ie/news/irish-news/kyran-durnins-mother-refuses-comment-34362327

#Kyran - Photographs from phone given to gardai last week provide proof of his last known location. Drogheda, early June 2022 @Independent_ie Maeve Sheehan

DROGHEDA - Caravan Of Love @StOliversCC If you need some light and joy today watch this brilliant, heartfelt Christmas video by the St Oliver's Community College music pupils - YouTube www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3GO...

2024. Another year working with brilliant @BBCSpotlightNI teams, sources, and contributors. Thank you for going ‘above and beyond’ and have a very happy Christmas 🎄🙏

Landmark family court ruling @BBCNews Journalists & legal bloggers will be allowed to report on family court cases in England and Wales from early 2025. Transparency no longer restricted to pilot courts and will be permanent. #FamilyCourt www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

France - 51 men convicted in horrific mass rape trial. Brought to justice by an incredible woman who waived her anonymity to make “shame swap sides”. #GiselePelicot

A man who choked his partner and pulled clumps of hair as he repeatedly slammed her head against a toilet avoids jail @BelTel www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/courts/...

Kyran - an appeal to the people out there who know what happened @DroghedaLifecom “It goes beyond human imagination that anyone could keep such a matter secret…inconceivable that anyone could live with themselves. You need to come forward..” droghedalife.com/news/the-peo...

NI Secretary Hilary Benn must set up public inquiry into the murder of GAA official Sean Brown, High Court judge orders "No viable alternative to a public inquiry has been advanced” “..a clear and unambiguous obligation” to establish a statutory probe. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The Police Service of Northern Ireland and Metropolitan Police acted illegally by spying on two Belfast journalists' to identify their sources. Landmark ruling made by the Investigatory Powers Tribunal www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...