Michael O’Toole

Updating my pinned tweet for contacts as @signalapp now has the facility of getting in touch via username, no number needed. My @signalapp username is: Mickthehack.1970 - I do find Signal is the most secure means, but there are others: -Threema, which is anonymous. My ID: XSTX4UW6 - Snapchat (messages disappear): mickthehack - Confidentiality of DMs here is sacrosanct - Email: mickthehack@protonmail.com Let it out.

After continuing to mock Ann Widdecombe following her murder, and then Lindsey Graham following his death, the University of Aberdeen employee who wrote that he wished Widdecombe's death was "extremely painful" has had his account suspended by Bluesky

Person of interest in Jamey Carney murder arrested in home nation of Jordan - Irish Mirror irishmirror.ie/news/irish-new…

Ahmed Al-Saqar has been detained in Jordan. This is a major development in the ongoing investigation into the murder of American citizen Jamey Carney in Co Kerry last week. We’re breaking it all down in our latest podcast. Out now. Here’s YouTube: youtu.be/oXVyk98lhho?is…

NEW: Amnesty International UK has now said it "regrets" the report was published without the proper checks. heraldscotland.com/news/26275911.…

@nwl88444048 @IrishMirror Or the different spellings of Mohammad, as an even better example.

@nwl88444048 @IrishMirror

BREAKING: Ahmed Al-Saqar arrested im Jordan. More pn @IrishMirror soon

@nwl88444048 @IrishMirror These are transliterations from Arabic to English. Can be either. Akin to the myriad spellings of Gaddafi.

Someone has been arrested in connection with the death of Ann Widdecombe - that means publishing anything, including posts on X, which risks seriously prejudicing a trial, is an offence. It also doesn’t help her friends and family in obtaining justice. Link in next post…

“ We have temporarily removed this briefing while it undergoes an internal review..’’ What! Eh! Hang on! Amnesty’s reputation is collapsing and they are “reviewing” a public statement…. I have never seen such chaos-in-comms….

A year ago today we lost our friend Mick O’Neill. There isn’t a day that I don’t think of him. I miss the long hours in the car together. I even miss him telling me off! An incredible photographer and an even better journalist. RIP.

Leitrim pensioner found dead days after being confronted by vigilante paedophile-hunters irishmirror.ie/news/irish-new…

Remembering the 3 young Quinn brothers who were murdered on this day 1998. Richard 11, Mark 9 and Jason 7. RIP

In memory of our friend and colleague Mick O’Neill, who died this day last year. I’d give anything for him to be in the passenger seat telling me how to drive again.

Gosh - a friend showed me Bluesky there…what an absolute sewer of hate. No wonder X is so much nicer now - they’ve all gone to Bluesky to spew their hate in an echo chamber. Off with them, I say!

Why are they saying that was a cross?

Holy moly.

Some political trivia from my old stomping ground. In the 1960s, Stormont's only Liberal Party MP made history by tabling (without success) legislation to outlaw religious and racial discrimination in housing and employment. Her name: Sheelagh Murnaghan. Dermot Murnaghan's aunt.