Tara Griffiths

🎥 The moment Cool FM goes live in City Quays 3 📻 A talented, creative team I’m privileged & proud to work with in my dream job as a @coolfm journalist 🏆 An historic career highlight 🥂 To the next chapter VIDEO CREDIT: @stuartrobinson1 @EmmaDickson93 #solongakiltonga

🎥 “Price is one thing but supply shortage is a far bigger issue.” 🚜 @UFUHQ Deputy President John McLenaghan explains how the Middle East conflict is impacting fertiliser prices and availability 🗣️ He speaks to me almost a month into the Iran war

🎥 “Teachers’ mental health is suffering.” 🗣️@NASUWT Justin McCamphill speaks to me as hundreds of teachers meet for annual conference in Belfast 📚 The Dpt for Education has published a five-year strategy for public consultation to tackle the funding crisis

🎥 “Demand for food parcels is up around 300%.” 🍞 Anti poverty charity @TrussellUK reveals 68,000 emergency food parcels provided to NI households in 2025, with the majority for families with children 🗣️ I spoke to Ken Scott from Bangor Foodbank

🎥 “We just want to do cartwheels at lunchtime.” 📚NI pupils calling for law change to allow all schoolgirls to wear trousers 🗣️ Rhea Donnell and Astrid Knox spoke to me along with @nichildcom Chris Quinn, as they raised the issue at Stormont this week

🎥 “Life will never be the same for any of us after covid.” 🦠 Families who lost relatives during the pandemic calling for answers from UK Covid inquiry 🗣️ Martina Ferguson, Catriona Myles and Lauren Mallon speak to me as NI residents give evidence to latest module of inquiry

🎥 “It’s gone up almost £300 since last week.” 🛢️John Brooker who lives in County Antrim compares oil prices as they continue to rise amid the conflict in the Middle East 🗣️ He speaks to me as attacks continue for a fourth day

@QUBelfast @newsoncool @HeaneyCentre @QUBAlumni @QUBstaff Pleasure, congratulations on the event

@newsoncool @TaraGriff Thanks for joining us @TaraGriff, to help us celebrate the opening of this exciting new chapter for the @HeaneyCentre. #LoveQUB @QUBAlumni @QUBstaff

🎥 New Seamus Heaney centre opens in Belfast 📖 Tributes paid to the writer, poet and Nobel prize winner who was a @QUBelfast alumni & lecturer 🗣️Our reporter @TaraGriff went along

Junior doctors announce four new strike dates in May and June, read more here 👇 planetradio.co.uk/cool-fm/local/… planetradio.co.uk/cool-fm/local/…

BREAKING Junior doctors announce two new strike dates after health talks broke down, they'll stage a 48 hour walkout from 22nd-24th May

🎥 “It was a reckless decision” 🗣️ @COPNI Eddie Lynch says discharging patients to care homes without Covid testing to make space in hospitals for a surge contributed to negative outcomes 📍The Commissioner was giving evidence to #ukcovidinquiry in Belfast @TaraGriff reports

🎥 “Sport can lift you out of the darkest of places” 🧑🏻‍🦽‍➡️Amputees tell us how exercise helped them through adversity as @BelfastTrust hosts special sports day

BREAKING: junior doctors in NI set to go on strike after vote And you can read more here: planetradio.co.uk/cool-fm/local/… planetradio.co.uk/cool-fm/local/…

On-air and online: we hear from a group of Portadown women who are part of a cervical screening review Full story and video here: planetradio.co.uk/cool-fm/local/… planetradio.co.uk/cool-fm/local/…

🎥 WATCH: “You want the best outcome for your child” 🗣️ Group of north Belfast mums urging others to ensure they get both doses of MMR vaccine as measles on the rise in the UK and Europe 📍Currently no cases in NI 💉PHA is offering clinics until the end of March

Health Minister Robin Swann has written to trade unions inviting them to early discussions. Read more: health-ni.gov.uk/news/health-mi…

🗣️ ‘We are heartbroken.’ Dad of young man with learning difficulties urging @setrust to step in and save closure of Promote day centre in Bangor, read more here planetradio.co.uk/cool-fm/local/… planetradio.co.uk/cool-fm/local/…

Motorists advised against all but ‘essential’ journeys tomorrow due to widespread strike action @deptinfra

Journo request: I’m working on a story about the human impact of strikes. Would love to speak to a mum who has had to take the day off as schools are closed or who can’t get public transport etc. You can send me a DM but Easiest to call me on 07923 273138

The scene on the Andersontown Road after a car rammed Pizza guyz shop and then set it alight in the early hours of this morning @newsoncool @newsondowntown