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Niall Sargent
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Reporter @thecurrency | Lecturer @griffithcollege | MAs Critical Terrorism Studies & Investigative Journalism | Fmr Intelligence Analyst |
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Expect the Arts Council to be back in the news cycle next week as senior officials will face scrutiny before the powerful Public Accounts Committee about what went wrong with its failed multi-million euro IT project.

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Arts Council officials to come before Public Accounts Committee next week - The Currency
Senior officials from the Arts Council will face scrutiny before the Public Accounts Committee next Thursday about what went wrong with the body’s failed multi-million euro IT project. Maureen Kennell...
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May 23, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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"It is beyond time to sharpen our pens."
— Niall Sargent
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Omissions, caveats and false balance: How media is failing Palestinians, the international order and our profession - The Currency
“Legal scholars tend to sharpen their pens after the smell of death has dissipated and moral clarity is no longer urgent.” This is a line from an article penned by Palestinian human rights lawyer Rabe...
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April 15, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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Superb indepth Currency report: "Visiting Ireland last month, UN Special Rapporteur on Palestine Francesca Albanese held a mirror up to the Irish State but also the media to reflect if it is reporting accurately on Gaza. The clear answer is no"

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Omissions, caveats and false balance: How media is failing Palestinians, the international order and our profession - The Currency
“Legal scholars tend to sharpen their pens after the smell of death has dissipated and moral clarity is no longer urgent.” This is a line from an article penned by Palestinian human rights lawyer Rabe...
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April 15, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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"You’re scared of doing the right thing because the right thing comes with a price, and I stand proud with it because I take that price as the price of humanity, a price that I can bear, and you should do the same” - Francesca
Albanese
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Omissions, caveats and false balance: How media is failing Palestinians, the international order and our profession - The Currency
“Legal scholars tend to sharpen their pens after the smell of death has dissipated and moral clarity is no longer urgent.” This is a line from an article penned by Palestinian human rights lawyer Rabe...
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April 15, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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"Much as she did toward the Irish State during her visit, @francescaalbanese.bsky.social held a mirror up to the media to ask itself if it was accurately reporting events in #Gaza. The clear answer for much of the Western media is no" - words by @niallsargent.bsky.social in The Currency.
Omissions, caveats and false balance: How media is failing Palestinians, the international order and our profession - The Currency
“Legal scholars tend to sharpen their pens after the smell of death has dissipated and moral clarity is no longer urgent.” This is a line from an article penned by Palestinian human rights lawyer Rabea Eghbariah for the Harvard Law Review as he explored an “inertia of legal academia” in examining Israel’s assault on Gaza... View Article
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April 16, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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Journalism has failed Journalists in Gaza.
@niallsargent.bsky.social on the #EchoChamberPod is out now everywhere

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April 18, 2025 at 12:35 PM
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Such an important read by @niallsargent.bsky.social in Tye Currency. Now un-paywalled.

Please share.

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Omissions, caveats and false balance: How media is failing Palestinians, the international order and our profession - The Currency
“Legal scholars tend to sharpen their pens after the smell of death has dissipated and moral clarity is no longer urgent.” This is a line from an article penned by Palestinian human rights lawyer Rabe...
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April 14, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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Niall Sargent: Omissions, caveats and false balance: How media is failing Palestinians, the international order and our profession - The Currency (free)

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Omissions, caveats and false balance: How media is failing Palestinians, the international order and our profession - The Currency
“Legal scholars tend to sharpen their pens after the smell of death has dissipated and moral clarity is no longer urgent.” This is a line from an article penned by Palestinian human rights lawyer Rabe...
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April 15, 2025 at 9:21 AM
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During a recent trip to Ireland, @franceskalbs.bsky.social held a mirror up to the media & asked if we were reporting accurately on Gaza. The clear answer is no.

As I write in The Currency this morning, we are failing Palestinians, the international order & our own profession:

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April 12, 2025 at 6:31 AM
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PFAS-contaminated soil was recently discovered at Dublin Airport close to where TII plans to tunnel for the airport station as part of the long-awaited €9.5bn MetroLink project.

Here's how the transport agency plans to handle the "forever chemicals" issue:

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Planning for the worst: How TII plans to handle forever chemicals at Dublin Airport - The Currency
Over 300,000 cubic metres of soil may need to be dug up and shipped abroad for safe disposal during MetroLink construction due to concerns over PFAS forever chemicals contamination at Dublin Airport. ...
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February 10, 2025 at 9:13 AM
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The Court of Appeal has asked for the CJEU's opinion on the validity of environmental assessments used to grant planning permission. The European court's position could have a dramatic impact on planned projects close to 80 protected nature sites across the country.

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Black swan: Environmental legal challenge with a potential chilling effect on development - The Currency
The black-swan theory is used to describe a surprise high-impact event which was unforeseen or difficult to predict but later rationalised in hindsight as an inevitable affair. The theory applies nice...
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February 7, 2025 at 10:37 AM
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A very important event this Friday at DCU on Journalism and the Narrative on Palestine:

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Symposium Information Wars: Journalism, Digital Media and the Narrative on Palestine
The symposium Information Wars: Journalism, Digital Media and the Narrative on Palestine will be held on Friday 07 February in the All Hallows campus of Dublin City University. All Hallows is on th…
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February 5, 2025 at 8:33 AM
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In recent months, over 40 companies controlled by Cerberus filed new financial reports. Thomas Hubert has cut through the many, many pages of financial data and dissected how the vulture fund has done out of a decade’s worth of Irish loans.

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10 years a vulture – part 1: How Cerberus has done out of a decade’s worth of Irish loans - The Currency
In the final months of 2024, over 40 Irish companies controlled by the US investment firm Cerberus filed new financial information. For anyone with the time and inclination to read them, they paint an...
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February 4, 2025 at 10:33 AM
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Bord na Mona, ESB & Coillte have faced criticism for regularly fighting against requests for environmental & climate records.

New decisions from the information commissioner may reveal their spending on legal fees and shine a light on a broken system.

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A fee for all: Semi-states racking up legal bills on transparency battles - The Currency
Ireland’s Open Data Portal currently gives the public access to more than 20,000 datasets from multiple State departments, agencies and bodies.  A recent EU survey put Ireland in the top five performe...
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January 29, 2025 at 10:20 AM