Liam Tunney | Journalist
@ismiseliam.bsky.social
✍️ Journalist (Belfast Telegraph)
☘️ Gaeilgeoir
🇺🇦 Hurler (Rasharkin GAC)
📩 liam.tunney@belfasttelegraph.co.uk
🏛️ Omagh coverage: https://linktr.ee/liamtunney3
☘️ Gaeilgeoir
🇺🇦 Hurler (Rasharkin GAC)
📩 liam.tunney@belfasttelegraph.co.uk
🏛️ Omagh coverage: https://linktr.ee/liamtunney3
⚕️ That article came off the back of this one on the increasing number of overdoses being dealt with by the NI Ambulance Service.
There is a clearly a growing problem here - I will seek more up to date figures.
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There is a clearly a growing problem here - I will seek more up to date figures.
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‘A bleak picture’: Paramedics increasingly tasked with overdose reversal as hospital admissions fall
Patients presenting with drug overdose are being discharged back into the community and not managed properly, a Belfast councillor and community activist has said.
www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk
November 10, 2025 at 2:16 PM
⚕️ That article came off the back of this one on the increasing number of overdoses being dealt with by the NI Ambulance Service.
There is a clearly a growing problem here - I will seek more up to date figures.
4/4
There is a clearly a growing problem here - I will seek more up to date figures.
4/4
⚕️ July 2024: Activist Michael McDowell calling for increased testing facilities to be made available as Nitazenes became increasingly prevalent in the NI market.
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Rise in deadly synthetic opioids on NI streets prompts charity’s call for increased drug-testing services
A drugs charity based in Belfast has called for better official monitoring and testing of drugs as the presence of life-threatening synthetic opioids on Northern Ireland’s streets continues to rise.
www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk
November 10, 2025 at 2:16 PM
⚕️ July 2024: Activist Michael McDowell calling for increased testing facilities to be made available as Nitazenes became increasingly prevalent in the NI market.
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⚕️ I've written about his a number of times in the last 18 months or so - another inquest, that of Robert Payne (30) also highlighted the danger.
Mr Payne died shortly after being released from prison.
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Mr Payne died shortly after being released from prison.
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NI man died in hostel of drugs overdose just days after being released from prison, inquest hears
More education on drug overdose is needed for prisoners, a coroner has warned following the inquest of an NI man who died in a hostel just days after being released from jail.
www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk
November 10, 2025 at 2:16 PM
⚕️ I've written about his a number of times in the last 18 months or so - another inquest, that of Robert Payne (30) also highlighted the danger.
Mr Payne died shortly after being released from prison.
2/4
Mr Payne died shortly after being released from prison.
2/4
📩 | Took a look last month at how this unfolded through the lens of internal Trust reports and correspondence.
"A quick conversation on anonymity – the Trust wants us to identify those individuals being accused of poor behaviours"
📰 | @belfasttelegraph.co.uk
"A quick conversation on anonymity – the Trust wants us to identify those individuals being accused of poor behaviours"
📰 | @belfasttelegraph.co.uk
Belfast Trust asked cardiac review team to ‘identify individuals accused of poor behaviour’
A Northern Ireland health trust wanted to use details from an external review into alleged bullying in its cardiac unit to “identify individuals accused of poor behaviours”, correspondence has shown.
www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk
October 22, 2025 at 5:22 PM
📩 | Took a look last month at how this unfolded through the lens of internal Trust reports and correspondence.
"A quick conversation on anonymity – the Trust wants us to identify those individuals being accused of poor behaviours"
📰 | @belfasttelegraph.co.uk
"A quick conversation on anonymity – the Trust wants us to identify those individuals being accused of poor behaviours"
📰 | @belfasttelegraph.co.uk