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Alan English

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Alan English

@AlanEnglish9

Associate Editor, The Currency. Author of rugby books including Stand Up and Fight: When Munster Beat the All Blacks

Limerick, Ireland

Joined January 2013

Alan English
@AlanEnglish9
Mar 27, 2020
How lucky are we as a nation to have a chief medical officer as impressive as Dr Tony Holohan?Profound expertise, leadership, powerful communication ability, ordinary decency, calmness in a crisis #CoronaLockdown #coronavirus
Alan English
@AlanEnglish9
Mar 13, 2020
I love both Ireland and England but sometimes there are reminders that there's a greater sense of community - and kindness - in our smaller country. The difference between these two Mail headlines is an example - one designed to instil fear, the other capturing the national mood
Alan English
@AlanEnglish9
Mar 26, 2021
This amazing woman, Hilary Gough, was our night nurse last Friday and Saturday when our beloved mother passed away, because of cancer. Words couldn't describe how wonderful she was to our mother - and how much she helped us. Please support the @IrishCancerSoc and donate #latelate
Alan English
@AlanEnglish9
Mar 27, 2023
A journalist doing his job on the left of the screen, evasion and PR management on the right. Well done Shane Hannon
Off The Ball
@offtheball
Mar 27, 2023
Kellie Harrington discussed her deleted tweet on immigration on #OTBAM.
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Alan English
@AlanEnglish9
Jan 21, 2020
A bit of personal news: I'm proud to be the next editor of the Sunday Independent, a paper I've read all my life. I'm looking forward to working with a great team. I'll be editorial director of Iconic for a while yet, working with another top-class team of committed journalists
Alan English
@AlanEnglish9
Mar 30, 2020
First day in the new job. - No office - No face-to-face meetings - Editing Ireland's biggest selling newspaper from my front room in Castleconnell, Co Limerick - One of the biggest stories in generations on the go - But so far, so good - a great welcome from a great team
Alan English
@AlanEnglish9
Apr 9, 2021
Look at this absolute drivel. Must be high in the running for the worst piece ever published by @Forbes. And it gets even worse after the intro. Embarrassing
Alan English
@AlanEnglish9
Aug 19, 2018
Thanks to the kind person who put this on my Dad's grave on Friday - whoever you are. 45 years is a long time and many of our loved ones didn't live to see the day when Limerick won another All-Ireland - but we feel their spirit strongly now on this day of days 💚 #LuimneachAbú
Alan English
@AlanEnglish9
Jul 26, 2023
Irish Independent front page. Lovely #SineadOConnor
Alan English
@AlanEnglish9
Jun 18, 2021
Sinéad O'Connor joins the Sunday Independent as a columnist this Sunday. Her first piece has been filed - and it's great. Sinéad is a natural writer and her column pretty much picks up where her acclaimed and now bestselling memoir left off. A new chapter for an Irish icon
Alan English
@AlanEnglish9
Jul 9, 2023
Impeccable sources tell me the girl in the Limerick jersey who lit up #BruceSpringsteen's big screen several times in London last night is Sophie Gleeson, from Ballyclough 🇳🇬🇳🇬🇳🇬
Alan English
@AlanEnglish9
Mar 17, 2020
A Mayo man who should be high in the running for Time Magazine Person of the Year 2020 #coronavirus #COVID19 #Proudtobeirish independent.ie/world-news/cor…
Alan English
@AlanEnglish9
Jun 19, 2019
How comforting that the most read story - still - on the @IrishTimes website is a magnum opus of 16,000+ words written by a journalist at the top of his game, @ConorGallaghe_r. It's solid proof that many, many readers will devote their time to high-quality, long-form journalism
Alan English
@AlanEnglish9
Dec 8, 2023
No rain here in Soho tonight, but several glasses being raised in this establishment and nearby hostelries to the great man #ShaneMacGowan