Donie O'Sullivan | |
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 O'Sullivan in 2015 | |
| Born | 24 March 1991 Cahersiveen, County Kerry, Ireland |
| Known for | CNN senior correspondent |
| Writing career | |
| Occupation | Journalist |
Donie O'Sullivan (born 24 March 1991) [1] is a senior correspondent working for CNN in New York City. Born in Ireland, he holds both Irish and US citizenship. [2]
Originally from Cahersiveen in County Kerry, [3] [4] O'Sullivan attended Coláiste na Sceilge, graduating in 2009. [5] He graduated from University College Dublin in 2012 with a degree in history and politics, [5] [6] and has a masters in political science from Queen's University Belfast. [7]
He worked for Storyful in Dublin and New York, [8] [9] and joined CNN in 2016. [7]
O'Sullivan has covered the impact of social media on politics and reported on the 2021 United States Capitol attack. [7] When Mike Lindell held a three-day "Cyber Symposium" in August 2021, with a promise that he would present "irrefutable evidence" of election fraud, O'Sullivan attended and brought cybersecurity expert Harri Hursti to the conference; Hursti said that Lindell's purported evidence was a "pile of nothing" and found no proof of election fraud. [10] [11]
In 2021, O'Sullivan's work on a story about a COVID-19 "patient-zero conspiracy theory" (broadcast by CNN in 2020) was nominated for a News & Documentary Emmy Award. [12] [13] Donie O'Sullivan: Capitol Man, a documentary covering O'Sullivan's own life and move from "a small town in Kerry to become an international household name", was commissioned by RTÉ Television, [14] and broadcast in Ireland in January 2022. [15]
In December 2022, O'Sullivan's Twitter account was among several journalists' accounts that were suspended after covering Twitter's owner Elon Musk during the Twitter suspensions of December 2022. [16] Musk accused O’Sullivan of violating Twitter's policy on doxing. [17]
In September 2023, he worked on an episode of the CNN series The Whole Story With Anderson Cooper, Titled Waiting for JFK: Report from the Fringe, the episode focused on the toll conspiracy theories were having on American families. [18]
During the 2024 US presidential campaign, O'Sullivan led reporting for three hour-long CNN specials titled "MisinfoNation," as part of The Whole Story With Anderson Cooper. [19] [20] O'Sullivan was promoted to senior correspondent at CNN in July 2024. [21] [22]
Cahersiveen, sometimes Cahirciveen, is a town in the far south-west of Ireland, in County Kerry. As at 2022 it had a population of 1,297.
The College Tribune is a student newspaper which serves Ireland's largest third level institution, University College Dublin. It was established in 1989 with the assistance of journalist and broadcaster Vincent Browne who was attending the university as an evening student at the time. Browne noted the campus' lack of a news outlet which was independent of both the university and University College Dublin Students' Union and alongside founding editor Eamon Dillon set up the Tribune to correct this. Initially, a close working relationship was maintained between the Tribune and the Sunday Tribune which was at the time edited by Browne. This relationship afforded the paper the use of professional production facilities in its fledgling years. Ultimately however, the student newspaper would outlast its national weekly counterpart with the Sunday Tribune having ceased publication in 2011. The College Tribune is UCD's oldest surviving newspaper having been published continuously for over 30 years.
Jack O'Connor is an Irish Gaelic football manager and former player. In 2021, he was appointed manager of the senior Kerry county team, having earlier managed it over two terms in the 2000s.
The Kerry babies case was a 1984 investigation by the Garda Síochána in County Kerry, Ireland, into the killing of one newborn baby and the alleged killing of another, and the subject of a 3-part 2023 (UK) Channel 4 documentary “Murdered: The Baby On The Beach.” The mother who concealed the second baby, Joanne Hayes, was arrested and charged with the murder of the first baby, of which she was erroneously thought to be the mother. The Gardaí were forced to drop the charges four years later and a tribunal of inquiry was launched. Its report was critical of the Garda conduct of the investigations, and it also concluded that Hayes had premeditated the death of her baby. Hayes has disputed this finding, and no charges were pressed. The parents and killer of the first baby have never been publicly identified, though arrests of a man and woman were made in 2023. In 2020, the Irish State formally apologised after 36 years to Joanne Hayes for wrongly accusing her of the murder and for the "appalling hurt and distress caused".
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Donie O'Sullivan is an Irish former Gaelic footballer who played for the Spa club and at senior level for the Kerry county team between 1962 and 1975. He was the recipient of Kerry's first All Star Award in 1971, a feat he repeated in 1972. In 2019, he was inducted into Munster GAA's "hall of fame".
Coláiste na Sceilge is a secondary school in Cahersiveen, County Kerry, Ireland. It is a co-educational community school which grew out of the amalgamation in 1999 of St John Bosco Secondary School, Scoil Uí Chonaill and Waterville Vocational School. In 2018, the former Kerry footballer Maurice Fitzgerald was appointed as its principal. As of 2019, it had an enrollment of 511 secondary school students. The school offers courses under the Junior Cycle and Leaving Certificate curriculum. The school has won a number of provincial and national titles in Gaelic football.
Donie Buckley is an Irish Gaelic football coach and former player. He played at full forward with his local club Castleisland Desmonds but never with the Kerry county team. His coaching has taken him all along the western coast from Clare to Galway, to Limerick, Kerry and Mayo.
Events during the year 2016 in Ireland.
Michael James Lindell, also known as the My Pillow Guy and Mike Pillow, is an American businessman, political activist, and conspiracy theorist. He is the founder and CEO of My Pillow, a pillow, bedding, and slipper manufacturing company.
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On December 15, 2022, Twitter suspended the accounts of ten journalists who have covered the company and its owner, Elon Musk. They included reporters Keith Olbermann, Steven L. Herman, and Donie O'Sullivan, as well as journalists from The New York Times, The Washington Post, CNN, and The Intercept. Musk cited an incident between "a crazy stalker" and a car with his child as a justification for the suspensions. Posters on behalf of the owners of the accounts said that the suspensions were permanent. On December 16, 2022, Musk stated that account access would only be restricted for seven days and on December 17, 2022, some accounts were reportedly restored with Musk citing Twitter community polls as the reason for the reversal.
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