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PatrickFreyne

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Irish Times writer, essayist & storyist. My book's out! uk.bookshop.org/books/ok-let-s…

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I've spent the last week visiting camps for Sudanese refugees in east Chad (thanks to the Simon Cumbers fund). Still here but heading back tonight. This is the first piece, about international aid cuts and hunger. More will be coming next week irishtimes.com/world/africa/2…

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There’s a city of 237,000 refugees on the Chadian/sudanese border in Adre. The Sudan war is the biggest humanitarian crisis in the world right now. 150,000 dead and 12 million displaced. Chris Maddaloni and I spent a week in refugee camps in east Chad. irishtimes.com/life-style/peo…

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Patrick Freyne's piece highlights the ongoing humanitarian crisis in Chad due to the conflict in Sudan. Between 2008 and 2010, Óglaigh na hÉireann experienced the complex challenges caused by hostilities in this region when it led a multinational battalion in Goz Beida.

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“She is refusing to eat anything. Even if I gave her water she will refuse it” - Khadija with her malnourished daughter, Fatima, in Khartoum.

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Here’s a further report from a second camp for Sudanese refugees in east Chad with photos by Chris Maddaloni (there’s a lot of upsetting testimony from people here) irishtimes.com/world/africa/2…

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The way the algorithms keep us hemmed into a handful of news stories has really been bothering me recently irishtimes.com/opinion/2025/0…

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We visited a women's centre in the refugee camp in Adre set up by refugee & social worker, Zahra Adam Khimes. The stories are upsetting but the women were resilient & open & kind irishtimes.com/life-style/peo…

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Following on from last week's article , the horror & hope of Sudanese refugees , empathetically reported here by PatrickFreyne & Chris Maddaloni in the The Irish Times , a crisis , under-reported & acknowledged by all of us.

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Privileged today to have a powerful if at times distressing conversation with PatrickFreyne & Chris Maddaloni on RTÉ Radio 1 on their incredibly important reports v recently for The Irish Times from Sudan/Chad border. Great work on a major humanitarian crisis.

Privileged today to have a powerful if at times distressing conversation with <a href="/PatrickFreyne1/">PatrickFreyne</a> &amp; <a href="/C_Maddaloni/">Chris Maddaloni</a> on <a href="/RTERadio1/">RTÉ Radio 1</a> on their incredibly important reports v recently for <a href="/IrishTimes/">The Irish Times</a> from Sudan/Chad border. Great work on a major humanitarian crisis.
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. Issa Amro عيسى عمرو 🇵🇸 who featured in The Settlers has posted videos of his latest harassment by settlers and soldiers. Our team has been in regular contact with him since the documentary and over the last 24 hours. We are continuing to monitor the situation.

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I’m reading OK Let’s Do Your Stupid Idea by PatrickFreyne and this bit about doing a parachute jump is making me laugh like an idiot while on a packed train

I’m reading OK Let’s Do Your Stupid Idea by <a href="/PatrickFreyne1/">PatrickFreyne</a> and this bit about doing a parachute jump is making me laugh like an idiot while on a packed train