Damian Mac Con Uladh

Damian Mac Con Uladh

Athens Correspondent

Damian Mac Con Uladh has lived in Greece since 2004 and has been reporting from there for The Irish Times since June 2010. He is an online news editor at Enet.gr, the website of Greek daily Eleftherotypia. Before that, he worked as a journalist at the Athens News, an English-language weekly

Greek prime minister Antonis Samaras and Taoiseach Enda Kenny during a meeting in Athens on Thursday. Photograph: Yorgos Karahalis/Reuters
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Taoiseach Enda Kenny and Greek prime minister Antonis Samaras at a news briefing in Athens today. Photograph: Yorgos Karahalis/Reuters
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Bangladeshi worker Mohamed, 25, is helped by colleagues into a tent in the southwestern Greek town of Manolada yesterday following a shooting incident on Wednesday evening. Photographs: Giorgos Moutafis/Reuters
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University students burn a European Union flag during a rally against a planned overhaul of the Greek university system in front of the parliament in Athens last week. Photograph: John Kolesidis/Reuters
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