Dan Griffin

Dan Griffin

Irish Times Reporter

Dan Griffin, who joined the Irish Times in September 2012, is an online reporter for The Irish Times who also covers local news from the Fingal County Council area in north Dublin. Previously he worked with an Irish community newspaper in London, covering stories relevant to the UK-based expatriate community. In addition has worked with Irish-based charity Self Help Africa, for whom he wrote a blog ‘A Village in Africa’ in summer 2012.

The collapsed Rana Plaza building in Savar outside Dhaka, in which more than 1,100 people died on April 24th. Photograph: Andrew Biraj/Reuters
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Taoiseach Enda Kenny and Italy’s Prime Minister Enrico Letta listen to European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso during a European Union leaders summit in Brussels today. Photograph: REUTERS/Francois Lenoir
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