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Marese McDonagh

Marese McDonagh

Marese McDonagh is a freelance journalist based in the north-west, from where she reports for the Irish Times. She is a regular contributor to the news and features pages and also writes for Health & Family on a range of health-related and social issues.

John McGahern photographed near his home in Co Leitrim in 1990. Photograph: Frank Miller/The Irish Times
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Neisha Wratten from Australia enters the former workhouse in Carrick-on-Shannon, Co Leitrim, where her great-great-grandmother, Bridget Cannon, was an inmate during the Famine. Photograph: Brian Farrell
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Eating disorder therapist Aisling Lafferty at Molloway House, Sligo. Photograph: James Connolly / Picsell
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Vicky Barnes, daughter of Susan Wallwork, at Sligo Coroner’s Court yesterday. She supported calls for the installation of carbon monoxide alarms and said people should think about what they throw onto fires. Photograph: James Connolly/PicSell
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Ming with his people: Independent TD Luke 'Ming' Flanagan campaigning at Hyde Park, Roscommon. Photograph: Brenda Fitzsimons/The Irish Times
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