lisa o'carroll

@lisaocarroll

Guardian Brexit correspondent and senior reporter. Keen to hear from people outside London. Do email me at lisa.ocarroll@guardian.co.uk

Joined March 2009
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  1. Pinned Tweet
    Feb 6

    A woman threw herself under a horse to help get women the vote. This is the plaque inside the cupboard in which she hid thanks to and Redbox

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  2. Aug 10

    First time ever to use Cycle Super Highway from east london through city to tower bridge along segregated lanes along embankment (Daily Mail's first love) Westminster. Wowzers. It works, it feels safe. More please!

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  3. Aug 10

    Ah don't you love when you give false name to companies you are looking for online quote from. Just had this call "Can I speak to Professor Eliza Doolittle please" from unwanted marketer

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  4. Aug 10

    Britain urged Ireland to reduce emphasis on NI peace in Brexit talks -is this laying path for new government strategy which will be blame Ireland for border issue when May returns to talks after Hoey amendment on barrier in Irish sea blocks backstop

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  5. Aug 10

    CBI urges government to drop 'blunt target' on immigration numbers

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  6. Aug 9

    Power to Sean O’Neill whose own cancer (gulp Sean) and writing has won treatment on NHS for some leukaemia patients that NHS was refusing for all because of some decision in an office somewhere..

    3 months ago I wrote in about my leukaemia and how the NHS was blocking access to the best treatment - today the NHS did a U-turn! power of the press and the patients
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  7. Aug 8

    The "can you email query" is usually speak for "we won't be answering your questions, but will give you pat response sometime at our convenience"

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  8. Aug 8

    Press office for London council: Can you email in your inquiry? Me: Better if I have a conversation with someone Press office: Sorry they've all gone home. It is five to five Me Can you call the press officer dealing with this on their mobile? No.

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  9. Aug 8

    The Catholic church in Ireland is dealt another blow after it is revealed cardinal asked the Irish government to indemnify it against clerical abuse claims. "He was as blunt as that" minister reveals. via

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  10. Retweeted
    Aug 7

    Good news from 's -- Genetics reveal new outbreak in is NOT related to recently ended one, so no need to worry that the virus has spread X-1000 miles. & genetics shows it's enough like the strain used 2 make the vaccine that immunization will work.

    Results of genetic analysis from INRB just in: Zaire confirmed, sequencing does not demonstrate close linkages with Equateur outbreak strain. What does this mean? 1. Confirms this is a new outbreak 2. We can start using rVSV-ZEBOV vaccine as early as tomorrow
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  11. Aug 7

    Can't access US websites? More than 1,000 US news sites still unavailable in Europe two months after GDPR..

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  12. Aug 7

    Gerry Adams writing cookery book. As transformational journeys go, you might think this one takes the biscuit

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  13. Aug 7

    Gerry Adams to write a cook book. Sure it will be a firecracker! Anyone got suggestions for recipes or is that a bit tasteless....boom boom.

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  14. Aug 7

    Extraordinary revelation...just weeks before Pope's visit to Ireland. Vatican ‘sought deal’ with Irish State to bury church documents via

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  15. Aug 7

    European Investment Bank makes largest ever loan for an agriculture business to a Belfast firm. But the €40m loan is to develop new research centre south of the border in County Meath.

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  16. Aug 7

    National larder would be bare today, August 7, if Britain had to rely on home-grown food. Country's food security in long term decline warns NFU and no deal Brexit could have serious consequences.

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  17. Aug 7

    Poles in the UK urge May to protect them from a no-deal Brexit. We are increasingly uneasy says Federation of Poles in Britain in letter to PM.

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    Aug 6

    Meanwhile, at Wilderness Festival.

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  19. Aug 6

    Very good thread on difference between balance in reporting and getting opposing views for the sake of so-called balance. Takes in Today, Question Time, Farage, Bojo, Trump, Iraq and truth.

    I was bureau chief for the BBC in Baghdad between 2004-09, & I want to say something to the people knocking the BBC; but as an "unashamed" , I want to say some things to the too (Thread 1/
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  20. Aug 6

    BREAKING UK poised to ask Russia to extradite Salisbury attack suspects

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  21. Aug 6

    No-deal Brexit poses major risk to public safety, say police leaders with instant loss of data potentially

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