Neil Michael

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Photojournalist and Reporter, Irish Examiner

Ireland

Crime and Justice, Health, Ireland, Military

As seen in: Irish Examiner, MSN Ireland, Daily Mail, The Washington Post, Substack, Flipboard, The Irish Times, EIN News, Breaking News, Extra.ie, Echo Live and

Covers: Breaking news, inquests, investigations, with special interest in the Fishing industry, autism, the Defence Forces and avoidable hospital baby deaths.

Doesn't Cover: Sport.

journalist, photographer, Social Justice Media Award winner. Former news editor, Washington Post stringer, BBC pundit and civil servant.

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Neil Michael’s Biography

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I work as a staff reporter with a national newspaper in Ireland. Before I started work for them in 2019, I worked for a variety of titles here and in the UK, including the Irish Mail on Sunday/Daily Mail, the News of the World, The Sun, and The Daily Express. While at the Daily Express, I was involved in media campaigns for Fair Trials Abroad. Before starting journalism, I worked as a civil servant in London, a car washer, an electrical goods salesman and a barman/cellarman. I also worked as a …

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Avoidable baby deaths

Fact and research-based information about avoidable deaths and injuries in Irish hospitals.

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Family of man who died during Youghal Ironman says death was 'no accident'

Jun 01, 2026 |

By Neil Michael

| Echo Live

The family of a man who died in an Ironman race in Cork has described his and the death of another contestant as “no accident”. Brendan Wall, 45, and Canadian Ivan Chittenden, 64, died in separate incidents within minutes of each other in the 2023 Ironman 70.3 in Youghal. An inquest heard in February that Mr Wall, from Cardrath, Co Meath, was pronounced dead within 10 minutes of Mr Chittenden, from Brantford, near Toronto, on August 20, 2023.

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Family escape after suspected firebomb attack on house in Ballyvolane

May 28, 2026 |

By Neil Michael

| Echo Live

A garda investigation is under way after a firebomb was thrown at a house in Cork city in the early hours of Thursday morning. The occupants of the home on Meadow Park Avenue in Ballyvolane, on the northside of the city, managed to escape the property. Members of the family who were inside the house at the time of the attack escaped without serious injuries but were treated for smoke inhalation.

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Cork woman ready for transfer from virus ship to government jet says: 'We're grand'

May 10, 2026 |

By Neil Michael

| Echo Live

The government jet landed this afternoon at Tenerife Airport and the two Irish passengers on board the hantavirus-hit polar expedition ship MV Hondius will now be taken ashore. Both Ann Lane, from Cork, and her travelling companion, from Dublin, are still on board the ship. A team of officials from the HSE, the Department of Health and the Department of Foreign Affairs are due to go to the Canary Islands port where the ship arrived at around 5.30am this morning.

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What was your first job as a journalist?

Local newspaper reporter, covering agricultural shows, town council meetings and Magistrate's Courts.

Have you ever used a typewriter?

This is what I used to write my stories on when I was getting unpaid work experience on the Richmond and Twickenham Times, many years ago.