@Orlaodo

Legal Affairs Correspondent, @Rtenews

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Joined February 2011
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Legal proceedings in McGregor case not yet at an end via @RTENews rte.ie/news/analysis-and-com…

Legal proceedings in McGregor case not yet at an end

Legal proceedings in the Conor McGregor civil action taken by Nikita Hand are not at an end following the Court of Appeal's decision on Thursday, writes Legal Affairs Correspondent Órla O'Donnell.

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RTÉ Nationwide@RTENationwideApr 27
The @guinnesschoir will perform the world premiere of The City of Our Dreaming in St Patrick’s Cathedral on May 7th - we went along to a rehearsal & met singers with a long‑standing connection to Guinness on #RTENationwide Monday 27th April @RTEOne 7pm @CultureDateD8 @Orlaodo RT
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Órla O'Donnell retweeted
Hadas Gold
@Hadas_GoldJan 8
New: A few weeks before Grok started 'digitally undressing' people (and some children) by user request on X, there was a meeting at xAI. Musk expressed frustration over guardrails on what ppl could create w/ Grok Imagine, source tells me. Around that same time period - 3 xAI safety staffers, including the Head of Product safety, left the company. More here: cnn.com/2026/01/08/tech/elon…

Elon Musk’s xAI under fire for failing to rein in ‘digital undressing’ | CNN Business

Elon Musk’s AI chatbot, Grok, has been flooded with sexual images of mainly women, many of them real people, by being prompted by users to “digitally undress” them and sometimes placing them in...

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Grok AI still being used to digitally undress women and children despite suspension pledge theguardian.com/technology/2…

Grok AI still being used to digitally undress women and children despite suspension pledge

Degrading pictures being posted on Elon Musk’s site despite the platform pledging to suspend people who generate them

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Enoch Burke's legal saga and what might happen next via @RTENews rte.ie/news/2025-in-review/2…

Enoch Burke's legal saga and what might happen next

Secondary school teacher Enoch Burke is preparing to spend Christmas in prison for the first time since his dispute with the school where he used to work began.

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Woman would be alive if partner was listened to - family via @RTENews rte.ie/news/courts/2025/1219…

Woman would be alive if partner was listened to - family

The family of a woman killed by her partner while he was suffering a relapse of a schizoaffective disorder have said they believe she would be alive today if her partner had been properly listened to.

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Court dismisses challenges on 'super junior' ministers via @RTENews rte.ie/news/politics/2025/12…

Court dismisses challenges on 'super junior' ministers

Two Opposition TDs have lost their High Court challenge to the attendance of junior ministers at Cabinet meetings.

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Parents jailed over multiple offences of child cruelty via @RTENews rte.ie/news/courts/2025/1219…

Parents jailed over multiple offences of child cruelty

The parents of six children who were subjected to almost daily physical and emotional abuse over a number of years have been sentenced at Castlebar Circuit Court in Mayo.

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Man jailed for life for 'brutal' murder of brother-in-law via @RTENews rte.ie/news/courts/2025/1219…

Man jailed for life for 'brutal' murder of brother-in-law

A 44-year-old man who shot dead his brother-in-law with a submachine gun in the front garden of the victim's home in Ballyfermot, west Dublin, almost four years ago has been sentenced to life in...

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'You can survive', says woman as partner jailed for rape via @RTENews rte.ie/news/ireland/2025/121…

'You can survive', says woman as partner jailed for rape

A woman who was raped by her former partner has said she is "speaking out because I want to turn my pain into purpose" after he was jailed for eight years.

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Court approves 'dramatic' Tusla steps to care for child via @RTENews rte.ie/news/ireland/2025/121…

Court approves 'dramatic' Tusla steps to care for child

The High Court approved measures described as "dramatic, very exceptional and unprecedented" by the Child and Family Agency, Tusla, to care for a child considered to be the most vulnerable in the...

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Man jailed for life for daughter's murder in Wexford via @RTENews rte.ie/news/courts/2025/1215…

Man jailed for life for daughter's murder in Wexford

A woman has told the Central Criminal Court of the horror of witnessing her partner smile at her as he murdered their eight-year-old daughter in front of her last year.

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Órla O'Donnell retweeted
Mark Tighe@MarkLTighe8 Dec 2025
I see some people wondering on here what happened to @editorialz (Edward White) who often posted racist, misogynistic and hate-filled content. He won't be posting for a while because today he was jailed for sexually assaulting a 9-year old girl. offalyexpress.ie/news/home/1…

Three-and-a-half years in jail for sexually assaulting nine-year-old girl

'My innocence and sense of safety was taken away from me' victim tells Tullamore Circuit Court

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Four men plead guilty to lesser charge in branding case via @RTENews rte.ie/news/2025/1208/154791…

Four men plead guilty to lesser charge in branding case

Four men arrested and charged in connection with an attack on a man whereby the word "rat" was allegedly branded on his face and body pleaded guilty today to a less serious offence than they the...

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Ruth Lawrence sentenced to life for murders of two men via @RTENews rte.ie/news/courts/2025/1208…

Ruth Lawrence sentenced to life for murders of two men

A 46-year-old woman has been jailed for life for the murders of two men who were shot dead and whose bodies were found on an island in a midlands lake 11 years ago.

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Victims of abuser Kelly tell of 'unimaginable trauma' via @RTENews rte.ie/news/2025/1208/154792…

Survivors of abuser Kelly tell of 'unimaginable trauma'

Most of those abused by Peter Kelly as young boys were in court to see him jailed for indecent assault.

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Former teacher jailed for indecent assault of young boys via @RTENews rte.ie/news/courts/2025/1208…

Former teacher jailed for indecent assault of young boys

A former maths teacher at a private primary school run by the Spiritan order of priests in south Dublin has been jailed for ten years for indecently assaulting eight young boys in the 1970s and 1980s.

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Hand welcomes court decision against McGregor appeal via @RTENews rte.ie/news/courts/2025/1204…

Hand welcomes court decision against McGregor appeal

Nikita Hand, who won her civil case against former MMA fighter Conor McGregor, has welcomed a decision by the Supreme Court not to allow a further appeal by Mr McGregor against a High Court jury's...

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Former teacher Kelly was 'one cog in machine of abuse' via @RTENews rte.ie/news/courts/2025/1202…

Former teacher Kelly was 'one cog in machine of abuse'

A former maths teacher at a private primary school run by the Spiritan order of priests in South Dublin will be sentenced next week for indecently assaulting eight young boys in the 1970s and 1980s.

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Órla O'Donnell retweeted
Jack Quann@jqbilbao28 Nov 2025
#BehindtheStory: @Orlaodo and @franmcnulty discuss the latest ruling in relation to Enoch Burke. @DunleavyBernard also joins for a wider discussion around contempt, and why it's important that the public accept court decisions rte.ie/news/2025/1128/154639…

Podcast: What can the courts do with Enoch Burke?

Enoch Burke was back in the High Court today via videolink from Mountjoy Prison.

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Court rules Enoch Burke salary be paid directly to school via @RTENews rte.ie/news/2025/1128/154634…

Court rules Enoch Burke salary be paid directly to school

The High Court has ruled that teacher Enoch Burke's salary should be paid directly to the school where he used to work until money he owes to them in damages for trespassing is paid off.

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