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Colin Sheridan: Expertly operating the machinery of influence

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YouTube journalist Caolan Robertsoninterviewing Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Picture: Zelenskyy/Official — YouTube journalist Caolan Robertson
interviewing Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Picture: Zelenskyy/Official

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Colin Sheridan is a writer and columnist. A former officer in the Irish Defence Forces he has extensive deployment experience as a peacekeeper with the United Nations, having lived and worked in the former Yugoslavia, West Africa, Afghanistan, Lebanon and Palestine.

When YouTube journalist Caolan Robertson returned to Ireland recently to cover the Aughinish Alumina controversy, he did so fully equipped with the tools of modern attention.

The story was presented as an urgent revelation. A moral contradiction. Evidence that something important was being ignored.

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