Sorcha Pollak

Sorcha Pollak

Sorcha Pollak is an Irish Times reporter specialising in immigration issues and cohost of the In the News podcast

Is Ireland heading towards an prescription opioid addiction crisis?

In the News podcast: RCSI associate professor Frank Moriarty discusses the significant increase in opiod prescriptions in Ireland


What happened to Martha Nolan O’Slattara? The Irish entrepreneur found dead in New York

In the News podcast: Irish Times reporter Niamh Browne discusses the Irish fashion entrepreneur’s life and untimely death


Relocation of Palestinian families to Donegal paused amid concerns over access to healthcare

Mothers of six seriously ill children have called for accommodation within two hours’ commute to Dublin


Why is Binyamin Netanyahu defying public opinion to expand the war in Gaza?

In the News podcast: Why is Binjamin Netanyahu escalating the war in Gaza, despite overwhelming opposition to his plan?


Palestinian mothers of seriously ill children refuse relocation to Donegal due to healthcare concerns

Children’s Health Ireland determines it safe to transfer care to regional health centre


Palestinian activists complete 165km trek from Strokestown, Co Roscommon to Custom House Quay

Over 100 walkers complete final 27km from Maynooth to memorial on Custom House Quay, Dublin


Man (20s) arrested over fire at Conor McGregor’s Black Forge Inn pub

No injuries in fire at McGregor’s pub on the Drimnagh Road in late July


Who is Seamus ‘Banty’ McEnaney, the man who made over €200m from housing the homeless and refugees?

In the News podcast: How family firms linked to Séamus ‘Banty’ McEnaney have been paid large sums for emergency accommodation


Two men killed in road crashes in Dublin and Offaly named locally

Gardaí appeal for witnesses to incidents in Clondalkin and Tullamore


Kidnapped Irish woman Gena Heraty will be ‘trying to negotiate her way out’, says employer

Working with children in Haiti isn’t a job for Gena Heraty, it’s a vocation, says chair of NPH Ireland


How former GAA manager Séamus ‘Banty’ McEnaney made over €200m from housing refugees and the homeless

Family firms linked to Seamus ‘Banty’ McEnaney have been paid large sums for emergency accommodation, which critics lay at the door of the State’s ‘repeated short-termism’


Ukraine war: Is Volodomyr Zelenskiy losing his people’s trust?

In the News podcast: Irish Times Eastern Europe correspondent Dan McLaughlin discusses the fallout from Ukraine’s anti-corruption scandal


Irish surgeon on working in Gaza: ‘Wave after wave of dead children’

In the News podcast: Dr Morgan McMonagle, an Irish trauma and vascular surgeon, says life in Gaza has become “worse than hell on earth”


What does Trump’s EU trade deal mean for Ireland?

In the News podcast: Should the EU have followed calls to hit back hard against US trade threats with a more aggressive response?


EU agrees to 15% tariffs in US deal after months of fractious talks

Breakthrough follows meeting of US president Donald Trump and European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen in Scotland


Common Ground

How does a post-Brexit world shape the identity and relationship of these islands