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RTÉ News
17-07-2025
- Sport
- RTÉ News
Back to basics for Ireland ahead of Zimbabwe
Laura Delany, the former Irish women's cricket captain, says that the team have been working hard to improve their fielding ahead of the games against Zimbabwe and Pakistan, which start with a T20 international against the former at Pembroke in Dublin on Sunday. Delany remains an integral part of the squad despite losing the captaincy to Gaby Lewis, and is now fully recovered from injury, which curtailed her involvement in last year's home games against England and South Africa. Two 14-player squads including Delany will play three T20 Internationals at Pembroke Cricket Club, then two one-day internationals at Stormont. Lewis will captain both squads, while Orla Prendergast will be vice-captain. Ireland will also have a new head coach in charge with Englishman Lloyd Tennant taking over from Ed Joyce, who stepped down from the role after over six years in charge. Ireland have a great record against the world number 14 ranked Zimbabwe, winning all seven T20s between the countries, while they have met in eight ODIs, with Ireland winning six, losing one and drawing one. Concern though has been expressed about the quality of Ireland's fielding, with dropped catches and poor handling leading to Lewis' side losing games they really should have won, as witnessed in the World Cup qualifiers in Pakistan earlier this year. Delany says that the fielding is one of the three disciplines in the game that they have been working hard on. "I think when you look at the makeup of our squad, quite often in Irish cricket, if you do well at under-15 or under-17, you're fast-tracked, and then you're on the performance squad, and sometimes you can miss out on the basics," said Delany "For us it's making sure that we focus on those basics." She added: "It's actually making sure that our footwork is good and that we're getting into the right position at high hands rather than just trying to catch it down around chest area. "It's something that we've noticed when we go and play against the best sides in the world. "They're on top of their fielding, and there have been chances that have gone down over the last number of months, particularly in pressurised games.
Yahoo
25-06-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
News Corp Announces Julian Delany as Chief Technology Officer
Delany joins global headquarters after leading the Technology, Data and Digital team at News Corp Australia for five years NEW YORK, June 25, 2025--(BUSINESS WIRE)--News Corp (NASDAQ: NWS, NWSA; ASX: NWS; NWSLV) announced today the appointment of Julian Delany as Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer. Mr. Delany succeeds David Kline, who will depart the company on June 30, 2025 as previously announced. Mr. Delany joined News Corp Australia in 2012, most recently serving as Chief Technology Officer and as a member of the Executive Team. As CTO, he focused on delivering technical, process and data alignment across multiple brands and operational workflows to create a powerful and efficient network effect. He began his tenure with the company as General Manager of where he pioneered digital-first newsroom operations and data-led insights to inform product and commercial strategy. Mr. Delany then became Managing Director of News Corp Australia's digital news, food and lifestyle network. From there, his role expanded to manage all digital networks before his appointment as CTO in 2020. "Julian's rigor and resourcefulness will be crucial assets at a time of exponential digital change. He has vast experience with tech, commercial and editorial teams, and yet has an innate curiosity and enthusiasm that will drive institutional innovation in coming years," said News Corp Chief Executive Robert Thomson. "All who have worked with Julian can attest that his understanding of tech is only exceeded by a confidence-building collegiality that is itself a necessary ingredient in collective creativity." "The relentless pace of change across technology and media requires a malleable technological backbone and a philosophy embedded in curiosity, creativity and sensibility to deliver enterprise-wide outcomes," said Mr. Delany. "I'm thrilled for the opportunity to continue strengthening our capabilities, infrastructure and processes to seamlessly connect our global portfolio of brands, newsrooms and systems. Our team will create solutions that put our audiences first, so they can consume the world-class content and experiences our brands provide." Before joining News Corp Australia, Mr. Delany worked in live broadcast operations at Foxtel. He holds a bachelor of arts from the University of Sydney, and will relocate to New York City with his family. About News CorpNews Corp (Nasdaq: NWS, NWSA; ASX: NWS, NWSLV) is a global, diversified media and information services company focused on creating and distributing authoritative and engaging content and other products and services. The company comprises businesses across a range of media, including: information services and news, digital real estate services and book publishing. Headquartered in New York, News Corp operates primarily in the United States, Australia and the United Kingdom, and its content and other products and services are distributed and consumed worldwide. More information is available at: View source version on Contacts News Corp Corporate CommunicationsArthur Bochner646-422-9671abochner@ News Corp Investor RelationsMichael Florin212-416-3363mflorin@ Anthony Rudolf212-416-3040arudolf@ Error in retrieving data Sign in to access your portfolio Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data
Business Wire
25-06-2025
- Business
- Business Wire
News Corp Announces Julian Delany as Chief Technology Officer
NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--News Corp (NASDAQ: NWS, NWSA; ASX: NWS; NWSLV) announced today the appointment of Julian Delany as Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer. Mr. Delany succeeds David Kline, who will depart the company on June 30, 2025 as previously announced. Mr. Delany joined News Corp Australia in 2012, most recently serving as Chief Technology Officer and as a member of the Executive Team. As CTO, he focused on delivering technical, process and data alignment across multiple brands and operational workflows to create a powerful and efficient network effect. He began his tenure with the company as General Manager of where he pioneered digital-first newsroom operations and data-led insights to inform product and commercial strategy. Mr. Delany then became Managing Director of News Corp Australia's digital news, food and lifestyle network. From there, his role expanded to manage all digital networks before his appointment as CTO in 2020. 'Julian's rigor and resourcefulness will be crucial assets at a time of exponential digital change. He has vast experience with tech, commercial and editorial teams, and yet has an innate curiosity and enthusiasm that will drive institutional innovation in coming years,' said News Corp Chief Executive Robert Thomson. 'All who have worked with Julian can attest that his understanding of tech is only exceeded by a confidence-building collegiality that is itself a necessary ingredient in collective creativity.' 'The relentless pace of change across technology and media requires a malleable technological backbone and a philosophy embedded in curiosity, creativity and sensibility to deliver enterprise-wide outcomes,' said Mr. Delany. 'I'm thrilled for the opportunity to continue strengthening our capabilities, infrastructure and processes to seamlessly connect our global portfolio of brands, newsrooms and systems. Our team will create solutions that put our audiences first, so they can consume the world-class content and experiences our brands provide.' Before joining News Corp Australia, Mr. Delany worked in live broadcast operations at Foxtel. He holds a bachelor of arts from the University of Sydney, and will relocate to New York City with his family. About News Corp News Corp (Nasdaq: NWS, NWSA; ASX: NWS, NWSLV) is a global, diversified media and information services company focused on creating and distributing authoritative and engaging content and other products and services. The company comprises businesses across a range of media, including: information services and news, digital real estate services and book publishing. Headquartered in New York, News Corp operates primarily in the United States, Australia and the United Kingdom, and its content and other products and services are distributed and consumed worldwide. More information is available at:
Belfast Telegraph
22-06-2025
- Sport
- Belfast Telegraph
Amy Hunter helps Dragons roar past Typhoons in opening game of Super 20 Trophy defence
The 19-year-old followed up her midweek 155 with an unbeaten 94, as her side recovered from a precarious six for two to post 138 in a game reduced to 15 overs a side. Irish international Hunter hit 14 fours and a six in her 53-ball knock, sharing an unbroken third wicket stand of 132 with Waringstown's Abbi Harrison, who scored 31 not out. Alana Dalzell, playing on her home ground. picked up two wickets at the start of the chase to reduce the Typhoons to 24 for three, but they rallied thanks to an unbeaten 57 (six fours, two sixes) from former Irish captain Laura Delany. The required rate, however, just proved too much despite Delany's 68-run partnership with Leah Paul (31). It didn't get any better for the Typhoons in the afternoon game as they were trounced by the Scorchers. Delany (30) was again their top-scorer, but a total of 118 for seven looked light at the halfway juncture and so it proved. Gaby Lewis clubbed four fours and two maximums in a 14-ball 33, sharing an opening stand of 59 with Louise Little (32) that had them halfway to their modest target inside five overs. Eimear Richardson (28 not out) continued the carnage as the eight-wicket win was achieved with almost eight overs to spare. Just one match survived in the NCU Women's Premiership, as North Down joined CSNI in third place after a narrow 18-run win. Rebecca Nield hit four boundaries in a top score of 42 as North Down made 114 for six — two wickets for Holly Faulkner. Eva Wilson thumped four boundaries in a run-a-ball 30 to take the Stormont side to 61 for one before the wheels came off, losing the last nine wickets for 35 to be 96 all out — two wickets apiece for Gracie and Evey Keenan. Meanwhile, in the North-West, Coleraine moved top of the Premiership with a remarkable chase at Brigade. Scott Macbeth hit seven sixes in a top-score of 88, adding 116 in 13 overs with Iftikhar Hussain (86) to set what seemed a formidable target of 292 in a match reduced to 45 overs. All seemed set for a comfortable Brigade win as Macbeth's three wickets left the Bannsiders on 83 for four, before the game was turned on its head. Former Brigade player David Cooke and Marcus Poskitt both made centuries in a superb fifth wicket stand of 210 to seal the win with 15 balls to spare. Poskitt made 111 from just 97 balls (11 fours, six sixes), while Cooke reached his landmark hundred with his tenth four.
New Statesman
11-06-2025
- Entertainment
- New Statesman
Talking to strangers enriches our lives in countless ways
Photo by Lior Zilberstein/Millennium Images It's a weird start, but go with me. First encounters with strangers are, by their nature, unexpected. That's what makes them so potentially electric. I was visiting an old friend in Berlin whom I hadn't seen for many years. On my final day I wanted to do what everyone who appreciates a good dance wants to do when there: go to Berghain, the city's most beloved club. At first sight, an enormous block of imposing concrete in the old east. It was a Sunday afternoon: no queue, just sweaty sexy people drifting out through the exit to be disarmed by the sunlight. It takes me a while to warm up to my body as a subject in motion on a dancefloor, but once that's happened, almost nothing gives me greater pleasure. Except for the smoking area. I swear these are the most beautiful places in the world. Under the canopy of smoke, every single shimmering person is held in deep amorous conversation with someone else. It shouldn't be rare, but these days it is. You could blame the alcohol or the drugs, but I blame the dancing: every movement you make in answer to the hard, heavy music strips away something from your usual reserve, and gradually you feel yourself become unlocked, opened, until you're almost infant-like in your frame of mind. Every hour I would head back out into the smoking area to encounter strangers. I met an army veteran from Belgium who said techno helps more than anything else with his PTSD, and a Russian facing arrest back in her country for speaking out against Putin's regime. It felt like none of the conversations I had that night were disingenuous or superficial. I felt I could do this forever – back and forth between these two states: dancing, then talking to strangers; breathing in, then breathing out – but I had a flight early the next morning to catch. We need contact. That's not my line; I pinched it from the sci-fi writer Samuel R Delany's Times Square Red, Times Square Blue (1999), a non-fiction book comprising two extended essays that first detail the author's experience of spending time in gay pornography theatres in Times Square between the 1970s and early 1990s. His argument is that public spaces in urban environments are vital sites for interclass contact, especially those designed specifically with desire in mind. For desire and knowledge, body and mind, are often imbricated, he writes, functioning as 'mutually constitutive aspects of political and social life'. Delany defines contact as a particular kind of social practice. It is the discussion that begins with a stranger at the bar, or the one that emerges unexpectedly in the supermarket queue, or the bus stop or the nightclub – sudden sparks out of the dull impersonal drudgery of daily life. Contact can save our lives in small ways, by reminding us in an instant that almost all the time there are good people within touching distance, or in more significant ways: say there's a fire in your building, Delany suggests, 'it may be the people who have been exchanging pleasantries with you for years who take you into their home'. Unlike networking, to which Delany relates it, contact is spontaneous, non-competitive, non-capitalistic. Contact is how we retain the souls of our cities from annihilation by the corporatisation of all public space. Delany's book is really a eulogy because by the time of writing, almost all the porn theatres had been demolished: replaced by vacant malls and offices, 'a glass and aluminium graveyard'. From 1985 onwards, New York began closing down institutions that were deemed to promote 'high-risk sexual activity', especially those used by gay men, such as bathhouses and the porn theatres of Times Square. Ostensibly, this was all done in the name of 'safety', a response to Aids, but really it was a cynical weaponisation of that term. 'Contemporary material and economic forces' work 'to suppress contact', Delany writes. Such forces promote the idea of the Other (gay or immigrant or working class) as an object of fear. I read it immediately after the UK Supreme Court ruled that the legal definition of a woman refers only to biological women. I feel that there are obvious parallels between Delany's argument and that ruling. In the Times Square porn theatres, Delany passed whole days, talking and fucking and hanging out, all lit by the soft glow of the cinema screen. What happened to Times Square left him 'lonely and isolated'. The freedom to be gay, he explains, is no freedom if the institutions where you might embody and enact your sexuality are shut down. The freedom to be trans is no freedom if the public spaces you can attend are gradually eroded. Freedom is something which is interdependent; none of us is truly free until everyone is. Subscribe to The New Statesman today from only £8.99 per month Subscribe Public spaces are for making contact. Contact is how we survive this world together – more than survive: experience life as genuinely pleasurable and meaningful. It is the antidote to xenophobia, to all kinds of othering. That's why I'm calling this column 'Contact'. I want to treat my life more like a nightclub smoking area, if you like – to go looking for contact, because I have a feeling that it is everywhere, so long as you render yourself open to it. So, hello, stranger. Nice to meet you. [See also: We are all Mrs Dalloway now] Related
