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The Journal Investigates @investigates.thejournal.ie · 10/10/2026

Our investigation into an online suicide forum facilitating the deaths of vulnerable people has made the longlist for the Shine Mental Health Media Awards Audience Choice category. Voting is now open to the public: shine.awardsplatform.com

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The Journal Investigates @investigates.thejournal.ie · 22/09/2026

Over the next year, The Journal Investigates is looking at the issues that affect women’s lives through four topics.

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The Journal Investigates @investigates.thejournal.ie · 06/08/2026

Judges said "by turning scattered national data into one European story, the investigation made a hidden phenomenon visible for the first time." The winners from the 10-strong shortlist will be announced on September 17.

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The Journal Investigates @investigates.thejournal.ie · 06/08/2026

A Europe-wide investigation by The Journal and others into how more than 5,000 women have to travel abroad each year for abortion care has been shortlisted for a prestigious IJ4EU Impact Award. uncovered.ij4.eu/impact-award...

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The Journal Investigates @investigates.thejournal.ie · 04/08/2026

Timing is everything - sometimes even with Freedom of Information requests. The latest edition of The FOI Files from the team at The Journal Investigates outlines just how quirks of the calendar can be your friend - or your enemy: www.thejournal.ie/time-of-deci...

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The Journal Investigates @investigates.thejournal.ie · 16/06/2026

New investigation: Almost half of all the speeding prosecutions that came before Ireland’s courts did not proceed any further, analysis by @trishdevlin.bsky.social has found. jrnl.ie/7069370t

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The Journal Investigates @investigates.thejournal.ie · 19/05/2026

Our latest investigation looks at the "hidden but growing problem" of older people being discharged from nursing homes - a process that can leave them and their families with just a month to find alternative care

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The Journal Investigates @investigates.thejournal.ie · 07/04/2026

Our latest investigation reveals there were 20,000 incidents of aggressive behaviour and violence recorded in Irish hospitals in the past three years, as medics tell us what's going wrong: www.thejournal.ie/investigates-incidents-of-aggression-and-violence-in-hospitals-6999235-Apr2026/

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The Journal Investigates @investigates.thejournal.ie · 07/04/2026

The Journal Investigates has found that over the past three years, a minimum average of 18 incidents of challenging behaviour, aggression or even violence have been recorded in Irish hospitals each day. @thejournal.ie jrnl.ie/6999235

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The Journal Investigates @investigates.thejournal.ie · 24/03/2026

Thousands of sleep and respiratory care devices have been recalled in Ireland due to a defect involving internal foam. These devices are commonly used to support breathing, including by people with sleep apnoea. jrnl.ie/6992122

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The Journal Investigates @investigates.thejournal.ie · 12/03/2026

The project involved 13 journalists (some pictured here) in 11 countries, with TJI Editor Maria Delaney and Órla Ryan providing the Irish context. Judges praised "its excellent data visualisations, making a complex, cross-border social issue understandable for a wide audience".

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The Journal Investigates @investigates.thejournal.ie · 12/03/2026

Yet another award win for The Journal Investigates! Our contribution to a pan-European investigation into abortion access and "abortion migration" in Europe won at the prestigious Voices Festival, held in Florence this week. www.thejournal.ie/investigates...

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The Journal Investigates @investigates.thejournal.ie · 10/03/2026

And one District Court Judge has their say, just months after a warning from the President of the High Court about the behaviour of litigants in some courtrooms. Read the full story at The Journal Investigates.

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The Journal Investigates @investigates.thejournal.ie · 10/03/2026

The Courts Service logged almost two dozen incidents in and around courts last year - and the Fórsa trade union said its members recorded even more. Our latest investigation looks at just what staff and Judges are dealing with: jrnl.ie/6974655

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The Journal Investigates @investigates.thejournal.ie · 24/02/2026

A Tusla audit obtained by The Journal Investigates reveals that a quarter of staff working in Special Emergency Arrangements last year did not have the required documentation to work with vulnerable children. jrnl.ie/6963224

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The Journal Investigates @investigates.thejournal.ie · 08/12/2025

Another TJI win! Our own Conor O'Carroll has today been named Business Analyst of the Year at the UCD Smurfit School Business Journalism Awards 2025!

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The Journal Investigates @investigates.thejournal.ie · 02/12/2025

Many historic landfills appear to be benign, like this one near the Gort River in Galway. But photos of the dumped waste, which sits just under the surface, lay bare the scale of the problem. Galway County Council applied for a certificate of authorisation from the EPA in 2021.

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The Journal Investigates @investigates.thejournal.ie · 02/12/2025

Hundreds of Ireland's historic landfills have been left in limbo despite a risk of polluting nearby waterways. Reporter @conorocarroll.bsky.social explains from the site of one of these former landfills how delays are contributing to the problem. Read more: jrnl.ie/6887357

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The Journal Investigates @investigates.thejournal.ie · 24/11/2025

About half the targets we identified were for a future date, but of the rest, only about half were achieved, with a third failed and the rest unclear. Some companies left a large share of their targets unclear, dropping and changing parameters over time.

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The Journal Investigates @investigates.thejournal.ie · 24/11/2025

Penneys says its clothes are “designed to last”. So we tested them – and a lot of these clothes didn’t hold up. @thejournal.ie

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The Journal Investigates @investigates.thejournal.ie · 19/11/2025

A child in Tusla care was reported missing 274 times in a single year, The Journal Investigates can reveal. Records show the Child and Family Agency made almost 7,000 reports to gardaí on children who had gone missing from residential care in the last 5 years. www.thejournal.ie/tusla-missin...

A male child with a backpack walks alone in a residential area.

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The Journal Investigates @investigates.thejournal.ie · 14/11/2025

Another big win for The Journal Investigates! Patricia Devlin has scooped an award at the Irish Food Writing Awards in Dublin

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The Journal Investigates @investigates.thejournal.ie · 12/11/2025

Brilliant news - our own Conor O'Carroll has won Young Journalist of the Year at the annual Newsbrands Awards!

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The Journal Investigates @investigates.thejournal.ie · 05/11/2025

Migrant support groups have reported referring up to eight women a month to Ireland’s only female genital mutilation clinic, which The Journal Investigates can reveal has seen a staggering 338% increase in demand. @thejournal.ie

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The Journal Investigates @investigates.thejournal.ie · 05/11/2025

Ireland's sole clinic for treating women and some girls with horrific Female Genital Mutilation injuries has seen a 300% surge in demand for services. Its director tells @trishdevlin.bsky.social the current service is 'neither fair, nor sustainable'. READ: www.thejournal.ie/female-genit...

Image of Irish-Somali FGM activist Ifrah Ahmed holding a sign stating 'Me Too FGM'

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The Journal Investigates @investigates.thejournal.ie · 23/10/2025

Dublin Central TD Marie Sherlock spent the most of any candidate, buying almost €12,000 worth of ads, while her Labour colleagues dominate the highest elected spenders list. But a political ad ban has left experts concerned that our elections will be susceptible to 'bad actors'

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The Journal Investigates @investigates.thejournal.ie · 16/10/2025

If you’re thinking about running for a Dáil seat at the next general election, you might want to start saving. The Journal Investigates can reveal that a successful campaign can, on average, cost more than €20,000. @thejournal.ie

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The Journal Investigates @investigates.thejournal.ie · 16/10/2025

Our team also found that seven elected candidates, including Coppinger, spent more than €35,000 on their election campaign. Experts said that while Irish elections are comparatively cheap with the rest of the world, this spending can be exclusionary for some.

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The Journal Investigates @investigates.thejournal.ie · 16/10/2025

Reporter @conorocarroll.bsky.social explains how our team examined more than 500 election expense returns to uncover how much you might have to spend to secure a Dáil seat. Read the full investigation: jrnl.ie/6845119

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The Journal Investigates @investigates.thejournal.ie · 01/10/2025

Reporter @conorocarroll.bsky.social explains how childcare providers abandoning the government's Core Funding scheme is leaving families faced with fee increases of €300-400 a month this year. Read more: jrnl.ie/6831058

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The Journal Investigates @investigates.thejournal.ie · 25/09/2025

It's a year since we launched The Journal Investigates! Since last September, our team produced 28 major investigations, consistently exposing injustice and driving change. Find out more about our work – only made possible thanks to your ongoing support: jrnl.ie/6808070

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The Journal Investigates @investigates.thejournal.ie · 01/09/2025

Today, hundreds of media outlets in over 50 countries are mobilising in solidarity with Palestinian journalists in the Gaza Strip, alongside RSF and Avaaz. Find out more: jrnl.ie/6804407 bit.ly/3UXUSOS #ProtectJournalistsInGaza #LetReportersIntoGaza

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The Journal Investigates @investigates.thejournal.ie · 27/08/2025

Adjuvant chemotherapy, which can reduce the risk of breast cancer returning after surgery, is not being given to many patients on time. This is driving many people into the private system, as @mariadelaney.ie explains. Read the full story: jrnl.ie/6798640

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The Journal Investigates @investigates.thejournal.ie · 31/07/2025

Reporter @conorocarroll.bsky.social‬ explains how the HSE's enforcement of illegal vapes is just the tip of the iceberg. Our team found illegal vapes seized by the HSE are being sold in different vape shops just down the street from where they inspected. Read more: jrnl.ie/6772531

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The Journal Investigates @investigates.thejournal.ie · 23/07/2025

The Journal Investigates can reveal that Hikvision equipment, despite the brand being at the centre of an international security storm, is in widespread use all across Ireland. Read our full investigation: jrnl.ie/6755381 @thejournal.ie

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The Journal Investigates @investigates.thejournal.ie · 07/07/2025

More people are waiting longer than recommended to start vital cancer treatments in Irish public hospitals. Read our latest investigation now: jrnl.ie/6751362

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The Journal Investigates @investigates.thejournal.ie · 26/06/2025

Our entire team was shortlisted for Justice Media Awards. The ceremony was yesterday and we got some good news! Maria Delaney and Patricia Devlin received a merit award in the print/online human rights and social justice reporting category: jrnl.ie/6744242

Patricia and Maria - both wearing black - with the merit award standing outside with a stone building behind us.

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The Journal Investigates @investigates.thejournal.ie · 25/06/2025

Reporter @conorocarroll.bsky.social explains how easy it is to buy large canisters of nitrous oxide online and how the popular psychedelic drug can have 'devastating' health impacts. Read our investigation here: jrnl.ie/6738494

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The Journal Investigates @investigates.thejournal.ie · 04/06/2025

Our team examined over 25 years of planning records to pinpoint Ireland’s data centres. Explore the interactive, visual investigation to see where they are located: investigates.thejournal.ie/data-cen…

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The Journal Investigates @investigates.thejournal.ie · 04/06/2025

The Irish grid is under the most pressure in the EU from data centres, accounting for 18% of the national electricity consumption. Explore the interactive, visual investigation that maps all operating and planned data centres in Ireland. investigates.thejournal.ie/data-cen…

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The Journal Investigates @investigates.thejournal.ie · 04/06/2025

Explore our interactive, visual investigation and find out where Ireland's data centres are located. investigates.thejournal.ie/data-centres

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The Journal Investigates @investigates.thejournal.ie · 04/06/2025

Reporter @conorocarroll.bsky.social explains how we mapped - for the first time - all operating and planned data centres in Ireland. Examining over 25 years of planning records, we found 89 data centres, with a further 40 in development.

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The Journal Investigates @investigates.thejournal.ie · 04/06/2025

Our team examined over 25 years of planning records to pinpoint Ireland’s data centres. We found 89 data centres, with a further 40 in development. Explore the interactive, visual investigation here: investigates.thejournal.ie/data-cen…

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The Journal Investigates @investigates.thejournal.ie · 04/06/2025

NEW: Where are all the data centres and why should you care? Explore our interactive, visual investigation that maps - for the first time - all operating and planned data centres in Ireland. investigates.thejournal.ie/data-cen…

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The Journal Investigates @investigates.thejournal.ie · 16/04/2025

The number of children under 17 receiving treatment for sexually harmful and abusive behaviour has increased by more than 40% in the last year. Child safety experts warn that more needs to be done about teaching children about the dangers of pornography.

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The Journal Investigates @investigates.thejournal.ie · 08/04/2025

Ireland voted to repeal the Eighth Amendment in 2018, yet some women here still have to seek an abortion abroad. But Irish women are not alone in this. More than 5,000 European women have to travel abroad to access abortion care every year. Read our #ExportingAbortion report: jrnl.ie/6666436

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The Journal Investigates @investigates.thejournal.ie · 03/04/2025

Reporter Adriana Casserly found a modern labour room funded by the HSE to the tune of €100,000 in Sligo University Hospital is being rarely used. She spoke to almost 40 women about the impact the lack of access had on their delivery. jrnl.ie/6663536

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The Journal Investigates @investigates.thejournal.ie · 21/03/2025

Collaboration is vital for impactful investigative journalism Our editor @mariadelaney.ie is in Lisbon today to meet with colleagues from media outlets across Europe as part of our membership of the European Data Journalism Network You can help fund this work: www.thejournal.ie/contribute/?...

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The Journal Investigates @investigates.thejournal.ie · 18/03/2025

Inequalities in healthcare provision between rural and urban areas are well documented in the EU. Ireland is no different. Our editor @mariadelaney.ie was on RTÉ's Morning Ireland this morning to discuss our latest investigation. Read it here: jrnl.ie/6647266 Full clip: www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...

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The Journal Investigates @investigates.thejournal.ie · 06/03/2025

Thousands of people are missing out on compensation from Irish Water by complaining to their TDs or councillors rather than the company itself. People who spoke to reporter Mairead Maguire were unaware that they could be entitled to anything. Read all our findings here: jrnl.ie/6640238

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