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Tuesday 17 June 2025 Dublin: 14°C
'It haunts a lot of people': Hope and sadness on streets of Tuam as excavation work begins
The process of excavating children’s unmarked burials at the site of a former mother and baby home started in Tuam on Monday.
Yesterday
16th June 2025
Doctor who helped give Matthew Perry ketamine will plead guilty to drug charges
'The UK is well protected, you know why? Because I like them': Trump signs US-UK trade deal
French father and daughter killed in Iceland were resident in Ireland, local media reports
Former HSE chief Paul Reid to be appointed head of new planning authority
Here's What Happened Today: Monday
VOICES

Personal accounts and opinions on recent events

When starving babies is the strategy, not just the outcome
Dr Clare Patton
If we don't act now, we'll be complicit in the annihilation of the Palestinian people
Lynn Ruane
'What Israel has done in Gaza is barbaric – I'll never support it'
Ria Czerniak-LeBov
We need to reverse the privatisation of our social care sector
Sinéad McGarry
43
Fear is what drives immigration protests in neglected communities, not hatred
Gary Gannon
Something is rotten in the Irish property industry
Jude Sherry and Dr Frank O’Connor
50
Dublin's streets are a mess, and not enough is being done to fix them
Gus Landy
120
Paul Murphy released from Egyptian custody and expected to return to Ireland tomorrow
Multiple mental health units found to be critically or highly non-compliant with rules
State launches final selldown of its shareholding in AIB
Motorcyclist (40s) dies after crash involving car in Co Monaghan
End-of-year school events: 'Much as I love them, there are just too many'
Niamh O'Reilly
Man (20s) dies in hospital after weekend e-scooter crash in Finglas
Netanyahu says killing of Iran leader will 'not escalate the conflict, it's going to end the conflict'
The IDF claims it now had "aerial superiority" over the capital city after destroying a third of Iran's surface-to-surface missile launchers.
Iran has urged the UN's International Atomic Energy Agency to condemn Israeli attacks on its nuclear sites
Benjamin Netanyahu's office said 11 people were killed in Iranian strikes on Israel overnight.
Drink driving prosecution against former Cork goalkeeper dismissed
DUP minister says he has nothing to apologise for after 'reckless' post about Larne Leisure Centre
Former Meath councillor says rezoning allegations ‘tortured’ him and ended his career
Man (18) charged in connection with Limerick drive-by gun attack refused bail
investigates

We mapped, for the first time, all Irish data centres.

VISUAL INVESTIGATION
Where are all the data centres and why should you care?
DATA CRUNCH
Ireland's data centres turning to fossil fuels after maxing out country's electricity grid
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Donegal dad who was based in Boston deported back to Ireland after 15 years in US
Irish MEPs condemn Ursula von der Leyen’s 'pro-Israeli solo run' amid Iran-Israel conflict
Teen accused of being armed with a machine gun fails to turn up for court after being freed
Five Co Clare students head for Orlando after winning prestigious NASA design competition
Widespread advertising set to be rolled out on WhatsApp for the first time
Customers warned batch of Dunnes Stores apple pie mispacked with almond pie
The government has spent over €1m on deportation flights for 170 people this year
Money Diaries: Everything feeling expensive? Would you like to keep a diary for us?
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Warm, humid and sunny weather on the way this week - with the odd shower of course
FACTCHECK

The biggest questions, answered, by The Journal's factcheckers. 

Studies of millions of children show there is no connection
Is the Irish government paying for Ukrainians to repair their cars?
How far-right agitators exploit knowledge gaps
Do immigrants get shorter sentences than Irish citizens?
Israeli troops kill 20 Palestinians waiting to collect food, says Gaza's civil defence agency
Tax cut expectations tempered as ‘two-tier’ child benefit and hospitality VAT rate under review
Children's Health Ireland publishes summary of 2021 report, identifies 'bullying issues'
The hospital group said that no open disclosures were made in relation to the delayed care of a cohort of children.
Five more people arrested over public disorder in Northern Ireland, including 13-year-old girl
How Israel's attack on Iran quickly changed the tune of recently critical allies in Europe
Suspected killer of Minnesota politician to appear in court today after arrest ends manhunt
Sinn Féin defends view that extending temporary protection for Ukrainian refugees is a 'mistake'
Eight-year-old schoolchildren in disadvantaged areas more than twice as likely to have a smartphone
Roads around unmarked burial site at the Tuam home sealed off as pre-excavation work begins
Many babies and young children were buried without a proper funeral or marked grave at the former Bon Secours Mother and Baby Home.
How often do you use card for purchases?
Debunked: A study into music's effect on cells doesn't show Beethoven's 5th can 'fight cancer'
Man (30s) seriously injured and four teenagers hospitalised after two-car collision in Tuam
Dublin to face Cork: Here is the All-Ireland SFC preliminary quarter-final draw