Tuesday 25 August 2026 Dublin: 19°C
Garda car rammed by stolen BMW driving on wrong side of road in West Cork overnight
Sources said that the gang responsible are suspected to be a Cork city based group of teenagers who are on nightly stolen car theft sprees across the region.
Maritime regulator investigating multiple claims of illegal seaweed harvesting in protected areas
Large-scale search for man reported missing from ferry in Irish Sea stood down
HSE to fund Friedreich's ataxia drug after improved price but notes 'limited efficacy'
'We just had a baby and want a reliable, safe family car. Could we go hybrid or electric?'
Today's news
US judge rejects Ghislaine Maxwell’s ‘miscarriage of justice’ claims
Government falls short of garda recruitment targets for second year in a row
Young boys in Ireland three times more likely to receive autism diagnosis than girls
National Museum employee charged with possession of explosive device granted bail
Secret Service aware of Iranian video threatening Barron Trump’s life
Dublin private school has planning for floodlighting system approved despite local objections
'Kiss my ass': The US-Canada trade war is getting serious (and a bit ridiculous)
Teenager in critical condition in hospital after single-vehicle crash in Galway on Saturday
Funeral of Jack Kennedy (17) who died in M9 crash hears that 'five boys paid the ultimate price'
Caffeine in Costa coffee three-times stronger than Starbucks - UK study
No decision made on October carbon tax hike as government weighs policy options
Garda car rammed by stolen BMW driving on wrong side of road in West Cork overnight
'We just had a baby and want a reliable, safe family car. Could we go hybrid or electric?'
HSE to fund Friedreich's ataxia drug after improved price but notes 'limited efficacy'
The HSE said it ‘took account of a substantially improved financial offer made in recent days by the company Biogen’.
Fraud alert: What new students looking for housing need to watch out for
Graeme Dott removed from World Snooker’s Hall of Fame after child sexual abuse conviction
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Voices at The Journal

Skyclarys for Friedreich's ataxia
Ireland’s drug reimbursement process needs greater transparency
Dr Suzanne Crowe
9
Biker boys
Why I've never got on a motorbike, and why so many men my age suddenly are
Paddy Comyn
29
My life with alopecia
I tried everything, even rubbed cabbage stalks on my bald head for weeks
Chloe Dinneen
31
The physio is in
Can the HSE's new Get Active programme improve fitness? Let's put it to the test
Stephen O'Rourke
6
Ireland's female athletes
Ireland's sportswomen are now leading from the front, at last
Lise Hand
23
Raising them right
Down with school uniforms; let the kids dress like kids
Niamh O'Reilly
60
Sulky racing
The real trauma suffered by these horses
Suzi Walsh
50
Gardaí recover 76 devices after tracing stolen mobile phone to Dublin city premises
Large-scale search for man reported missing from ferry in Irish Sea stood down
Have you ever owned a Lego set?
The FOI Files: How Dublin City Council discovered the diesel leak in the Liffey
The records show the leak spread some 2km from the Samuel Beckett Bridge before being spotted.
Interim examiner appointed in bid to save Horse Sport Ireland
China rejects 'illegal' sanctions after US threatens Iran's economic partners
School principals burnt out: 'I can't tell you the last time I worked on anything teaching-related'
Dr Sabrina Fitzsimons & Professor Catherine Furlong
Company behind Las Vegas Sphere reveals first images of planned ice hockey arena for Dublin
A planning application has yet to be submitted.
Who's behind the seaweed harvesting applications covering over 14,000 hectares of Ireland's coastline?
Four companies are seeking to harvest almost 51,000 wet tonnes of seaweed a year from Ireland’s coast.
investigates

Recent investigations from our team shining a light on how Ireland works

Licence Applications
Who's behind the seaweed harvesting applications covering over 14,000 hectares of Ireland's coastline?
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Seaweed Harvesting
Maritime regulator investigating multiple claims of illegal seaweed harvesting in protected areas
20
New Drugs
'An arms race': the evolving new synthetic drugs that need fresh methods to detect them
42
Illegal Wildfires
Ireland has one of Europe’s highest rates of wildfire overlap with protected nature sites
44
Water Use
Data centres used almost one billion litres of water last year, but another industry used far more
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Nitrous Oxide
Thousands of nitrous oxide canisters are ending up at waste facilities amid warnings of explosions
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US federal judge delays Lockerbie bombing trial after discovery of new evidence
Tornado tears through village in southern France, injuring 41 people and wrecking homes
The tornado hit hardest in the village of Pomas, population 1,000, damaging an estimated 300 homes.
Kelly Earley: If smart glasses weren’t creepy enough, now we have to worry about spy pens
Kelly Earley
Burnham planning US trip in September to lobby Trump on support for Ukraine’s defence
Ireland has ‘stalled if not regressed’ on human rights, rights groups to tell UN in Geneva
'A crisis in parenting' and insufficient government support leading to ‘burnout’ in principals
Fiscal watchdog warns against big Budget spending (and warns EU rules are too easy on Ireland)
Maritime regulator investigating multiple claims of illegal seaweed harvesting in protected areas
The Journal Investigates found that MARA, the maritime regulator, is investigating multiple claims but is struggling to determine who is responsible.
MARA investigating multiple claims of illegal seaweed harvesting
Regulator struggling to determine who's responsible
Some incidents have 'threatened to become confrontational'
Yesterday
24th August 2026
Palmer shines as Alonso's Chelsea get up and running with win at Fulham
Teenager (16) arrested after four viable explosive devices found in Omagh
Five people, including two children, killed in Israeli strikes in Gaza, say authorities
Large-scale search underway for man missing from a ferry in the Irish Sea
'The bubbliest happiest person': Tributes paid at vigil for woman murdered in Limerick
Jady Cristine Pereira Rosa was stabbed to death at an apartment she shared with her husband, Judismar Weslei Batista, at Cecil Street.
Oberstown workers to begin 48-hour strike as dispute over staffing escalates