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Wednesday 16 November, 2016

Oxford Dictionaries name "post-truth" its word of 2016

Nov 16th 2016, 7:44 AM 11,841 Views 36 Comments

The compound word relates to a situation where objective facts are less influential on public opinion than appeals to emotion and personal belief.

Friday 21 October, 2016

# Christ Almighty

Parishioners in Canada are upset at this restored statue of the baby Jesus

Oct 21st 2016, 10:44 AM 32,003 Views 64 Comments

“I wasn’t trained for this in the seminary,” the local priest said.

Thursday 20 October, 2016

# Full-blown Crisis

Phil Hogan says the UK is 'going to learn a hard lesson' over Brexit

Oct 20th 2016, 12:48 PM 24,178 Views 117 Comments

The Agriculture Commissioner said the UK can’t “have its cake and eat it” and dismissed Brexiteers’ “posturing and fancy talk”.

# Redfaire

Michael Noonan has announced another 40 new jobs for Limerick

Oct 20th 2016, 10:22 AM 10,321 Views 24 Comments

Last month, the Minister for Finance allocated half a billion euro to Limerick, the State’s fourth-largest city.

# Healthy Ireland Survey

Almost one in every four Irish adults smokes - and the numbers aren't falling

Oct 20th 2016, 9:00 AM 15,141 Views 88 Comments

Some 23% of adults in Ireland smoke, the same proportion as in 2015.

# Podesta

Clinton's words of love for Gerry Adams gave her aides cause for concern

Oct 20th 2016, 8:26 AM 32,391 Views 69 Comments

Clinton speechwriter Schwerin made the remark in an email to fellow Clinton aides after an Irish-American event.

Wednesday 19 October, 2016

# Kim Kardashian

A hotel in Laois has been voted the best in the world - and Condé Nast gets the location wrong

Oct 19th 2016, 11:02 AM 39,602 Views 30 Comments

The magazine describes Ballyfin House as being located “an hour and a half north of Dublin”.

# Ecuador Ajar

Ecuador has cut internet access for WikiLeaks founder over US election

Oct 19th 2016, 9:45 AM 11,008 Views 50 Comments

Julian Assange has sought asylum at London’s Ecuadorean embassy since 2012 to avoid extradition to Sweden over sex assault allegations.

Tuesday 18 October, 2016

# Wiki Pique

Wikileaks accuse John Kerry of ordering Ecuador to cut off Julian Assange's wifi

Oct 18th 2016, 3:56 PM 25,928 Views 107 Comments

A staunch critic of Hillary Clinton, Assange has been accused of turning Wikileaks into a “prop for Trump”.

# Red Card

'A PR disaster': Nama were before the PAC today, and it didn't go too well

Oct 18th 2016, 3:36 PM 17,912 Views 32 Comments

PAC chairman Sean Fleming said he’d give the Nama directors red cards if he were a referee.

# Rosslare

A three-year-old girl and four other people have been found inside a shipping container in Wexford

Oct 18th 2016, 12:04 PM 27,388 Views 118 Comments

The migrants were found inside a unaccompanied container from Cherbourg on the Irish Ferries Oscar Wilde ship.

# AB Positive

The Irish Blood Transfusion Service says it is running low on blood

Oct 18th 2016, 9:01 AM 12,822 Views 39 Comments

Blood donations in Ireland have fallen 21% in five years, and the IBTS is down to three days’ supply.

Monday 17 October, 2016

# Gold Coast

A mystery drug has hospitalised 16 people in Australia but authorities don't know what it is yet

Oct 17th 2016, 8:54 AM 28,059 Views 47 Comments

A man is fighting for his life in intensive care in Queensland after taking the drug.

Friday 14 October, 2016

# Syria

Goal has closed down its US office and made 10 staff redundant

Oct 14th 2016, 8:38 AM 12,736 Views 0 Comments

The aid agency, Ireland’s largest in the field, has confirmed to TheJournal.ie that it is terminating the contracts of 10 employees at Goal USA.

# No Direction Home

Why Bob Dylan won the Nobel Prize for Literature

Oct 14th 2016, 6:15 AM 15,127 Views 45 Comments

For fans of lyrics, or of lyrical music, Dylan’s output rewards thorough exploration like no other artist of the last 100 years

Thursday 13 October, 2016

# Housing

Government's first-time buyers plan has added up to €45,000 to price of some houses

Oct 13th 2016, 2:55 PM 59,118 Views 144 Comments

In one Wicklow development, the price of a house rose by between €17,500 and €45,000 following the Government’s new first-time buyers scheme.

# Budget2017

Ministers aren't going to get a €12,000 pay hike after all

Oct 13th 2016, 10:11 AM 18,116 Views 69 Comments

The Department of Public Expenditure has confirmed to TheJournal.ie that Minister Paschal Donohoe will ask Cabinet to waive the pay restoration.

# Syria

Barry Andrews has resigned as head of Goal over US Government inquiry

Oct 13th 2016, 8:17 AM 19,430 Views 0 Comments

The Department of Foreign Affairs says it is in contact with the Irish charity’s board.

Wednesday 12 October, 2016

# IRFU

Ireland's rugby team are staying in Trump Tower for their clash with the All Blacks

Oct 12th 2016, 3:38 PM 24,904 Views 42 Comments

It’s understood the booking was made earlier this year by the US organisers.

# Endless Enda

Michael Noonan tips Paschal Donohoe to become Fine Gael leader

Oct 12th 2016, 11:29 AM 12,643 Views 54 Comments

The Finance Minister said his Cabinet colleague “has all the qualities” to lead the party.

# Fingal Council

Councillors in Dublin have voted against including safe walking and cycle routes for schools in development plan

Oct 12th 2016, 10:10 AM 20,534 Views 63 Comments

Last night, however, councillors voted in favour of cycle routes for specific schools – against opposition by the council manager.

# Exploitation

Sham marriages are widespread in Ireland, according to Immigrant Council report

Oct 12th 2016, 8:56 AM 18,316 Views 83 Comments

One international gang based in Dublin made millions by charging hundreds of Asian men up to €20,000 to marry vulnerable eastern European women.

Tuesday 11 October, 2016

# Reverse Parking

'Substantial damage' caused as car crashes into front wall of house

Oct 11th 2016, 5:03 PM 33,437 Views 27 Comments

Gardaí are investigating after a Skoda Octavia made a rather large dent on a terrace next to the Mater Hospital.

# Total Mayor

Dubliners WILL be able to vote for a directly elected mayor if Fianna Fáil gets its way

Oct 11th 2016, 8:28 AM 6,367 Views 39 Comments

A private members bill, seen by TheJournal.ie, would see a referendum in 19 months’ time – but the Greens say their Bill is better.

Monday 10 October, 2016

# Signals

Gardaí catch 24 times more Dublin motorists than cyclists breaking red lights

Oct 10th 2016, 4:36 PM 22,274 Views 112 Comments

Five times more motorists commute into Dublin city centre each morning than cyclists according to 2015 figures.

# Water Charges

Irish Water has put out a tender for a debt collection agency

Oct 10th 2016, 8:46 AM 38,122 Views 174 Comments

The utility told TheJournal.ie it was a “precautionary measure”, but said domestic customers remain liable for outstanding bills.

# World Obesity Day

Over a third of young people drink sugary drinks most days of the week

Oct 10th 2016, 8:06 AM 10,917 Views 54 Comments

Revenue Commissioners estimate that 411.3 million litres of SSDs were sold in Ireland in 2014.

Sunday 9 October, 2016

# Zero-hours Contracts

'It's horrible. Allow me to work full-time': A single mother talks about life as a low-hours worker

Oct 9th 2016, 7:45 AM 39,027 Views 118 Comments

Debbie Whelan has worked in her job for nine years, but is on a 16-hour contract, she tells TheJournal.ie

# Domestic Violence

The Government is finally going to outlaw forced marriages (but no one knows exactly how many take place in Ireland)

Oct 9th 2016, 6:15 AM 13,408 Views 16 Comments

Over 400 minors were married in Ireland between 2004 and 2015, however.

Friday 7 October, 2016

# Pan Bahar

Pierce Brosnan is getting slated in India for advertising a breath freshener that leaves your mouth red

Oct 7th 2016, 2:37 PM 25,952 Views 19 Comments

Pan masala is a mixture of betel nut and spices that leaves lurid red stains on the mouth after it is spat out.

# Housework

Girls spend 40% more time doing chores than boys, according to a new UN report

Oct 7th 2016, 8:36 AM 11,139 Views 89 Comments

The UN children’s agency said the difference between the genders amounts to 160 million extra hours a day worldwide.

Thursday 6 October, 2016

# Rainy Night In Brexit

UK Home Office won't say if Irish people will be exempt from controversial list of foreign workers

Oct 6th 2016, 9:51 AM 80,817 Views 194 Comments

Home Secretary Amber Rudd wants to make companies list their non-British staff.

# Elber Twomey

European award for Cork woman who lost family in crash with suicidal driver

Oct 6th 2016, 8:29 AM 23,989 Views 10 Comments

Twomey lost her husband, infant son and unborn daughter when a suicidal driver hit their car during a holiday in Torquay, England, four years ago.

Wednesday 5 October, 2016

# Lousy Immig'ants

Graham Norton, Niall Horan, Arsene Wenger: UK's naughty list of foreign workers would contain familiar names

Oct 5th 2016, 1:51 PM 35,461 Views 125 Comments

The plan, under consideration by the Home Office, is designed to ensure British workers get preference for any new jobs.

# Squeeze On The Quays

Council wants to ban cars and lorries from part of the quays in Dublin

Oct 5th 2016, 10:09 AM 15,673 Views 92 Comments

Dublin City Council has revived a plan for a two-way cycling route along the quays between Heuston Station and the city’s docklands.

# Demonisation

The UK Government wants to draw up a list of all 'non-British' workers

Oct 5th 2016, 8:31 AM 37,759 Views 105 Comments

TheJournal.ie has asked the UK Home Office if the proposals specifically apply to citizens of the Republic of Ireland.

Tuesday 4 October, 2016

# Geelong Grammar

Australia has just deported a paedophile to Ireland by mistake

Oct 4th 2016, 3:47 PM 42,966 Views 35 Comments

The serial paedophile and former teacher is free in Ireland after being deported in an extraordinary bungle by Australian authorities.

# Pleaded Loudly

A lawsuit claiming Donald Trump raped a 13-year-old girl has been refiled in New York

Oct 4th 2016, 2:37 PM 594,447 Views 99 Comments

A woman claims the Republican presidential nominee sexually assaulted and raped her in 1994 when she was just 13 years old.

# Trevelyan

Trichet's Corn: Yanis Varoufakis says the ECB are as bad as the British during the Famine

Oct 4th 2016, 11:40 AM 17,786 Views 83 Comments

Charles Trevelyan is one of the most vilified figures in Irish history but Varoufakis sees parallels in the ECB’s Jean-Claude Trichet.

# Budget2017

More childcare, schools and capital spending, and lots of tax changes - Sinn Féin's budget proposals

Oct 4th 2016, 9:40 AM 9,422 Views 117 Comments

TheJournal.ie have received an advance copy of the party’s “alternative budget” to be unveiled today.

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