Top 10 TheJournal.ie stories that you searched for in 2011

What do Darron Gibson, Olivia O’Leary, Brian Lenihan and the ‘super-moon’ all have in common? You’re about to find out…

YOU CAN ALWAYS tell a lot about what people are interested in by looking at their internet search habits.

With such a hectic news year, and so many things happening, it’s often difficult to pick out some of the moments that had the greatest human impact – making search terms an even more valuable indicator of public

With that in mind – and to see what, exactly, our readers have been looking for on the site this year – we present to you: TheJournal.ie’s stories that picked up the most traffic directly from search results.

(There’s links to each appropriate story under the slideshow, if you want to have a closer look.)

Top 10 TheJournal.ie stories that you searched for in 2011

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Michaela McAreavey
Japanese tsunami
London riots (no, not THOSE London riots)
Cork air disaster
Caolan Mulrooney, RIP
Not-quite-the-Queen's Speech
"I now deem you to be elected"
Brian Lenihan, 1959-2011
'Super Moon'
"You are an abysmal excuse for a footballer"

The tragic death of Michaela McAreavey in Mauritius in January
The timeline of the events of March 11, as Japan was hit by an awful tsunami
The arrest of 200 anti-capitalist protesters in London after riots in March
The awful accident at Cork Airport in February, in which six people were killed
Searches for information on Cork student Caolan Mulrooney
Details on road closures, and the text of Olivia O’Leary’s monologue, were the most popular stories on the Queen’s visit
Our full database of results for the 2011 General Election
News of the death of Brian Lenihan, the former minister for Finance
Our slideshow of March’s ‘super moon’
The tweets that may (or may not) have made Darron Gibson quit Twitter

In full: TheJournal.ie’s full look back at 2011 >

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Gavan Reilly

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