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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.)
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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