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  • 4 days ago | thejournal.ie | Eimer McAuley

    THE HEALTH INFORMATION and Quality Authority (HIQA) has found that 25 nursing homes around the country were non-compliant to some degree with the rules for the care of older people in a round of 47 unannounced inspections at locations across the country.

  • 5 days ago | thejournal.ie | Eimer McAuley

    THE US EMBASSY has said that Irish J1 visa applicants will now have to have their social media profiles set to “public” for vetting purposes. Visa applicants will have to list all their social media usernames and the handles of every platform they have used in the last five years on their application form. “Omitting social media information could lead to visa denail and ineligibility for future visas,” a spokesperson for the US Embassy in Ireland said.

  • 6 days ago | thejournal.ie | Eimer McAuley

    NEED TO CATCH up? The Journal brings you a round-up of today’s news. Kofi Owusu was a 'caring' young man with a 'wide circle of friends'. Coláiste Chú Chulainn. Coláiste Chú Chulainn. • Tributes have been paid to a 15-year-old boy who drowned after getting into difficulty swimming in Co Meath. • A viable device was thrown through a window in an attack on the Beflast Islamic Centre while people were praying inside. A man has been arrested under the Terrorism Act.

  • 6 days ago | thejournal.ie | Eimer McAuley

    IRAN HAS COME under Iraeli fire today, with five army personnel having been killed in an attack in the west, while bomb blasts have been heard near Tehran’s centre. Today the President of the country, Masoud Pezeshkian said the country won’t halt nuclear activity “under any circumstances”. He told French President emmanuel Macron that while iran is ready to “discuss and cooperate to build confidence in the fielf of peaceful nuclear activities”, there will be no total cessation of those activities.

  • 6 days ago | thejournal.ie | Eimer McAuley

    TRIBUTES HAVE BEEN paid to a 15-year-old boy from Dundalk who died by drowning after getting into difficulty in the river Nanny in Laytown, Co Meath. The boy has been named locally as Kofi Owusu, from the Blackrock area of Dundalk, Co Louth. It’s understood that he had jumped into the river with a number of other children from the footbridge in Laytown when he got into difficulty in the river.

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Eimer McAuley
Eimer McAuley @eimer_mcauley
14 Jun 25

Stark photos and words from Tyler Collins on the ground at the Ballymena riots: “This wasn’t righteous anger. It was opportunism. A tragedy hijacked. The alleged victim forgotten. No justice. Just noise.” https://t.co/y2b6gBetcJ

Eimer McAuley
Eimer McAuley @eimer_mcauley
13 Jun 25

RT @bbctheview: "Racism is not just a unionist problem. I get all these tweets and there are as many 1916 bots as there are 1690 bots." @…

Eimer McAuley
Eimer McAuley @eimer_mcauley
10 Jun 25

RT @SuzyJourno: Thankfully, there was no violent mob response to the past convictions of 2 former Ballymena councillors for sex crimes. Doo…