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4 days ago | 
thejournal.ie | Ray Managh |Emma Hickey
JOURNALIST AODHAN O’FAOLAIN, best known for his coverage of some of the most important cases to be heard from High Court, Appeal and Supreme Court level, died suddenly yesterday after a short but hard-fought battle against cancer. His tragic passing at the age of only 50 has left a void in the life of his wife, Janet and parents Micheal and Maura who were with him in St Vincent’s University Private Hospital yesterday afternoon when he passed.
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4 weeks ago | 
thejournal.ie | Emma Hickey |Niall O'Connor |Eoghan Dalton
EVERY WEEKDAY EVENING, The Journal brings you five of the biggest stories of the day. 1. #GRACE CASE: The final report into the ‘Grace’ case inquiry, published after a six year delay, finds the commission is not satisfied that there is evidence of physical, emotional or sexual abuse. 2. #KILLYBEGS: A 57-year-old man has been charged in connection with the death of Eddie Friel in Killybegs on Sunday. 3.
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1 month ago | 
thejournal.ie | Emma Hickey |Gavin Cooney
NEED TO CATCH up? The Journal brings you a round-up of today’s news. “Outstanding”, “incredible” and “epic” – fellow golfers and political leaders across Ireland have rushed to hail Rory McIlroy following his play-off victory in the Masters last night. The emerging preferred route for Luas Cork has been launched today by Taoiseach Micheál Martin and is open to public consultation for the next eight weeks.
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1 month ago | 
thejournal.ie | Emma Hickey |Gavin Cooney
TEMPERATURES HAVE DROPPED palpably over the last number of days, following glorious sunshine across the island, but they’re about to drop further. Met Éireann is forecasting tomorrow to be dry for most of the day, with sunny spells and well scattered showers. However, it will stay cloudy across Leinster and east Ulster. Highest temperatures of 9 to 12 degrees are expected, with light to moderate winds.
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1 month ago | 
thejournal.ie | Emma Hickey |Gavin Cooney
SOCIAL MEDIA COMPANY Meta has said that it will start using publicly available content from European users to train its artificial intelligence models. The company, which owns Facebook and Instagram, as well as popular messaging app WhatsApp, said it would train its AI systems using public posts and comments shared by adult users in the EU. “People’s interactions with Meta AI — like questions and queries — will also be used to train and improve our models,” the company said in a blog post.
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1 month ago | 
thejournal.ie | Emma Hickey |Gavin Cooney
FORMER TÁNAISTE SIMON Coveney has been appointed as a consultant to EY Ireland’s geopolitical strategy unit. EY Ireland is a professional services organisation that operates globally. It provides tax, audit, transaction, assurance, and advisory services. In its announcing of Coveney’s joining as a consultant, the company said that it was “very pleased” to have him on board “at a time when elevated levels of political risk are creating both challenges and opportunities for our clients”.
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1 month ago | 
thejournal.ie | Emma Hickey |Niall O'Connor
TWO PEOPLE HAVE died and 30 others were injured after Russian drones hit a military hospital, shopping centre, apartment blocks and other buildings in Kharkiv late on Saturday, Ukrainian officials said. Regional governor Oleh Syniehubov said a 67-year-old man and a 70-year-old woman were killed in the attack on Ukraine’s second-largest city. Ukraine’s General Staff denounced the “deliberate, targeted shelling” of the military hospital.
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1 month ago | 
thejournal.ie | Emma Hickey |Niall O'Connor
Here’s all the news you need to know to start your day. 1. Residents scrambled desperately through collapsed buildings on Sunday searching for survivors as aftershocks rattled the devastated city of Mandalay, two days after a massive earthquake killed more than 1,600 people in Myanmar and at least 17 in neighbouring Thailand. 2.
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1 month ago | 
thejournal.ie | Emma Hickey |Niall O'Connor
EVERY WEEKDAY EVENING, The Journal brings you five of the biggest stories of the day. 1. #EARTHQUAKE: Rescue workers have said that there may be “hundreds dead” after a powerful 7.7-magnitude earthquake hit central Myanmar this morning, which damaged buildings, roads and bridges and forced evacuations across south-east Asia. 2. HOMELESSNESS: The number of people living in emergency accommodation increased last month to a record 15,378 people. 3.
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1 month ago | 
thejournal.ie | Emma Hickey |Diarmuid Pepper
OVER 13,500 UNQUALIFIED individuals were employed to teach at Irish schools last year, new figures have shown. The figures were obtained by TG4′s current affairs programme 7LÁ from the Department of Education under the Freedom of Information Act. In total, 3,029 Irish primary schools – or 98% of such schools – employed over 8,880 unqualified individuals in the last academic year, which spanned from 2023 to 2024.
