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5 days ago | 
thejournal.ie | Ryan Byrne |Paul O'Donoghue
DAMIEN DUFF HAS quit as manager of Shelbourne. The 2024-league winning boss informed the players of his decision this morning. It comes after Friday’s 1-0 defeat at home to Derry City, after which he questioned the level of professionalism from his squad. Shels are currently sixth, 15 points adrift of league leaders Shamrock Rovers. RTÉ Sport has also reported that Duff confirmed his resignation today.
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2 weeks ago | 
thejournal.ie | Eoghan Dalton |Paul O'Donoghue
DONALD TRUMP HAS ordered 2,000 US National Guard troops to the streets of Los Angeles in what the White House said was an effort to quell “lawlessness” after sometimes-violent protests erupted over immigration enforcement raids. The US president took federal control of California’s state military to push soldiers into the country’s second-biggest city, where they could face off against demonstrators.
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2 weeks ago | 
thejournal.ie | Paul O'Donoghue |Paul O’Donoghue
BOY OH BOY, money’s getting cheaper again!Well, borrowing it anyway. Earlier this week, the European Central Bank (ECB) cut its key interest rate by a quarter of a percentage point to 2%. As explained previously, the ECB rate is the interest banks receive for depositing money with the central bank. The important bit here is that when rates are increased, borrowing money becomes more expensive.
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3 weeks ago | 
thejournal.ie | Paul O'Donoghue |Niall O'Connor
POLES BEGAN VOTING this morning in a tight presidential election with major implications for the country’s role in Europe, and for abortion and LGBTQ rights. Warsaw’s pro-EU mayor Rafal Trzaskowski, 53, an ally of the centrist government, faces off against nationalist historian Karol Nawrocki, 42, with opinion polls showing that the race was too tight to call.
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3 weeks ago | 
thejournal.ie | Paul O'Donoghue |Jane Matthews |Niall O'Connor
SEVEN PEOPLE WERE killed and dozens injured after bridges in two separate Russian regions bordering Ukraine collapsed overnight, officials have said, with rail authorities blaming at least one incident on “illegal interference”. In Russia’s Bryansk region bordering Ukraine, a road bridge collapsed onto a railway line late on Saturday, derailing a passenger train heading to Moscow and killing seven people.
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3 weeks ago | 
thejournal.ie | Paul O'Donoghue |Paul O’Donoghue
WE LIKE TALKING about Ireland’s economic problems. Focusing on the problems has plenty of merit – it’s how things tend to improve over time. But there’s a balance to be struck. And focusing too much on the negative can end up leading to a fatalistic view of the state the country’s in. So, in the interest of injecting some cheer during a bank holiday weekend, we’re taking a look at some of the things going right in Ireland’s economy (with a few caveats).
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1 month ago | 
thejournal.ie | Paul O'Donoghue |Paul O’Donoghue
IRELAND HAS AN open goal. Rather than scoring, we’re about to stumble, trip and faceplant. Of course, what else could we be referring to, other than the Luas Green line metro upgrade? We’ll explain in more detail below, but essentially, this would upgrade the section of the Green Line running from Charlemont to Sandyford to metro standard. This will allow far more trams to run on the line per hour. These trams will also move faster along a metro line compared to a ‘standard’ tram line. The result?
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1 month ago | 
thejournal.ie | Paul O'Donoghue |Niall O'Connor
A BOMB EXPLODED yesterday outside a California fertility clinic, killing one person in what the FBI labelled a terror attack. The blast tore through downtown Palm Springs, ripping a hole in the clinic and blowing out the windows and doors of nearby buildings, an AFP journalist on the scene reported. “Make no mistake, this is an intentional act of terrorism,” Akil Davis, the head of the FBI’s Los Angeles field office told reporters near the site of the fatal explosion.
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1 month ago | 
thejournal.ie | Paul O'Donoghue |Christina Finn
TWO PEOPLE HAVE died and 19 others were injured after a Mexican Navy training ship hit the Brooklyn Bridge, New York City Mayor Eric Adams has said. The sailing ship, which was about to leave New York for a goodwill tour to Iceland, struck the Brooklyn Bridge on Saturday night, snapping its three masts, injuring crew members and leaving some dangling from harnesses high in the air waiting for help.
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1 month ago | 
thejournal.ie | Paul O'Donoghue |Paul O’Donoghue
We’re fans of the philosophical here at The Journal, so let’s kick off this piece with a question. What is the point of new laws? Generally, it’s to fix a specific issue. A problem is identified, the government thinks it can do something about it. It brings forward new legislation, and the issue is (hopefully) made somewhat better. With that in mind, one would be justified in asking: What problem was Ireland’s ‘right to request remote working’ law trying to solve?
