Stephen McDermott

2 weeks ago | thejournal.ie | Stephen McDermott

AN ANGRY RORY McIlroy needed a birdie on the last hole of his second round to make the cut at the US Open. McIlroy said before the tournament that he needed to shake off the hangover of his epic Masters win at Augusta National in April, but he could not have chosen a harder place to do that. The brutal Oakmont course in Pittsburgh has been chewing up and spitting out the best players in the world, and McIlroy is one of them.

2 weeks ago | thejournal.ie | Stephen McDermott |Eimer McAuley |Aoife Moore

THE DEATH TOLL from the Air India plane crash in the northern Indian city of Ahmedabad has risen to 279. The Air India Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner issued a mayday call shortly before it crashed around lunchtime on Thursday, bursting into a fireball as it hit residential buildings. Today, a police source said that 279 bodies had been recovered from the crash site in Ahmedabad, one of the worst plane disasters of the 21st century.

2 weeks ago | thejournal.ie | Stephen McDermott

THIS WEEK, ANTI-immigrant disorder spread across Northern Ireland after online speculation about multiple rapes in Ballymena inspired a wave of violence in the region. Initial disturbances in the mid-Antrim town emboldened rioters in Belfast, Larne, Coleraine, Lisburn, Carrickfergus, Newtownabbey and Portadown, scenes which Justice Minister Naomi Long described as a “festival of hate and destruction”.

2 weeks ago | thejournal.ie | Stephen McDermott

THE DEPARTMENT OF Transport spent almost €600,000 on works to revamp the front entrance and a small plaza at its headquarters on Leeson Lane in Dublin. Figures obtained by The Journal show the works went €39,000 over their initial estimate, despite a 30% contingency of almost €105,000 being included in a proposed cost breakdown in 2021.

3 weeks ago | thejournal.ie | Stephen McDermott

THIS WEEK, AN anti-abortion group called for a meeting with the Minister for Health over concerns about a study into medical outcomes of Irish women who had abortions. The Pro Life Campaign highlighted the study to claim that the legalisation of abortion in 2018 has led to “adverse consequences” for women that are not being acknowledged. They claim that the study reveals one in eight Irish women has visited the emergency department after having an abortion. But is this figure accurate?