Valerie Flynn

2 weeks ago | thejournal.ie | Valerie Flynn

The narrow house is seen here with a red door and black-framed window, with estate agent signage pole to the front. Valerie Flynn / The Journal Valerie Flynn / The Journal / The JournalDUBLIN BUYERS ARE bidding on a tiny house that, at about 38 square metres, is a little bigger than three shopping centre car-parking spaces. It has an asking price of €265,000 – but it’s understood bidding is now well above €300,000.

3 weeks ago | thejournal.ie | Valerie Flynn

PEOPLE ON HIGHER incomes have greater access to the best prenatal screening, the HSE maternity care chief warned in 2023. Non-invasive prenatal testing is an accurate form of screening for chromosomal conditions such as Edwards Syndrome and Patau’s Syndrome, fatal foetal anomalies likely to result in death in utero or in infancy. The tests are only available privately, except in a few exceptional cases, and cost hundreds of euro.

3 weeks ago | thejournal.ie | Valerie Flynn

IT’S A DECADE since Victoria Lebrec was run over by a truck while cycling to work in London in 2015. She lost her leg in the incident. “I am certain that had the vehicle had better direct vision, or been fitted with some of the additional safety equipment now required, my crash would have been prevented,” Lebrec said last October, as stronger rules were announced for the UK capital. Victoria Lebrec speaking at a rally in Woolwich in 2018.

1 month ago | thejournal.ie | Valerie Flynn

IN THE FEBRILE political atmosphere that followed the Dublin riots in November 2023, then Minister for Justice Helen McEntee sought to reassure the Dáil that she had law and order in the capital firmly in hand. “I am responding,” McEntee insisted, of the issues facing Dublin city centre. With the threat of a motion of no confidence hanging over her, McEntee listed the actions she had taken – among them, “a new community safety partnership in the north inner city”.

1 month ago | thejournal.ie | Valerie Flynn

IRISH WHATSAPP USERS may have noticed a new ring-shaped icon in their chat screen in recent days. It’s a link to parent company Meta’s artificial intelligence (AI) tool, which is also being rolled out to other Meta apps such as Facebook Messenger. What is it and what does it do? It’s a chatbot, like ChatGPT, that generates responses to questions and prompts.