Valerie Flynn
Assistant News Editor at TheJournal.ie
Assistant news editor at The Journal. Email: [email protected]
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6 days ago |
thejournal.ie | Valerie Flynn
IRELAND RECORDED THE sharpest rate of increase in agricultural produce prices in the EU in the first quarter of this year, the bloc’s statistical agency Eurostat has said. Irish agricultural prices were up an eye-watering 19.3% compared with the same period of 2024. The average increase across the EU was just 2.6%.
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1 week ago |
thejournal.ie | Valerie Flynn
“IRELAND IS BASKING in a heatwave,” proclaimed a headline in The Journal in June 2018. By September, Met Éireann had confirmed that the summer of 2018 was one of the hottest on record. But as the country once again experiences high temperatures this weekend, scientists have bad news for us. The hot conditions in Ireland in the summer of 2018 caused at least 169 extra cases of bacterial gastroenteritis, stomach bugs which cause vomiting and diarrhoea, a new study has found.
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1 week ago |
thejournal.ie | Valerie Flynn
THERE IS ONE week to go until Irish primary schools close for a two-month break. For many working parents, that means the annual scramble to sort out childcare for the coming weeks is in full swing. With eight weeks to cover, and many workers receiving only four or five weeks’ annual leave, which also has to cover Christmas, Easter and mid-terms, the sums just don’t add up.
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1 week ago |
thejournal.ie | Valerie Flynn
A SLEW OF objections has been lodged against plans for a “gaming and amusement arcade” in the north Dublin suburb of Ballymun. HSE addiction services, youth and community projects, sports clubs, businesses, residents, TDs and councillors have condemned the proposal, for one of the most socially disadvantaged areas in the state, as inappropriate and harmful.
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1 week ago |
thejournal.ie | Valerie Flynn
HOW WOULD YOU feel if this article was written by ChatGPT? A major survey of Irish people’s news consumption, and Irish attitudes to the media, has found 19% are somewhat or even very comfortable with the idea of news mainly produced by AI, with some human oversight. That’s up by four percentage points in just one year, the annual Reuters Institute Digital News Report for Ireland found. Under-35s are almost twice as comfortable with the idea of AI-produced news as over-35s.
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