Brilliant news - our own Conor O'Carroll has won Young Journalist of the Year at the annual Newsbrands Awards!

'When they finished cutting, they tied my legs together for a week so the stitches wouldn’t open'. A young Somalian woman talks to @trishdevlin.bsky.social about becoming a victim of Female Genital Mutilation at 8-years-old, and later seeking protection in Ireland.

Ireland's sole clinic for treating women and some girls with horrific Female Genital Mutilation injuries has seen a 300% surge in demand for services. Its director tells @trishdevlin.bsky.social the current service is 'neither fair, nor sustainable'. READ: www.thejournal.ie/female-genit...

I see the Daily Mail has taken the news well. #irishpresident #catherineconnoñly

Several Irish stars have joined big names in backing and promoting a concert hosted tonight by Together for Palestine at Wembley Stadium https://www.thejournal.ie/cillian-murphy-together-for-palestine-6819680-Sep2025/

Racism in Ireland. Unfortunately, gardai only began recording hate crimes and incidents, with categories such as “anti-race”, three years ago. But from the data we do have, we can see reports of racist attacks and abuse has been growing. Link to article in next 🧵

'Racism has got more aggressive, more obvious and more brazen' in Ireland, with anti-race the single most discriminatory motive in hate crimes here. Read our latest investigation: http://www.thejournal.ie/racist-attacks-ireland-6817334-Sep2025/

Around one in three hate incidents reported to gardaí are racially motivated, analysis by @trishdevlin.bsky.social has found. http://www.thejournal.ie/racist-attacks-ireland-6817334-Sep2025/

Part 2 of our series looking at threats to our native seals. This one beggars belief, especially after the outrage in 2022 when a seal pup was killed after being picked up by a tourist for a selfie 😔 ⬇️

The number of dead seals washing up along Irish coasts more than doubled between 2020 and 2023, an investigation by @trishdevlin.bsky.social has found. http://www.thejournal.ie/dead-seals-ireland-6786495-Aug2025/

Our latest investigation by @trishdevlin.bsky.social exposes an important security concern across Ireland:

@trishdevlin.bsky.social‬ at the @thejournal.ie has a complementary investigative piece out as well. www.thejournal.ie/investigates...

The Daily Mail now coming for the hipsters for making places look nice.

One female paramedic told The Journal Investigates she was "dry humped” by two different male colleagues, incidents brushed off as jokes. http://www.thejournal.ie/national-ambulance-service-female-paramedics-6748778-Jul2025/

Awful behaviour, well done the female paramedics for talking about it and you for reporting. Sexual harassment is disturbing anywhere but somehow an emergency service is a workplace where to you might think there’s less of it. Wrongly.

Every single workplace. How many of these abusers are responding to sexual violence call outs? Well done @trishdevlin.bsky.social for documenting this. "Separately, a hidden camera was found in one of the women’s bathrooms. An incident, she claimed, “was all kept quiet”.

‘I won’t work alone with certain colleagues’: Female paramedics tell @trishdevlin.bsky.social they feel there is an ‘unsafe culture’ within the National Ambulance Service. Read our latest investigation ⬇️ http://www.thejournal.ie/national-ambulance-service-female-paramedics-6748778-Jul2025/

Thank you to the brave female paramedics who spoke to me for this investigation👇

Bob Vylan 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

Just came across this gem on booking [dot] com. I’d stay here just to meet the cat 🙂 #dublin #cats #catsofbluesky

Next month we’ll once again remember these 3 little boys whose lives were cruelly cut short in 1998. Burned in their beds because of hate and bigotry. That same hate and bigotry is on the streets of Northern Ireland tonight, no matter how it’s dressed up. Stay safe everyone ❤️

The most powerful interview Stella has done yet. It’ll be 14 weeks tomorrow since our little Caitlin Rose passed away and almost every day since, her mummy has pushed and fought for new laws to make school buses safer for all children ❤️ Listen here: rte.ie/radio/radio1/c…

The puppy farm capital of Europe – how did Ireland earn this shameful accolade? A bill to ban fox hunting – what's in it and who’s for it? And retired and abandoned horses – is enough being done. Guests: Padraig O’Sullivan, Ruth Coppinger, Ciara Malone, @trishdevlin.bsky.social

Thank you to @patrick-corrigan.bsky.social and Kathryn Torney for the tremendous care and work put in to highlighting threats to journalists in Northern Ireland. Sorry I couldn’t be there today. Solidarity

On the show today: Part-time air traffic control; @henrymckean.bsky.social on real-life shopping; Sending thank you cards; @barbarascully.bsky.social & Mary McEvoy wonder are you right in the head; @trishdevlin.bsky.social on badger culling; Exporting future wives to Australia...

Calls to end Ireland’s controversial badger culling programme intensified in the Dáil yesterday after TDs raised serious concerns about the government-licensed practice. It followed an investigation of the cull by @trishdevlin.bsky.social which we published yesterday:

Reporter @trishdevlin.bsky.social was nominated an incredible three times, while Editor @mariadelaney.ie and reporter @conorocarroll.bsky.social both received two nominations. Three other journalists were also nominated for their work with The Journal Investigates.

The Journal Investigates has received an incredible 7 nominations for this year's Justice Media Awards! Our colleagues @thejournal.ie have also been nominated for 10 awards, bringing the total number to 17 for Journal Media. Congratulations to all those who have been nominated! jrnl.ie/6711820t

I've always been puzzled as to why there is so little public outrage over the mass-slaughter of badgers in Ireland - a gentle animal that pays a heavy price for the failings of the livestock industry www.thejournal.ie/badger-culli...

So after quite a few weeks investigating Ireland’s culling of badgers to control TB, I found data that shows that a staggering 80% of the protected species killed by the Department of Agriculture were TB free. jrnl.ie/6709659

More than 80% of badgers culled by the Department of Agriculture as part of its TB Eradication Strategy were found to be free of the disease, an investigation by @trishdevlin.bsky.social reveals. http://www.thejournal.ie/badger-culling-ireland-6709659-May2025/

‘It’s the next worst thing to losing a family member’ Farmers speak to @trishdevlin.bsky.social about the emotional toll Ireland's bovine TB crisis is having on farms across the island. http://www.thejournal.ie/ireland-bovine-tb-crisis-6709594-May2025/

Well done to my colleague @conorocarroll.bsky.social for being shortlisted in the international Sigma Awards 🙌 💪

‘Bullets don’t stop travelling’ - Well said Joe Duffy 👏 #LateLateShow

The joy of bubbles 🥰 Yesterday, at Glenarm Castle’s Tulip Festival 🌷

Statement: The Royal Irish Academy is ceasing activity on X (Twitter) www.ria.ie/2025/05/01/t...

Highly recommended addition to your work-from-home office 🧘‍♀️

Such an important investigative series published yesterday and today on @investigates.thejournal.ie written by our @conorocarroll.bsky.social on trans healthcare in Ireland. Traumatic and unacceptable.

A deacon convinced nuns from a convent outside Waco to meet the women on Texas’s death row. They went “thinking we were going to minister to these women,” the sisters said, after their first visit. “And oh, my goodness, they ministered to us.”

Our team @investigates.thejournal.ie has more articles to come in this series... If you want us to keep you posted on these as well as any resulting impacts of the investigation, make sure you are signed up to our newsletter:

Today, we published the first article in our in-depth investigative series examining transgender healthcare in Ireland Transgender people spoke to our reporter @conorocarroll.bsky.social out about their traumatic experiences in approaches to their healthcare at the National Gender Service:

A new investigation has highlighted traumatic experiences and long wait times with the National Gender Service for transgender people seeking gender-affirming healthcare. Read the full story here: jrnl.ie/6690859

Transgender people have been asked about pornography and their sex lives when accessing healthcare from the National Gender Service. They said this experience was traumatic and upsetting. Experts said questions like these are “completely inappropriate”. jrnl.ie/6690859

In awe of my sister-in-law who today, 6 weeks after losing her 11 year r-old daughter, invited everyone to her home to celebrate what would have been her daughter’s 12th birthday. Her strength is unbelievable 💕💕

A new investigation by @investigates.thejournal.ie explores the rise in youth sexual violence linked to porn use. @trishdevlin.bsky.social joins The Explainer to share what she has uncovered. Listen on Apple podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/t... Listen on Spotify open.spotify.com/show/3DfSx5T...

The murder of schoolgirl Ana Kriégel was hoped to be a watershed moment in regulating children’s access to porn in Ireland 6 yrs later, gardai, courts and support services are dealing more and more with the effects of porn use in young people. jrnl.ie/6677685

Spoke to @drivetimerte today about our latest investigation which reveals a surge in under 17s being referred to a Tusla intervention service for ‘sexually harmful or abusive behaviour’. @investigates.thejournal.ie t.co/WmGTXQNefJ

Surge in children receiving treatment for sexually harmful and abusive behaviour, an investigation by @trishdevlin.bsky.social has found. http://www.thejournal.ie/investigates-sexually-harmful-behaviour-children-6678589-Apr2025/

Whilst Ursula Von Der Leyen is marching around the planet talking bayonets, the EU is rotting from within. If it can tolerate this discrimination towards 35m, it indicates it’s not a systems of laws & rules. Shameful stuff. Hungary poised to adopt constitutional amendment to ban LGBTQ+ gatherings