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    The Journal Investigates
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    Sep 25, 2025
    It's a year since we launched The Journal Investigates! Since last September, our team produced 28 major investigations, consistently exposing injustice and driving change. Find out more about our work – only made possible thanks to your ongoing support: jrnl.ie/6808070
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    The Journal Investigates
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    Apr 9, 2019
    Today we’re launching Noteworthy, a new reporting project from @thejournal_ie. It will help to fund the type of in-depth investigative journalism the public wants to see #noteworthy
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    The Journal Investigates
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    Nov 15, 2020
    🚨 𝗡𝗘𝗪 𝗜𝗡𝗩𝗘𝗦𝗧𝗜𝗚𝗔𝗧𝗜𝗢𝗡 We find that a significant proportion of academics and researchers are suffering from instability of employment and short-term contracts are rife in the third-level sector. #𝗔𝗰𝗮𝗱𝗲𝗺𝗶𝗰𝗨𝗻𝗰𝗲𝗿𝘁𝗮𝗶𝗻𝘁𝘆🎓
    On social welfare, unable to buy a house: The reality facing Ireland's academics
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    The Journal Investigates
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    Jan 8, 2021
    We want to build a picture of the most active and connected construction lobbyists in Ireland. We want to untangle their political connections, state jobs they have previously held and their networks of influence. Help us investigate: noteworthy.ie/proposal/const…
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    The Journal Investigates
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    Jun 5, 2022
    'It’s been grazed down to nothing, bare soil, it’s a very sad scene' - Dr Rory Hodd on parts of the Twelve Bens in Connemara where rare plants are being lost due to the impact of persistent overgrazing Read our #OverTheHill investigation now: noteworthy.ie/over-the-hill-…
    Two sheep with horns stand facing each other a few metres apart on a mountainside with locks of rocks.
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    The Journal Investigates
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    Oct 2, 2024
    🚨 Latest investigation out tomorrow. It will expose the disturbing depths of wildlife crime in Ireland and how even the most serious of offenders escape criminal records despite being prosecuted. @trishdevlin explains ⬇️
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    The Journal Investigates
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    May 3, 2022
    🪪 #FreeData Investigation Is the journey data of free travel pass holders being retained? We delve into data gathering by the Department of Social Protection, the National Transport Authority and transport providers... Our main story by @mhdelaney:
    Alleged excessive data gathering by Department of Social Protection being examined
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    The Journal Investigates
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    Sep 13, 2020
    🚨 𝗙𝗨𝗟𝗟𝗬 𝗙𝗨𝗡𝗗𝗘𝗗 Thanks so much for your epic support over the past 12 hours!!! Our investigation into how the far right is influencing Irish public opinion online is now fully funded & we can begin our work. Find out more: bit.ly/2GWOm8n
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    The Journal Investigates
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    Sep 13, 2020
    Thanks to your AMAZING support since last night, our EYES RIGHT project is almost 80% funded!! We want to find out how the far right are operating online in Ireland, how they are reaching people and who they are targeting. Help us get it over the line: noteworthy.ie/proposal/far-r…
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    The Journal Investigates
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    Sep 16, 2024
    Today we are launching The Journal Investigates - our new home for groundbreaking investigative journalism Building on the award-winning work of Noteworthy, our new venture is dedicated to lifting the lid on how Ireland works: jrnl.ie/6486210t
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    The Journal Investigates
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    May 17, 2019
    State refuses for first time to release ministerial pension payments for ex-taoisigh and other officeholders. Says their right to privacy outweighs the public interest. The latest story from Noteworthy:
    €28 million in pension payments to former TDs, Senators and government ministers over the past two...
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    The Journal Investigates
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    May 7, 2021
    We want to build a picture of the most active and connected construction lobbyists in Ireland. We want to untangle their political connections, state jobs they have previously held and their networks of influence. Help us investigate: bit.ly/3vgTg3H
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    The Journal Investigates
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    Oct 13, 2022
    🏆 Our wonderful reporter @Niall_Sargent just won the Investigative Writing category of the @irish_writing Awards #IFWA22 (for the second year in a row!) This was for his investigation into the impact of salmon farming: 🔗 noteworthy.ie/troubled-water…
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    The Journal Investigates
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    Oct 7, 2024
    Over the past six months, The Journal Investigates team has investigated the sinister underworld of wildlife crime taking place across the Irish countryside. @trishdevlin discusses how she conducted the investigation and what she discovered ⬇️
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    The Journal Investigates
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    Nov 9, 2019
    How a local authority failed to carry out any environmental assessment before biodiverse wetlands in a Dublin park were destroyed. Our latest @noteworthy_ie story from @PeterMcGuireIE. Read more about it at:
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    Council failed to assess biodiverse wetlands before they were destroyed
    Thousands of creatures including frogs, newts, and eels are thought to have been buried alive after silt was used to cover the site.