1+ day, 1+ hour ago   (738+ words) IT DIDN’T TAKE long for Trump to stir things up when he arrived in Ireland on Saturday. After a polite meet and greet with President Catherine Connolly – who gave Trump a copy of Michael Longley’s poem titled ‘Ceasefire’ – the US…...

1+ day, 1+ hour ago   (788+ words) THE FIRST MINISTERS of the UK’s devolved nations will sign a landmark agreement on Monday aimed at putting pressure on Downing Street to hold referendums on independence. SNP leader John Swinney, Plaid Cymru leader Rhun ap Iorwerth and Sinn Féin…...

1+ day, 4+ hour ago   (114+ words) AN 85-YEAR-OLD woman has died following a collision between two vehicles in Coleraine. She was Maud Kerr, from the Macosquin area. A man in his 80s is also in hospital, in stable condition. The incident happened on Saturday afternoon at around…...

3+ day, 18+ hour ago   (478+ words) THE HEALTH MINISTER has said that female paramedics have been “let down by an organisation that doesn’t protect them”, adding that there are wider societal issues at play in the culture in the ambulance service. Jennifer Carroll MacNeill said that…...

3+ day, 22+ hour ago   (1115+ words) TWO INTERNATIONAL PROTECTION applicants accused of raping an 18-year-old woman in a car parked at Galway’s Ceannt Railway Station after she got lost in the city were refused bail in the High Court on Thursday. The Jordanian men, aged 27 and…...

5+ day, 17+ min ago   (304+ words) GARDAÍ ARE INVESTIGATING after a suspicious package arrived in Shannon Airport addressed to US customs, forcing the army bomb squad to be called in. Gardaí are working to establish who the sender was. A garda spokesperson told The Journal that…...

4+ day, 22+ hour ago   (624+ words) AN IRISH HUMAN rights group has contacted Dublin City Council to ask why it refused permission for posters advertising an anti-Trump protest to be erected in the capital. The Irish Council for Civil Liberties (ICCL) remarked that the posters which were…...

4+ day, 23+ hour ago   (258+ words) BORD GÁIS HAS announced big increases in residential gas and electricity prices from next month. A typical household’s electricity bill with the supplier will go up by 8.8% or €14.75 per month, the company said in a statement this afternoon. A gas…...

5+ day, 15+ min ago   (478+ words) THE FIRM BEHIND Ireland’s only constructed offshore wind farm is to lodge plans in the coming days with An Coimisiún Pleanála (ACP) to dismantle and decommission the entire project. In the planning application direct to ACP, Arklow Energy Ltd is…...

5+ day, 6+ hour ago   (630+ words) THE POLICE OMBUDSMAN for Northern Ireland has found that an investigation into an allegation of indecent exposure by Jonathan Creswell in 2016 “was inadequate and failed the victim”. Creswell (36) took his own life in 2024 on the second day of his trial…...