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Last week
12th October 2025 - 18th October 2025
The Morning Lead
Ireland's water quality is declining, with pesticides, drainage and sewage making it worse
Nearly half of Ireland’s surface waters were of bad, poor or moderate status between 2019 and 2024.
14 Oct
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newsletter
Iceland, like Ireland, is in a housing crisis - and it's pushing climate down the political agenda
12 Oct
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This month
October 2025
Sponsored
Get booking: These are the best Halloween events to visit this year
Failte Ireland
Oct 19
Púca Festival
Visit Trim and Athboy in Meath for Halloween fun at the Púca Festival.
Halloween Murder Mystery at Wildlands
Orienteering adventure: solve dark secrets and cryptic clues by moonlight.
Pumpkin Patch at Murtagh's Organic Farm
Pick pumpkins, meet animals, and explore at Murtagh’s Organic Farm.
Dragon Trail - Guardians of the Garden
Encounter 12 colossal animatronic dragons with magical glowing eyes.
Tonagh Pumpkin Hollow
Meet our donkeys, Donald and Dolly, and pick your own pumpkin.
Spooktacular Halloween
Enjoy Spooktacular Halloween at Beyond the Trees, Avondale, Wicklow.
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Unpopular Plan
Trump wants to annex Greenland. Next door, Icelanders think it's a 'hare-brained' idea
What do Icelanders make of Trump’s plan to take over their nearest neighbouring landmass?
5 Oct
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tip of the iceberg
How Icelanders are grieving the loss of 'dead' and melting glaciers
Iceland’s glaciers are disappearing. For locals, it’s a profoundly sad loss.
Lauren Boland
Reports from Sólheimajökull, Iceland
Updated 5 Oct
18.4k
47
Last month
September 2025
Final Interviews
Traitors finalists talk trust and treachery (and Nick reveals why he wanted to keep Katelyn in)
The Journal sat down with the five finalists at an RTÉ screening of the final episode last night to get their gameplay insights.
Lauren Boland
Updated 24 Sep
19.7k
13
dangerous game
How will the final of The Traitors actually work - how does somebody win?
Updated 23 Sep
16.8k
27
Poll
Who do you think will win The Traitors?
22 Sep
23.3k
27
The Traitors
Last night's banished player 'concerned' by social media hate sent to other contestants
Updated 22 Sep
39.5k
18
The Traitors
The Traitors: A faithful funeral brings us one step closer to the final
Updated 17 Sep
30.2k
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Live to serve
Did Garda Eamon need permission to go on The Traitors? 'Those who needed to know knew'
Updated 14 Sep
67.5k
30
Recap
The Traitors: We're halfway through the season, and we have to talk about the latest drama
9 Sep
29.7k
22
Poll
If you were a traitor on The Traitors, whose name would you say in the conclave tonight?
8 Sep
17.3k
24
Leo's Memoir
Varadkar on making 'crass and callous' campaign remarks - and seven other things we learned in his memoir
We also now know how Fine Gael’s presidential candidate Heather Humphreys reacted to the ‘Leo the Leak’ furore.
8 Sep
15.4k
42
The Traitors
The Traitors returns tonight - what advice would exiled players give to those still in the game?
7 Sep
19.6k
42
The Morning Lead
'We skip meals so our children can eat': How our readers try to cope with escalating food prices
We asked our readers to share their stories about how they are dealing with the rising cost of food and drink.
7 Sep
25.5k
103
RELATED
Number of Irish people emigrating to Australia is at its highest level since 2013
26 Aug
Money saved through free schoolbooks scheme is being swallowed up by school laptops, parents say
6 Aug
Ireland had the second most expensive food prices in the Eurozone last year
23 Jul
The Traitors
Who do the exiled Traitors players think will win? (And what song did they hear while blindfolded?)
3 Sep
9.9k
10
Traitors Vs Faithfuls
The Traitors Ireland has kicked off on RTÉ - is it any good, and how does it compare to the BBC's?
Updated 1 Sep
58.1k
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August
August 2025
The Pat Kenny Show
Pat Kenny's Newstalk show moving from weekdays to weekends next year
29 Aug
22.2k
70
Gaza
Pregnant women in Gaza describe malnutrition and extreme distress caused by Israel's blockade
29 Aug
3.7k
Wellpark Retail and Leisure
Customers evacuated and cinema forced to shut after flooding at Galway shopping centre
29 Aug
33.9k
15
Housing Crisis
Faeces on curtains, miles away from school: How children are suffering in emergency accommodation
28 Aug
20.6k
Bee Bullies
More Asian Hornets that threaten biosecurity have been spotted in Ireland
28 Aug
29.0k
55
Electric Picnic
Drug screening back at Electric Picnic after high-strength MDMA caused convulsions last year
27 Aug
7.4k
Those creepy dolls with the teeth
Revenue seizes 200 fake Labubu dolls smuggled into Ireland
27 Aug
15.9k
16
Glúin Z
TD Barry Heneghan to feature in new TG4 reality series about Gen Z
27 Aug
9.1k
23
Leaving in droves
Number of Irish people emigrating to Australia is at its highest level since 2013
26 Aug
30.0k
110
RELATED
Ireland had the second most expensive food prices in the Eurozone last year
23 Jul
Taoiseach acknowledges prices are 'elevated' - and gets told to 'wake-up' to the cost of living
15 Jul
Price hike
VHI to increase prices by an average of 3% from October
Updated 26 Aug
12.2k
63
Solo run
Gareth Sheridan says it'd be a 'dangerous precedent' if party councillors blocked his Áras run
26 Aug
18.1k
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Typhoon Kajiki
In photos: Fierce 130 km/h typhoon sweeps through Vietnam, killing at least three people
At least three people have died and 13 more are injured after Typhoon Kajiki hit central Vietnam.
26 Aug
6.3k
10
Newcastle
Murder investigation continues in Co Down as victim identified as convicted sex offender
Updated 25 Aug
26.0k
Palestine
Five journalists among 20 people killed in 'horrific' Israeli strikes on Gaza hospital
The journalists killed in the latest attacks worked for outlets like Al Jazeera, Reuters and the Associated Press.
Updated 25 Aug
11.5k
Rental Fraud
New students need to watch out for accommodation scams, gardaí say
25 Aug
4.2k
9
looking ahead
Zelenskyy says foreign troops needed on the ground to protect Ukraine after war
24 Aug
7.9k
Weather Forecast
Rainy weather in store this week to usher in back-to-school season
24 Aug
18.1k
17
The Daily Poll
Where's the best spot to sit in a cinema?
24 Aug
18.6k
34
on the fence
Sinn Féin will decide next month whether to field a candidate for president election
24 Aug
7.0k
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Good Morning
The 9 at 9 Here’s all the news to know as you start your day.
24 Aug
3.8k
kneecap
Kneecap to perform at festival outside Paris today despite objections in France
24 Aug
13.5k
Drugs Seizure
Man arrested as €3m worth of cannabis seized in Rosslare
24 Aug
7.4k
Gaza
At least 25 Palestinians killed in Gaza since declaration of famine, including at aid site
23 Aug
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