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Last week
12th October 2025 - 18th October 2025
Scotland take another big step towards World Cup qualification with win over Belarus
Housing worker who lived in emergency accommodation as a child: We need to hear first-hand stories of the housing crisis
Rachel Lartey
Inside the alcohol industry’s global campaign to delay Ireland’s world-first health labels
New documents reveal an organised effort by alcohol giants to pressure the Irish government into delaying landmark cancer warnings.
Lobbying campaign spanned Dublin, Brussels and Washington
Industry influence reached the Taoiseach’s office
Trump’s tariffs used as leverage to delay cancer warnings
How much do you know about mascots?
US transport company visits Dublin to woo councillors as it eyes up Dublin Bikes takeover
Here's What Happened Today: Sunday
Money Diaries: A chemist on €52K living in Cork
TheJournal.ie reader
Man discovered dead in Co Cork named locally
Maths Week: Your Sunday puzzle
We want to hear your thoughts on Michael D Higgins' presidency
Eilish Fisher: We use ghost stories to deal with grief and keep alive memories of those we've lost
Eilish Fisher
Connolly to consider publishing correspondence on Garda clearance for employee
Irish author and doctor among flotilla activists released from Israeli prison
German club Schalke condemns 'completely unjustifiable' behaviour of fans in Dublin
Man hospitalised with serious injuries after petrol attack in Co Tipperary
Catherine Connolly, who has been the underdog ‘all her life’, on her presidential vision
Dozens killed in Pakistan-Afghanistan border clashes, officials say
Candidates have second head-to-head debate as poll shows Humphreys trailing behind
Judge warns 'no-show' former GAA referee witness that jails are already 'stuffed to the brim'
Bodies of man and woman discovered at house in north Clare
Huge ocean sunfish found washed up off Donegal coast
Sixteen dead after blast at US explosives factory
How many keepie-uppies can you do?
Hamas and Israel captive exchange set to take place tomorrow morning
Investigation after more than 30 acres of native trees - some centuries old - felled in Co Cork
The Department of Agriculture has been formally alerted to the incident by the National Parks and Wildlife Service.
Teenager and man (40s) die following separate road crashes in Cork and Kilkenny
Sitdown Sunday: His genes meant he should've developed Alzheimer's 25 years ago. Why hasn't he?
US court denies Trump's deployment of troops in Chicago
Iceland, like Ireland, is in a housing crisis - and it's pushing climate down the political agenda
Opinion: Do you know our national bird? We aren't taking nearly enough care of it
Jack Morley
Let’s be clear: Ireland’s hospitality VAT rate will not be passed onto consumers
Once more for the people at the back: lower prices are neither the aim nor the likely outcome here.
State bodies at odds as Housing Department says it was never offered the Baggot Street Hospital
‘We basically pay two mortgages’: Our readers share the impact of soaring childcare costs
We asked our readers to share their experience of the cost of childcare. Here’s what we heard back.
This month
October 2025
Quiz: How much do you know about Dolly Parton?
Portugal v Ireland, World Cup qualifier
Micheál Martin apologises to Fianna Fáil membership for 'clear failure' in selecting Jim Gavin
Here's What Happened Today: Saturday
Gardaí say Co Cork assault did not occur in Ipas centre after false reports circulated
'A total nightmare': A Kildare primary school's fight for support for its students