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2023
Going to bed hungry: Parents are ‘doing without’ food as cost-of-living crisis hits
Emissions-heavy feed imports soaring to fuel dairy boom
Irish tillage being squeezed out in favour of renting land to dairy farmers
The Explainer x Noteworthy: Will home births ever be the norm in Ireland?
'Maternal request' reason for over half elective C-sections in Holles Street last year
Growing number of unassisted births happening in Ireland, say birth experts
'Unheard, belittled and made feel small': Women still battling for maternity care choice
Rural home births may be restricted as HSE stands by 30-minute distance limit
Tide turning on water birth ban as Drogheda becomes third hospital to reinstate option
Journalist from investigative platform Noteworthy awarded Press Council fellowship
‘God power’: Concern over State examining parental fitness as part of IVF scheme
Hundreds of acres of vital urban nature lost to astroturf in Dublin
National Museum rolls back commitments on strategy for colonial objects
Number of computers sent to Rehab Recycle resold instead of destroyed
Journal Media wins five Justice Media Awards for excellence in legal journalism
Missing Mails: Wiping of ministers’ texts and emails to be addressed with new policies
Lack of transparency harming Ireland’s vital election observer role
Ireland an outlier in decision to halt election observer role during Covid
The Explainer x Noteworthy: Is GSOC fit for purpose?
Garda watchdog handing half of its cases back to gardaí to investigate
Targets missed in at least 70% of GSOC complaints investigated by gardaí
Noteworthy wins prestigious award for investigation on exploitation of migrant fishers
Louder than words: Investigations inspiring political action
Govt transfers €150m in Brexit funding to post-Covid fund, to be spent in part on retrofitting
The Explainer x Noteworthy: Why is it so tough to access autism services?
‘Shouting into a black hole’: Chronic delays to autism services failing children
The Explainer x Noteworthy: What is the environmental cost of hydropower?
ESB ‘being given free pass’ to divert water without ecological assessments
'Death by a thousand cuts': Hydropower killing, injuring and trapping fish by the tonne
‘It’s endemic’: Prevalence of racism in Irish workplaces at record levels
Ireland fares worst at managing protected nature sites in new EU report
The Explainer x Noteworthy: Is the State ignoring island depopulation?
‘Always a battle’: Clare Island locals fight to improve ‘dangerous’ pier
‘On its knees’: Future of island fishers on a knife edge
Housing constraints ‘causing serious risk’ for islanders trying to sustain populations
‘Fragmented and unpredictable’: Healthcare services failing island communities
High and dry: Offshore islands a footnote in State priorities
The Explainer x Noteworthy: How is the Irish public health system coping?
Cash for reforms: €700 billion EU recovery fund sparks concern and criticism
Journal Media investigative series named winner of 2021 Mary Raftery Prize