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The Journal Investigates team: Patricia Devlin, Maria Delaney (editor) and Conor O'Carroll

The Journal Investigates - Our new home for groundbreaking investigative journalism

Building on the award-winning work of Noteworthy, we are proud to launch our new initiative, funded by The Journal readers.

WHAT IS INVESTIGATIVE journalism?

Simply put… journalism with time and resources.

Time to explore tips, to sit down and listen to more people, to forensically examine documents and data, to dig into the root of an issue.

Resources to train journalists in specialist tools, to analyse publicly-available information, to improve transparency of State bodies, to travel the length and breadth of Ireland to ensure the true story is being reported.

Time and resources are scarcer than ever in the current media environment, but Journal Media is excited to launch a new platform that will enable us to invest time, expertise and passion in long-form investigative journalism.

Our new venture, The Journal Investigates, is dedicated to lifting the lid on how Ireland works. We will expose injustice and demand change on your behalf.

Building on the award-winning work of our crowdfunded investigative platform Noteworthy over the past five years, with your support, The Journal Investigates will continue to get results that deliver impact.

Our investigative journalism has brought home over 20 awards during that time, including the prestigious Mary Raftery Prize, Irish Red Cross Humanitarian Awards, Business Journalist Awards and Justice Media Awards. Our investigations have also been regularly cited in the Houses of the Oireachtas, spurred legislative change and called wrongdoing to account.

Our newly launched investigative unit aims to be more impactful as instead of crowdfunding individual projects, The Journal Investigates will delve into issues as soon as they cross our journalists’ desks. This will enable us to better drive change and news agendas across Ireland.

This will only happen with generous support by The Journal readers, as from now on, we will be asking you to join us on our mission to keep pressure on the powerful by, instead of supporting individual projects, becoming ongoing regular supporters of our work.

As editor of The Journal Investigates, I am delighted to welcome you to this new chapter of investigative journalism which demonstrates the dedication of all at Journal Media to exposing the inner workings of modern Ireland. 

We are one of the only independent investigative units working at national level in Ireland today, investing precious time and resources to go beyond breaking news.

Our team has been extremely busy over the past few months and is looking forward to revealing our findings on a regular basis, starting this Wednesday.

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    Mute Dave O Neill
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    Sep 16th 2024, 11:21 AM

    They’ll be sticking to the narrative given to them by those above our laws.
    Reporting will be done and comments sections closed on anything deemed to be from the FAR RIGHT ( ppl with an opinion that doesn’t correspond to their own)
    The mediocre and foreign stories , opinion polls on useless things shall carry on

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    Sep 16th 2024, 11:25 AM

    @Dave O Neill: Then get the defamation laws changed.

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    Sep 16th 2024, 11:36 AM

    @Dave O Neill: the far right (William Slevin for example) spam the threads with long repetetive bs knowing well that it will get the comments closed down.
    The far right hate free speech, if it isn’t their own.

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    Sep 16th 2024, 12:46 PM

    @offside again: I’ve only ever seen relevant, on point sensible posts from William…. Polar opposite to the tripe all your accounts in ‘ factor 50′ ( you, kevvy & the Brendan accounts)insist on bombarding any article with comments open. Repetitive juvenile name calling & idiotic FRG propaganda is all we see from FACTOR 50

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    Sep 16th 2024, 1:15 PM

    @offside again: “The far right” where exactly ? Like reds under the bed during the 1950s US McCarthyite era ?

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    Sep 16th 2024, 4:07 PM

    @Buster Lawless: Sensible posts, like William’s where we posits that 85% of immigrants should be deported back to their home country? Is that what you mean?

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    Sep 16th 2024, 11:16 PM

    @Kevin Kerr: not a bad idea, it’s a start I suppose.

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    Sep 17th 2024, 10:21 AM

    @Dave O Neill: And what are YOU doing about it?

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    Sep 16th 2024, 10:51 AM

    This ain’t the Cook report, now that is proper investigation. Even Donal Macintyre, great Irish journalist who infiltrated the football hooligans. You wouldn’t see the woke journals doing that now.

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    Sep 16th 2024, 11:03 AM

    @Basildon Joe: is there a point in there???

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    Sep 16th 2024, 11:14 AM

    @Buster Lawless: dyslexia perhaps for you bust.

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    Sep 16th 2024, 12:00 PM

    Great to see those children above fact checking for us older people with real life experience, what would we know?

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    Sep 16th 2024, 12:14 PM

    @John Brennan: Facts aren’t age-dependent, though.

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    Sep 16th 2024, 12:22 PM

    @Brendan O’Brien: Experience is though. Facts can be interpreted differently, depending on what prism they viewed through and if a particular narrative is being pushed by the so called fact checkers.

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    Sep 16th 2024, 12:25 PM

    @John Brennan: If they are ‘pushing a narrative’, they aren’t fact-checkers. Their job is to present facts: readers can interpret them.

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    Sep 16th 2024, 1:24 PM

    @Brendan O’Brien: you know as well as everyone though that facts can be fluid, because language is fluid. I totally agree that lies must be exposed. I don’t even like the term ‘facts’. I’d prefer ‘the most reliable information we have’.

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    Sep 16th 2024, 11:19 PM

    @Brendan O’Brien: facts don’t care about your feelings either
    Brendan

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    Sep 16th 2024, 12:38 PM

    Investigative journalism, is contradictionary in terms, as today’s journalist only copy and paste.

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    Sep 16th 2024, 11:17 AM

    Who’d a taught the public were mislead about the implications of the two recent referendum by all parties except for anto, had they been passed.

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    Sep 16th 2024, 11:29 AM

    @P. V. Aglue: Good man Anto

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    Mute AnthonyK
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    Sep 16th 2024, 1:34 PM

    Investigative journalists who will only investigate areas that the Journal disapprove of. Everyone else will be safe.

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    Sep 16th 2024, 3:07 PM

    Are they actually journalists?

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    Sep 16th 2024, 3:46 PM

    Next they’ll be investigating FG instead of writing puff pieces about them … not.

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    Sep 16th 2024, 8:53 PM

    Investigate Journalism is badly needed, one that highlights all issues. However the Journal tends to follow a certain narrative only, which frustrates people. If only one view point is given then there is a clear bias. We have had huge social division in the last two years in communities, leading to societal collapse, people are frustrated as no one in Dail Eirinn is listening & Journalism is not reflecting their views, this leads to cynicism, division & breakdown in trust. RTE the “State Broadcaster” who continually dismissed contary views as Misinformation were then exposed as being guilty of Misinforming& lying to the Public, they did irreversible damage to Irish Journalism. It doesn’t help either that Journalists are queuing up for Govt jobs, Simon Harris’s team proves the point

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    Sep 16th 2024, 8:26 PM

    A new copy and paste division. Great.

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    Sep 16th 2024, 10:04 AM

    Great idea. “The truth will set us free “

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    Sep 16th 2024, 10:06 AM

    @thomas molloy: depends on whose truth you get though…

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    Sep 16th 2024, 10:18 AM

    @Toca Stories: Objective facts still exist: Trump and Putin have not managed to abolish them yet.

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    Sep 16th 2024, 10:38 AM

    @Brendan O’Brien: What is the unhealthy obsession with those two? Why don’t you use Xi or Maduro for a change? I don’t think Trump is the worse at this game. Are you lacking basic knowledge on awful world leaders? Why not Masoud Pezeshkian? I doubt you even know this name. Trump is clearly not great at facts but those are the worse of the worse with 0 accountability.

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    Sep 16th 2024, 10:40 AM

    @Alex: Maybe you need some fresh air! I dislike those two as well but if you keep bringing them at every comment it isn’t very healthy isn’t it?

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    Sep 16th 2024, 10:44 AM

    @Alex: Trump has changed everything in the West in the past 10 years through his sheer brazen disregard for facts, which is unprecedented in this part of the world. He has told tens of thousands of well-documented lies.

    As a result, we’re living in a different world now. He undermined the foundations of the old one, more or less single-handedly.

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    Sep 16th 2024, 10:47 AM

    @Brendan O’Brien: No he did not. He was never alone at the wheel. Sure he changed things but his impact is far lower than the likes of Xi for example or even Iran. He was in the office for 4 years, not much happened aside bad decisions and hand checking with his buddies.

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    Sep 16th 2024, 10:51 AM

    @Alex: It simply isn’t true to say that the likes of Xi have had more influence on the West than Trump has. In fact is is wildly untrue (the opposite of the truth): Trumpian, almost.

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    Sep 16th 2024, 10:58 AM

    @Brendan O’Brien: jeez, even an exciting article about the infancy of a new venture detailing investigative journalism….. & Your idiotic accounts (I see your accounts — Brendan o brain/kevvy ker/offside again – are now simply referred to as “factor 50′)are straight in with your democrats propaganda…… Like it’s less than 24 hrs since the latest assassination attempt on president Trump…..take a breather,get a hobby ( a life)

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    Sep 16th 2024, 11:20 AM

    @Buster Lawless: haha ! there’s nothing on this site as dumb as the juggernaut of peace comments !!!

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    Sep 16th 2024, 11:22 AM

    @Alex: Because both Trump and Putin have done so much harm to our lives?

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    Sep 16th 2024, 11:24 PM

    @Brendan O’Brien: your hatred for Trump is consuming you,
    Or is it Fear?

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    Sep 16th 2024, 10:22 PM

    Perhaps investigate the shambles of our A&E departments. Doctors and nurses are at breaking point in there. My elderly father left for 16 hours on a hard plastic chair with nowhere open to even get a sandwich or a cup of tea for him. Turns out he was having a slow heart attack but time wasters (drunk and disorderly) take up resources. Badly need a minor injuries unit attached to A&E so critically ill people can actually be seen in a timely manner.

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    Sep 16th 2024, 3:54 PM

    Good news, fair play. Looking forward to reading it…. Make the news, don’t just follow it.

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    Sep 16th 2024, 9:49 PM

    Mouthpiece for the Government…No comments allowed on anything that actually matters. Censored journalism, A Government’s dream made real! Hang your heads in Shame!

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    Sep 16th 2024, 2:59 PM

    All I can picture, is the media going around like the Mystery Machine from Scooby Doo. Bless ‘em.

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    Sep 16th 2024, 10:48 PM

    Byker grove news squad.

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    Sep 16th 2024, 2:46 PM

    Good to see!

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    Sep 16th 2024, 8:03 PM

    Be gob I can’t wait the excitement is palpable

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    Sep 17th 2024, 8:19 AM

    The Journal and journalism, an oxymoron if I ever saw one.

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    Sep 17th 2024, 8:26 AM

    How about investigating the money being made around immigration/ the rise in crime around immigration/ the rise of sex crimes by immigrants and how Irish people are being put send in their own country

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    Sep 17th 2024, 8:05 AM

    The amount of angry armchair journalists here is hilarious. Extra points when they mention “The narrative” or “msm”. You can really see which echo chambers they live in.

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    Sep 17th 2024, 1:06 PM

    Number 1. Accountability in the public sector needs investigating, name and shame poor decision makers or worse biased decision makers. Councils, Government Departments, OPW especially as they seem to be a right mess, etc.

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