The Journal Investigates
Series
The FOI Files
The FOI Files: A meeting on motorway safety was held after the M9 crash. Why were no minutes taken?
Members of the public also sent numerous emails on potential solutions to wrong-way motorway driving.
20 Oct
28
Tuesday
13 Oct
Series
The FOI Files
The FOI Files: How one ‘wrong’ word led to the same request being refused twice
13 Oct
4
Thursday
8 Oct
Investigation
animal testing
Irish universities paid hundreds of thousands for invasive animal experiments abroad
8 Oct
1
Tuesday
6 Oct
Series
The FOI Files
The FOI Files: How laws on family reunification were tweaked to make them more difficult to waive
6 Oct
1
Tuesday
29 Sep
Sunday
27 Sep
Investigation
your stories
‘I felt completely alone’: Readers share their stories accessing pregnancy mental health supports
27 Sep
0
Wednesday
23 Sep
Investigation
mother and baby unit
Location of mother and baby psychiatric unit still not decided after almost ten years of delays
23 Sep
0
Tuesday
22 Sep
Series
The FOI Files
What did the FAI say to the Dept of Sport about Ireland’s Nations League fixture with Israel?
22 Sep
0
Investigation
perinatal mental health
Pregnant women and new mothers in Ireland find restricted access to crisis mental health support
22 Sep
0
Monday
21 Sep
Tuesday
15 Sep
Series
The FOI Files
A politician went looking for submissions made under a public consultation and got nothing
15 Sep
0
Tuesday
8 Sep
Series
The FOI Files
The FOI Files: The year-long battle for records on Ireland’s promised Wildlife Crime Unit
8 Sep
0
Investigation
Foster Care
Tusla can't say how many foster carers were removed due to complaints or allegations
8 Sep
0
Tuesday
1 Sep
Series
The FOI Files
Why won’t the Department of Equality release a two-year-old report on expanding gender recognition?
1 Sep
0
Tuesday
25 Aug
Series
The FOI Files
The FOI Files: How Dublin City Council discovered the diesel leak in the Liffey
25 Aug
0
Investigation
seaweed harvesting
Who's behind the seaweed harvesting applications covering over 14,000 hectares of Ireland's coastline?
25 Aug
0
Investigation
seaweed harvesting
Maritime regulator investigating multiple claims of illegal seaweed harvesting in protected areas
25 Aug
0
Tuesday
18 Aug
Series
The FOI Files
The FOI Files: Records revealed DAFM inspected just four hare coursing events in five years
18 Aug
0
Tuesday
11 Aug
Series
The FOI Files
Why the Department of Foreign Affairs won’t release details of its lobby meetings with Amazon
11 Aug
0
Investigation
New Drugs
'An arms race': the evolving new synthetic drugs that need fresh methods to detect them
11 Aug
0
Tuesday
4 Aug
Series
The FOI Files
Back in the queue: When scheduling quirks can result in FOIs being turned down
4 Aug
0
Tuesday
28 Jul
Series
The FOI Files
The question that revealed child in State care went missing 274 times in a year
28 Jul
0
Sunday
26 Jul
Investigation
illegal wildfires
Ireland has one of Europe’s highest rates of wildfire overlap with protected nature sites
26 Jul
0
Friday
24 Jul
Investigation
Water use
Data centres used almost one billion litres of water last year, but another industry used far more
24 Jul
0
Tuesday
21 Jul
Tuesday
14 Jul
Investigation
Nitrous Oxide
Thousands of nitrous oxide canisters are ending up at waste facilities amid warnings of explosions
14 Jul
0
Tuesday
7 Jul
Series
The FOI Files
Why the gambling regulator won’t release details of industry lobby meetings
7 Jul
0
Tuesday
30 Jun