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Today's Top Stories

Investigatesfarm inspections

Majority of councils miss farm inspection targets vital for water protection

Russian President Vladimir Putin
War in Ukraine

Trump says he's protected Russia from 'really bad things' and Putin is 'playing with fire'

Protesters held up a banner in the visitor's gallery which said 'Sanction Israel'
Gaza

Dáil briefly suspended after protesters interrupt debate on ‘Israeli war bonds’

It comes after Marco Rubio rescinded hundreds of visas and the Trump administration moved to bar Harvard University from admitting any non-Americans.
United States

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Investigatesfarm inspections
Majority of councils miss farm inspection targets vital for water protection
The Journal Investigates found a significant level of non-compliance in the first year of farm slurry inspection targets set by the Environmental Protection Agency.
Seven councils completed less than 50% of their target inspections
Results described as “extremely worrying” for water quality
Local authorities struggling to fill inspector positions despite government funding
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VOICES

Personal accounts and opinions on recent events

Jews against Zionism
'What Israel has done in Gaza is barbaric – I'll never support it'
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Anti-immigration protests
Fear is what drives immigration protests in neglected communities, not hatred
Gary Gannon
Gender diverse people
Trans lives aren’t black and white, our conversations about them shouldn’t be either
Carol Ballantine
Building a nature reserve
Wildacres has gone from a desert for wildlife to a haven
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Mental illness
How do schizophrenia and psychosis present, and how can we best treat them?
Dr Stephen McWilliams
Synthetic drugs
It's high time we talked about Ketamine
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Middle age woes
I have become invisible in my 50s, and it is glorious
Gwen Loughman
Ireland's security
Having a modern and well-equipped air force is now a necessity for Ireland
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Coming out
Once that day in May came, I couldn’t continue living in a web of lies
Conor Sheehan
The one percent
Are we all just puppets for billionaires now?
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Gaza
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Not the 51st State
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Irish Air Corps to move to five-day week from June as Air Traffic Control crisis deepens
One well-placed security source warned it could take “years” to fix the problem.
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Humanitarian Aid
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national screening service
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Central Criminal Court
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FACTCHECK

The biggest questions, answered, by The Journal's factcheckers. 

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SPOTLIGHT

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Ged Nash
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