Eimer McAuley

Exclusive: Irish workers training Meta's AI were asked to think like a paedophile or act suicidal for whole shifts. One worker ended up self-harminging in real life. Now 100s are fighting for better conditions. Read more here: thejournal.ie/meta-workers-i…

A garda was stabbed in the early hours of this morning in Dublin while responding to a burglary in progress call out at the Blanchardstown Shopping Centre. thejournal.ie/garda-stabbed-…

Over the coming weeks, The Journal will be chatting to new TDs about their experience of Dáil Éireann so far. First up on the roster is Social Democrats TD for Dublin Rathdown, Sinéad Gibney.  jrnl.ie/6771068t

Gardaí are investigating after a woman reported that she was forced to remove her hijab by men at a protest camp outside of The Avon Resort in Blessington, Co, Wicklow, where she was going to visit a friend. thejournal.ie/blessington-pr…

I was expecting this to be like a spoken word intro to CMAT's new single but it's a full (very beautiful) part of the song, put it in the edit record label people

For Mick, from us. From Kerry to Lebanon: Some of the most memorable images taken by Mirror photographer Mick O'Neill irishmirror.ie/news/irish-new…

This is Salam, just under 7 months old and suffering from serious acute malnutrition. Yesterday, UNRWA health teams were giving her emergency treatment. Sadly, Salam died later in the day. She is one of thousands of malnourished children in Gaza. More cases are detected every…

“Beyond belief - for once I am speechless. Perhaps there is still time for a change of heart?” Stephen Bowen, Director, Amnesty Ireland

A group of Palestinians in the West Bank who were to come to Ireland for a GAA tour have been informed that their visa applications have been refused by the Irish Immigration Service, the GAA Palestine group has said. 152 Irish families were to host them. thejournal.ie/gaa-palestine-…

Very very little shocks me, but this is actually insane.

Belfast City Councillors voted today to remove the controversial bonfire in the Village area of the city and to write to the DAERA minister Andrew Muir to urge him to act immediately to have the asbestos removed from the site. FOR: SDLP, SF, Alliance, Green AGAINST: DUP

Minister of State with responsibility for AI, Niamh Smyth, told @paulmurphy_TD that the practices described in our article on workers training Meta's AI here are 'cruel' and 'wouldn't be acceptable in Ireland'. thejournal.ie/meta-workers-i…

So experts can view the files...but what about the people who they relate to? When do we reach that point? irishexaminer.com/news/arid-4166…

After a year of such loss and great sadness in our Thalidomide family, join us to wish Maggie Woods a very Happy Birthday today 🎂

My first piece in a large project regarding the MV Matthew. We look at the crime side of Operation Piano. Revealed: How Hezbollah fundraisers helped finance the €157m MV Matthew drug operation (via @thejournal_ie) jrnl.ie/6738529

Imagine doing this job day after day after day

Employees described reviewing footage of people being stabbed, impaled, drowned, and executed. One whose job was to review material related to violence said that they dealt with hundreds of pieces of content a day, including extremely graphic videos and pictures. All for €29k…

This is shocking carry on in Ballymena ahead of the pride parade - streets spread with slurry, all the way from the carpark down to the butchers on Greenvale street where the parade is set to end. Business owners have been out scrubbing it off. thejournal.ie/ballymena-slur…

Stark photos and words from Tyler Collins on the ground at the Ballymena riots: “This wasn’t righteous anger. It was opportunism. A tragedy hijacked. The alleged victim forgotten. No justice. Just noise.” thejournal.ie/readme/ballyme…

"Racism is not just a unionist problem. I get all these tweets and there are as many 1916 bots as there are 1690 bots." @SDLPlive leader @ClaireHanna | #BBCTheView