Irish - Last month December 2024
Church spire collapses to ground in flames after lightning strike in Co Clare
While firefighters prepared to tackle the blaze the timber spire collapsed onto the ground below before them.
- This year, The Journal team announced its political awards via The Candidate podcast.
- We hand out a number of gongs for awards such as the Minister Who Gets Shit Done, the Must Try Harder Merit and chat about the Ah Here Moment of the Year and Whoopsie of the Year.
- The top award, Politician of the Year, was put to a vote which was counted by PR-STV.
Mary Lou McDonald: 'I can safely say 2024 was the toughest year of my life'
Apart from her party not performing as she would have wanted in the election, McDonald has experienced personal challenges this year.
Irish soldiers in EU Battlegroup could be deployed to Ukraine for peacekeeping in event of truce
Irish soldiers will undertake a two-year deployment as part of the EU Battlegroup.