Noel Baker
- Indexed articles, last 90 days
- 5
- Latest publication
- Sep 29, 2026
- Outlet visibility, for TheJournal.ie
- Top 10K sites
- Earliest in this view
- Aug 4, 2026
Latest articles
Tusla and how some of its data on foster carers didn't add up (opens the original)
Read excerpt
The FOI Files is a series from our team at The Journal Investigates. Each week, one of our investigative journalists brings you inside the fight for information that we’re all entitled to. They’ll share their documents, their stories – and tips on how to take the journey for yourself. This week’s file is from Acting Editor of The Journal Investigates, Noel Baker. See here for The Journal Investigates’ most recent investigations. AN UNUSUAL THING happened recently. A Freedom of Information reques
A politician went looking for submissions made under a public consultation and got nothing (opens the original)
Read excerpt
The FOI Files is a series from our team at The Journal Investigates. Each week, one of our investigative journalists brings you inside the fight for information that we’re all entitled to. They’ll share their documents, their stories – and tips on how to take the journey for yourself. This week’s file is from the Acting Editor of The Journal Investigates, Noel Baker. See here for The Journal Investigates’ most recent investigations. JOURNALISTS ARE ALL too used to getting knocked back when they
A Dublin hospital recorded almost 4,000 incidents of violence or aggression over three years (opens the original)
Read excerpt
A DUBLIN HOSPITAL recorded the highest number of incidents of violence or aggression against staff, patients and members of the public over the past three years of any hospital in the country. Data released to The Journal under the Freedom of Information Act shows that St James’s Hospital recorded more than three incidents of alleged violence or aggression every day on average over the course of 2023 to 2025. The total number of recorded incidents – 3,837 – was the highest posted by any hospital
'An arms race': the evolving new synthetic drugs that need fresh methods to detect them (opens the original)
Read excerpt
THE NUMBER OF suspected poisonings involving synthetic drugs reported to Ireland’s national poison centre has doubled in just three years, with doctors warning that some of these substances – which look to replicate the effects of cocaine or cannabis but which can be much stronger – can’t be detected by routine hospital drug tests. Thirty cases were reported to the National Poisons Information Centre last year, while five enquiries made about these drugs in recent years involved substances so no
Back in the queue: When scheduling quirks can result in FOIs being turned down (opens the original)
Read excerpt
The FOI Files is a series from our team at The Journal Investigates. Each week, one of our investigative journalists brings you inside the fight for information that we’re all entitled to. They’ll share their documents, their stories – and tips on how to take the journey for yourself. This week’s file is from TJI’s acting editor Noel Baker. See here for The Journal Investigates’ most recent investigations. AS IN LIFE, when it comes to Freedom of Information requests, timing can be everything. Wi
Publishing over time
Last 90 days. Choose a month to open its work.
Recurring subjects
Named in the text we hold. One piece can cover several.
Audience
Top 10K sites
For TheJournal.ie, the outlet · Measured Aug 1, 2026
Website popularity band, not a count of readers or article views.
About this data
Counts cover the work we have indexed. Tone needs enough text and a confident classification. Excerpts and episode notes are not full articles or transcripts.
Identity or attribution wrong? Suggest a correction.