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Patricia Devlin

Reporter · IE

Indexed articles, last 90 days
7
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Sep 8, 2026
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Jul 14, 2026

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  1. Article · Sep 8, 2026 · Patricia Devlin

    The FOI Files: The year-long battle for records on Ireland’s promised Wildlife Crime Unit (opens the original)

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    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 investigative journalist Patricia Devlin. See here for The Journal Investigates’ most recent investigations. IN LATE 2020, then Heritage Minister Malcolm Noonan announced plans to establish

  2. Article · Sep 3, 2026 · Patricia Devlin

    Seven skunks captured and destroyed after being found roaming near protected Kildare bogland (opens the original)

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    SEVEN SKUNKS WERE captured and destroyed after being found roaming beside a protected raised bog in Co Kildare, The Journal can reveal. The animals were discovered in the Milltown Bog area near Newbridge during March and April this year, prompting an operation involving the National Parks and Wildlife Service (NPWS), local landowners and members of the community. The NPWS said it is currently carrying out an investigation into the origins of the animals, and how they came to be loose in the area

  3. Article · Aug 18, 2026 · Patricia Devlin

    The FOI Files: Records revealed DAFM inspected just four hare coursing events in five years (opens the original)

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    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 investigative journalist Patricia Devlin. See here for The Journal Investigates’ most recent investigations. THE DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, Food and the Marine (DAFM) says hare coursing is

  4. Article · Jul 28, 2026 · Patricia Devlin

    The question that revealed child in State care went missing 274 times in a year (opens the original)

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    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 investigative journalist Patricia Devlin. See here for The Journal Investigates’ most recent investigations. LAST YEAR I asked Tusla for records it held on incidents involving children who

  5. Article · Jul 26, 2026 · Patricia Devlin

    Ireland has one of Europe’s highest rates of wildfire overlap with protected nature sites (opens the original)

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    MORE THAN HALF of land affected by Irish wildfires over the past decade overlapped Natura 2000 protected sites, The Journal Investigates can reveal. The analysis sets Ireland apart from many of the European countries most commonly associated with wildfire devastation. The findings come as firefighters in Co Tipperary said they had made significant progress in containing a wildfire on Slievenamon. It had been burning since last Monday and had intensified midweek, when some locals began making pre

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