Patricia Devlin
@trishdevlin.bsky.social
Irish ☘️ Investigative journalist ✍️ Lover of good vibes 🧘♀️Co Derry born and bred 🔴⚪️ The Journal Investigates @ TheJournal.ie 👩🏻💻
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Brilliant news - our own Conor O'Carroll has won Young Journalist of the Year at the annual Newsbrands Awards!
November 12, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Brilliant news - our own Conor O'Carroll has won Young Journalist of the Year at the annual Newsbrands Awards!
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'When they finished cutting, they tied my legs together for a week so the stitches wouldn’t open'.
A young Somalian woman talks to @trishdevlin.bsky.social about becoming a victim of Female Genital Mutilation at 8-years-old, and later seeking protection in Ireland.
A young Somalian woman talks to @trishdevlin.bsky.social about becoming a victim of Female Genital Mutilation at 8-years-old, and later seeking protection in Ireland.
Over 330% increase in demand for Female Genital Mutilation treatment in Ireland
Health chief calls for a roll-out of regional FGM clinics to cope with soaring waiting lists for health services.
www.thejournal.ie
November 5, 2025 at 5:14 PM
'When they finished cutting, they tied my legs together for a week so the stitches wouldn’t open'.
A young Somalian woman talks to @trishdevlin.bsky.social about becoming a victim of Female Genital Mutilation at 8-years-old, and later seeking protection in Ireland.
A young Somalian woman talks to @trishdevlin.bsky.social about becoming a victim of Female Genital Mutilation at 8-years-old, and later seeking protection in Ireland.
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Ireland's sole clinic for treating women and some girls with horrific Female Genital Mutilation injuries has seen a 300% surge in demand for services. Its director tells @trishdevlin.bsky.social the current service is 'neither fair, nor sustainable'.
READ: www.thejournal.ie/female-genit...
READ: www.thejournal.ie/female-genit...
November 5, 2025 at 7:14 AM
Ireland's sole clinic for treating women and some girls with horrific Female Genital Mutilation injuries has seen a 300% surge in demand for services. Its director tells @trishdevlin.bsky.social the current service is 'neither fair, nor sustainable'.
READ: www.thejournal.ie/female-genit...
READ: www.thejournal.ie/female-genit...
October 25, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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Several Irish stars have joined big names in backing and promoting a concert hosted tonight by Together for Palestine at Wembley Stadium
https://www.thejournal.ie/cillian-murphy-together-for-palestine-6819680-Sep2025/
https://www.thejournal.ie/cillian-murphy-together-for-palestine-6819680-Sep2025/
Cillian Murphy among Irish stars backing Together for Palestine concert
Musicians and bands including Paul Weller, Damon Albert, King Krule and Bastille are listed as performers.
www.thejournal.ie
September 17, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Several Irish stars have joined big names in backing and promoting a concert hosted tonight by Together for Palestine at Wembley Stadium
https://www.thejournal.ie/cillian-murphy-together-for-palestine-6819680-Sep2025/
https://www.thejournal.ie/cillian-murphy-together-for-palestine-6819680-Sep2025/
Racism in Ireland. Unfortunately, gardai only began recording hate crimes and incidents, with categories such as “anti-race”, three years ago. But from the data we do have, we can see reports of racist attacks and abuse has been growing. Link to article in next 🧵
September 17, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Racism in Ireland. Unfortunately, gardai only began recording hate crimes and incidents, with categories such as “anti-race”, three years ago. But from the data we do have, we can see reports of racist attacks and abuse has been growing. Link to article in next 🧵
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'Racism has got more aggressive, more obvious and more brazen' in Ireland, with anti-race the single most discriminatory motive in hate crimes here.
Read our latest investigation:
http://www.thejournal.ie/racist-attacks-ireland-6817334-Sep2025/
Read our latest investigation:
http://www.thejournal.ie/racist-attacks-ireland-6817334-Sep2025/
Around one in three hate incidents reported to gardaí are racially motivated
Anti-race hate crimes and incidents have risen by almost a quarter in just three years, according to data analysed by The Journal Investigates.
www.thejournal.ie
September 17, 2025 at 12:32 PM
'Racism has got more aggressive, more obvious and more brazen' in Ireland, with anti-race the single most discriminatory motive in hate crimes here.
Read our latest investigation:
http://www.thejournal.ie/racist-attacks-ireland-6817334-Sep2025/
Read our latest investigation:
http://www.thejournal.ie/racist-attacks-ireland-6817334-Sep2025/
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Around one in three hate incidents reported to gardaí are racially motivated, analysis by @trishdevlin.bsky.social has found.
http://www.thejournal.ie/racist-attacks-ireland-6817334-Sep2025/
http://www.thejournal.ie/racist-attacks-ireland-6817334-Sep2025/
Around one in three hate incidents reported to gardaí are racially motivated
Anti-race hate crimes and incidents have risen by almost a quarter in just three years, according to data analysed by The Journal Investigates.
www.thejournal.ie
September 17, 2025 at 6:30 AM
Around one in three hate incidents reported to gardaí are racially motivated, analysis by @trishdevlin.bsky.social has found.
http://www.thejournal.ie/racist-attacks-ireland-6817334-Sep2025/
http://www.thejournal.ie/racist-attacks-ireland-6817334-Sep2025/
Part 2 of our series looking at threats to our native seals. This one beggars belief, especially after the outrage in 2022 when a seal pup was killed after being picked up by a tourist for a selfie 😔 ⬇️
Tourists are disturbing Ireland’s largest grey seal colony by flying drones and picking up pups for selfies. The latest in our series looking at threats to the protected species by @trishdevlin.bsky.social
http://www.thejournal.ie/tourists-drones-selfies-seals-6787750-Aug2025/
http://www.thejournal.ie/tourists-drones-selfies-seals-6787750-Aug2025/
Snap happy tourists harming seals by picking up pups for selfies and flying drones
Tourists visiting the Great Blasket Island are causing ‘almost daily’ incidents’ leading to seals abandoning young, The Journal Investigates can reveal.
www.thejournal.ie
August 14, 2025 at 8:19 AM
Part 2 of our series looking at threats to our native seals. This one beggars belief, especially after the outrage in 2022 when a seal pup was killed after being picked up by a tourist for a selfie 😔 ⬇️
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The number of dead seals washing up along Irish coasts more than doubled between 2020 and 2023, an investigation by @trishdevlin.bsky.social has found.
http://www.thejournal.ie/dead-seals-ireland-6786495-Aug2025/
http://www.thejournal.ie/dead-seals-ireland-6786495-Aug2025/
Dead seals washing up on Irish coasts more than double in three years
The Journal Investigates can reveal a significant spike in dead seal reports, as severe storms and human disturbance threaten the protected species.
www.thejournal.ie
August 13, 2025 at 6:30 AM
The number of dead seals washing up along Irish coasts more than doubled between 2020 and 2023, an investigation by @trishdevlin.bsky.social has found.
http://www.thejournal.ie/dead-seals-ireland-6786495-Aug2025/
http://www.thejournal.ie/dead-seals-ireland-6786495-Aug2025/
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Our latest investigation by @trishdevlin.bsky.social exposes an important security concern across Ireland:
Chinese surveillance cameras banned from sensitive government sites in the UK, US and Australia, are in widespread use right across Ireland, we can reveal.
http://www.thejournal.ie/investigates-hikvision-surveillance-6755381-Jul2025/
http://www.thejournal.ie/investigates-hikvision-surveillance-6755381-Jul2025/
Thousands of controversial Chinese surveillance cameras installed in public places across Ireland
The Journal Investigates reveals Hikvision is used by councils, hospitals and universities despite bans in other countries.
www.thejournal.ie
July 23, 2025 at 8:48 AM
Our latest investigation by @trishdevlin.bsky.social exposes an important security concern across Ireland:
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@trishdevlin.bsky.social at the @thejournal.ie has a complementary investigative piece out as well. www.thejournal.ie/investigates...
Thousands of controversial Chinese surveillance cameras installed in public places across Ireland
The Journal Investigates reveals Hikvision is used by councils, hospitals and universities despite bans in other countries.
www.thejournal.ie
July 23, 2025 at 7:36 AM
@trishdevlin.bsky.social at the @thejournal.ie has a complementary investigative piece out as well. www.thejournal.ie/investigates...
The Daily Mail now coming for the hipsters for making places look nice.
July 2, 2025 at 10:50 PM
The Daily Mail now coming for the hipsters for making places look nice.
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One female paramedic told The Journal Investigates she was "dry humped” by two different male colleagues, incidents brushed off as jokes.
http://www.thejournal.ie/national-ambulance-service-female-paramedics-6748778-Jul2025/
http://www.thejournal.ie/national-ambulance-service-female-paramedics-6748778-Jul2025/
‘I won’t work alone with certain colleagues’: Female paramedics break silence on 'toxic' culture
Staff told The Journal Investigates they feel that there is an ‘unsafe culture’ within the National Ambulance Service.
www.thejournal.ie
July 2, 2025 at 12:32 PM
One female paramedic told The Journal Investigates she was "dry humped” by two different male colleagues, incidents brushed off as jokes.
http://www.thejournal.ie/national-ambulance-service-female-paramedics-6748778-Jul2025/
http://www.thejournal.ie/national-ambulance-service-female-paramedics-6748778-Jul2025/
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Awful behaviour, well done the female paramedics for talking about it and you for reporting.
Sexual harassment is disturbing anywhere but somehow an emergency service is a workplace where to you might think there’s less of it. Wrongly.
Sexual harassment is disturbing anywhere but somehow an emergency service is a workplace where to you might think there’s less of it. Wrongly.
July 2, 2025 at 8:40 AM
Awful behaviour, well done the female paramedics for talking about it and you for reporting.
Sexual harassment is disturbing anywhere but somehow an emergency service is a workplace where to you might think there’s less of it. Wrongly.
Sexual harassment is disturbing anywhere but somehow an emergency service is a workplace where to you might think there’s less of it. Wrongly.
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Every single workplace. How many of these abusers are responding to sexual violence call outs? Well done @trishdevlin.bsky.social for documenting this.
"Separately, a hidden camera was found in one of the women’s bathrooms. An incident, she claimed, “was all kept quiet”.
"Separately, a hidden camera was found in one of the women’s bathrooms. An incident, she claimed, “was all kept quiet”.
‘I won’t work alone with certain colleagues’: Female paramedics tell @trishdevlin.bsky.social they feel there is an ‘unsafe culture’ within the National Ambulance Service.
Read our latest investigation ⬇️
http://www.thejournal.ie/national-ambulance-service-female-paramedics-6748778-Jul2025/
Read our latest investigation ⬇️
http://www.thejournal.ie/national-ambulance-service-female-paramedics-6748778-Jul2025/
‘I won’t work alone with certain colleagues’: Female paramedics break silence on 'toxic' culture
Staff told The Journal Investigates they feel that there is an ‘unsafe culture’ within the National Ambulance Service.
www.thejournal.ie
July 2, 2025 at 8:21 AM
Every single workplace. How many of these abusers are responding to sexual violence call outs? Well done @trishdevlin.bsky.social for documenting this.
"Separately, a hidden camera was found in one of the women’s bathrooms. An incident, she claimed, “was all kept quiet”.
"Separately, a hidden camera was found in one of the women’s bathrooms. An incident, she claimed, “was all kept quiet”.
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‘I won’t work alone with certain colleagues’: Female paramedics tell @trishdevlin.bsky.social they feel there is an ‘unsafe culture’ within the National Ambulance Service.
Read our latest investigation ⬇️
http://www.thejournal.ie/national-ambulance-service-female-paramedics-6748778-Jul2025/
Read our latest investigation ⬇️
http://www.thejournal.ie/national-ambulance-service-female-paramedics-6748778-Jul2025/
‘I won’t work alone with certain colleagues’: Female paramedics break silence on 'toxic' culture
Staff told The Journal Investigates they feel that there is an ‘unsafe culture’ within the National Ambulance Service.
www.thejournal.ie
July 2, 2025 at 7:00 AM
‘I won’t work alone with certain colleagues’: Female paramedics tell @trishdevlin.bsky.social they feel there is an ‘unsafe culture’ within the National Ambulance Service.
Read our latest investigation ⬇️
http://www.thejournal.ie/national-ambulance-service-female-paramedics-6748778-Jul2025/
Read our latest investigation ⬇️
http://www.thejournal.ie/national-ambulance-service-female-paramedics-6748778-Jul2025/
Thank you to the brave female paramedics who spoke to me for this investigation👇
‘I won’t work alone with certain colleagues’: Female paramedics tell @trishdevlin.bsky.social they feel there is an ‘unsafe culture’ within the National Ambulance Service.
Read our latest investigation ⬇️
http://www.thejournal.ie/national-ambulance-service-female-paramedics-6748778-Jul2025/
Read our latest investigation ⬇️
http://www.thejournal.ie/national-ambulance-service-female-paramedics-6748778-Jul2025/
‘I won’t work alone with certain colleagues’: Female paramedics break silence on 'toxic' culture
Staff told The Journal Investigates they feel that there is an ‘unsafe culture’ within the National Ambulance Service.
www.thejournal.ie
July 2, 2025 at 7:31 AM
Thank you to the brave female paramedics who spoke to me for this investigation👇
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Bob Vylan 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
June 28, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Bob Vylan 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
Just came across this gem on booking [dot] com. I’d stay here just to meet the cat 🙂 #dublin #cats #catsofbluesky
June 24, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Just came across this gem on booking [dot] com. I’d stay here just to meet the cat 🙂 #dublin #cats #catsofbluesky
Next month we’ll once again remember these 3 little boys whose lives were cruelly cut short in 1998. Burned in their beds because of hate and bigotry. That same hate and bigotry is on the streets of Northern Ireland tonight, no matter how it’s dressed up. Stay safe everyone ❤️
June 11, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Next month we’ll once again remember these 3 little boys whose lives were cruelly cut short in 1998. Burned in their beds because of hate and bigotry. That same hate and bigotry is on the streets of Northern Ireland tonight, no matter how it’s dressed up. Stay safe everyone ❤️
The most powerful interview Stella has done yet. It’ll be 14 weeks tomorrow since our little Caitlin Rose passed away and almost every day since, her mummy has pushed and fought for new laws to make school buses safer for all children ❤️
Listen here: rte.ie/radio/radio1/c…
Listen here: rte.ie/radio/radio1/c…
June 11, 2025 at 8:51 PM
The most powerful interview Stella has done yet. It’ll be 14 weeks tomorrow since our little Caitlin Rose passed away and almost every day since, her mummy has pushed and fought for new laws to make school buses safer for all children ❤️
Listen here: rte.ie/radio/radio1/c…
Listen here: rte.ie/radio/radio1/c…
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The puppy farm capital of Europe – how did Ireland earn this shameful accolade?
A bill to ban fox hunting – what's in it and who’s for it?
And retired and abandoned horses – is enough being done.
Guests: Padraig O’Sullivan, Ruth Coppinger, Ciara Malone, @trishdevlin.bsky.social
A bill to ban fox hunting – what's in it and who’s for it?
And retired and abandoned horses – is enough being done.
Guests: Padraig O’Sullivan, Ruth Coppinger, Ciara Malone, @trishdevlin.bsky.social
June 3, 2025 at 8:31 PM
The puppy farm capital of Europe – how did Ireland earn this shameful accolade?
A bill to ban fox hunting – what's in it and who’s for it?
And retired and abandoned horses – is enough being done.
Guests: Padraig O’Sullivan, Ruth Coppinger, Ciara Malone, @trishdevlin.bsky.social
A bill to ban fox hunting – what's in it and who’s for it?
And retired and abandoned horses – is enough being done.
Guests: Padraig O’Sullivan, Ruth Coppinger, Ciara Malone, @trishdevlin.bsky.social
Thank you to @patrick-corrigan.bsky.social and Kathryn Torney for the tremendous care and work put in to highlighting threats to journalists in Northern Ireland. Sorry I couldn’t be there today. Solidarity
Amnesty Imternational's Patrick Corrigan launches report showing the state is failing to protect journalists from threats of death and intimidation
June 3, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Thank you to @patrick-corrigan.bsky.social and Kathryn Torney for the tremendous care and work put in to highlighting threats to journalists in Northern Ireland. Sorry I couldn’t be there today. Solidarity
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On the show today: Part-time air traffic control; @henrymckean.bsky.social on real-life shopping; Sending thank you cards; @barbarascully.bsky.social & Mary McEvoy wonder are you right in the head; @trishdevlin.bsky.social on badger culling; Exporting future wives to Australia...
May 29, 2025 at 12:25 PM
On the show today: Part-time air traffic control; @henrymckean.bsky.social on real-life shopping; Sending thank you cards; @barbarascully.bsky.social & Mary McEvoy wonder are you right in the head; @trishdevlin.bsky.social on badger culling; Exporting future wives to Australia...