Maria Delaney (Dublin) is the editor of The Journal Investigates, one of the only independent investigative units working at national level in Ireland.

As an investigative journalist, she specialises in health, social justice and science. Previously, as a freelance science and health journalist, her work appeared in The Sunday Times, Business Post, The Irish Times, Ars Technica, among others, as well as on RTÉ Radio 1 and Newstalk.

Maria is a two-time winner of the Journalism Excellence Award from the Irish Red Cross Humanitarian Awards and has won a number of other prestigious Irish and international awards for her work, including two awards from the Association of British Science Writers.

Basic information

Name
Maria Delaney
Title
Editor
Expertise
Social Justice, Health, Science and Data
Country
Ireland
City
Dublin
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Supported projects

Data Crunch: The Environmental Cost Of the AI Boom In Europe?

  • Energy
  • Environment
  • Technology

DUBLIN / MADRID - AI has exploded but when its cutting edge software is stripped back, carbon intensive hardware is whirring busily behind, at a high cost to the environment. What exactly does it amount to for Europe?

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Wasted Wetlands

  • Climate
  • Environment

WICKLOW / LONGFORD / CERVIA / ORISTANO / LOWER SAXONY – This investigation looked into how commercial interests backed by public money are decimating Europe’s remaining wetlands, as national authorities ignore this ongoing exploitation. 

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Hands On Deck: Exploitation of Migrant Fishing Workers in Ireland

  • Exploitation
  • Fishing industry
  • Human Rights
  • Trafficking

DUBLIN - Recruited to Ireland with the promise of good wages, fishers from the Philippines - often in debt after paying illegal recruitment fees - travel across the world to provide better opportunities for themselves and their families. But a work permission scheme, introduced following exposure of trafficking and exploitation of undocumented workers in the sector, has now become a vehicle to exploit the same workers it was introduced to protect, according to workers' advocates. 

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