ABOUT US
Clear Éire explains Irish news in plain English. Not what happened in the last hour — you can get that anywhere — but what it means, who it affects, and what happens next.
Most news assumes you already know. It assumes you know what a committee stage is, what the Residential Tenancies Board does, why a council vote on a development plan matters more than the planning application it will later decide. If you do not, the story is technically accurate and practically useless. This site is for the gap between those two things.
Who writes it
[Thomas SURNAME] writes it. One person, for now, which is worth saying plainly rather than hiding behind a plural. Every story carries a byline, and where somebody else has contributed, the byline is theirs.
Contributors who write for the site cannot publish their own work. It goes to an editor first. That is a small newsroom's version of the same discipline a large one has, and it exists so that nothing reaches you without a second pair of eyes.
What we try to do
- Explain a thing once, properly, rather than report it five times.
- Say where every fact came from, and link to it.
- Use the plainest word that is still accurate.
- Tell you what we do not know, and say when we are waiting on an answer.
- Correct ourselves in public when we get it wrong.
What we do not do
- Chase a story we cannot source properly.
- Write a headline the story does not support.
- Run anything that tracks you around the internet.
- Take a position on something because it is popular to take one.
How to reach us
For anything at all: [hello@cleareire.ie]. If you think we have got something wrong, the complaints page is quicker — it goes straight to the person who can fix it. If you have something you think we should look into, the tip page takes it without asking for your name.
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