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Review 2011

Top 10 TheJournal.ie stories you shared on Facebook in 2011

Pizza is a vegetable, a pet rescue in the Liffey and the tragedy of one young woman’s lonely death – some of the stories you most wanted to share with your Facebook friends.
11.00am, 28 Dec 2011
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AS OUR MOTTO goes, we invite our followers to read, share and shape the news. And you did just that this year.

These are the stories you read on TheJournal.ie in 2011 and most wanted to share with your friends on Facebook.

In order of most retweeted (links under the slideshow if you want to see what they are all about…)

Top 10 TheJournal.ie stories you shared on Facebook in 2011
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  • 1. US Congress rules that pizza is now a vegetable

    Pic: AP Photo/Nelson Antoine

  • 2. Woman died from allergic reaction after sex with dog

    Stock pic/AP Photo/PA Images

  • 3. The tweets that made Darron Gibson quit Twitter in 2 hours

    Manchester United player Darron Gibson (Pic: Mike Egerton/EMPICS Sport/PA Images)

  • 4. Images of the 'Super Moon' in March

    AP Images

  • 4. Man jumps into Liffey after pet rabbit

    Image: Sebastian Dooris via Flickr.com

  • 6. Church in Howth cancels bin Laden tribute Mass

    The house where Osama bin Laden was caught and killed in Abbottabad, Pakistan. (AP Photo/B.K.Bangash,File)

  • 7. A poll on Lucinda Creighton's views on gay marriage

    Junior minister Lucinda Creighton. (Niall Carson/PA Wire)

  • 8. Do you have faith in homeopathy?

    Pic: Geek Calendar/Flickr.com

  • 9. Woman dies of hypothermia in flat

    Family of Rachel Peavoy protest outside Dublin City Council offices in Ballymun last June after her inquest hears that she died from hypothermia at home. (Pic: Leon Farrell/Photocall Ireland)

  • 10. Poll: Do you support the Gaza flotilla?

    Pic: AP Photo/Darko Bandic
  • Pic: AP Photo/Nelson Antoine
  • Stock pic/AP Photo/PA Images
  • Manchester United player Darron Gibson (Pic: Mike Egerton/EMPICS Sport/PA Images)
  • AP Images
  • Image: Sebastian Dooris via Flickr.com
  • The house where Osama bin Laden was caught and killed in Abbottabad, Pakistan. (AP Photo/B.K.Bangash,File)
  • Junior minister Lucinda Creighton. (Niall Carson/PA Wire)
  • Pic: Geek Calendar/Flickr.com
  • Family of Rachel Peavoy protest outside Dublin City Council offices in Ballymun last June after her inquest hears that she died from hypothermia at home. (Pic: Leon Farrell/Photocall Ireland)
  • Pic: AP Photo/Darko Bandic

  1. US Congress rules that pizza is a vegetable
  2. Woman died from allergic reaction to sex with dog
  3. Here are the Tweets that made Darron Gibson quit Twitter within two hours [Updated: or did they?]
  4. Slideshow: Dramatic images of last night’s ‘Super Moon’
  5. Man jumps into Liffey to save pet rabbit
  6. Church in Howth cancels mass in memory of Osama bin Laden
  7. Poll: Do you agree with Lucinda Creighton’s comments on marriage?
  8. Do you have faith in homeopathy?
  9. Woman died of hypothermia in flat, after council refused to fix heating
  10. Poll: Do you support the efforts of the Gaza flotilla?

The Top 10 TheJournal.ie stories you tweeted in 2011>

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