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Yesterday
24th July 2026
Debunked: Doctor who promoted unproven Covid drugs isn't on trial for ‘questioning’ authorities
Last week
12th July 2026 - 25th July 2026
Debunked: False ‘whistleblower’ claim says remdesivir and ventilators killed Covid patients
Debunked: Claims of Russian battlefield gains misuse report that finds greater Ukrainian advances
This month
July 2026
What is ‘chat control’, the EU's contentious plan to fight online child abuse?
Debunked: 'Cheapfake' video shared online makes Leo Varadkar appear to complain about immigrants
Debunked: A fake government memo falsely claims Irish leaders visited Epstein's private island
Debunked: There are no special tax-free arrangements for Islamic banking or 'halal mortgages'
Debunked: A scientific study does not show that sunscreen increases the risk of skin cancer
Last month
June 2026
Explainer: How do the new charges on imports from non-EU countries work?
Did the government vote to increase the cost of petrol, diesel and other fuels this month?
Debunked: Maps comparing European temperatures in 1976 and 2026 use mislabelled data
Debunked: No evidence an Iranian soccer Player Cup was deported by US immigration
Debunked: Picture of Netanyahu supporting Argentina at the World Cup is AI-generated
The head of US intelligence has been pushing misinformation about Ukrainian 'biolabs'. What are they?
Debunked: The government didn't engineer a crisis by bringing Georgian asylum seekers to Ireland
Debunked: Images of a heavily wounded man in hospital do not show the Belfast knife attack victim
Debunked: A misleading graph of the warmest springs on record actually reveals Ireland is getting hotter
Debunked: There is no ‘second suspect’ for the Belfast knife attack
'Civil war is coming': Belfast protests were planned and inflamed online before turning violent
FactCheck: What the scientific studies say about the harms of sunbed use
Debunked: Videos of a party do not show social housing ‘purposely built for African migrants’
Debunked: No evidence a woman was drugged with a doused business card in Co Derry
May
May 2026
Debunked: Far-right figures spread untrue claim foreigners were taking over a farmer's land
FactCheck: Are there stricter limits on genetically modified foods for animals than for humans?
The EU is bringing in Digital IDs for citizens – but what are they, and how will it affect you?
The app should allow users to verify their age without giving their date of birth.
Amid outbreaks, an age-old theory is being resurrected online: viruses don’t exist
Debunked: Posts misrepresent a routine honour given to the Iranian ambassador by the Vatican
Debunked: There is no government scheme offering free cheese to recipients of a hantavirus vaccine
Debunked: The WHO has not said hantavirus is 'spreading very fast across the world'
Misinformation is leading to abuse and harassment of staff and volunteers in NGOs
'Covid 2.0': Pandemic-era conspiracies return after the hantavirus outbreak on a cruise ship
Did the Covid vaccine cause hantavirus? No. But that hasn’t stopped people saying so.
Debunked: Ivermectin is not a proven cure for cancer, despite claims by famous figures in the US
Debunked: No, nine out of ten Ukrainians in Ireland are not unemployed
April
April 2026
Debunked: Video of abandoned 'Irish' woman in London contains no evidence she is Irish
A bizarre 'time travel' theory is among the conspiracies spreading about the DC shooter
FactFind: Was Leo Varadkar right about urban areas ‘paying the bills’ in Ireland?
Varadkar’s comments on rural Ireland caused a stir – but was he right?
Debunked: Fringe commentator from US spreads false rumour of stabbing at Connolly Station
FactFind: Are Ireland’s fuel relief packages the largest per capita in the EU?
Debunked: The PSNI was not involved with breaking up fuel protests in Cork, Galway or Dublin
Debunked: Micheál Martin was not attending his daughter’s wedding while protesters faced off with Gardaí