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2025
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Debunked: Video of attack on jogger ‘in Ireland’ was actually recorded more than 9,000km away
4 Mar 2025
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Debunked: No evidence Bill Gates funded project to make bird flu transmissible to humans
3 Mar 2025
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Debunked: Years-old video used to falsely claim Ireland is establishing a ‘National Hijab Day’
25 Feb 2025
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Explainer: Here's why elections have not been held in Ukraine since Russia's 2022 invasion
21 Feb 2025
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Debunked: Old reports circulating about plans for a huge mosque in Dublin that never went ahead
20 Feb 2025
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Debunked: Ukraine’s Zelenskyy has a 57% approval rating, not 4% as Trump said
19 Feb 2025
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Debunked: No, US Vice-President JD Vance did not make a security conference chairman cry on stage
19 Feb 2025
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Debunked: A photo of a split bride/groom costume isn't an Irish person who ‘married themself’
4 Feb 2025
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Debunked: The Status Red warning during Storm Éowyn was not a 'climate lockdown'
30 Jan 2025
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Debunked: ‘HIV-infected Green Monkey DNA’ has not been found in Covid-19 vaccines
28 Jan 2025
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Debunked: Elon Musk misleadingly suggests other celebrities made controversial 'Nazi' gesture
23 Jan 2025
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Will your car insurance be cancelled if you drive during a Red warning? Insurers say no
23 Jan 2025
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Debunked: Fake missing child posts shared widely in Limerick and Roscommon Facebook groups
22 Jan 2025
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Debunked: Photo of Jimmy Saville with a child does not show a young Keir Starmer
22 Jan 2025
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Debunked: Estimate of 250,000 victims of UK ‘grooming gangs’ is based on bad stats
21 Jan 2025
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Debunked: Enoch Burke isn't forced to stand outside a school for refusing 'transgender ideology'
16 Jan 2025
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Debunked: Woman wrongly accused of Satanism for wearing St Brigid's cross at LA fires press event
14 Jan 2025
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Debunked: The Hollywood sign still stands, despite AI-generated images of it burning
10 Jan 2025
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FactCheck: What do we know about the scale of child sex exploitation by gangs in the UK?
10 Jan 2025
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Debunked: Tommy Robinson was jailed for lying, not ‘for telling the truth’ as Elon Musk claims
3 Jan 2025
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At least 10 dead and over 30 injured after vehicle driven into crowd in New Orleans
Updated 1 Jan 2025
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Debunked: No evidence that DHL scam using ‘sorry we missed you’ notes is operating in Ireland
27 Dec 2024
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Debunked: Image of Bono and Bob Geldof holding Israeli flags is AI-generated
19 Dec 2024
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Debunked: Asylum seekers are not suspects for bloody Mullingar incident, as some posts claim
18 Dec 2024
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Debunked: A search for a man missing in Kildare is a scam using the ID of a dead American
13 Dec 2024
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Debunked: A failed election candidate was jailed, but not for uncovering election tampering
13 Dec 2024
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Debunked: False claims the World Health Organisation will undo human rights have spread online
11 Dec 2024
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Debunked: Baseless claims about a cow feed supplement used in attempts to boycott milk
6 Dec 2024
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Debunked: Fake AI slop images of old Ireland are being used to push anti-immigrant narratives
5 Dec 2024
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Disappointed by failed campaigns, far-right candidates turn to claims of election rigging
2 Dec 2024
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Far-right fizzle: Fringe candidates face disappointment as election results come in
1 Dec 2024
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Debunked: Images of men at Dublin Airport show EU seasonal workers, not an ‘invasion’
29 Nov 2024
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FactCheck: Are a third of hotels and B&Bs outside the M50 used to house asylum seekers?
28 Nov 2024
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Debunked: An Post says posts offering to sell undeliverable 'lost parcels' is a scam
25 Nov 2024
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FactCheck: Does Fine Gael’s manifesto pledge an additional half a billion Euro to landlords?
22 Nov 2024
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Debunked: An image said to show 'unvetted men in Rosslare' was taken in England
21 Nov 2024
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Explainer: Fine Gael is promising a €1,000 savings account for newborns, will it work?
20 Nov 2024
11.3k
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Debunked: Man filmed waving Palestinian flag was a Peaky Blinders fan, not actor Cillian Murphy
20 Nov 2024
15.6k
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Debunked: Years-old headline used to suggest Taoiseach wants to bar unvaccinated kids from school
Updated 19 Nov 2024
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FactFind: What professions are over-represented (and under-represented) in the Dáil?
Teachers are overrepresented – but so are farmers lawyers, landlords and, unsurprisingly, career politicians.
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17 Nov 2024
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