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# FactCheck

Last week
22nd December 2024 - 28th December 2024
Debunked: No evidence that DHL scam using ‘sorry we missed you’ notes is operating in Ireland
Last month
December 2024
Debunked: Image of Bono and Bob Geldof holding Israeli flags is AI-generated
FactCheck: False claims about Ireland's position on Gaza ramp up after embassy closure
Debunked: Asylum seekers are not suspects for bloody Mullingar incident, as some posts claim
Debunked: Pride flags will not be banned at next year's Fifa Club World Cup
Debunked: A search for a man missing in Kildare is a scam using the ID of a dead American
Debunked: A failed election candidate was jailed, but not for uncovering election tampering
Debunked: False claims the World Health Organisation will undo human rights have spread online
Why is Israel accusing Amnesty International of inventing its own definition of genocide?
Debunked: Baseless claims about a cow feed supplement used in attempts to boycott milk
Debunked: Fake AI slop images of old Ireland are being used to push anti-immigrant narratives
The far-right failed in the general election - but reports of their death have been exaggerated
Disappointed by failed campaigns, far-right candidates turn to claims of election rigging
Last year
2024
Debunked: Images of men at Dublin Airport show EU seasonal workers, not an ‘invasion’
Debunked: CCTV footage shared online does not show Nikita Hand on night of sexual assault
FactCheck: Are a third of hotels and B&Bs outside the M50 used to house asylum seekers?
FactCheck: The final debate of the campaign, with claims on housing, inflation and manifestos
FactCheck: Image of Simon Harris poster saying 'more waste, it wasn't me' has been doctored
Debunked: An Post says posts offering to sell undeliverable 'lost parcels' is a scam
FactCheck: Does Fine Gael’s manifesto pledge an additional half a billion Euro to landlords?
Debunked: An image said to show 'unvetted men in Rosslare' was taken in England
FactCheck: How many children were waiting more than four months for scoliosis surgery in 2020?
As Minister for Health, Simon Harris promised that the number would be zero by the end of 2017.
Explainer: Fine Gael is promising a €1,000 savings account for newborns, will it work?
Debunked: Man filmed waving Palestinian flag was a Peaky Blinders fan, not actor Cillian Murphy
Debunked: Years-old headline used to suggest Taoiseach wants to bar unvaccinated kids from school
FactCheck: RTÉ leaders' debate, from housing and transport to The National Children's Hospital
Countless claims over two hours plus, but who was accurate?
FactCheck: Has the carbon tax led to a reduction in Ireland's emissions?
Mary Lou McDonald said this week that the tax has NOT led to a reduction.
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.
Debunked: Weather manipulation claims are taking hold in Ireland despite no evidence support them
FactCheck: Where have Fine Gael (and Simon Harris) stood on drug decriminalisation in the past?
Harris’ apparent current position contrasts with that of a cross-party Oireachtas committee on drug use.
'The Great Replacement': How a racist conspiracy theory is showing up in election materials
FactCheck: Four claims from last night's General Election housing debate
FactCheck: An image of a rough sleeper beside a Fine Gael election poster has been doctored
FactCheck: Has work begun on nearly 60,000 new homes in the last 12 months?
Debunked: Image of a goaty statue in the Vatican is AI-generated, not proof of devil worship
Floods in Valencia prompt conspiracy theories on weather weapons, Israel, migrants, and Netflix
How Roderic O'Gorman is targeted with homophobic slurs and misinformation about missing children
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Debunked: Photo of Leonardo DiCaprio’s niece on yacht altered to look like Greta Thunberg
How did hundreds of people end up at a Halloween parade in Dublin that never existed?