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2023
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Debunked: No, a UN report doesn't call to decriminalise sex 'between adults and children'
19 May 2023
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Debunked: WEF hasn’t declared ‘water is not a human right’ or ordered governments to ration it
10 May 2023
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Debunked: Video of attack at shopping centre wasn’t filmed at Liffey Valley, but San Francisco
8 May 2023
772
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FactCheck: Is the Govt correct to claim that 400 people are buying their first home every week?
6 May 2023
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Debunked: Safety sheet used to show an edible coating is risky is actually for a cleaning fluid
28 Apr 2023
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'They're preparing us for something': Irish conspiracy groups latch onto UK's public alert test
22 Apr 2023
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Debunked: No, Scotland is not reducing motorway speed limits to 30mph due to climate change
20 Apr 2023
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FactCheck team wins Media Literacy Media Champion award at inaugural MLI awards
19 Apr 2023
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FactCheck: Does Ireland collect more corporate tax per person than almost any other EU country?
19 Apr 2023
17.5k
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Debunked: An Irish news headline about 'pregnant men at risk from climate change' is fake
13 Apr 2023
729
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Debunked: Claims of Dungarvan attacks by foreign nationals are baseless, according to Gardaí
6 Apr 2023
689
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Debunked: No, vaccinated people are not more likely to have heart problems from being jabbed
6 Apr 2023
1.8k
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Debunked: Video of fatal explosion used to falsely claim that electric cars are dangerous
31 Mar 2023
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Debunked: Video of bus driver collapsing predates Covid-19 and doesn't show vaccine effects
28 Mar 2023
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Debunked: Recent studies indicate masks can be effective at preventing the spread of disease
24 Mar 2023
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Debunked: Leo Varadkar did not say that 'biological males' shouldn't be put in female prisons
24 Mar 2023
11.5k
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FactCheck: Did the Government miss its social housing targets for three years in a row?
23 Mar 2023
17.2k
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FactCheck: The ‘15-minute city’ concept does not involve detaining or punishing people
21 Mar 2023
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Debunked: No, the first man to receive Pfizer's Covid vaccine did not die because of the jab
10 Mar 2023
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FactCheck newsletter: Despite Covid's lessons about fake news, history is now repeating itself
Stephen McDermott
5 Mar 2023
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Debunked: It's untrue that over 20 migrants were jailed for sex offences in six weeks in Ireland
3 Mar 2023
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Debunked: No, a Dublin community centre has not been closed because it is housing 150 Somalians
23 Feb 2023
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Debunked: There is no evidence that more 15-year-olds are dying of heart attacks due to vaccines
21 Feb 2023
866
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FactFind: Is the EU 'forcing' people to eat 'unhealthy' insects without their knowledge?
19 Feb 2023
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Debunked: Deceptive leaflet distributed in Dublin telling ‘girls to stay indoors’ is a hoax
14 Feb 2023
19.3k
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Debunked: Buses in Santry were not a 'migrant convoy', but were dropping children to athletics
10 Feb 2023
28.2k
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FactFind: Does a new scientific review show masks are useless at stopping disease?
10 Feb 2023
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Debunked: Video of fire does not show building contracted to house asylum seekers
9 Feb 2023
375
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Debunked: Old footage used to claim migrants 'brutally pushed' someone off a train platform in Dublin
8 Feb 2023
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Explainer: What is the difference between ‘economic migrants’, ‘refugees’ and 'asylum-seekers'?
4 Feb 2023
18.8k
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Debunked: No, ‘100,000 unvetted foreign nationals’ did not receive free accommodation in a year
2 Feb 2023
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Debunked: London Police are not criminally investigating COVID-19 vaccines
26 Jan 2023
355
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FactCheck: Did the state build more social housing in 2022 than ever before, as Taoiseach claimed?
23 Jan 2023
18.6k
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FactCheck: The European Commission doesn't use the term ‘minor-attracted person’ instead of 'paedophile'
19 Jan 2023
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Debunked: Misleading graph used to argue that non-vaccinated people achieved ‘Zero Covid’
12 Jan 2023
1.1k
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Debunked: No evidence Ballaghaderreen doctors ‘only see Syrians and Ukrainians’ on Mondays
11 Jan 2023
18.3k