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August
August 2025
FactCheckDebunked: Misleading post claims the media is covering up a surge in young girls going missing
FactCheckFactFind: What is the Disability Green Paper haunting Heather Humphreys’ presidential run?
FactCheckDebunked: Asylum seekers are not exempt from income tax for a year after they are allowed to work
FactCheckDebunked: Viral video of Trump berating the Irish government over immigration is fabricated
FactCheckDebunked: Irish influencer’s video peddles baseless claims about immigration and crime in Sweden
FactCheck
Debunked: No, the Premier League has not banned players from wearing rainbow-coloured bootlaces
FactCheckDebunked: No, the Premier League has not banned players from wearing rainbow-coloured bootlaces
FactCheckDebunked: Fox News claims about an Irish crime wave are based on discredited claims and bad stats
FactCheckDebunked: Old video of a Belgian mosque claims to show “what they’re teaching kids now in school”
July
July 2025
FactCheckDebunked: How misinformation spread within minutes of a garda being stabbed on Capel Street
FactCheckDebunked: No evidence of conspiracy theorists' claim about Bill Gates microchipping babies
FactCheckDebunked: False accusations against victim of Tallaght attack viewed more than a million times
FactCheckDebunked: Amid reports of a cryptic Trump-Epstein letter, misinformation muddies the waters
FactCheckDebunked: Meme image of Hillary Clinton calling Conor McGregor ‘future president’ is a spoof
Syria trip
FactFind: What do we know about Catherine Connolly's visit to Syria in 2018?
Connolly says she did not “utter one word of support for Assad.”
The Morning Lead
Debunked: Deepfakes of Brendan Gleeson, Luke O’Neill, and Sharon Tobin appear in hoax medicine ads
The AI-generated celebs tout a miracle cure which they claim has been banned in Ireland.
unlikely allianceIrish anti-immigrant groups finding 'common ground' with Ulster Loyalists and British nationalists
FactCheckDebunked: Fatal floods in Texas spark false claims of weather manipulation amid political blame
June
June 2025
FactCheckDebunked: A study into music's effect on cells doesn't show Beethoven's 5th can 'fight cancer'
FactCheck
FactCheck: How will Ireland’s new system for organ donation work?
Parts of The Human Tissue Act are coming into effect on 17 June.
SuncreamFactCheck: False claims about toxins, Vitamin D and ‘cooked’ skin in viral claims about suncream
May
May 2025
Community NotesCommunity Notes vanishes from X feeds, raising 'serious questions' amid ongoing EU probe
Liverpool paradeDebunked: How misinformation swirled about the Liverpool car ramming despite police efforts
FactCheckDebunked: Unscientific study shared to claim Dublin is among ‘most dangerous cities in Europe’
FactCheckDebunked: There is no evidence that Pope Leo XIV ever said being ‘woke’ was part of the Gospel
FactCheckDebunked: Despite online rumours, no evidence of ‘attempted child abduction’ in Enniscorthy
FactCheckAn old Trump video, re-used Gaza footage, and other fake news from the India-Pakistan conflict
FactCheckDebunked: Deepfake video appears to show Canadian Prime Minister announcing ban on old cars
April
April 2025
FactCheckFactCheck: Did the New York Times say in 1854 the US was being 'overwhelmed' by Irish immigrants?
FactCheckDebunked: There is nothing ‘strange’ about not naming unconvicted rape suspects. It’s the law
