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# factcheck

Last year
2023
Debunked: No, Scotland is not reducing motorway speed limits to 30mph due to climate change
20 Apr 2023
1.1k
FactCheck team wins Media Literacy Media Champion award at inaugural MLI awards
19 Apr 2023
5.0k
FactCheck: Does Ireland collect more corporate tax per person than almost any other EU country?
19 Apr 2023
17.5k
Debunked: An Irish news headline about 'pregnant men at risk from climate change' is fake
13 Apr 2023
725
Debunked: Claims of Dungarvan attacks by foreign nationals are baseless, according to Gardaí
6 Apr 2023
683
Debunked: No, vaccinated people are not more likely to have heart problems from being jabbed
6 Apr 2023
1.8k
Debunked: Video of fatal explosion used to falsely claim that electric cars are dangerous
31 Mar 2023
58.6k
Debunked: Video of bus driver collapsing predates Covid-19 and doesn't show vaccine effects
28 Mar 2023
301
Debunked: Recent studies indicate masks can be effective at preventing the spread of disease
24 Mar 2023
3.5k
Debunked: Leo Varadkar did not say that 'biological males' shouldn't be put in female prisons
24 Mar 2023
11.4k
FactCheck: Did the Government miss its social housing targets for three years in a row?
23 Mar 2023
17.2k
FactCheck: The ‘15-minute city’ concept does not involve detaining or punishing people
21 Mar 2023
2.3k
FactFind: How effective was the eviction ban in reducing homelessness?
11 Mar 2023
19.1k
Debunked: No, the first man to receive Pfizer's Covid vaccine did not die because of the jab
10 Mar 2023
2.2k
FactCheck newsletter: Despite Covid's lessons about fake news, history is now repeating itself
Stephen McDermott
5 Mar 2023
11.2k
Debunked: It's untrue that over 20 migrants were jailed for sex offences in six weeks in Ireland
3 Mar 2023
3.6k
Debunked: No, a Dublin community centre has not been closed because it is housing 150 Somalians
23 Feb 2023
1.7k
Debunked: There is no evidence that more 15-year-olds are dying of heart attacks due to vaccines
21 Feb 2023
864
FactFind: Is the EU 'forcing' people to eat 'unhealthy' insects without their knowledge?
19 Feb 2023
34.9k
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Debunked: Deceptive leaflet distributed in Dublin telling ‘girls to stay indoors’ is a hoax
14 Feb 2023
19.3k
Debunked: Buses in Santry were not a 'migrant convoy', but were dropping children to athletics
10 Feb 2023
28.2k
FactFind: Does a new scientific review show masks are useless at stopping disease?
10 Feb 2023
17.4k
Debunked: Video of fire does not show building contracted to house asylum seekers
9 Feb 2023
374
Debunked: Old footage used to claim migrants 'brutally pushed' someone off a train platform in Dublin
8 Feb 2023
1.2k
Explainer: What is the difference between ‘economic migrants’, ‘refugees’ and 'asylum-seekers'?
4 Feb 2023
18.7k
Debunked: No, 'immigrants’ are not suspects in a Finglas assault case
3 Feb 2023
858
Debunked: No, ‘100,000 unvetted foreign nationals’ did not receive free accommodation in a year
2 Feb 2023
23.0k
Debunked: London Police are not criminally investigating COVID-19 vaccines
26 Jan 2023
353
FactCheck: Did the state build more social housing in 2022 than ever before, as Taoiseach claimed?
23 Jan 2023
18.6k
FactCheck: The European Commission doesn't use the term ‘minor-attracted person’ instead of 'paedophile'
19 Jan 2023
14.6k
Debunked: Misleading graph used to argue that non-vaccinated people achieved ‘Zero Covid’
12 Jan 2023
1.1k
Debunked: No evidence Ballaghaderreen doctors ‘only see Syrians and Ukrainians’ on Mondays
11 Jan 2023
18.3k
Debunked: Claims that an NFL player collapsed due to a Covid-19 vaccine are completely unfounded
7 Jan 2023
12.5k
Debunked: No, refugees are not still being housed at a school in Drimnagh
5 Jan 2023
18.5k
All time
Debunked: Self-proclaimed ‘inventor’ of mRNA vaccines makes nonsense claims about spike proteins
29 Dec 2022
1.1k
FactCheck newsletter: Covid, climate change and Ukraine dominated disinformation narratives in 2022
29 Dec 2022
5.1k
FactCheck: The recent cold spell is not evidence against climate change
22 Dec 2022
8.7k
Debunked: Call to take mRNA vaccines off the market relies on dodgy death data
22 Dec 2022
1.5k
Debunked: No evidence that a rise in serious Strep A cases is caused by Covid or flu vaccines
16 Dec 2022
8.5k
'A young girl has lost her life': Unproven claim about homeless death spreads from Facebook to the Dáil
13 Dec 2022
65.0k
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