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This week
27th April 2025 - 2nd May 2025
FactCheck: Did the New York Times say in 1854 the US was being 'overwhelmed' by Irish immigrants?
Debunked: There is nothing ‘strange’ about not naming unconvicted rape suspects. It’s the law
Debunked: No, the electricity blackouts in Spain and Portugal were not caused by a solar flare
Last week
20th April 2025 - 26th April 2025
Debunked: Video of church attack was filmed in Nebraska a decade ago, not present-day Europe
Debunked: Conor McGregor's false claims about roads policing, immigrants and Irish 'genocide'
Last month
April 2025
FactCheck: Studies of millions of children show there is no connection between autism and vaccines
Debunked: Video of Army exercise in Kildare did not show someone arrested for planting a bomb
Debunked: A grant doesn't show 'Phone shops, Turkish barbers & vape shops' are funded by taxes
Debunked: A new conspiracy theory claims 14 countries signed a treaty to ban natural conception
Debunked: Viral image contains false claim that UK's Southport killer was an 'Islamic migrant'
Debunked: Brennans didn't recently apply for Halal certification (but Muslims can eat it anyway)
March
March 2025
FactCheck: Is the Irish government paying for Ukrainians to repair their cars?
FactCheck: Will the MetroLink cost more than €23 billion?
Debunked: Data contradicts McGregor’s White House claim that Irish are a minority in some towns
‘Disinformation will be back’ warns expert as Meta rolls out Community Notes
Debunked: Fake headline claims Trump granted the Burke family asylum over religious persecution
Debunked: Project Ireland 2040 isn't a plan 'to flood the country with nearly 2m extra people’
Debunked: Enoch Burke payment claim that was shared by Musk is filled with misinformation
Debunked: Irish Facebook groups inundated with housing scams
Debunked: Video of attack on jogger ‘in Ireland’ was actually recorded more than 9,000km away
Debunked: No evidence Bill Gates funded project to make bird flu transmissible to humans
February
February 2025
Debunked: Years-old video used to falsely claim Ireland is establishing a ‘National Hijab Day’
Explainer: Here's why elections have not been held in Ukraine since Russia's 2022 invasion
Debunked: Old reports circulating about plans for a huge mosque in Dublin that never went ahead
Debunked: Ukraine’s Zelenskyy has a 57% approval rating, not 4% as Trump said
Debunked: No, US Vice-President JD Vance did not make a security conference chairman cry on stage
Debunked: A photo of a split bride/groom costume isn't an Irish person who ‘married themself’
January
January 2025
Debunked: The Status Red warning during Storm Éowyn was not a 'climate lockdown'
Debunked: ‘HIV-infected Green Monkey DNA’ has not been found in Covid-19 vaccines
Debunked: Elon Musk misleadingly suggests other celebrities made controversial 'Nazi' gesture
Will your car insurance be cancelled if you drive during a Red warning? Insurers say no
Debunked: Fake missing child posts shared widely in Limerick and Roscommon Facebook groups
Debunked: Photo of Jimmy Saville with a child does not show a young Keir Starmer
Debunked: Estimate of 250,000 victims of UK ‘grooming gangs’ is based on bad stats
Debunked: Enoch Burke isn't forced to stand outside a school for refusing 'transgender ideology'
Debunked: Woman wrongly accused of Satanism for wearing St Brigid's cross at LA fires press event
Debunked: The Hollywood sign still stands, despite AI-generated images of it burning
FactCheck: What do we know about the scale of child sex exploitation by gangs in the UK?
Debunked: Tommy Robinson was jailed for lying, not ‘for telling the truth’ as Elon Musk claims
At least 10 dead and over 30 injured after vehicle driven into crowd in New Orleans