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Last month
June 2025
Debunked: Viral video of a meat pile does not show the results of shoplifting in Ireland
FactCheck: How does Ireland’s new system for organ donation work?
Parts of The Human Tissue Act are coming into effect today.
Debunked: A study into music's effect on cells doesn't show Beethoven's 5th can 'fight cancer'
Debunked: No, the majority of Irish people are not 'dissatisfied' with the EU’s direction
FactCheck: False claims about toxins, Vitamin D and ‘cooked’ skin in viral claims about suncream
Debunked: Video of Dublin used in false claim about ‘massacre’ on day of Carlow shooting
May
May 2025
Community Notes vanishes from X feeds, raising 'serious questions' amid ongoing EU probe
Debunked: How misinformation swirled about the Liverpool car ramming despite police efforts
Debunked: Unscientific study shared to claim Dublin is among ‘most dangerous cities in Europe’
Debunked: No evidence of attempted child abduction in Cahir, Co Tipperary
Debunked: There is no evidence that Pope Leo XIV ever said being ‘woke’ was part of the Gospel
Debunked: Despite online rumours, no evidence of ‘attempted child abduction’ in Enniscorthy
An old Trump video, re-used Gaza footage, and other fake news from the India-Pakistan conflict
Debunked: Gardaí say warning over Asian men approaching children in Sligo was 'fake news'
Debunked: Deepfake video appears to show Canadian Prime Minister announcing ban on old cars
Debunked: A government scheme did not spend €200,000 per car to help isolated Ukrainians
April
April 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
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'
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