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18:09 – November 28, 2024
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16:18 - November 28, 2024
FactCheck: Are a third of hotels outside Dublin used to house asylum seekers?
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12:14 - November 27, 2024
FactCheck: 10 claims from the final leaders’ debate of the campaign
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01:15 - November 27, 2024
FactCheck: Is Ireland building more social housing than it has since the 1970s?
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21:23 - November 22, 2024
FactCheck: Does Fine Gael’s manifesto pledge an extra 500m euros to landlords?
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15:33 - November 21, 2024
FactCheck: How many children waited four months for scoliosis surgery in 2020?
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14:55 - November 20, 2024
Fact check: Report said 11.5bn euros of private cash needed for 33,000 homes
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11:54 - November 19, 2024
FactCheck: Leaders’ debate from housing and transport to the children’s hospital
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02:08 - November 19, 2024
FactCheck: Are 500,000 more people working since Micheal Martin was Taoiseach?
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03:45 - November 17, 2024
FactCheck: Has the carbon tax led to a reduction in Ireland’s emissions?
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13:17 - November 14, 2024
FactCheck: Where has Fine Gael stood on drug decriminalisation previously?
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14:20 - November 12, 2024
FactCheck: Do the Help to Buy and First Home schemes push up house prices?
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10:43 - November 12, 2024
Fact check: Photograph of homeless person on Dublin street was taken in 2019
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12:06 - November 8, 2024
FactCheck: Can foreign nationals and asylum seekers vote in general elections?
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16:19 - November 6, 2024
Fact check: Ireland needs record housebuilding final quarter to hit 2024 target
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07:26 - November 1, 2024
What does UNRWA do and why is it seen as a lifeline for Palestinians?
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11:59 - October 25, 2024
Fact check: Help To Buy incentive has had 124 claims a week since 2017
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10:02 - October 23, 2024
Fact check: Housebuilding in Arklow is visible on Google and in official data
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17:00 - October 18, 2024
Fact check: Irish sex education workbook predates Education Minister’s time in role
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14:20 - October 18, 2024
FactCheck: Occupied Territories Bill won’t ban all trade from Israel to Ireland
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09:17 - October 18, 2024
FactCheck: Milk alternatives aren’t about to get more expensive because of VAT
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09:06 - September 18, 2024
Fact check: Teacher was sent to prison for refusing to comply with court order
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12:06 - November 8, 2024
FactCheck: Can foreign nationals and asylum seekers vote in general elections?
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Election Check 24 is a coalition of news publishers and fact-checkers brought together by the UK and Ireland’s national news agency PA Media, supported by the Google News Initiative, to counter misinformation around Ireland’s general election.
