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The Irish Media yesterday ran a story alleging that Ireland experienced "a record number" of "racist incidents" in the past year. But the story is based on dodgy, completely unscientific, data.

The media didn't tell you that, though, did they?
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https://gript.ie/fake-news-alert-no-ireland-is-not-more-racist-in-2021/
"As usual, in Ireland, nobody spoke for the rest of us. The people who look at this country, look at the mess the political class has made, and begin to wonder are we the ones going mad."

- John McGuirk, on the Climate Bill that won't fix the climate.

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https://gript.ie/the-climate-bill-sums-up-the-insanity-of-modern-ireland/
The Irish Examiner recently published a small, but misleading, story on Fianna Fail's website. Here at Gript we believe fighting fake news is important, so we've taken it apart so you can see exactly how misleading it was.
https://gript.ie/an-anatomy-of-a-small-fake-news-story/
BREAKING: Prominent Green dissidents have been working to launch a new political party - "The Green Left" - and have been trying to recruit Green TDs. The plan has run into difficulty though, with the new party already facing a split, before launching:
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https://gript.ie/green-dissidents-to-launch-new-hard-left-party-say-leaked-docs/
It was a horrendously bad start to her Seanad campaign for Lord Mayor Chu yesterday, as her candidacy caused ructions in the Green Party and provoked a motion of no confidence. Worse still, her campaign launch broke the law in relation to public meetings:
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https://gript.ie/bad-news-hazel-chu-broke-the-law-at-her-election-launch/
As the pandemic bites at religious organisations, with empty churches and falling attendances leaving many ordinary Priests struggling, Pope Francis has taken the unprecedented step of imposing a pay cut on his Cardinals:
https://gript.ie/pope-to-cardinals-time-for-a-pay-cut-chaps/