It fails every standard of journalism, from objective fact-seeking to any effort at fact-verification, to avoiding weaving political narratives through your work.
20% of the population
Study
Up 132,653 since Census
Staggering demographic change
Up since April
A parliamentary committee recommends liberalising an already liberal “right to die” law
One in ten young people attempting to take their own lives is the kind of headline which makes you sit up straight and pay attention.
For the HSE’s figures to be correct, that would mean that there would have to have been 3,100 deaths this year from Covid, making it the worst year of the pandemic to date. This, very clearly, is not true.
It is a legal requirement that every death in Ireland must be recorded and registered with the General Register Office (GRO) and this information is supplied to the CSO
In Summer 2021 Canada had what was described as its “George Floyd moment.” This came with the apparent discovery of mass graves of indigenous people, mostly children. Estimates of the numbers buried in what were claimed to be unmarked sites ranged into the thousands, with the confident assertion that many more would be discovered. There […]
“Shameful”