Hedged claims are ones written with attribution or uncertainty
(“reportedly”, “according to”). A higher rate is
not a fault: it is often careful sourcing.
How these are measured.
What they cover
Politics
90%
Crime & Law
10%
Most-tagged topics
GardaMoSCoalitionDáilAn Garda SíochánaLabourRTÉthe Irish Mail on Sunday
Leaning
Not enough articles to place this byline.
7 scored articles;
a leaning average needs at least 8 before it says more
about the writer than about which stories they happened to be assigned.
Their outlet averages +0.02
(centre).
More from this journalist
Ordered by how many newsrooms covered the same event.
🔮 The US Secret Service will oversee a massive security operation to ensure Donald Trump can sleep at his Doonbeg Hotel following a packed day of official meetings when he arrives in the country next weekend, the Mail can reveal. assertive
🔮 Labour TD Alan Kelly told the Dáil last week that in doing so she said she had ‘acted without legal authority’ and that her actions would ‘haunt’ the Coalition. assertive
🔮 RTÉ broadcast a documentary about Garda whistleblowers despite multiple warnings from the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) and gardaí that it could collapse a criminal firearms trial, the Irish Mail on Sunday has learned. assertive
🔮 Instead, the minister, who certainly didn’t receive the detail, blindly sends the PD over to the very people it was about, which was one aspect she would have been aware of. assertive
🔮 It comes as Public Expenditure Minister Jack Chambers and Health Minister Jennifer Carroll MacNeill ‘closed off’ the Department of Health 2027 Budget to their satisfaction last night.
However, the solution is unlikely to be satisfactory to either the Opposition or many in the Coalition due to the €1billion ‘supplementary budget’ that will be needed to cover this year’s overruns at the Department of Health. assertive
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CABINET colleagues of Minister Helen McEntee say she will make a comprehensive statement to the Dáil in a desperate effort to hold off an inquisition or a motion of no confidence over her handling of protected disclosures made by Garda whistleblowers. assertive
🔮 Colm Horkan has been dead for over six years, but in the immaculately kept family bungalow in Charlestown, Co. Mayo, his presence is everywhere.
On the walls and around the house are pictures and memorabilia, including a photo of Colm in Templemore on his passing out day alongside Garda Adrian Donohoe, who was also shot and killed in the line of duty. assertive
🔮 Speaking in the front room of the pristine family bungalow in East Mayo that the garda lived in until the day he was shot and killed on duty in June 2020, Colm’s family now insist they want basic questions – that they have from reading this newspaper’s coverage – answered. assertive
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