Pat McGrath
Byline seen at RTÉ News.
person
8 reports under this byline
2 outlets
6 bias readings
3 claims checked
8 Sep 2026 → 11 Oct 2026
Roles
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RTÉ News
Centre
estimate · not a score
RTÉ News
🇮🇪IE ·
digital · PUBLIC
What we have measured
Abstraction as the actor the dispute acts and no one in it is named ×1Account taken as default the police description of the crowd as 'hostile' is carried with no other account ×1Accuracy the Slovenia entry in the country list repeats Austria's name ×1Active voice offender Donaldson is named as the one who did the abuse, in the active voice. ×1
Outlet profile in The AI Times →
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byline | — | present | — |
ABC News (Australia)
Centre
estimate · not a score
ABC News (Australia)
🇦🇺AU ·
public broadcaster · public-service
What we have measured
Actor label and hedge The same man is called 'far-right' and named by his legal name. The act is hedged with 'allegedly', where the longer report states it flat. ×1A different count, stated flat one dead and 140 missing, unattributed, earliest of the four ×1Affected counted The only report to count the local people affected ×1Are the dead named one of the dead named, through a relative at the hospital ×1
Outlet profile in The AI Times →
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byline | — | present | — |
Bias we have measured on this byline
Finding carried Mentions Public Expenditure only as approving the settlement payments. It leaves out that the department was not consulted on the deals. ×1Headline no actor named The headline names the loss but no department that caused it. ×1Measure chosen The €100m is presented as a possible loss to taxpayers. ×1Measure chosen The standfirst presents €100m as a possible loss. The body later says the figure is the department's estimate of what the agreements were worth. ×1
Claims we checked that rest on their reporting:
1 misleading2 true
From 8 reports we hold under this byline, at
RTÉ News, ABC News (Australia).
Two independent readings, each made without the masthead, with the quote attached to every tag. We do not carry a rating for any
journalist — only what we have measured from published text, and a verdict on a
claim is a verdict on that sentence, not on the person who filed it.
