Diarmuid Pepper
Byline seen at TheJournal.ie.
person
78 reports under this byline
1 outlet
17 bias readings
7 claims checked
7 Sep 2026 → 30 Oct 2026
Roles
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TheJournal.ie
Centre
estimate · not a score
TheJournal.ie
🇮🇪IE ·
digital ·
What we have measured
Accuracy of attribution The report calls the Tánaiste the Taoiseach partway through. That puts his words under another office. ×1Accusation carried without a reply a charge against a named party, no answer from it in the text held ×1Actor labelling calls the accusers 'opposition parties' when the named accuser is the deputy First Minister ×1Actor mislabelled The first line calls the accusers 'opposition parties', but the accuser quoted is the DUP deputy First Minister, who sits in the same executive ×1
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Bias we have measured on this byline
Characterisation 'politically motivated' outside quotation marks; only 'broad daylight' is quoted ×1Defence line leads The headline leads with the defence barrister's words, with the phrase in quotation marks. ×1Denominator two denominators in one sentence, the flattering one last ×1Figure only in quote The only death toll in the coverage comes from a politician quoted in the report. The report does not check it or give it in its own voice. ×1
Claims we checked that rest on their reporting:
1 false1 disputed1 unverified4 true
From 78 reports we hold under this byline, at
TheJournal.ie.
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.
Headlines they wrote
