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Irish Times says MetroLink may now cost €14bn to €17.5bn, TheJournal.ie prints €9.5bn

The State's biggest transport project has signed its biggest contract. The two reports we hold price the line five years and up to €8 billion apart.

Dallas-based US companies win contract to manage Metrolink project
Dallas-based US companies win contract to manage Metrolink project as published by TheJournal.ie · seen at TheJournal.ie
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The contract. Transport Infrastructure Ireland has appointed the Jacobs and Aecom consortium to manage delivery of MetroLink, the rail line from Swords to Charlemont by way of Dublin Airport. The Irish Times puts the 12-year contract at up to €550 million, the largest awarded so far. TheJournal.ie gives no value.

The price. The two reports do not print the same number, and a reader of one would not know the other exists.

The Irish Times TheJournal.ie
Newest estimate "about €14 billion to €17.5 billion", not yet published none given
2021 estimate €9.5bn, midpoint of €7.16bn–€12.25bn €9.5bn, "the most recent cost estimate"
Contract value up to €550m over 12 years no figure
Length of line 19km 18.8km
Stations, journey not given 16 stations, 25 minutes
Construction start not dated; almost €750m spent first "at least 2028"

Who speaks. The Irish Times quotes the state developer's chief executive, Lorcan O'Connor, and the winning consortium. TheJournal.ie quotes the consortium alone. Neither quotes an opponent, an auditor or a resident of the block due for demolition at Tara Street.

Not settled. Where the €14bn to €17.5bn range comes from: the Irish Times says it is unpublished and attributes it to nobody. Neither report says what any of these figures count — tunnelling, or the land already bought. The line is 19km in one report and 18.8km in the other.

What this is about. MetroLink is a planned underground railway for Dublin, the capital of Ireland. It would run from Swords, north of the city, through Dublin Airport and the city centre to Charlemont on the south side. The argument now is over what it will cost.

How it got here. - 2000s: An earlier version, Metro North, was part of the Transport 21 investment plan of 2005. - 2011: After the 2008 financial crash and the international bailout of 2010, the government shelved Metro North. - 2018: The project came back as MetroLink under Project Ireland 2040, the State's long-term investment plan. - 2021: The government approved an estimate of €9.5bn, the midpoint of a range from €7.16bn to €12.25bn, according to both reports we hold. - 2022: Transport Infrastructure Ireland applied to the national planning authority for a railway order, the permission a new line needs. The authority went on to grant it. - September 2026: The first large delivery contract was signed.

Who is involved, and why. - Transport Infrastructure Ireland (TII) is the state agency that builds national roads and light rail. It is developing the line. - The National Transport Authority plans public transport in the Dublin area and sponsors the project. - The Government and the Department of Transport pay for it and must approve each stage. - Jacobs and Aecom are US engineering firms. TheJournal.ie says both are based in Dallas. Together they will manage delivery. - Residents and businesses along the route, including a block at Tara Street that is due to be demolished. Neither report quotes them.

What is at stake. Dublin Airport has no rail link, and the north of the city has no fast rail route into the centre. Supporters say the line would change that. The cost is what makes it contentious. Irish capital projects have run far over budget before, and the new children's hospital is the one most often cited. A cost of €14bn to €17.5bn, as the Irish Times reports, would be well above anything the government has approved.

Where it stands. The management contract is signed. Neither report dates the start of tunnelling. TheJournal.ie says construction will not start before 2028. No revised cost has been published. The government has not said whether it accepts a higher figure.

The story so far

Earlier stories The AI Times filed on this thread.

What is being argued about

  • A 12-year contract to manage MetroLink, awarded to Jacobs and Aecom
  • A cost gap of up to €8 billion between the two reports
  • An unpublished business case ahead of a Government decision
  • What the State has already spent buying land and homes on the route
Two reports, one line, different numbersSide by side
OutletWhat it saidHedged?
The Irish TimesNew estimates "have not yet been published but are expected to range from about €14 billion to €17.5 billion". 2021 gave €9.5bn as the midpoint of €7.16bn–€12.25bn. Contract worth up to €550m. A 19km line.Yes — "expected to", and no source named for the newer range.
TheJournal.ie"The most recent cost estimate for MetroLink, given in 2021, was €9.5 billion." No contract value. An 18.8km line, 16 stations, 25 minutes, construction "not expected to begin until at least 2028".No — the 2021 figure is stated flat as the most recent.
Both were published on 10 September 2026, 56 minutes apart.
Sources T The Irish Times
Centre estimate · not a score
The Irish Times 🇮🇪IE · digital · Engineering firms Jacobs and Aecom awarded €550m MetroLink contract Open this report in The AI Times → Read it at The Irish Times → What we have measured Actor framing The release is framed as a joint agreement, with no pressure mentioned ×1Actor named Names the residents as the ones who blocked the road ×1Actor named killers named as 'loyalist gunmen'; verb 'shot dead' ×1With no actor named construction no actor named for the theft or the driving in the standfirst ×1 from 1358 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times → T TheJournal.ie
Centre estimate · not a score
TheJournal.ie 🇮🇪IE · digital · Dallas-based US companies win contract to manage Metrolink project Open this report in The AI Times → Read it at TheJournal.ie → 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 from 2218 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times →
Every MetroLink cost figure in printChart
Only one of the two reports carries the newer range, and it says those figures are unpublished.
Sources T The Irish Times
Centre estimate · not a score
The Irish Times 🇮🇪IE · digital · Engineering firms Jacobs and Aecom awarded €550m MetroLink contract Open this report in The AI Times → Read it at The Irish Times → What we have measured Actor framing The release is framed as a joint agreement, with no pressure mentioned ×1Actor named Names the residents as the ones who blocked the road ×1Actor named killers named as 'loyalist gunmen'; verb 'shot dead' ×1With no actor named construction no actor named for the theft or the driving in the standfirst ×1 from 1358 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times → T TheJournal.ie
Centre estimate · not a score
TheJournal.ie 🇮🇪IE · digital · Dallas-based US companies win contract to manage Metrolink project Open this report in The AI Times → Read it at TheJournal.ie → 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 from 2218 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times →
What has been spent, and whenTimeline
  1. 2018— no time published The Government announced MetroLink, replacing the earlier Metro North plan —TheJournal.ie
  2. 2021— no time published Transport Infrastructure Ireland published the last cost estimate, drawn up before the planning application €9.5bn midpointBoth reports; only the Irish Times gives the €7.16bn to €12.25bn range
  3. December 2025— no time published Transport Infrastructure Ireland agreed to buy a row of houses at Dartmouth Square, beside the Charlemont terminus more than €30mThe Irish Times
  4. July 2026— no time published Hammerson sold more than a hectare on O'Connell Street to the State, which would not reveal the total cost part of an €80.7m divestmentThe Irish Times
  5. 10 September 202614:43 published time The Irish Times reported the delivery-partner contract awarded to Jacobs and Aecom up to €550mAlso carries newer estimates of about €14bn to €17.5bn, unpublished
  6. 10 September 202615:39 published time TheJournal.ie reported the same award, leading on the firms' Dallas head offices no figure givenGives €9.5bn from 2021 as the most recent estimate
  7. End of 2026— no time published Transport Infrastructure Ireland expects to have spent this much on MetroLink before construction begins almost €750mThe Irish Times
  8. 2028— no time published TheJournal.ie says construction is not expected to begin until at least this year —The Irish Times gives no start date
Dates as published. Where a report gives no time, none is shown.
Sources T The Irish Times
Centre estimate · not a score
The Irish Times 🇮🇪IE · digital · Engineering firms Jacobs and Aecom awarded €550m MetroLink contract Open this report in The AI Times → Read it at The Irish Times → What we have measured Actor framing The release is framed as a joint agreement, with no pressure mentioned ×1Actor named Names the residents as the ones who blocked the road ×1Actor named killers named as 'loyalist gunmen'; verb 'shot dead' ×1With no actor named construction no actor named for the theft or the driving in the standfirst ×1 from 1358 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times → T TheJournal.ie
Centre estimate · not a score
TheJournal.ie 🇮🇪IE · digital · Dallas-based US companies win contract to manage Metrolink project Open this report in The AI Times → Read it at TheJournal.ie → 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 from 2218 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times →
The bias in this coverageBias

Two reports, two different prices

One report carries an unpublished estimate of roughly €14bn to €17.5bn and attributes it to nobody. The other gives €9.5bn from 2021 as "the most recent cost estimate" and does not mention that a newer one exists. Neither says what the figures count — construction alone, or the €750m already spent on land.

2 reports the desk holds 1 reports carrying the new estimate 0 reports saying what the estimate includes

The only voices are the state and the winners

One report quotes the state developer's chief executive and the winning consortium's own statement, and no one else. The other quotes the consortium alone. No opponent, no auditor and no resident facing demolition is quoted in either.

0 voices quoted who are not the buyer or the seller 1 reports noting a cost the developer would not disclose
Scored without the mastheads. Where the two passes differ, both are kept.
Sources T The Irish Times
Centre estimate · not a score
The Irish Times 🇮🇪IE · digital · Engineering firms Jacobs and Aecom awarded €550m MetroLink contract Open this report in The AI Times → Read it at The Irish Times → What we have measured Actor framing The release is framed as a joint agreement, with no pressure mentioned ×1Actor named Names the residents as the ones who blocked the road ×1Actor named killers named as 'loyalist gunmen'; verb 'shot dead' ×1With no actor named construction no actor named for the theft or the driving in the standfirst ×1 from 1358 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times → T TheJournal.ie
Centre estimate · not a score
TheJournal.ie 🇮🇪IE · digital · Dallas-based US companies win contract to manage Metrolink project Open this report in The AI Times → Read it at TheJournal.ie → 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 from 2218 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times →

Claims and verdicts

true The last published cost estimate for MetroLink was €9.5 billion, dating from 2021.
The Irish Times and TheJournal.ie both give €9.5 billion as the most recent published figure, drawn up before the planning application. Only the Irish Times adds that €9.5 billion was the midpoint of a range of €7.16 billion to €12.25 billion, which TheJournal.ie omits.
Checked against 2 sources:
T The Irish Times
Centre estimate · not a score
The Irish Times 🇮🇪IE · digital · Engineering firms Jacobs and Aecom awarded €550m MetroLink contract Open this report in The AI Times → Read it at The Irish Times → What we have measured Actor framing The release is framed as a joint agreement, with no pressure mentioned ×1Actor named Names the residents as the ones who blocked the road ×1Actor named killers named as 'loyalist gunmen'; verb 'shot dead' ×1With no actor named construction no actor named for the theft or the driving in the standfirst ×1 from 1358 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times → T TheJournal.ie
Centre estimate · not a score
TheJournal.ie 🇮🇪IE · digital · Dallas-based US companies win contract to manage Metrolink project Open this report in The AI Times → Read it at TheJournal.ie → 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 from 2218 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times →
unverified The new cost estimates for MetroLink are expected to range from about €14 billion to €17.5 billion.
Only the Irish Times gives these figures, and it says the estimates have not been published. TheJournal.ie carries no new figure at all, so there is no second account.
Checked against 2 sources:
T The Irish Times
Centre estimate · not a score
The Irish Times 🇮🇪IE · digital · Engineering firms Jacobs and Aecom awarded €550m MetroLink contract Open this report in The AI Times → Read it at The Irish Times → What we have measured Actor framing The release is framed as a joint agreement, with no pressure mentioned ×1Actor named Names the residents as the ones who blocked the road ×1Actor named killers named as 'loyalist gunmen'; verb 'shot dead' ×1With no actor named construction no actor named for the theft or the driving in the standfirst ×1 from 1358 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times → T TheJournal.ie
Centre estimate · not a score
TheJournal.ie 🇮🇪IE · digital · Dallas-based US companies win contract to manage Metrolink project Open this report in The AI Times → Read it at TheJournal.ie → 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 from 2218 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times →
unverified Construction of MetroLink is not expected to begin until at least 2028.
TheJournal.ie is the only report we hold that gives a start date. The Irish Times says only that TII expects to have spent almost €750 million before construction begins, without dating it.
Checked against 2 sources:
T TheJournal.ie
Centre estimate · not a score
TheJournal.ie 🇮🇪IE · digital · Dallas-based US companies win contract to manage Metrolink project Open this report in The AI Times → Read it at TheJournal.ie → 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 from 2218 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times → T The Irish Times
Centre estimate · not a score
The Irish Times 🇮🇪IE · digital · Engineering firms Jacobs and Aecom awarded €550m MetroLink contract Open this report in The AI Times → Read it at The Irish Times → What we have measured Actor framing The release is framed as a joint agreement, with no pressure mentioned ×1Actor named Names the residents as the ones who blocked the road ×1Actor named killers named as 'loyalist gunmen'; verb 'shot dead' ×1With no actor named construction no actor named for the theft or the driving in the standfirst ×1 from 1358 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times →

Who wrote it

E Eoghan Dalton TheJournal.ie
What the bias passes found in their reporting
Actor named The Northern Ireland secretary is given by office, not by name×1
Assertion vs attribution White House pressure is stated as fact, with no source given×1
Cause stated flat US pressure stated as fact, not attributed×1
Crowd measure crowd counted as 'thousands', set against another report's 'large crowd'×1
Claims we checked that rest on their reporting
1 misleading11 unverified4 true
From 83 reports we hold under this byline, at TheJournal.ie. Two independent readings, each made without the masthead, a quote attached to every tag. A record, never a rating. Their full record →
O Olivia Kelly The Irish Times
What the bias passes found in their reporting
Length of line as measured 19km, no station count×1
Length of the line 19km×1
Names the gap states what the developer would not disclose×1
The gap named a refusal to disclose recorded in the text×1
Claims we checked that rest on their reporting
2 unverified1 true
From 21 reports we hold under this byline, at The Irish Times. Two independent readings, each made without the masthead, a quote attached to every tag. A record, never a rating. Their full record →
The bylines on the reports this story is built from. Hover one for what our passes have measured on their reporting.

Coverage, outlet by outlet

T TheJournal.ie
Centre estimate · not a score
TheJournal.ie 🇮🇪IE · digital · Dallas-based US companies win contract to manage Metrolink project Open this report in The AI Times → Read it at TheJournal.ie → 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 from 2218 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times → —
Leads on the winners being headquartered in Dallas, Texas. The only report giving 16 stations, a 25-minute end-to-end journey and a start date — "not expected to begin until at least 2028". It prints €9.5bn from 2021 as
An account is an optional way to support the work we do. Find out more. AECOM and Jacobs, both headquartered in Dallas, Texas, have succeeded in securing the tender after a joint bid for the Dublin rail line, which will be the single biggest public transport project in the history of the State. Both companies work with major infrastructure projects. Jacobs is no stranger to Irish projects, having worked on BusConnects in Dublin and Cork, as well as the proposed Luas Cork light rail scheme. In a joint statement, AECOM and Jacobs said they have “experience from some of the world’s most significa
Which measure was chosen: the five-year-old figure given as the current one — “The most recent cost estimate for MetroLink, given in 2021, was €9.5 billion.”
Length of the line: 18.8km, with station count and journey time — “The proposed 18.8km rail line will have 16 stations stretching from Swords to Charlemont with an end-to-end journey time of 25 minutes.”
What the lede foregrounds: the winners' nationality and home city — “AECOM and Jacobs, both headquartered in Dallas, Texas, have succeeded in securing the tender”
Which measure was chosen: only the five-year-old figure given, no new range — “The most recent cost estimate for MetroLink, given in 2021, was €9.5 billion.”
What the report leads with: the contractors' American head office leads the report — “AECOM and Jacobs, both headquartered in Dallas, Texas, have succeeded in securing the tender”
Length of line as measured: 18.8km with 16 stations and a journey time — “The proposed 18.8km rail line will have 16 stations stretching from Swords to Charlemont”
Read it at TheJournal.ie → https://www.thejournal.ie/metrolink-tender-7158590-Sep2026/
T The Irish Times
Centre estimate · not a score
The Irish Times 🇮🇪IE · digital · Engineering firms Jacobs and Aecom awarded €550m MetroLink contract Open this report in The AI Times → Read it at The Irish Times → What we have measured Actor framing The release is framed as a joint agreement, with no pressure mentioned ×1Actor named Names the residents as the ones who blocked the road ×1Actor named killers named as 'loyalist gunmen'; verb 'shot dead' ×1With no actor named construction no actor named for the theft or the driving in the standfirst ×1 from 1358 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times → —
The only report that prices the contract — up to €550 million over 12 years — and the only one carrying the newer estimate of about €14bn to €17.5bn, which it says has not been published. It alone gives the range behind
A contract worth up to €550 million to oversee the construction of Dublin’s MetroLink rail line has been awarded to engineering and consultancy consortium Jacobs and Aecom. The 12-year “programme delivery partner” contract is the largest awarded to date in the development of the 19km rail line from Swords in north Co Dublin to Charlemont on the south side, serving Dublin Airport and the city centre. The announcement comes in advance of a decision by the Government, expected next week, on whether to allow the State’s MetroLink developer Transport Infrastructure Ireland (TII) to seek bids to bui
Which measure was chosen: unpublished new range carried, sourced to no one — “have not yet been published but are expected to range from about €14 billion to €17.5 billion”
Length of the line: 19km — “the 19km rail line from Swords in north Co Dublin to Charlemont on the south side”
The gap named: a refusal to disclose recorded in the text — “Transport Infrastructure Ireland would not reveal the total cost of the purchase.”
Which measure was chosen: unpublished new cost range carried, hedged and unattributed — “are expected to range from about €14 billion to €17.5 billion”
Length of line as measured: 19km, no station count — “the 19km rail line from Swords in north Co Dublin to Charlemont”
Names the gap: states what the developer would not disclose — “Transport Infrastructure Ireland would not reveal the total cost of the purchase.”
Read it at The Irish Times → https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/dublin/2026/09/10/engineering-firms-…
Checked, didn’t cover
R RNZ
Centre estimate · not a score
RNZ 🇳🇿NZ · digital · PUBLIC No report held from this outlet on this story. What we have measured Headline against body headline claims a 20-year decline reversed; the first line of the body reports a new low in reading ×1Headline against body headline claims a turnaround; the text carries a record low and puts it on boys ×1 from 2328 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times → R RTÉ News
Centre estimate · not a score
RTÉ News 🇮🇪IE · digital · PUBLIC No report held from this outlet on this story. 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 from 2361 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times → ABC News (Australia)
Centre estimate · not a score
ABC News (Australia) 🇦🇺AU · public broadcaster · public-service No report held from this outlet on this story. 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 from 4667 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times → The Guardian
Centre-left estimate · not a score
The Guardian 🇬🇧UK · newspaper · independent No report held from this outlet on this story. What we have measured Actor named Denial in the passive voice, with no one named as the person who dismissed it ×1Actor named names Israel as acting and states the death toll flat, with no source ×1Actor named Ireland named as the side that ended the conference ×1Allegation omitted the police statement is cut with an ellipsis where the other two reports carry the controlling or coercive behaviour allegation ×1 from 10552 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times → C CBC News
Centre-left estimate · not a score
CBC News 🇨🇦CA · public broadcaster · public-service No report held from this outlet on this story. What we have measured Asserted vs attributed the measure is attributed to the three governments; the territory is called occupied in the outlet's own voice ×1Attribution kept in the headline the sourcing travels with the claim into the headline ×1Figure rounded in the headline more than 600 in the headline; the body sources it to a flight-tracking site ×1How the sourcing is hedged the claim is hedged to an unnamed newspaper in both headline and body; the reporting is not held by this report ×1 from 2730 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times →
Silence is recorded, not inferred — each of these was read when we built this story and carried nothing on this event.
We could not read these
BBC News
Centre estimate · not a score
BBC News 🇬🇧UK · public broadcaster · public-service No report held from this outlet on this story. What we have measured Dating and attribution 'It was not until Tuesday' is a judgement about delay, not a date. No other report we hold comments on how long the German finding took. ×1How hard the claim is stated Headline says the UN voted to adopt and replace; the last sentence of the report says the vote is non-binding ×1How hard the claim is stated The qualification arrives in the last sentence and is immediately overridden by an effect the report gives no source for. ×1Which figure is used States the replacement as done — the Assembly voted to replace the map — where the resolution urges states to use a different projection. ×1 from 473 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times → The Daily Telegraph
Right estimate · not a score
The Daily Telegraph 🇬🇧UK · newspaper · independent No report held from this outlet on this story. What we have measured Nothing scored yet. We do not carry a rating for any outlet — only what we have measured from published text. Outlet profile in The AI Times → The Times
Centre-right estimate · not a score
The Times 🇬🇧UK · newspaper · independent No report held from this outlet on this story. What we have measured Nothing scored yet. We do not carry a rating for any outlet — only what we have measured from published text. Outlet profile in The AI Times →
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