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RTÉ: Omagh car's details went north before the bomb. Irish Times: gardaí lost track of it

A senior garda's recorded evidence to the Omagh Bombing Inquiry was reported three ways. RTÉ News led on the stolen car being on a list sent to the RUC two days before the bombing. The Irish Times led on gardaí being unable to trace the car. TheJournal.ie carried both, and said the list was a routine daily one.

Omagh inquiry to seek answers from Ireland to 'outstanding questions' about car used in bombing
Omagh inquiry to seek answers from Ireland to 'outstanding questions' about car used in bombing as published by TheJournal.ie · seen at TheJournal.ie
Anglosphere United Kingdom Ireland

The evidence. On 24 September the Omagh Bombing Inquiry in Belfast played part of a recorded statement by Detective Superintendent Emmet Casserly of the Garda Síochána. It concerned the Vauxhall Cavalier that carried the bomb. TheJournal.ie reports the car was stolen in Carrickmacross, Co Monaghan, overnight on 12–13 August 1998.

Three leads from one statement.

Outlet What it leads on Says the list was routine? Reports limits on questioning?
RTÉ News Car was on a list "passed to police in Northern Ireland two days before" No No
The Irish Times "Gardaí were unable to track progress of car" No Headline calls the deal "exceptional"
TheJournal.ie Inquiry to seek answers on "outstanding questions" Yes: a "standardised report" sent daily Yes

A list, not a warning. Only TheJournal.ie says the list that went to the RUC on 13 August was a "standardised report" of stolen vehicles, sent every day. Read on its own, RTÉ's lead could suggest the RUC got a specific alert. TheJournal.ie's account does not support that reading.

The limits. TheJournal.ie is the only one of the three to report this. Inquiry counsel Paul Greaney KC said the Irish government, "with a small number of exceptions", declined to allow extra questions. He said it was not "simply a no": the questions could go through a statutory procedure.

What is not settled. Where the car went between the theft and the bombing. Casserly said the investigation "was unable to conclusively state" it. None of the three reports says which questions Dublin refused, or whether the statutory route will get them answered.

What this is. A UK public inquiry is asking whether the Omagh bombing of 15 August 1998 could have been prevented. Part of the answer lies in the Republic of Ireland, where the bomb car was stolen.

How it got here. The bomb went off in Omagh, Co Tyrone, in August 1998. That was four months after the Good Friday Agreement of April 1998, which was meant to end the Troubles, the conflict in Northern Ireland. TheJournal.ie reports that the bomb killed 29 people, including a woman pregnant with twins. It calls it the worst single atrocity of the Troubles. The Real IRA, a dissident republican group that opposed the peace deal, carried it out. No one has been convicted of the murders in a criminal court. Some bereaved families pursued the case for years. In 2021 a judge at the High Court in Belfast found plausible grounds that the bombing could have been prevented. In 2023 the UK government set up this inquiry. Its chair is Lord Turnbull, a Scottish judge.

Who is involved. The inquiry is British and can compel only British bodies. The theft of the car and the first police response happened in the Republic, which is outside its reach. The Irish government did not hold its own inquiry. Instead, TheJournal.ie reports, it passed "bespoke legislation" so that Irish state witnesses could give evidence. The Minister for Justice, Jim O'Callaghan, allowed the garda witness to be questioned on an "expressly exceptional basis". The Garda Síochána is Ireland's police force. The RUC, the Royal Ulster Constabulary, policed Northern Ireland until 2001.

What is at stake. If the inquiry finds the attack could have been prevented, the finding bears on police and intelligence work on both sides of the border. It is also a test of whether two states can examine one cross-border crime together.

Where it stands. Hearings in Belfast are covering the period before and after the bombing. The inquiry says it will put further questions to Ireland through the statutory procedure.

What is being argued about

  • Whether a car's details on a daily list sent to the RUC amount to a warning
  • Why gardaí could not trace the car after it was stolen
  • Irish limits on the inquiry's questioning of the garda witness
  • How evidence from the Republic reaches a UK inquiry
One garda statement, three leadsSide by side
OutletWhat it leads onList called routine?Limits on questioning?
RTÉ NewsCar's details "passed to police in Northern Ireland two days before" the bombingNoNot mentioned
The Irish Times"Gardaí were unable to track progress of car"NoHeadline: "exceptional" cross-Border deal
TheJournal.ieInquiry will seek answers from Ireland on "outstanding questions"Yes: a "standardised report" sent dailyYes: most extra questions declined
The RTÉ News and Irish Times reports we hold are one sentence each.
Sources R RTÉ News
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RTÉ News 🇮🇪IE · digital · PUBLIC WATCH: Inquiry into Omagh bombing resumes Open this report in The AI Times → Read it at RTÉ News → 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 → T The Irish Times
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The Irish Times 🇮🇪IE · digital · Omagh bombing inquiry hears from Garda detective under ‘exceptional’ cross-Border deal 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
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TheJournal.ie 🇮🇪IE · digital · Omagh inquiry to seek answers from Ireland to 'outstanding questions' about car used in bombing 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 car, from theft to bombingTimeline
  1. 12–13 Aug 199823:00–03:30 window given at the inquiry Unknown thieves Vauxhall Cavalier 91DL 2554 stolen from outside a house in Carrickmacross, Co MonaghanThree other attempts to steal similar cars there that evening
  2. 13 Aug 1998— early hours; no time published A garda Reported seeing a maroon Cavalier travelling fast on Main Street, CarrickmacrossReported after a public appeal that followed the bombing
  3. 13 Aug 1998— no time published Gardaí Car's details included in the daily list of stolen vehicles sent to the RUC
  4. 15 Aug 1998— no time published Dissident republicans Car bomb explodes in Omagh, Co Tyrone 29 killed
  5. 24 Sep 2026— no time published Omagh Bombing Inquiry Plays just over an hour of the garda's recorded evidence in Belfast 4.5 hours recorded
As the garda evidence was reported by TheJournal.ie and RTÉ News.
Sources T TheJournal.ie
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TheJournal.ie 🇮🇪IE · digital · Omagh inquiry to seek answers from Ireland to 'outstanding questions' about car used in bombing 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 → R RTÉ News
Centre estimate · not a score
RTÉ News 🇮🇪IE · digital · PUBLIC WATCH: Inquiry into Omagh bombing resumes Open this report in The AI Times → Read it at RTÉ News → 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 →
The bias in this coverageBias

Warned the north, or lost the car

The two short reports lead on opposite halves of the same evidence. One says details of the car went north two days before the bombing, and the other says gardaí could not trace it. Only the long report carries both, and it adds that the list sent north was routine and daily.

1 reports leading on the list sent north 1 reports leading on the failure to trace the car 1 reports carrying both

The dead

One of the three reports gives the death toll, and it names none of the dead. The other two call the bombing an atrocity without saying how many people it killed.

1 reports giving the death toll 0 victims named
Scored without the mastheads. Where the two passes differ, both are kept.
Sources T TheJournal.ie
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TheJournal.ie 🇮🇪IE · digital · Omagh inquiry to seek answers from Ireland to 'outstanding questions' about car used in bombing 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 · Omagh bombing inquiry hears from Garda detective under ‘exceptional’ cross-Border deal 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 → R RTÉ News
Centre estimate · not a score
RTÉ News 🇮🇪IE · digital · PUBLIC WATCH: Inquiry into Omagh bombing resumes Open this report in The AI Times → Read it at RTÉ News → 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 →

Claims and verdicts

misleading Gardaí warned the RUC about the car used in the Omagh bomb before the attack.
RTÉ News and TheJournal.ie both report that the car's details went to the RUC on 13 August 1998, two days before the bombing. TheJournal.ie reports that this was a daily 'standardised report' of stolen vehicles, not a specific warning.
Checked against 2 sources:
R RTÉ News
Centre estimate · not a score
RTÉ News 🇮🇪IE · digital · PUBLIC WATCH: Inquiry into Omagh bombing resumes Open this report in The AI Times → Read it at RTÉ News → 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 → T TheJournal.ie
Centre estimate · not a score
TheJournal.ie 🇮🇪IE · digital · Omagh inquiry to seek answers from Ireland to 'outstanding questions' about car used in bombing 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 →
true Gardaí could not establish what happened to the car between its theft and the bombing, a senior garda told the inquiry.
The Irish Times reports that gardaí could not track the car. TheJournal.ie quotes Detective Superintendent Emmet Casserly saying the investigation 'was unable to conclusively state what happened to the vehicle'.
Checked against 2 sources:
T The Irish Times
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The Irish Times 🇮🇪IE · digital · Omagh bombing inquiry hears from Garda detective under ‘exceptional’ cross-Border deal 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 · Omagh inquiry to seek answers from Ireland to 'outstanding questions' about car used in bombing 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 Irish government refused to let the inquiry ask the garda witness most of its extra questions.
Only TheJournal.ie carries this, from inquiry counsel Paul Greaney KC, who said the government declined 'with a small number of exceptions' but pointed to the statutory procedure. Neither RTÉ News nor The Irish Times reports it.
Checked against 3 sources:
T TheJournal.ie
Centre estimate · not a score
TheJournal.ie 🇮🇪IE · digital · Omagh inquiry to seek answers from Ireland to 'outstanding questions' about car used in bombing 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 · Omagh bombing inquiry hears from Garda detective under ‘exceptional’ cross-Border deal 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 → R RTÉ News
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RTÉ News 🇮🇪IE · digital · PUBLIC WATCH: Inquiry into Omagh bombing resumes Open this report in The AI Times → Read it at RTÉ News → 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 →

Who wrote it

F Freya McClements The Irish Times
What the bias passes found in their reporting
Actor named Names the residents as the ones who blocked the road×1
Attribution kept Keeps the word 'mobs' and its claimed effect inside the speaker's mouth×1
Both sides quoted the loyalist side and the residents both speak after the hearing×1
Headline framing The headline stresses how unusual the arrangement was.×1
Claims we checked that rest on their reporting
1 disputed2 unverified5 true
From 24 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. · 2 reports we hold carry no byline — we do not invent one.

Coverage, outlet by outlet

T TheJournal.ie
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TheJournal.ie 🇮🇪IE · digital · Omagh inquiry to seek answers from Ireland to 'outstanding questions' about car used in bombing 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 → —
TheJournal.ie is the only report to say the list sent north was a routine daily one, and the only one to report that Dublin declined most of the inquiry's extra questions.
An account is an optional way to support the work we do. Find out more. The hearing today was played a video statement from a senior garda relating to the theft of a Vauxhall Cavalier in Ireland which was used to transport the bomb to the Co Tyrone town. But lead counsel to the inquiry Paul Greaney KC said the process of evidence being delivered in this way had “limitations” and was not the “fully dynamic process” of questioning witnesses who attend the hearing. The dissident republican car bombing in Omagh on 15 August 1998 killed 29 people, including a woman who was pregnant with twins, in t
Context qualifies warning: Only this report says the 'warning' was a routine daily list. That weakens a reading in which the RUC was specifically alerted. — “He said this was a “standardised report” of stolen vehicles that was distributed daily.”
State named as actor: The Irish government is named as the actor that limited the questioning. This is carried in the inquiry counsel's words. — “With a small number of exceptions, the Government of Ireland declined to permit that additional questioning to happen.”
Dead counted not named: The dead are counted, and one victim is described, but none is named. — “killed 29 people, including a woman who was pregnant with twins”
Perpetrator label: The bombers are described only by category. No group is named as responsible. — “The dissident republican car bombing in Omagh on 15 August 1998”
Context for the warning: Describes the list as a routine daily report, which neither short report carries. — “this was a “standardised report” of stolen vehicles that was distributed daily”
Who is named as acting: Names the Irish government as the party that limited the questioning. — “With a small number of exceptions, the Government of Ireland declined to permit that additional questioning to happen.”
The dead: Counts the dead, and names none of them. — “killed 29 people, including a woman who was pregnant with twins”
Read it at TheJournal.ie → https://www.thejournal.ie/omagh-bombing-inquiry-video-evidence-senior-g…
T The Irish Times
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The Irish Times 🇮🇪IE · digital · Omagh bombing inquiry hears from Garda detective under ‘exceptional’ cross-Border deal 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 Irish Times leads on gardaí being unable to track the car, and calls the arrangement for the evidence "exceptional".
A senior Garda detective has given evidence at the Omagh bombing inquiry as a result of an “expressly exceptional” agreement by the Irish Government. Part of an interview recorded with Det Supt Emmet Casserly in Dublin on September 1st was played to the inquiry in Belfast on Thursday. Lead counsel to the inquiry, Paul Greaney KC, said that once its entirety had been viewed, he hoped it would be deemed a “meaningful exercise” but highlighted its “limitations ... It was not the fully dynamic process of questioning and pressing of witnesses that will happen, we are sure, here [at the inquiry in B
Lead choice: The report leads on the Garda failing to trace the car, which puts the question on the Irish side of the border. — “Gardaí were unable to track progress of car stolen in Co Monaghan”
Lead choice: Leads with gardaí failing to trace the car. — “Gardaí were unable to track progress of car stolen in Co Monaghan”
Headline framing: The headline stresses how unusual the arrangement was. — “under ‘exceptional’ cross-Border deal”
Read it at The Irish Times → https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2026/09/24/omagh-bombing-inquiry-hea…
R RTÉ News
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RTÉ News 🇮🇪IE · digital · PUBLIC WATCH: Inquiry into Omagh bombing resumes Open this report in The AI Times → Read it at RTÉ News → 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 → — PUBLIC
RTÉ News leads on the car's details going to police in Northern Ireland two days before the bombing.
WATCH: Inquiry into Omagh bombing resumes Updated / Thursday, 24 Sep 2026 10:59 We need your consent to load this comcast-player contentWe use comcast-player to manage extra content that can set cookies on your device and collect data about your activity. Please review their details and accept them to load the content.Manage Preferences The Omagh Bombing Inquiry has resumed hearing evidence as part of investigations into the atrocity. Twenty-nine people were killed, including the mother of unborn twins, when the Real IRA detonated a car bomb in Omagh on 15 August 1998. More to follow... More s
Lead choice: The report leads on the Garda passing the car's details north before the bombing, which puts the question on the RUC side of the border. — “was among a list of stolen vehicles passed to police in Northern Ireland two days before the 1998 atrocity”
Lead choice: Leads with the car's details being passed to Northern Ireland police before the bombing. — “was among a list of stolen vehicles passed to police in Northern Ireland two days before the 1998 atrocity”
Read it at RTÉ News → https://www.rte.ie/news/ulster/2026/0924/1592785-omagh-bombing-inquiry/
Checked, didn’t cover
R RNZ
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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 → ABC News (Australia)
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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