Is Irish Independent biased?
Ad Fontes Media and Media Bias/Fact Check place Irish Independent as leaning right. We have seen it on 2 published stories of ours.
Who says so
2 organisations have published a rating for this outlet, in their own words. Where they disagree, the disagreement is the useful part and it is left standing.
How reliably it reports fact
A rating of the newsroom in general, by others, and a different thing from the Trust score we publish on each story, which judges one piece of reporting.
High factuality
Who owns it
- Independent News & Mediaunknowndirect owner
- MediahuisMedia Conglomerateparent group
Where it publishes from
- Publishes from
- Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland
- Official site
- independent.ie
- Seen publishing on
- independent.ie
- Access
- Paywalled
- Wikipedia
- Entry
What we have seen ourselves
Counted across the stories this site has published, which is the only denominator a reader can check: every one of them has a page, and every page lists the reports it was written from.
- Stories
- 2
- Reports listed
- 2
- We could read
- 0
- First seen
- 4 August 2026
2 of those reports were paywalled or blocked to us. Our reading of this outlet is built on the 0 we could open, not on everything it published.
We have not seen Irish Independent cover a story that outlets rated right were largely absent from.
Across the 2 stories of ours where at least three of the reports we listed carried a time, another outlet was always ahead of Irish Independent: its report arrived a median of 24 hours after the earliest one we logged.
Measured 5 August 2026. Last seen in a coverage list 5 August 2026. Ratings pulled 5 August 2026.
Stories we have seen it on
- Irish IndependentLeans rightHigh factualityTrump says Iran faces decapitation if deal not signed (opens Irish Independent in a new tab)
Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland
Our report: US reports progress in Hormuz shipping talks with Iran and Oman
- Irish IndependentLeans rightHigh factualityMan arrested in Greece over death of Scottish woman found in suitcase (opens Irish Independent in a new tab)
Dublin, County Dublin, IrelandOwner: Mediahuis
Our report: Suspect in Athens suitcase killing of Elisabeth Ross to appear in court
Every rating on this page is a named third party’s published work, republished with its author and, where one exists, a link to it. Our own coverage record is the section we measure ourselves. Neither is a judgement of any individual report: those are scored story by story, and the reasoning is on our methodology page.