Is Irish News biased?
Media Bias/Fact Check places Irish News as leaning left. We have seen it on 1 published story of ours.
Who says so
One organisation has published a rating for this outlet. Where they disagree, the disagreement is the useful part and it is left standing.
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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
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Who owns it
We hold no ownership record for Irish News.
Where it publishes from
- Publishes from
- Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
- Official site
- irishnews.com
- Seen publishing on
- irishnews.com
- Access
- Free to read
- 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
- 1
- Reports listed
- 1
- We could read
- 0
- First seen
- 4 August 2026
1 of those reports was paywalled or blocked to us. Our reading of this outlet is built on the 0 we could open, not on everything it published.
On 1 of those stories, outlets rated left were largely absent from the coverage and Irish News ran the story anyway.
On the one story of ours where at least three of the reports we listed carried a time, another outlet was always ahead of Irish News: its report arrived a median of 3 hours after the earliest one we logged.
Measured 5 August 2026. Last seen in a coverage list 4 August 2026. Ratings pulled 5 August 2026.
Stories we have seen it on
- Irish NewsLeans leftHigh factualityNew talks ‘last chance’ for Iran to forge deal and avoid escalation, Trump warns (opens Irish News in a new tab)
Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
Our report: Trump says US talks with Iran are Tehran’s ‘last chance before decapitation’
Other outlets rated the same way
Publishers carrying the same published leaning as Irish News, also publishing from United Kingdom, ordered by how often we have seen them on a story. Sharing a rating is not the same as being alike.
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.