Is Irish Star biased?
The bias data this site ingests places Irish Star as leaning left. It does not name the organisation that made that assessment, so we publish it as an unattributed rating and nothing more. We have seen it on 2 published stories of ours.
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Is Irish Star biased?
The bias data this site ingests places Irish Star as leaning left. It does not name the organisation that made that assessment, so we publish it as an unattributed rating and nothing more. An outlet rating describes a broad pattern in its output, not every article it publishes.
Is Irish Star left or right?
The bias data this site ingests places Irish Star as leaning left. It does not name the organisation that made that assessment, so we publish it as an unattributed rating and nothing more. In the three-way grouping used on story pages, that puts it under Left.
Is Irish Star reliable?
The factuality data this site ingests describes Irish Star as mixed factuality. It reaches us without a named assessor, so it is an unattributed rating rather than our verdict. It does not guarantee that every report is correct.
What Irish Star has been covering
Our account of each story, written from every outlet that ran it, with Irish Star’s own report linked underneath.
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy told his daughter in a YouTube reality series episode that Harvard University would 'corrupt' her mind. The remarks, filmed during a family road trip to tour colleges, drew criticism after the episode aired on 14 August 2024.
Irish Star reported it asSean Duffy tells daughter she can't go to Harvard because it would 'corrupt' her (opens Irish Star in a new tab)
Melania Trump has not appeared in public since 19 July 2026, coinciding with a record-low approval rating of -12 points. Reports suggest Lara, Kai, Bettina, and Tiffany Trump are vying to take her place at the president’s side, though none have assumed the role publicly.
Irish Star reported it asHumiliation for Melania as she breaks awkward record amid mysterious absence (opens Irish Star in a new tab)
Who says so
The lean above is carried in the coverage data this site ingests, which names no rater for it. We publish it because it is what the rest of the site groups Irish Star on, and we will not present it as an assessment by anyone in particular until we hold one.
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.
Mixed factuality
The rating above reaches us without a named assessor, and is published as that rather than as anyone’s verdict.
Who owns it
We hold no ownership record for Irish Star.
Where it publishes from
- Publishes from
- New York, New York, United States
- Seen publishing on
- irishstar.com
- Access
- Free to read
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
- 17 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 Star cover a story that outlets rated left were largely absent from.
Across the 2 stories of ours where at least three of the reports we listed carried a time, we logged no report earlier than Irish Star’s on 1 of them. Overall it filed a median of 25 minutes after the earliest report we logged.
Measured 20 August 2026. Last seen in a coverage list 20 August 2026. Ratings pulled 17 August 2026.
Other outlets rated the same way
Publishers carrying the same published leaning as Irish Star, also publishing from United States, ordered by how often we have seen them on a story. Sharing a rating is not the same as being alike.
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What we are responsible for is everything else: the ownership chain, where Irish Star publishes from, which of our stories we have listed it on, and whether we have the right publisher at all. Tell us what is wrong and an editor reads it.
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