The Irish Sun media bias and reliability
The rating organisations do not give The Irish Sun one shared verdict in the records we hold. Their published ratings are Ad Fontes Media: Centre; Media Bias/Fact Check: Right. We have seen it on 13 published stories of ours.
The short answers
Is The Irish Sun biased?
The rating organisations do not give The Irish Sun one shared verdict in the records we hold. Their published ratings are Ad Fontes Media: Centre; Media Bias/Fact Check: Right. An outlet rating describes a broad pattern in its output, not every article it publishes.
Is The Irish Sun left or right?
The rating organisations do not give The Irish Sun one shared verdict in the records we hold. Their published ratings are Ad Fontes Media: Centre; Media Bias/Fact Check: Right. In the three-way grouping used on story pages, that puts it under Right.
Is The Irish Sun reliable?
The factual-reliability assessments we hold for The Irish Sun are Ad Fontes Media: Mixed factuality; Media Bias/Fact Check: Mixed factuality. These are outlet-level assessments, not a guarantee that every report is correct.
What The Irish Sun has been covering
Our account of each story, written from every outlet that ran it, with The Irish Sun’s own report linked underneath.
Thomas Markle Snr, father of the Duchess of Sussex, has reportedly been moved into a Florida care home for dementia patients. The move comes amid an FBI investigation into alleged child abuse images found at his home and storage units.
The Irish Sun reported it asThomas Markle moves to dementia care home sparking fears he may never be quizzed (opens The Irish Sun in a new tab)
The Pentagon has released its seventh set of UFO documents, featuring a report of a black triangular object seen by FBI agents. The craft reportedly moved at high speed without sound or visible propulsion over a sensitive US site.
The Irish Sun reported it asNew UFO files reveal '4ft alien bodies & mystery egg-shaped spaceship' (opens The Irish Sun in a new tab)
Johannes Kongsnes Natland, 19, has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for conspiracy to murder. He travelled to the UK to carry out a killing for an Iran-backed international crime gang, but was arrested by armed police.
The Irish Sun reported it asTeen hitman who was snared in his pants after jetting to UK for kill plot jailed (opens The Irish Sun in a new tab)
A house fire in Waterford, Ireland, resulted in the deaths of two adults and two children. Two other children were critically injured and hospitalised. An Garda Síochána is investigating the incident, with foul play suspected.
The Irish Sun reported it asSon of man killed in Waterford fire with wife and 2 kids reveals ‘devastation’ (opens The Irish Sun in a new tab)
EU ambassador Katarina Maternova confirmed that all 25 EU embassies remain open in Kyiv despite Moscow’s warning of massive strikes. German Chancellor Friedrich Merz was in the city at the time. Russian officials urged foreign diplomats to depart.
The Irish Sun reported it asPutin warns 'foreign citizens' to leave Kyiv as drones blitz bridge (opens The Irish Sun in a new tab)
Ireland's pre-match press conference for their Nations League game against Israel was cut short after a journalist asked coach Heimir Hallgrimsson about alleged racism by Irish players. The team's communications officer intervened, calling the allegations untrue.
The Irish Sun reported it asIreland vs Israel conference chaos after Hallgrimsson asked about racism claim (opens The Irish Sun in a new tab)
A migrant dinghy that departed the Normandy coast on Monday morning has been at sea for over 24 hours and is heading towards the UK. A French coastguard vessel is shadowing the boat, while the UK Home Office has warned of a likely landing in Hampshire.
The Irish Sun reported it asFrench boats escort another migrant mega-dinghy to UK from Normandy beach (opens The Irish Sun in a new tab)
Irish Taoiseach Micheál Martin stated he did not use the term 'genocide' when discussing Gaza with former US President Donald Trump. Martin said their conversation focused on accelerating humanitarian aid delivery to the region, and Trump "undertook to do everything he possibly could" to facilitate it.
The Irish Sun reported it asMartin defends not describing Gaza situation as 'genocide' in Trump discussions (opens The Irish Sun in a new tab)
US President Donald Trump's visit to Ireland on September 12 and 13 will be supported by a large-scale security and policing operation. An Garda Síochána has declared the event extraordinary to manage staffing and resources for the extensive plan.
The Irish Sun reported it asInside mega Trump security operation with quadbike cops & Phoenix Park divers (opens The Irish Sun in a new tab)
President Donald Trump is visiting his golf resort in Doonbeg, Ireland, for the Irish Open. His trip includes planned meetings with Irish leaders and is met with objections from lawyers and planned protests.
The Irish Sun reported it asThousands expected to protest Donald Trump visit at ‘massive’ Dublin march (opens The Irish Sun in a new tab)
Donald Trump told reporters he was 'happy' Prince Harry and Meghan Markle had left the US for the UK, calling them disrespectful to the Royal Family. He said he would not have taken them back if he were in the royal family, citing his good relationships with Queen Elizabeth and King Charles.
The Irish Sun reported it asTrump says he's 'happy' Sussexes returned to UK & blasts 'disrespectful' Meghan (opens The Irish Sun in a new tab)
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are moving back to the United Kingdom after six years in the US, but will not resume their roles as working royals. Their children will attend British schools from September, and King Charles III was informed of the decision on 16 August 2026.
The Irish Sun reported it asWhere Harry and Meghan could live in the UK - what we know about potential plans (opens The Irish Sun in a new tab)
Daniel Kinahan, 49, was arrested in Dubai in April under an Irish court warrant. An Irish government jet departed Dublin on 9 August to extradite him, with his return expected on 10 August. Kinahan faces charges linked to international drug trafficking and firearms offences, following a decade-long feud that killed 18 people.
The Irish Sun reported it asDaniel Kinahan extradition operation underway as Govt jet travelling to Dubai (opens The Irish Sun in a new tab)
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.
Mixed factuality
Who owns it
We hold no ownership record for The Irish Sun.
Where it publishes from
- Publishes from
- London, Greater London, England, United Kingdom
- Official site
- thesun.ie
- Seen publishing on
- thesun.ie
- 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
- 13
- Reports listed
- 13
- We could read
- 0
- First seen
- 4 August 2026
13 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.
On 3 of those stories, outlets rated right were largely absent from the coverage and The Irish Sun ran the story anyway.
Across the 13 stories of ours where at least three of the reports we listed carried a time, we logged no report earlier than The Irish Sun’s on 2 of them. Overall it filed a median of 8 hours after the earliest report we logged.
Measured 5 November 2026. Last seen in a coverage list 4 November 2026. Ratings pulled 4 November 2026.
Other outlets rated the same way
Publishers carrying the same published leaning as The Irish Sun, 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.
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What we are responsible for is everything else: the ownership chain, where The Irish Sun 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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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.