Shane Raymond

1 week ago | thejournal.ie | Shane Raymond

SPECIAL FORCES FROM the Irish Army Ranger Wing carried out a training exercise in a shopping centre in Kildare, leading some people to falsely speculate that a man trying to plant a bomb there had been legitimately arrested. “A lad just got dragged out of Whitewater Newbridge,” one 15 April Facebook post read, referring to a shopping centre in Co Kildare.

1 week ago | thejournal.ie | Shane Raymond |Gavin Cooney

A GRANT OFFERED to social enterprises led by ethnic minorities has falsely been described as being proof that “phone shops, Turkish barbers, vape shops” and all other foreign-owned businesses in the country are being funded “by the Irish taxpayer”. While the fund is granted by a group that does receive government money, it is in no way true to say that the grant is funded by taxpayer money, or that “all foreign-owned businesses” are in receipt of it.

1 week ago | thejournal.ie | Shane Raymond

A KNOWN SPREADER of fabricated news stories has claimed that 14 nations signed a World Economic Forum treaty to ban natural conception. But there is no evidence to support this claim, and the creator of the story neither cited sources for the claim, nor provided any details. Despite this, the claim has been re-shared on social media.

2 weeks ago | thejournal.ie | Shane Raymond

FALSE CLAIMS HAVE been re-shared that the perpetrator of the Southport stabbings last year was an immigrant, amid arguments over the jailing of a British woman for advocating that hotels housing immigrants should be burned down. Three children were stabbed to death last July when a seventeen-year-old boy attacked a Taylor Swift-themed dance workshop in northern England.

3 weeks ago | thejournal.ie | Shane Raymond

BRENNANS BREAD, ONE of the largest bakeries in Ireland, is not applying for halal certification, despite claims on social media. Many comments making this claim featured a screenshot that reads “Brennan Bakeries receives Halal certification”. One version, posted with the caption “Islam Ireland” on 18 March by J K Lunden — an activist who has protested Covid restrictions, the SPHE curriculum in schools, as well as LGBT+ books in libraries — was viewed more than 185,100 times.