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Is this an image of a Nazi flag flying in an area of Belfast celebrating VE Day?
12 May 2020
CLAIM: Images are being shared on Facebook claiming that Nazi flags were being flown in areas of Belfast in which loyalists were celebrating VE Day.
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INACCURATE
This claim is inaccurate: the images are from Carrickfergus in July 2015. A still image from the BBC News appears in widely shared and copied
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Do more than 700,000 born in Northern Ireland have an Irish passport?
5 March 2020
CLAIM: More than 700,000 people born in Northern Ireland have an Irish passport.
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ACCURATE
831,779 Irish passport applications (2010-19) represents 44.7% of the Northern Ireland-born population living in the UK at the time of the 2011 Censuses. On the
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Are there more Orangemen than fluent Irish speakers?
10 January 2020
CLAIM: There are more Orangemen than fluent Irish speakers in Northern Ireland.
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UNSUBSTANTIATED
The 2017-18 Continuous Household Survey indicates there are an estimated 35,955 persons with conversational fluency of Irish, and the current Grand Secretary of the Orange
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Is there 51% support for Ireland unity?
6 December 2019
CLAIM: There is 51% support for a united Ireland.
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ACCURATE
This claim is accurate. Although the Sinn Fein manifesto didn’t declare the exclusion of “don’t knows”, this revises a 45/46/9 split to a rounded 49/51
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Were 90% of those who died during “the Troubles” killed by paramilitaries?
30 November 2019
CLAIM: Ninety per cent of those who died during the Troubles were killed by paramilitaries.
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ACCURATE WITH CONSIDERATION
Statistics about killings during the Troubles suggest that 87% of killings were perpetrated by paramilitary groupings, with the figure falling to 85% if evidence to
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Measuring the “climate” of identity: NILT and time-series surveys
27 June 2019
EXPLAINER: The Northern Ireland Life and Times Survey
by Dr Orna YOUNG for FactCheckNI (26 June 2019) What is the Northern Ireland Life and Times Survey? The Northern Ireland Life and Times Survey
Peace
Does no one in Mid Ulster speak Irish?
30 March 2019
CLAIM: No one in Mid Ulster speaks Irish as their first language.
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INACCURATE
This claim is inaccurate. 440 people living in the local government district spoke Irish as their first language, according to the 2011 Census. 22,986 people
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Peace
Communal counting: The Northern Ireland census
6 March 2019
EXPLAINER: How the Northern Ireland measures the number of “Protestants” and “Catholics” in the population
In Northern Ireland, much data are reduced to communal categories of “Protestant” and “Catholic”, for the purposes of monitoring the delivery of public services and
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Peace
Semtex and powdered milk: A history of Ireland-Northern Ireland border checks
22 January 2019
EXPLAINER: a history of Ireland-Northern Ireland border checks, both customs and security
At an event in London on 15 January 2019, Arlene Foster (Leader, DUP), stated that during the Troubles there has not been a hard border
Peace
Was Irish spoken for the first time in the House of Commons?
26 October 2018
CLAIM: The first time the Irish language was spoken in the House of Commons was 24 October 2018.
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INACCURATE
The claim is inaccurate. There is an official record (Hansard) of Irish spoken in the House of Commons, by Thomas O’Donnell MP, on 19 February
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Peace
Are one in five PSNI new constables Catholic?
17 October 2018
CLAIM: One in five new constables from 2016 and 2017 are from a Catholic community background.
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UNSUBSTANTIATED
The claim is only accurate for years 2013 to 2015. PSNI composition In 1999, when 8.3% of police officers were Catholics, the Independent Commission for
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Peace
Is Irish the only language banned in Northern Ireland courts?
7 August 2018
CLAIM: Only the Irish language is banned in courts in Northern Ireland.
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INACCURATE
English is the working language of court proceedings in Northern Ireland; interpretation and translation services are provided for those who do not speak or understand