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Fact Checks

• Could the UUP and SDLP change their designations to prevent the DUP from nominating a deputy First Minister?
• Do PSNI chief constables have the same average tenure as other top cops in the UK?
• Does easier access to abortion and contraception lead to an increase in domestic abuse and sexual violence?
• Has Northern Ireland been in fiscal deficit for most – or indeed all – of its existence?
• Is the EU contributing €1 billion to the PEACE PLUS fund for Northern Ireland?
• Will nearly 40% of NI properties be at risk from flooding by 2080?
• Is there no such thing as a ‘hate crime’ under NI law?
• Relationships and Sexuality Education (RSE) in Northern Ireland: What’s happening?
• Was Ireland’s constitutional claim to Northern Ireland illegal?
• Is arts funding per capita almost five times higher in Ireland than it is in Northern Ireland?
• Does this picture show all the publicly-available green space in Northern Ireland?
• Is Lagan Valley one of the least wooded parts of NI?
• Is Nicola Sturgeon the first former or current political party leader to be arrested since the 1970s? Is she the only former First Minister or Prime Minister to be arrested in history?
• Are Treasury contributions to NI going down? Is local spending rising by only 3.6% while it rises by 6% in England?
• Does NI have the lowest wages, slowest economy, lowest productivity and highest economic inactivity in the UK and Ireland?
• Does Northern Ireland have the highest rate of child poverty in the UK?
• Is Northern Ireland one of the cheapest parts of the UK for childcare?
• Is direct rule incompatible with the Belfast/Good Friday Agreement? Or would joint authority breach the principle of consent?
• Would 35 million people live in Ireland if it was as densely populated as England?
• Is there no growth in public support for a United Ireland? Is support shrinking instead?
• Did Unionism always oppose the Northern Ireland Protocol?
• Is healthy life expectancy in Northern Ireland almost ten years lower than in Ireland?
• Does Dungiven have some of the worst nitrogen dioxide readings in Western Europe?
• Do the two richest people in Ireland have more wealth than half the population?
• What did the Supreme Court say about the lawfulness of the Northern Ireland Protocol?
• Do 90% of people in NI support organ donation?
• Have almost 50 people died in NI because of a Covid-19 vaccine?
• Would it cost the Irish government £880m to provide free GP care?
• Are an average of three women killed by men each week?
• Was Northern Ireland part of the Irish Free State for a day?
• Are driving examiners striking across the UK?
• Did the GDP gap between NI and Britain’s wealthiest regions grow by almost 44% between 2000 and 2014?
• Do far more young people in Northern Ireland have no qualifications, compared with peers in England?
• Has the Executive been in a state of collapse for 40% of its existence?
• Does Northern Ireland support abortion?
• Did the 2006 St Andrews Agreement effectively give the DUP and Sinn Féin a veto over the formation of an Executive?
• Does the UK have more food banks than McDonald’s?
• Will £400m of unspent public funds be wiped out by a budget deficit?
• Have the courts said NI schools are discriminatory, and ordered them to stop indoctrinating pupils into Christianity?
• Does Northern Ireland have the highest rate of infant mortality in Europe?
• Is childcare the biggest cost for NI families, after housing?
• Did average pay plummet by 3.7% in the three months from May?
• Is NI subject to EU fuel VAT rates, which cannot be reduced below 5%? 
• Do less than 0.03% of the population of Northern Ireland have a vote in the Conservative Party leadership election 2022?
• Is Belfast the most lucrative city in the UK for students’ landlords?
• Is the Belfast-Derry/Londonderry train no quicker than it was during Victorian times?
• How is the NI Protocol affecting the local cost of living?
• Do 140 people per year die while fishing in Irish waters?
• When is 40.3 not higher than 39.6?
• Are 40,000 people in NI on the Housing Executive waiting list, with 30,000 of those in housing stress?
• Do divisions in society cost Northern Ireland between £400m and £830m every year?
• The NI Protocol: what power do local MLAs have?
• Do 25 of NI’s 27 main ‘economic hubs’ have creaking water and sewage infrastructure that is holding back development?
• Was the Tories’ £20 cut to Universal Credit the biggest overnight drop in welfare since World War II?
• Do nearly 30% of NI’s carbon emissions come from farming, compared with 10% in the rest of the UK?
• Did the early collapse of the Executive leave £334m public money sitting on a shelf?
• Are children entitled to free school meals 29 percentage points less likely than their peers to get good GCSEs? Has this attainment gap barely closed in over a decade?
• Do most UUP voters intend to transfer to nationalist parties ahead of other unionists in the May elections?
• Is the UK ranked 14th in Europe for the number of asylum seekers it processes and accepts?
• Do 20% of EU customs checks take place in the Irish Sea?
• Are children who take a COVID-19 vaccine 52 times more likely to suffer an early death?
• Is there a 50% chance of hospitalisation with Omicron if you don’t get a COVID-19 booster jab?
• Economic effects of the Northern Ireland Protocol
• Does Northern Ireland have the highest number of children in care since 1995?
• Changes in the Highway Code in Northern Ireland
• Has the economy in Derry/Londonderry contracted 21% since 2007?
• Is what Northern Ireland buys from Great Britain four times more valuable than from Ireland?
• COVID-19 and face masks/coverings
• An open letter to YouTube’s CEO from the world’s fact checkers
• Seasonal flu and COVID-19
• COVID-19 and excess deaths in Northern Ireland and the world
• FactCheckNI: Editor Role
• Childcare provision in Northern Ireland
• Do COVID-19 vaccines contain animal products?
• Does Northern Ireland have some of the worst insulated houses?
• Is Northern Ireland the only part of Europe without climate change legislation?
• Does Northern Ireland produce enough to feed 10 million people?
• Are 75% of non-voters in Northern Ireland pro-Union?
• Does Northern Ireland spend least per pupil?
• Is the Court of Justice of the EU the supreme court for all Protocol issues?
• Are ‘extra months’ on pre-Brexit UK passports no longer valid?
• Does the Northern Ireland protocol require certain aspects of EU law to apply in Northern Ireland and can this only happen if they are incorporated into Northern Ireland law?
• Comparing suicide statistics
• How-to: Reverse image search
• COVID-19 vaccinations: fertility and pregnancy
• Is a quarter of Northern Ireland’s COVID-19 unvaccinated population unlikely to get jab?
• Some suggestions when handling COVID-19 leaflets
• Pregnancy and COVID-19 vaccines
• COVID-19 vaccines and aborted fetuses
• A British Army veteran who served in NI during the Troubles is 54x more likely to be prosecuted?
• How-to: Checking online images in Northern Ireland
• Lateral flow device tests for COVID-19
• Pets and the Northern Ireland Protocol
• Empowered citizens should Think Check Share
• Are business rates in Larne the same as Regent Street in London?
• Do the DOJ and NIO joint fund an £8 million a year programme to engage directly with paramilitary organisations?
• The process of nominating the First and deputy First Ministers
• Is the Red Cross refusing blood donations from anyone who has received a COVID-19 vaccination?
• Long COVID
• Is public spending in Northern Ireland 45% higher than in Ireland?
• Can 45 NI Assembly members vote together to revoke and remove the Northern Ireland Protocol?
• Online rumours and misinformation in Northern Ireland
• FactCheckNI to boost graphical impact through Open Data Fund win
• Is full-time paid maternity leave in the UK one of the lowest in Europe?
• Does Ireland have the fastest growing economy in the Eurozone?
• COVID-19 vaccinations: fertility and pregnancy
• Disinformation in a pandemic: sharing fact checkers’ experiences
• Are UK passports produced by non-UK companies?
• The electoral register and the 10-year canvass
• Must the next electoral canvass be done by 2023?
• Children living in poverty in Northern Ireland
• Is Northern Ireland one of the most locked-down places in the world?
• Just 113 COVID-19 deaths in Northern Ireland since the start of the pandemic?
• How does a RT-PCR test for COVID-19 work?
• Was Belfast the sixth highest in murder rate for a European city in 2010?
• Is there a greater chance of a motorcyclist aged 67 dying as a motorcyclist than being affected by COVID-19?
• Was British Army General Robert Ross the last man to attack the US Capitol?
• COVID-19 and mandatory vaccination
• COVID-19 conspiracy theories: how to have ‘the talk’ 
• COVID-19 vaccines and microchip devices
• The COVID-19 mRNA vaccine: What is it and how has it been developed so quickly?
• Is COVID-19 being put fraudulently on death certificates?
• Are death rates no higher this year than in a bad flu season?
• Was COVID-19 downgraded from being a high-consequence infectious disease?
• Pregnancies and abortion in Northern Ireland
• Overcoming closed borders: opening up fact-checking solutions
• Is there a greater chance of dying by being hit by a bus than by COVID-19?
• Is the PSNI rolling out a Snapchat scheme to monitor social mitigation compliance?
• Are Northern Ireland retailers covering up non-essential items from sale?
• Can face masks cause harmful levels of reduced oxygen?
• The accuracy of COVID-19 death statistics
• What is group screening for COVID-19?
• Can a medicinal tea ‘help with’ COVID-19?
• What is Northern Ireland’s COVID-19 recovery plan?
• Can you generate a positive result for COVID-19 from an RT-PCR test?
• Are 95% or 98% of all households in the Holylands area of Belfast HMOs?
• Is there 90% compliance with wearing face coverings in retail settings in Northern Ireland?
• What’s the accuracy of claims regarding COVID-19 featured in a leaflet distributed in parts of Lagan Valley constituency?
• Does the tech sector employ 26% of the workforce in Belfast?
• FactCheckNI awarded funding by Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust
• Did 33 people die by suicide during the first week of September 2020 in Northern Ireland?
• Does Belfast/Good Friday Agreement forbid cross-border barriers?
• Does Belfast/Good Friday Agreement forbid cross-border barriers?
• Are 82% of the public wearing face masks on Translink buses and trains?
• StopCOVID NI Mobile App: Q&A
• COVID-19 and face masks/coverings
• How has COVID-19 contributed to excess deaths in Northern Ireland?
• Did face coverings/masks become “mandatory” in shops and indoor public spaces in Northern Ireland on 1 August 2020?
• Pets and COVID-19
• Telling stories with data: FactCheckNI session at Global Fact 7
• Has the suicide rate increased 200% during the COVID-19 lockdown period?
• Shielding Letters: Q&A
• Social distancing in Northern Ireland
• Deep dive: COVID-19 related inequalities
• COVID-19 and health inequalities in Northern Ireland
• Are 1 in 4 NI adults ‘now at risk of hunger and malnutrition’?
• What are shielding letters?
• Did 62 more people contract COVID-19 in care homes, before dying in hospital?
• Was Northern Ireland COVID-19 testing at a rate 10 times Scotland’s?
• Is this an image of a Nazi flag flying in an area of Belfast celebrating VE Day?
• Are these workers trapped by bollards they’ve installed outside a hospital in Belfast?
• Statement: COVID-19 death rate fact check
• What are the rules of lockdown in Northern Ireland?
• Are COVID-19 deaths in Northern Ireland 50% higher than Ireland?
• The health system in Northern Ireland: How is it structured and who makes decisions about COVID-19?
• New working partnership: COVID-19 Information Dissemination (COVID-19 ID) Project
• It’s all about the test: Counting COVID-19 deaths
• Fighting a fire blindfolded? COVID-19 testing in Northern Ireland
• FAQ: Facebook
• Do families have to give permission for COVID-19 death statistics?
• Is there a plan to use Dundonald Ice Bowl as a morgue?
• Misinformation and COVID-19
• Michael Davitt GAC offered as a coronavirus field hospital?
• Do more than 700,000 born in Northern Ireland have an Irish passport?
• Did only the Green Party support an EPA?
• Fact checking and fast news
• Asking the right questions for a better-informed public
• Are there more Orangemen than fluent Irish speakers?
• Are there only DUP members in the House of Lords?
• Is Northern Ireland without funded childcare provision?
• Lies and democracy: Who are the truth tellers?
• Is there 51% support for Ireland unity?
• Do over 95% of south Belfast residents own their own home?
• Has levy removed 1.2 billion carrier bags?
• PRESS STATEMENT: FactCheckNI shares tips to help voters spot bad information online ahead of Election Day
• Were 90% of those who died during “the Troubles” killed by paramilitaries?
• Are only 3 out of 12 regions net contributors to the UK Treasury?
• Does Northern Ireland have the highest femicide rate in Western Europe?
• Are there 40,000 third-level students in the northwest of Ireland?
• Did DUP MPs vote against pay rises for nurses, firefighters, and police officers?
• Are 2% of pregnancy terminations between 20 and 24 weeks?
• Does Brexit deal mean no forms to access Great Britain?
• Do Northern Ireland arts need a 660% uplift in government funding?
• Accessing abortion services in Northern Ireland
• Did 20,000 people participate in an anti-abortion march in Belfast?
• Northern Ireland outpatient waiting lists 100 times more than England’s?
• Thousands of tonnes of slurry for pork for China?
• When fact-checking isn’t about “right” or “wrong” (WACC Global)
• A beginner’s guide to fact checking
• Is a food bank feeding 1 in 5 in Enniskillen?
• Do 40% of Unionists support a potential Irish Sea trade border?
• Brexit box viral graphic fact check
• Has the DUP brought an extra £1bn?
• The worst train and bus operators in the UK?
• How-to: Google Cache
• Derry/Londonderry only city without its own university?
• Only one UK member of Facebook’s fact checking programme?
• 96% population growth by those aged 65+?
• Is Derry/Londonderry rail service substandard?
• 1 in 5 school staff assaulted weekly?
• Six minutes to clear security screening at George Best Belfast City Airport?
• A cross-border business transaction every 6 seconds?
• 25% reduction in public transport journey times?
• How-to: Wayback Machine
• Only 84 children adopted in Northern Ireland?
• Measuring the “climate” of identity: NILT and time-series surveys
• Fact checking Northern Ireland: FactCheckNI continues to grow
• Beyond fake news: Working collaboratively to address misinformation #NICSLive
• Does the EU send NI €500m annually?
• PRESS STATEMENT: FactCheckNI joins Facebook Fact-Checking Programme
• Why does fact checking matter? @ImagineBelfast
• Does no one in Mid Ulster speak Irish?
• Digital verification for human rights: Amnesty International @ImagineBelfast
• FactCheckNI partners with FactCheckEU for European-wide coverage
• As many appointments cancelled by hospital as patient no-shows?
• Communal counting: The Northern Ireland census
• Stephen NOLAN: Enhancing democratic debate in the era of fake news?
• Can a scone equal a third of recommended daily calories?
• For your consideration: FactCheckNI verdict ratings
• Are 60% against “The Backstop” in Northern Ireland?
• Is border trade 0.5% of UK-EU trade?
• Are half of the people in Fermanagh and Omagh living in poverty?
• Do our farmers receive 62% of income from EU?
• 10 years of Nieuwscheckers
• Semtex and powdered milk: A history of Ireland-Northern Ireland border checks
• Do more men die by suicide in Northern Ireland?
• The Santa myth: A joyful act of confirmation bias
• Were 1,900 jobs created by Belfast City Council?
• Homes paying bedroom tax increased fivefold?
• Do 77% of young people not want Brexit?
• Over 1 million lights in Lisburn?
• What is fact checking and why is it important?
• Does Northern Ireland eat the most meat?
• No university in Derry/Londonderry?
• Have 1 in 4 LGBT persons attempted suicide?
• Were “City Deals” part of DUP’s Confidence and Supply Agreement?
• Was Irish spoken for the first time in the House of Commons?
• Are one in five PSNI new constables Catholic?
• Do Northern Ireland pets need passports for Ireland?
• Earning trust “story by story”
• Are a third of CoI ministry candidates women?
• Is Irish the only language banned in Northern Ireland courts?
• Are there 100,000 adults in Northern Ireland with no home?
• Do young people have the critical literacy skills they need?
• Are there 12,500 millionaires living in Northern Ireland?
• Are there 208 Ireland-Northern Ireland border crossings?
• Did Jeremy Corbyn walk in a paramilitary funeral procession?
• Ensuring trustworthiness, quality and value in all our work
• Anne Hailes: Are we really facing the facts when it comes to news these days?
• Do our primary pupils receive least per child?
• Do a third of graduates return to Northern Ireland?
• The end of facts? Taking on fake news @ImagineBelfast
• Does Northern Ireland sell 60% of its goods to Great Britain?
• Were there over 29,000 cases of domestic violence and abuse in 2016-17?
• Is there majority support for marriage equality?
• Are all taxis allowed in bus lanes?
• “The fightback begins in Northern Ireland!” says Byrnes
• Is fake news a problem? World Forum for Democracy 2017
• How much do MLAs earn (or not)?
• Full Fact: How many women leave Northern Ireland to have an abortion in Britain?
• Did a large rock fall onto the Antrim coast road?
• “Fact-checking keeps growing!” Report from #GlobalFact4
• Is there a UDA-DUP ‘Brothers-in-Arms’ mural?
• Do 30,000 people cross Ireland-Northern Ireland border daily?
• PRESS STATEMENT: FactCheckNI becomes verified signatory of international code of principles
• Are we living in a post-truth democracy?
• Of lying (and truth) in politics (SRF Radio 2)
• Was funding cut for youth work?
• TheJournal.ie: Are there really more Polish speakers than Irish speakers in Northern Ireland?
• TheJournal.ie: Did the DUP really never commit to an Irish Language Act?
• Is Northern Ireland the happiest part of the UK?
• Who opens and closes interface gates?
• Do 77% of mothers face discrimination at work?
• VIDEO: Civic activism in Northern Ireland @openDemocracy
• Promote critical thinking skills for better democracy @WFDemocracy Strasbourg 2016
• FactCheckNI signs up to international fact-checking code
• How common is HIV among heterosexuals?
• Does Northern Ireland have a high teenage pregnancy rate?
• Is there a high level of support for restorative justice?
• Has low childcare provision caused a low female employment rate?
• Do half of freed criminals reoffend within a year?
• Must the SoS call a post-Brexit border poll?
• Are 1 in 4 women in Northern Ireland victims of domestic violence?
• What is EU to Northern Ireland net migration?
• Do 38% of students have to leave Northern Ireland?
• Is Northern Ireland a net contributor to the EU?
• Are foreigners a financial strain on the NHS in Northern Ireland?
• How dependent is Stormont on Westminster subvention?
• Would Brexit lead to a customs frontier?
• Is the Northern Ireland workforce 50-50 Protestant-Catholic?
• Is crime on the rise in Northern Ireland?
• Has Sinn Fein Education Minister improved outcomes for most disadvantaged?
• Did the ‘NI 2012 – Our Time, Our Place’ campaign help bring in one million visitors?
• Do almost 1% of people earn less than the minimum wage?
• Would Brexit lead to Northern Ireland land border checks?
• Are 1 in 5 people living with a disability?
• Are 1 in 8 jobs supported by EU membership?
• A new website in Northern Ireland hopes fact checking will be a tool for reconciliation
• Northern Ireland: Lowest disposable income in the UK?
• Do more residents want peace walls to stay?
• Northern Ireland’s first fact checking service launched: FactCheckNI
• Has Northern Ireland’s legislation caused an 80% rise in sex workers in Ireland?
• Revealing fact or fiction: A FactCheckNI quiz