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Fact Checks

• 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