An Irish airline illegally transported munitions to Israel – despite just months before taking part in a Microsoft Teams call with Department of Transport officials after reports of its munitions flights to Israel.
After The Ditch reported that ASL had transported munitions to Israel – on a flight requiring authorisation from the transport minister – the Department of Transport contacted the airline.
The department and the airline had a Microsoft Teams call.
The airline soon after carried out another illegal weapons flight to Israel.
Continue reading here - https://www.ontheditch.com/department-of-transport-holds-teams-call/
According to the website, one of the co-founders of this website is Eoghan McNeill who formerly worked, among others, for the ‘China Daily,’ an English-language newspaper owned by the Central Propaganda Department of the Chinese Communist Party.
The publication is (mostly) well known in Ireland.
As an investigative publication they break many stories that otherwise would have been ignored, as most of the media in Ireland is run or owned by people affiliated with one or the other of the two dominating parties (Fianna Fail and Fine Gael).
The main funder of this website has had his own disputes and grievances with politicians in the past, but does not have any influence over what is published on that. The short of it is, that all of their stories are by investigative journalists, and can be backed up with facts. They haven’t (to my knowledge) had any of their stories found to be untrue if that is where you are going with that post.
I don’ t question the facts mentioned in the article. You can deceit people, however, in more subtle ways by various means such as biased article/topic selection. For example, the site has been publishing critical articles about Israel or Irish politics, which is perfectly alright, but they ignore certain other topics.
I never came across this site and don’t know Mr. McNeill or his work so far. But he hasn’t done investigative journalism at the China Daily, this we can tell for sure I guess as everything that is only slightly critical of China is strictly censored there.
If there is an obvious bias in the article selection, it is not an independent media, even if it’s factual reporting. They also don’t disclose the donors list.