{"id":1313,"date":"2025-08-15T14:29:40","date_gmt":"2025-08-15T14:29:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/edmohub.ie\/?p=1313"},"modified":"2025-08-15T14:45:57","modified_gmt":"2025-08-15T14:45:57","slug":"debunked-fox-news-claims-about-an-irish-crime-wave-are-based-on-discredited-claims-and-bad-stats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/edmohub.ie\/index.php\/debunked-fox-news-claims-about-an-irish-crime-wave-are-based-on-discredited-claims-and-bad-stats\/","title":{"rendered":"Debunked: Fox News claims about an Irish crime wave are based on discredited claims and bad stats"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In early August 2025, Fox News aired a segment claiming Dublin had experienced a 114% rise in \u201cmurder\/assault attempts\u201d, attributing this surge to increased immigration. A fact-check by <em>The Journal<\/em> thoroughly debunks this claim. The report notes there is no official crime category labelled \u201cmurder\/assault attempts\u201d, and statistics from An Garda S\u00edoch\u00e1na or the Central Statistics Office offer no support for Fox\u2019s figures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read the full Article on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thejournal.ie\/fox-news-dangerous-dublin-immigratoin-crime-stats-debunked-factcheck-6785722-Aug2025\/\">TheJournal.ie<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In early August 2025, Fox News aired a segment claiming Dublin had experienced a 114% rise in \u201cmurder\/assault attempts\u201d, attributing this surge to increased immigration. A fact-check by The Journal thoroughly debunks this claim. The report notes there is no official crime category labelled \u201cmurder\/assault attempts\u201d, and statistics from An Garda S\u00edoch\u00e1na or the Central &#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/edmohub.ie\/index.php\/debunked-fox-news-claims-about-an-irish-crime-wave-are-based-on-discredited-claims-and-bad-stats\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Debunked: Fox News claims about an Irish crime wave are based on discredited claims and bad stats&#8221;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":1314,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_eb_attr":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"twitterCardType":"","cardImageID":0,"cardImage":"","cardTitle":"","cardDesc":"","cardImageAlt":"","cardPlayer":"","cardPlayerWidth":0,"cardPlayerHeight":0,"cardPlayerStream":"","cardPlayerCodec":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-factchecks"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/edmohub.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Screenshot-2025-08-15-at-15.20.34-e1755268124484.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/edmohub.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/edmohub.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/edmohub.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edmohub.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edmohub.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1313"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/edmohub.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1313\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1315,"href":"https:\/\/edmohub.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1313\/revisions\/1315"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edmohub.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/edmohub.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edmohub.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edmohub.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}