IEThe Irish Times
‘We’ve noticed water damage and cracks in a home we want to buy. Should we walk away?’
‘The estate agent was unable to tell us whether the leak was an ongoing problem or if it had been fixed’
Open original article- Ledger record
- #2496
- First seen
- 25 Aug 2026, 04:41 UTC
- Last checked
- 27 Aug 2026, 04:00 UTC
- Version history
- 2 versions
- Current fingerprint
e7425bc34c4d...c3a852
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Publisher layer
Recorded article metadata
- Publisher
- The Irish Times
- Country
- Ireland
- Source published
- 25 Aug 2026, 04:30 UTC
- Source updated
- No update timestamp supplied
- Byline
- Pat McGovern
- Section
- Not supplied
Source-supplied excerpt
‘The estate agent was unable to tell us whether the leak was an ongoing problem or if it had been fixed’
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Change layer
Observed version timeline
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‘We’ve noticed water damage and cracks in a home we want to buy. Should we walk away?’
‘The estate agent was unable to tell us whether the leak was an ongoing problem or if it had been fixed’
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‘We’ve noticed water damage and cracks in a home we want to buy. Should we walk away?’
‘The estate agent was unable to tell us whether the leak was an ongoing problem or if it had been fixed’
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Interpretation layer
Labels with declared origins
Not an adjudication.
Publisher categories are copied from source metadata. Machine signals report observable wording or format and do not determine truth, intent, ethics, or wrongdoing.
- machine content-type Reported news observable-rules-v1 / 70% rule confidence
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Public response layer
Reception snapshots
No reviewed reception capture yet.
Comment counts and samples remain absent until a lawful, source-specific capture method is reviewed. Absence is recorded instead of estimated.
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Evidence layer
Capture provenance
- Capture ID
- #2702
- Observed
- 26 Aug 2026, 09:14 UTC
- HTTP result
- 200 / parsed
- Raw payload
- 637,990 bytes, private gzip evidence
- Collector
- news-ledger/0.1
- Public boundary
- metadata and excerpt