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It seems we will tolerate any wrong so long as it is small

‘Sure look, it’s not that bad’ can be seen as a national strategy of its own, regardless of political or financial agenda

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#2530
First seen
25 Aug 2026, 05:11 UTC
Last checked
25 Aug 2026, 10:12 UTC
Version history
1 version
Current fingerprint
b9c93114b86d...4d581d
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Publisher layer

Recorded article metadata

Image URL supplied by The Irish Times.
Publisher
The Irish Times
Country
Ireland
Source published
25 Aug 2026, 05:00 UTC
Source updated
No update timestamp supplied
Byline
Sinéad O’Sullivan
Section
Not supplied
Source-supplied excerpt
‘Sure look, it’s not that bad’ can be seen as a national strategy of its own, regardless of political or financial agenda
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Change layer

Observed version timeline

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    Initial capture

    It seems we will tolerate any wrong so long as it is small

    ‘Sure look, it’s not that bad’ can be seen as a national strategy of its own, regardless of political or financial agenda

    Changed fieldstitlebylinedescriptionTextcontentTextsourcePublishedAtsourceUpdatedAtsectionimageUrltags
    Version SHA-256
    b9c93114b86d...4d581d
    Capture SHA-256
    7ea0474718da...2f6ac7
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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
#2258
Observed
25 Aug 2026, 05:11 UTC
HTTP result
200 / parsed
Raw payload
633,392 bytes, private gzip evidence
Collector
news-ledger/0.1
Public boundary
metadata and excerpt