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With news of Mark Zuckerberg’s Irish purchase, I became concerned I had ‘castle blindness’

Could the Norman knight who built Drimnagh Castle in 1240 have imagined it would one day sit near an Aldi?

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#3317
First seen
27 Aug 2026, 05:15 UTC
Last checked
27 Aug 2026, 15:16 UTC
Version history
1 version
Current fingerprint
f25fbbfee2f6...ff26fa
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Publisher layer

Recorded article metadata

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Publisher
The Irish Times
Country
Ireland
Source published
27 Aug 2026, 05:00 UTC
Source updated
No update timestamp supplied
Byline
Emer McLysaght
Section
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Could the Norman knight who built Drimnagh Castle in 1240 have imagined it would one day sit near an Aldi?
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    With news of Mark Zuckerberg’s Irish purchase, I became concerned I had ‘castle blindness’

    Could the Norman knight who built Drimnagh Castle in 1240 have imagined it would one day sit near an Aldi?

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    Version SHA-256
    f25fbbfee2f6...ff26fa
    Capture SHA-256
    bfb88f48476c...45cc61
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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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Capture ID
#3022
Observed
27 Aug 2026, 05:15 UTC
HTTP result
200 / parsed
Raw payload
743,591 bytes, private gzip evidence
Collector
news-ledger/0.1
Public boundary
metadata and excerpt