IEThe Irish Times
If you build it, grifters will come, as sport becomes a plaything of the investment class
Heritage is being sold off to the highest bidders as best interests of fans are ignored
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- #863
- First seen
- 20 Aug 2026, 05:47 UTC
- Last checked
- 21 Aug 2026, 04:49 UTC
- Version history
- 1 version
- Current fingerprint
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Publisher layer
Recorded article metadata
- Publisher
- The Irish Times
- Country
- Ireland
- Source published
- 20 Aug 2026, 05:00 UTC
- Source updated
- No update timestamp supplied
- Byline
- Dave Hannigan
- Section
- Not supplied
Source-supplied excerpt
Heritage is being sold off to the highest bidders as best interests of fans are ignored
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If you build it, grifters will come, as sport becomes a plaything of the investment class
Heritage is being sold off to the highest bidders as best interests of fans are ignored
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Interpretation layer
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- machine content-type Reported news observable-rules-v1 / 70% rule confidence
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Evidence layer
Capture provenance
- Capture ID
- #351
- Observed
- 20 Aug 2026, 05:47 UTC
- HTTP result
- 200 / parsed
- Raw payload
- 636,873 bytes, private gzip evidence
- Collector
- news-ledger/0.1
- Public boundary
- metadata and excerpt