irishtimes.com

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irishtimes.com

The Irish Times | Latest news and headlines - Irish news, world news, video and podcastsIrish news, world news and breaking updates. Get Ireland news, business, politics, sport, lifestyle, culture, podcasts, video and more from The Irish Times, the definitive brand of award-winning, in-depth journalism.

irishtimes.com

One of the first images collected of this website on 12 Dec 1998

Checked on 12 Nov 2026, 20:25Unclaimed

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Truth score

Truth score 78 out of 100, High truth signals. Customer satisfaction: insufficient evidence

78/ 100

High truth signals

Business details

Category: News and magazines
Founded: 1859
Sells: Subscription or membership
Sells to: The public
Kind of seller: Information or media
Licensed trade: No licence normally needed
Domain age: 29 years
Address: 24-28 Tara Street, Dublin 2
Email address: services@irishtimes.com
Phone number: +353 1 920 3901
Contact page: irishtimes.com/about-us/contact-us/
Website: irishtimes.com
Social media: Not found

Customer reviews, accreditations and complaints

SiteReviewsRating

SmartCustomer· Read 12 November 2026· 1 reviews· 4.0 out of 5 stars

Total13.6 out of 5 stars

Trustpilot reviews are not included in this assessment. This business also has a Trustpilot page, which may contain additional customer reviews. We recommend checking these alongside the reviews shown here.

Customer satisfactionInsufficient evidence· From 1 review on 1 independent review site

App experienceInsufficient evidence· No app ratings found

Summary

Is irishtimes.com legit and trustworthy? Truth score 78 out of 100, high truth signals: 7 public checks clear, 1 not found, 2 for information. Legitimacy confidence: high. App experience: insufficient evidence. Customer satisfaction: insufficient evidence.

We read 5 of its pages: contact, about, delivery, terms and privacy. Its website address was registered 29 years ago, and is locked against transfer to someone else. Customers have left 1 reviews on SmartCustomer, averaging 4.0 stars out of 5. No malware or phishing warnings found for its website. We could not find social media profiles.

Positives

We read 5 of its pages · contact, about, delivery, terms and privacy.
Its website address was registered 29 years ago.
A not fully established independent reputation · 1 reviews on SmartCustomer, rated 4.0 stars out of 5.
No malware or phishing warnings found for its website.

Not found

Social presence information was not found from our checks.

Our technical team has been informed.

Important context: Truth Signal weighs public evidence about this business. A high score means strong evidence that the business is established and legitimate, not a promise that it is safe to buy from or that every purchase will go well. A low score means the evidence is thin or raises concerns, not that the business is unsafe or a scam.

What they offer

Irish news, world news and breaking updates. Get Ireland news, business, politics, sport, lifestyle, culture, podcasts, video and more from The Irish Times, the definitive brand of award-winning, in-depth journalism.

— The Irish Times, in their own words

About them

Customer stories: Car Reviews

SourcesIts homepage

How to check if irishtimes.com is legit

To check if irishtimes.com is legit yourself, look at the same public records we did: the company register, who owns the web address and since when, customer reviews (where buyers leave praise and complaints), visitor numbers, how long the site has existed, social profiles, malware lists, data breaches and email security. Each row below shows what that record says about irishtimes.com; open a row to see the facts and the source to check them yourself. Step by step: how to know if a shopping site is legit.

Who they are

Company detailsBased in Ireland; serves 5 countries; founded in 1859 (Wikipedia)

Country

Where the company is based: Ireland
Why we believe that: the site's structured data states its country, its terms are governed by the laws of Ireland, its phone number starts +353
Which countries the company serves: Europe, UK, Ireland, New Zealand, US
Why we believe that: NZD prices on its homepage, £ prices on its homepage, € prices on its homepage, $ prices on its homepage, its delivery page says it ships to Ireland

Registration

VAT number: Not found

From Wikipedia

Founded: 1859

SourcesWikipedia

Domain registrationIts website address was registered 29 years ago

Its website address is locked against being transferred to someone else

Domain age: 29 years
Domain transfer lock enabled: Yes

SourcesICANN Lookup

Website detailsWe read 5 of its pages: contact, about, delivery, terms and privacy

Company contact email is available

HTTPS enabled: Yes
Contact phone number found: +353 1 920 3901
Contact page found: Yes
Hosting company: Fastly, Inc.

What its pages say

Phone support: +353 1 920 3901, [email protected]
In their own words: “Chair of the Board of The Irish Times Trust CLG. The Board is currently made up of eleven directors who are appointed by the Trust. The present Board is comprised of a non-executive chair, four executives from the news publisher and six non-executive directors, three of whom are nominated from the Trust.”

SourcesHomepage Contact page About page Delivery page Terms page Privacy page

Search engines and AILets in search engines; blocks 1 of 7 AI training tools and 1 of 5 AI answer tools

Which search engines and AI tools its robots.txt file lets read the website. Search engines list it in results; AI training tools learn from it; AI answer tools read it to answer someone’s question.

Search engines

All allowed

Google Search: Allowed by defaultGooglebot
Bing: Allowed by defaultBingbot

AI training

1 of 7 blocked

OpenAI: Blocked by its robots.txtGPTBot
Anthropic: Allowed by defaultClaudeBot
Google AI: Allowed by defaultGoogle-Extended
Apple AI: Allowed by defaultApplebot-Extended
Common Crawl: Allowed by defaultCCBot
Meta: Allowed by defaultmeta-externalagent
ByteDance (TikTok): Allowed by defaultBytespider

AI answers

1 of 5 blocked

ChatGPT search: Allowed by defaultOAI-SearchBot
ChatGPT: Blocked by its robots.txtChatGPT-User
Claude search: Allowed by defaultClaude-SearchBot
Claude: Allowed by defaultClaude-User
Perplexity: Allowed by defaultPerplexityBot

User-agent: ChatGPT-User
Disallow: /
User-agent: GPTBot
Disallow: /

Sourcesrobots.txt

Reputation and track record

Customer reviews, accreditations and complaintsRated 4.0 stars out of 5 from 1 reviews on SmartCustomer

Platform	Rating	Reviews
Trustpilot	Unknown	Unknown
SmartCustomer	4.0 out of 5 stars	1
Total	3.6 out of 5 stars	1

Visitor trafficReal people visited its website in 24 of the last 24 months

Real people have visited its website since February 2021 or earlier
It is among the 20,000 most-visited sites on the internet (Cloudflare Radar)

Monthly visitor data

Popularity among Chrome users: top 5,000 sites
First known user traffic: Feb 2021 or earlier
Months with real traffic, of the last 24: 24
Traffic pattern: sustained
Rank jump in the last 12 months: none
Rank drop in the last 12 months: none

Cloudflare Radar

Popularity across the internet: top 20,000 sites

Where its visitors are

Share of people looking up irishtimes.com, by country, over the last 2 days.

Over 50%
5 to 50%
1 to 5%
0.2 to 1%
Under 0.2%
None seen

1Singapore35.6%
2United States25.1%
3Ireland11.9%
4Germany5.8%
5Brazil3.7%
6United Kingdom2.4%
7India1.3%
8Netherlands1.3%
9Hong Kong1.2%
10Austria1.0%

Top 10 of 51 countries.

SourcesChrome UX Report Cloudflare Radar

Web history and authorityThe Internet Archive first saved a copy of its website 27 years ago

Website archive history: 27 years

SourcesFirst archived copy

Social presenceWe could not check how big its social media following is: the check ran out of time.

What data this site collects about you

What its privacy policy saysWe found this business stores and uses your data

Says it does not sell your personal data.: “We do not sell your personal information to anyone and only share it with third parties who are facilitating the delivery or fulfilment of our services, or are working on our behalf.”
Shares your data with other companies.: “We may share your personal information with third parties for a number of reasons as outlined below.”
Collects where you are.: “Some of our location-enabled services require your personal GPS location data for the feature to work.”
May send your data to other countries.: “We may transfer your personal data outside the European Economic Area (EEA).”
May make automated decisions or build a profile about you.: “We use this information to evaluate your personal preferences and interests, which under the GDPR may constitute as customer profiling.”
Says how long it keeps your data.: “Where we enter into a legal contract with you, we will hold your personal information for a period of seven years from the date of completion of this contract by reference to the statute of limitations for a legal claim under contract.”
Has a data protection officer you can contact.: “We have appointed a data protection officer (DPO) for you to contact if you have any questions regarding this privacy policy, our privacy practices or if you wish to exercise your data rights.”dataprotection@irishtimes.com

SourceIts privacy policy

Tracking tools on its homepageGoogle Tag Manager and Google Ads

Named in its homepage's code when we read it. Others may load later, so this list may not be complete.

Google Tag Manager: Loads other tracking tools, which may not be listed here.
Google Ads: Tracks what you do to show you Google adverts.

Uses OneTrust to ask which cookies you allow.

SourceIts homepage

Safety

Malware and phishingNo malware or phishing warnings found for its websiteThis check is not perfect: it can miss a harmful site, and it can wrongly warn about a safe one.

Malware or phishing threat status: None found

SourcesGoogle Web Risk

Data breach historyNo known data breach involving the company

Known data breaches found: 0

SourcesHave I Been Pwned

Domain and email securityIts email is only partly protected: mail forged in its name is reported but not blocked

Its email identifies its real senders, but mail forged in its name is not blocked

MX records: Yes
SPF record: Yes
DMARC record: Yes
DMARC policy: none

Certificate

Security certificate browsers warn about: No
Certificate issuer: GlobalSign nv-sa
Certificate type: OV
Certificate expires: 3 Apr 2027

Hosting

Nameservers: ns-1440.awsdns-52.org
ns-1768.awsdns-29.co.uk
ns-387.awsdns-48.com
ns-528.awsdns-02.net
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Address: 151.101.130.174
151.101.194.174
151.101.2.174
151.101.66.174

SourcesIts DNS records

Proof of ownership

What the business has done to prove it runs this website. Each proof adds points to its truth score, up to 5. A proof it has not added is never counted against it.

DNS recordNot added yet+3 possible

What we check: A record the business adds in its domain's settings. Only someone who runs the website can add one.
When we check: On every check. The points stay only while the record is there.
Points: 0 of 3 added

Sourceirishtimes.com's DNS records

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Email at its own domainNot added yet+1 possible

What we check: That someone at the business has confirmed an email address at its own website's domain.
When we check: When the address is confirmed. It counts from then on.
Points: 0 of 1 added

SourceTruth Signal's own records

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Lets our checker read itNot added yet+1 possible

What we check: That its robots.txt file names our checker, TruthSignal, and lets it read the whole website.
When we check: On every check. The point stays only while the file allows it.
Points: 0 of 1 added

Sourceirishtimes.com/robots.txt

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Points added to its truth score0 of 5

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