- [Home](https://truthsignal.com/) - [Business](https://truthsignal.com/business) - The Irish Times # irishtimes.com Markdown: [Snapshot](https://truthsignal.com/business/irishtimes.com/snapshot.md) [Full report](https://truthsignal.com/business/irishtimes.com/report.md) ## Website irishtimes.com The Irish Times | Latest news and headlines - Irish news, world news, video and podcasts 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. irishtimes.com One of the first images collected of this website on 12 Dec 1998 Checked on 12 Nov 2026, 20:25 Unclaimed Own this business? Claim it now and get instant access to analytics, insights and further ways to improve your truth score. ## 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](https://www.google.com/maps/search/?api=1&query=24-28%20Tara%20Street%2C%20Dublin%202) Email address: services@irishtimes.com Phone number: [+353 1 920 3901](tel:+353%201%20920%203901) Contact page: [irishtimes.com/about-us/contact-us/](https://irishtimes.com/about-us/contact-us/) Website: [irishtimes.com](https://irishtimes.com/?utm_source=truthsignal.com&utm_medium=referral) Social media: Not found ## Customer reviews, accreditations and complaints Site Reviews Rating [SmartCustomer](https://www.smartcustomer.com/reviews/irishtimes.com) · Read 12 November 2026 · 1 reviews · 4.0 out of 5 stars Total 1 3.6 out of 5 stars Trustpilot reviews are not included in this assessment. This business also has a [Trustpilot page](https://ie.trustpilot.com/review/www.irishtimes.com), which may contain additional customer reviews. We recommend checking these alongside the reviews shown here. Customer satisfaction Insufficient evidence · From 1 review on 1 independent review site App experience Insufficient 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](https://www.smartcustomer.com/reviews/irishtimes.com), 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](https://www.irishtimes.com/motors/car-reviews/) Sources [Its homepage](https://www.irishtimes.com/) ### 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](https://truthsignal.com/guides/how-to-know-if-a-shopping-site-is-legit). ### Who they are Company details Based 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 Sources [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Irish_Times) Domain registration Its 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 Sources [ICANN Lookup](https://lookup.icann.org/en/lookup?name=irishtimes.com) Website details We 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](tel:+35319203901) Contact page found: Yes Hosting company: Fastly, Inc. What its pages say Phone support: [+353 1 920 3901](tel:+35319203901), [services@irishtimes.com](mailto:services@irishtimes.com) 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.” Sources [Homepage](https://irishtimes.com/) [Contact page](https://irishtimes.com/about-us/contact-us/) [About page](https://irishtimes.com/about-us/the-irish-times-trust/) [Delivery page](https://irishtimes.com/opinion/letters/2026/11/11/an-oil-spill-is-much-less-destructive-than-a-successful-oil-delivery/) [Terms page](https://irishtimes.com/policy-and-terms/terms-conditions/) [Privacy page](https://irishtimes.com/policy-and-terms/privacy-policy/) Search engines and AI Lets 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 default Googlebot Bing: Allowed by default Bingbot AI training 1 of 7 blocked OpenAI: Blocked by its robots.txt GPTBot Anthropic: Allowed by default ClaudeBot Google AI: Allowed by default Google-Extended Apple AI: Allowed by default Applebot-Extended Common Crawl: Allowed by default CCBot Meta: Allowed by default meta-externalagent ByteDance (TikTok): Allowed by default Bytespider AI answers 1 of 5 blocked ChatGPT search: Allowed by default OAI-SearchBot ChatGPT: Blocked by its robots.txt ChatGPT-User Claude search: Allowed by default Claude-SearchBot Claude: Allowed by default Claude-User Perplexity: Allowed by default PerplexityBot User-agent: ChatGPT-User Disallow: / User-agent: GPTBot Disallow: / Sources [robots.txt](https://irishtimes.com/robots.txt) ### Reputation and track record Customer reviews, accreditations and complaints Rated 4.0 stars out of 5 from 1 reviews on [SmartCustomer](https://www.smartcustomer.com/reviews/irishtimes.com) Platform · Rating · Reviews [Trustpilot](https://ie.trustpilot.com/review/www.irishtimes.com) · Unknown · Unknown [SmartCustomer](https://www.smartcustomer.com/reviews/irishtimes.com) · 4.0 out of 5 stars · 1 Total · 3.6 out of 5 stars · 1 Visitor traffic Real 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 - 1 Singapore 35.6% - 2 United States 25.1% - 3 Ireland 11.9% - 4 Germany 5.8% - 5 Brazil 3.7% - 6 United Kingdom 2.4% - 7 India 1.3% - 8 Netherlands 1.3% - 9 Hong Kong 1.2% - 10 Austria 1.0% Top 10 of 51 countries. Sources [Chrome UX Report](https://developer.chrome.com/docs/crux) [Cloudflare Radar](https://radar.cloudflare.com/domains/domain/irishtimes.com) Web history and authority The Internet Archive first saved a copy of its website 27 years ago Website archive history: 27 years Sources [First archived copy](https://web.archive.org/web/19981212/irishtimes.com) Social presence We 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 says We 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 Source [Its privacy policy](https://www.irishtimes.com/policy-and-terms/privacy-policy/) Tracking tools on its homepage Google 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. Source [Its homepage](https://irishtimes.com/) ### Safety Malware and phishing No malware or phishing warnings found for its website This 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 Sources [Google Web Risk](https://docs.cloud.google.com/web-risk/docs/advisory) Data breach history No known data breach involving the company Known data breaches found: 0 Sources [Have I Been Pwned](https://haveibeenpwned.com/) Domain and email security Its 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 Email 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 ns-cloud-a1.googledomains.com ns-cloud-a2.googledomains.com ns-cloud-a3.googledomains.com ns-cloud-a4.googledomains.com Address: 151.101.130.174 151.101.194.174 151.101.2.174 151.101.66.174 Sources [Its DNS records](https://dns.google/query?name=irishtimes.com&rr_type=TXT) ### 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 record Not 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 Source irishtimes.com's DNS records Run irishtimes.com? Add the record and 3 points are added to its truth score. [Prove you run this website](https://truthsignal.com/claim/irishtimes.com) Email at its own domain Not 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 Source Truth Signal's own records Run irishtimes.com? Confirm an email address at the domain and 1 point is added to its truth score. [Prove you run this website](https://truthsignal.com/claim/irishtimes.com) Lets our checker read it Not 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 Source irishtimes.com/robots.txt Run irishtimes.com? Let our checker read the whole website and 1 point is added to its truth score. [Prove you run this website](https://truthsignal.com/claim/irishtimes.com) Points added to its truth score 0 of 5 Is this your business? Get the code to show this score on your website Truth Signal truth score for irishtimes.com The badge always shows your latest score and links to your full report. Something wrong on this report? [Dispute this page](https://truthsignal.com/contact?dispute=irishtimes.com). Tell us which row or warning is wrong and why. 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With this business's figures: (7 × 3.5 + 4 × 1 (SmartCustomer)) ÷ (7 + 1) = 3.6, to one decimal place ## Cite Truth Signal, The Irish Times: truth score 78 out of 100, legitimacy confidence High, assessed 2026-11-12, https://truthsignal.com/business/irishtimes.com. Licence Truth Signal terms: free to read and quote with a link back; bulk copying, data sets, resale, white-label and model training need the paid API plan (https://truthsignal.com/terms). The same report as JSON: https://truthsignal.com/business/irishtimes.com.json