Daily Mail fact checking, sensationalism, and flat-out fabrication". The independent Media Bias/Fact Check (MBFC News), in its April 2017 assessment of the newspaper, wrote: "Has a strong conservative bias and has a poor track record with fact checkers" and rated it as right bias, with factual reporting "mixed", but did not reduce it to the questionable sources/fake news category. "Up and Running" is a strip distributed by Knight Features and "Fred Basset" has followed the life of the dog of the same name in a two-part strip in the "Daily Mail" since 8 July 1963. The long-running "Teddy Tail" cartoon strip, was
Irish Daily Mail slap in the face to Irish consumers." It is estimated the "Daily Mail" will save approximately €750,000 as a result of this decision. The "Phoenix Magazine" noted however that the "Irish Daily Mail" "with a cover price of €1, the Mail is one of the cheapest daily newspapers in the country and is 85c cheaper than the Indo ["Irish Independent"]". It also commented that Ó Ríordáin's wife, Aine Kerr, was a former political correspondent with the "Irish Independent", the paper's main rival who "was more than happy to print the story". Days later a damning report from Britain's Information Commissioner