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 2006. Mary Ellen Synon, a former "Sunday Independent" columnist who had controversial views on travellers, asylum seekers and the Paralympics is a regular contributor to the paper. Mark Dooley has also served as a columnist since 2006. His popular column "Moral Matters" appears on Wednesdays. On 24 September 2006, "Ireland on Sunday", which had been purchased by Associated Newspapers in 2001, was rebranded as the Irish Mail on Sunday, replacing the British edition of the "Mail on Sunday" in the Irish market. In February 2007 Fine Gael leader Enda Kenny cited the "Irish Daily Mail" in the Dáil regarding a