The Irish Times has been roundly criticised for posting a headline that inaccurately claimed 75% of GPs had signed up for an abortion hotline. In fact, only 200 GPs out of 3000 had agreed to do abortions and that only 75% of those 200 agreed to their names being used in an abortion hotline.

Cora Sherlock of the Pro-life Campaign commented on twitter: ‘Shouldn’t this read “200 GPs out of approximately 3000 have signed up”. The 75% refers to that 200 which means 150 out of 3000 GPs in Ireland have signed up. So that’s 5%, not 75%. Please correct this misleading headline so it actually reflects the facts.’

The Irish Times subsequently scrubbed all trace of the original headline. However, the social media they had used to promote the article continued to have the same inaccurate headline.