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Proof: O'Neill tells protesters to hold road until midnight

The record — the exact bytes that were hashed

{"first_seen":"2026-09-27T20:32:57Z","headline":"O'Neill tells protesters to hold road until midnight","kind":"front-page-headline","rank":1,"source":"rte","url":"https://www.rte.ie/news/2026/0927/1593090-crowds-gather-garvaghy-road/","v":1}

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SHA-256

0f5177b50696cd28c199d99fa50535413aaa413cb5a6905c03f1dfeb3ee9ab1e

OpenTimestamps

Confirmed in Bitcoin block 968896, mined 2026-09-27 21:31 UTC.

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Wayback Machine

• The record pageCaptured 2026-09-28 01:32 UTC — view the capture.
• The story pageCaptured 2026-09-28 01:12 UTC — view the capture.

Check it yourself — none of this needs this site

1. Hash the record: sha256sum headline-0f5177b50696.json prints 0f5177b50696cd28c199d99fa50535413aaa413cb5a6905c03f1dfeb3ee9ab1e. Its first twelve characters are the end of this record's address.
2. Drop headline-0f5177b50696.json and headline-0f5177b50696.json.ots onto opentimestamps.org, which checks the receipt against the Bitcoin block chain. Or, with the OpenTimestamps client and a Bitcoin node: ots verify headline-0f5177b50696.json.ots (ots upgrade first while the receipt is pending).
3. Open the Wayback Machine's captures above: the capture of the record page shows this hash as it stood then, and the capture of the story page shows the newsroom's own page.

Sealed automatically, 44 min after it was first seen.