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The Journal

thejournal.ie · Ireland · Journal Media Ltd · measured 8 Oct 2026

Google Search
Allowed
Google-Extended
Allowed
OpenAI
Blocked
Anthropic
Allowed
Perplexity
Allowed
Meta
Allowed
Common Crawl
Allowed
ByteDance
Allowed
Apple
Allowed
Amazon
Allowed

robots.txt

As read on 8 Oct 2026, 1,092 bytes. 2 rule groups name AI crawlers; shown first.

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Disallow: /

User-agent: GPTBot
Disallow: /
Sitemap: https://www.thejournal.ie/sitemaps/sitemap.xml

User-agent: *
Disallow:

User-agent: *
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Disallow: /article-search*
Disallow: */feed/
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Disallow: *category*who had been in power for 23 years*
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Disallow: /profile/
Disallow: /profile/*
Disallow: /topic/*
Disallow: /*/news
Disallow: /*/news/page/*

User-Agent: bingbot
Disallow: */*news*
Disallow: /author*

History

Changes recorded since June 2026.

No change recorded.

In context

Ireland
57.1% block at least one AI crawler
Behind Cloudflare
No