What was claimed
A video is being shared with implied claims it shows a dog being cooked outside in Dublin by “third world” immigrants.
Our verdict
This isn’t true. The footage actually shows a pig being roasted at a community event.
Video doesn’t show dog being cooked by immigrants in Dublin
A video which is being widely shared with implied claims it depicts a dog being cooked by “third world” immigrants to Ireland isn’t what it seems.
The footage, which has hundreds of comments on Facebook, shows an animal hanging from a spit over an open fire outside a building.
It is captioned: “Dublin: Import the third world and become the third world. A simple euphemism that cuts to the marrow of the establishment’s replacement migration agenda. Rover never barked again [dog emoji].” Another version says: “Your Pets Are Not Safe”.
As we previously wrote in 2023, this is not accurate—the animal being cooked is a pig, not a dog as claimed.
It’s correct that the video was filmed in Dublin, however. Captions shared with the video at the time put its location at Dorset Street Flats in the Irish capital, which appear to have now been demolished as part of a regeneration plan for the area.
When this same video circulated with similar claims two years ago, Full Fact and other fact checkers matched the footage with pictures of a community culinary event taken from different angles being shared in a (now deleted) Instagram post by an Irish man, who described himself in other posts as a chef.
These pictures clearly showed that the animal on the spit is a pig, not a dog.
The post was geotagged to Dorset Street Flats, and featured a caption that mentioned the tradition of eating “pulled pork baps around a fire” and how “our great grandfathers and our grandfathers fed us pigs feet”.
It said: “This is why, I want to bring a fine culinary once of event [sic], collaborating with chefs and butchers [...] a BBQ feeding all the homeless and all the refugees, and all the community”.
A person pictured who was seemingly the account holder confirmed to fact checkers at Reuters in 2023 that the animal being roasted in the video was a pig.
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This article is part of our work fact checking potentially false pictures, videos and stories on Facebook. You can read more about this—and find out how to report Facebook content—here. For the purposes of that scheme, we’ve rated this claim as missing context because the video does not show a dog being roasted, but a pig.