independent.ie
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Every URL under independent.ie that we can reach a verdict on — 4 of them — is blocked in mainland China. The site itself, https://independent.ie, is blocked. The Great Firewall poisons its DNS and silently drops its packets so requests time out. 113 tests have been run under this domain since 2012-05-10, the most recent on 2026-05-14.
The site itself
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Every URL under independent.ie that we can reach a verdict on — 4 of them — is blocked in mainland China. The site itself, https://independent.ie, is blocked. The Great Firewall poisons its DNS and silently drops its packets so requests time out. 113 tests have been run under this domain since 2012-05-10, the most recent on 2026-05-14.
A VPN or another circumvention tool routes the request outside mainland China, past the filtering that blocks independent.ie. GreatFire runs GreatFire VPN; the Analyzer also tests the domains of many VPN and proxy providers, so you can check whether one is reachable before relying on it.
Elsewhere on the site
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