And when they do, they should apologise to the rest of us so we can get back to building our society even as we face a monster debt that will probably last at least 2 generations. If you think zero Covid is possible, I’ve got news for you, you’re living in cloud cuckoo land. Covid-19 […]
An estimated 4,000 people attended anti-lockdown rallies in Dublin city centre, which resulted in some clashes between Gardaí and demonstrators. The protest, which was set to begin at 2:00pm outside St. Stephen’s Green Saturday the 27th, was organised online, but was preempted by Gardaí, who barricaded off the area and several surrounding streets. Protests and […]
Daily vaccination numbers have continued to increase after having sharply declined over the weekend. Wednesday saw 17,182 doses administered, an increase of 12,723 on Monday. The increase puts the Government on track to hit its target of administering over 80,000 this week, a target which will require them to administer 11,429 doses a day. We […]
If Mary Robinson was, let us say, Amy Coney Barett, or any other prominent conservative lawyer or human rights activist, and had no defence other than gullibility for being used by a multi-billionaire, patriarchal potentate to help him cover up the abduction and imprisonment of his adult daughters how would the media react? How would Ryan […]
It has taken more than a year – one filled with of grief, suffering and misery across all cohorts of society – but the nation’s paper of record finally seems to be coming around to the idea that this never-ending catastrophe might have something to do with the secretive, unelected and unaccountable set of policymakers […]
On the same day that the Irish Times reports that Dublin City Council faces a six-year wait to start housing projects, the Minister for Children Roderick O’Gorman has announced a government commitment to asylum seekers that they will get the keys to their own accommodation after four months and will be able to work after […]
Musician Jim Corr has taken legal action against Twitter after they suspended his account of almost 50,000 followers for what they called “misleading information” on covid-19. Corr, who is a guitarist and member of the band The Corrs, claims that this is an unlawful violation of his free speech rights, and his lawyers are seeking […]
Finland’s Foreign Minister has warned that conflict in Ethiopia appears “out of control”, and could lead to a new refugee crisis for Europe. Pekka Haavisto of Finland’s Green party, who was sent by Brussels to investigate the ongoing conflict in the Tigray region, reported his findings on Tuesday. “You have come to the situation which […]
John Ahern of Christian Voice Ireland talks with Gript about the need to reopen churches, the harms that have been caused by closing them, and how most European countries have kept their churches open. https://www.christianvoice.ie/
Daily vaccination numbers have started to pick up again after having sharply declined over the weekend. Tuesday saw 12,776 doses administered, an increase of 8,335 on Monday. Having vaccinated only 4,441 might make it difficult for the Government to hit its target of vaccination over 80,000 people this week, given that hitting this target requires […]
I don’t often get an email from a colleague in Scotland asking how I’m weathering the power cuts in Texas. But I did last Friday, after the worst was over. For much of last week, millions of Texans had to endure the loss of electric power, and all that entails, during some of the coldest […]
This morning, the Government has announced the publication of its White Paper on Direct Provision, designed as agreed in the Programme for Government, with the objective of ending the current inadequate system of assessing and accommodating people who arrive here seeking asylum. But this proposed solution would appear to be much worse than the problem. […]