Between Monday the 26th and Wednesday the 29th, the last days we have information for, 82,762 vaccines were administered. This represented a roughly 30% increase on the number of vaccines administered over the same period last week. The total number of doses administered, as of the 28th, was 1,487,043 with 1,067,378 of those being the […]
The EU’s border agency, Frontex, has been given new powers to oversee the deportation of illegal immigrants. In a new strategy revealed by the European Commission on Tuesday, Frontex will be at the centre of new plans to send illegal migrants home once they are denied entry into Europe. “Frontex will become the European Union’s […]
If there is a spike in Covid cases following the minor easing of restrictions, then the government will change its plans, Fine Gael Minister for Foreign Affairs Simon Coveney has warned. According to Coveney, NPHET are the group who monitor the case data, and they had previously indicated that the government should only be considering […]
When former Housing Minister Eoghan Murphy came out in support of “co-living” apartment developments, he was not surprisingly subjected to widespread criticism. The notion that people would be paying high rents and not even be guaranteed their own cooking and bathroom facilities invited comparisons to older, but cheaper, tenement accommodation. The backlash convinced his successor […]
Dr. Martin Feeley served as Clinical Director of the Dublin Midlands Hospital Group until September 2020, when he resigned after the HSE said his criticisms of lockdown made his position “untenable”. In this piece, he sets out his views on the Government’s Covid Vaccination strategy, and asks whether universal vaccination for Covid is appropriate, when […]
If you were to ask a progressive parent in Ireland, or indeed most of the western world, about their attitude to teenage sexual activity, the chances are that at some stage you would hear somebody say words to the effect of “if they are going to do it, let’s make sure it’s as safe as […]
A story, from the Irish Times, to lift the spirits. After all, if we at Gript can’t cheer a Professor telling a bunch of layabout students that they are illiterate dunces who don’t belong in a University, well, dear reader, what are we even for? Dr Paul Stokes, a lecturer in the sociology department, delivered […]
A peaceful 75-year-old Christian preacher was roughed up and arrested by London police for reading Bible verses about there being only two genders, which some onlookers called “hate speech.” Pastor John Sherwood, a minister at a north London church, was preaching the Christian gospel in Boris Johnson’s home constituency with a colleague, Peter Simpson. According […]
The Irish government spent an undisclosed sum of taxpayer money on a series of explicit nude art pieces of Donald Trump, which will reportedly soon be added to the National Collection (censored bars added by Gript for social media community guidelines reasons). The piece, entitled “The Emperor Has No Clothes”, was created by Cavan artist […]
Every single Irish MEP, including Luke ‘Ming’ Flanagan and Sinn Féin’s Chris MacManus, voted in favour of covid passports in the European Parliament, except for Clare Daly and Mick Wallace, who voted against. The vote passed overwhelmingly by 540 votes to 119 (with 31 abstentions), meaning the European Parliament has now approved plans for the […]
PODCAST: Listen to John Aidan Byrne, Irish commentator based in New York, talk with conservative activist, AUSTIN RUSE, on his new book on why loyal CATHOLICS in US face a brutal assault because of their faith. Despite that, it’s a great time to be a faithful Catholic, Ruse says. UNDER SIEGE: Conservative activist, […]
Three men have been arrested during Garda raids across Ireland as Gardaí investigate an alleged organised international criminal organisation involved in aiding illegal immigration. The operation, which was launched by the Garda National Immigration Bureau (GNIB), ran parallel with similar police searches in the UK by British Immigration Enforcement. Europol agents were also reportedly involved. […]