Lidl Ireland’s CEO, JP Scally, has defended the supermarket chain selling rapid antigen tests in their stores, after selling over 10,000 kits. According to Scally in an interview with RTÉ radio’s Morning Ireland, the tests sold out across many Lidl stores over the weekend and proved significantly cheaper than tests elsewhere at €24.99 for a […]
Chief Medical Officer and Chairman of NPHET, Dr. Tony Holohan, has confirmed that health authorities are “actively” looking into child vaccinations for covid-19. Speaking during an interview on RTÉ news, the CMO was asked his thoughts on vaccinating children. “That’s a fair question,” Holohan replied. “I think some of the companies are looking at broadening […]
The EU’s former chief Brexit negotiator and well-known liberal politician, Michel Barnier, has called for a nearly total halt to all immigration into Europe for up to 5 years, saying the EU’s borders are “like a sieve.” Speaking to French media, Barnier insisted that immigration in the EU is “not working.” “I think we have […]
The EU has not renewed its order for AstraZeneca covid-19 jabs, according to a bloc commissioner. “We have not renewed the order for after June,” said Thierry Breton, the EU’s Internal Market Commissioner, in an interview with French radio station France Inter. “We will see what happens next,” he added. This development came shortly after […]
A UK Labour Party councillor who lost his seat in the recent local elections has said that the voters “let down” his party. Chris Emmas-Williams, who for 35 years until this weekend served on Derbyshire’s Amber Valley council, spoke following a crushing electoral defeat to the UK Conservative Party. “It’s been a disastrous day for […]
Taoiseach Micheál Martin has expressed support for lowering the age limit for the Johnson and Johnson covid-19 vaccine, to ensure that there are no excess vaccines left over after the rollout is done. While the National Immunisation Advisory Committee (NIAC) had previously advised that the J&J and AstraZeneca jabs not be given to people under […]
One of the most widely-believed myths in Irish politics is the idea that the main political battleground is a conflict between the leftwing parties, like Sinn Féin and People Before Profit, and “rightwing” or “conservative” parties, like Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil. In reality, Ireland has no political rightwing at all. In fact, the madness […]
A newly-discovered ant species in Ecuador has been given the gender-neutral suffix “-they” rather than a traditional Latin scientific suffix, and has been named after a gay activist and protégé of Andy Warhol, despite the ant not being non-binary and having only the normal genders of male and female. The ant was discovered in 2018 […]
56% of Irish people say they are satisfied with the EU’s covid-19 response – a 15% drop since summer 2020 – according to a new continent-wide poll by Eurobaromater, with many more interesting findings. The report, entitled Public Opinion In The European Union, found that half of all Europeans are unhappy with the EU’s covid-19 […]
Facebook’s oversight board has voted to uphold Donald Trump’s ban from both Facebook and Instagram. Facebook was one of many major tech companies that earlier this year moved to indefinitely block Trump’s access to his accounts on their platforms, citing alleged concerns that Trump was guilty of inciting violence. At the time of his initial […]
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 […]