The Final Report of the Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality, which was chaired by Catherine Day, states that the Assembly deliberately went beyond the mandate provided to it by the Oireachtas. The Assembly decided that restricting their work to “women and men, boys and girls” as the Oireachtas resolution which created the Assembly ordered them […]
Liam Herrick, CEO of the ICCL. Credit: ICCL For years the Irish Council for Civil Liberties (ICCL) has claimed to be an entirely independent organisation which does not accept government support or money. A Gript investigation, however, found that between 2011 and 2019, the ICCL received somewhere in the region of €2 million in public […]
The Far-Right Observatory (FRO), an anonymous collective of activists which came together in November 2018, has been granted €112,500 from the Dormant Accounts Fund. The public money makes up half of a €225,000 grant that has been awarded to the FRO, over three years, by Rethink Ireland’s Equality Fund. It is understood that a portion […]
Gript has learnt that the Irish Prison Service (IPS) may force staff who refuse COVID-19 vaccinations to take unpaid leave. Minutes of a recent meeting, pictured below, state that this is due to a decision by the Health and Safety Authority (HSA) that it would be “unsafe” for those staff to attend work. The minutes […]
Philip Nolan, President of NUI Maynooth and Chair of NPHET’s modelling group, has been told by a Harvard academic that he does not “appear to know what you are talking about,” and that he should be “ashamed” of his stance on rapid antigen testing. Michael Mina, Assistant Professor of Epidemiology at Harvard’s School of Public […]
46,157 vaccines were administered on Thursday the 6th, the last day we have data for. This is the highest number of vaccines ever administered on a single day in Ireland. The total number of doses administered, as of the 6th, was 1,746,912 with 1,267,086 of those being the 1st dose, and 479,745 of those being 2nd doses. […]
42,974 vaccines were administered on Wednesday the 5th, the last day we have data for. The total number of doses administered, as of the 5th, was 1,700,538 with 1,233,067 of those being the 1st dose, and 467,471 of those being 2nd doses. The average number of doses administered per day, over the last seven days, is now […]
HSE figures show that the Government missed its April vaccination target of 860,000 by 164,623. This is the second major vaccination target the Government has missed by a substantial margin, although vaccination rates have increased significantly over the past few weeks. Paul Reid, the CEO of the HSE, had previously said that 788,000 vaccines had […]
Figures released to TD Carol Nolan show that the HSE has spent nearly €7 million on COVID-19 related advertisements since the beginning of the pandemic. Of the €6.9 million spent by the HSE since March 2020, €5.9 million went to purchasing advertisements on television, radio, and in newspapers. The remaining money was spent on outdoor […]
Monday the 3rd, the last day we have information for, saw 14,643 vaccines administered. This is down from 18,520 on Monday the 26th of March, but that was an usually high number and the administration of nearly 15,000 vaccines means the 3rd was still one of the best Mondays we’ve had. The total number of […]
Between Monday the 26th and Tuesday the 2nd, the last days we have information for, 198,591 vaccines were administered. This represented a roughly 7% increase on the number of vaccines administered over the previous week. The total number of doses administered, as of the 2nd, was 1,604,644 with 1,159,083 of those being the 1st dose, and […]
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 […]