The luddite environmentalist group Extinction Rebellion has declared that “nature is queer,” that “trees can be both male and female and change sex,” and that “the huge range of biodiversity is echoed in human diversity.” The statement was released following a rally in Helsinki by Extinction Rebellion Finland. That rally demanded “ecosocial justice” and the […]
Earlier today the alcoholic drink makers Kopparberg and Grolsch both pulled their adverts from the newly launched GB News television station. The companies made the decision following a campaign, begun before GB News launched, which threatened to boycott all GB News advertisers. There have also been unconfirmed reports that a third company also pulled its […]
Maya Forstater, a British feminist who lost her job after colleagues complained that they found remarks she had made on social media, such as a comment arguing that “trans women are male,” offensive, has had her claims of discrimination vindicated by the Employment Appeal Tribunal. Forstater had original brought a case to Central London Employment […]
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 […]