The Irish College of General Practitioners (ICGP) has removed a recently published guide to transgender healthcare from its website following questioning of the report by Gript. The report “Guide for Providing Care for Transgender Patients in Primary Care – Quick Reference Guide” had been written in conjunction with the Transgender Equality Network Ireland (TENI). Following […]
The Management Board of the Tavistock Clinic’s Gender Identity Development Services (GIDS), which specialized in the treatment of children, has been disbanded following “growing scrutiny and controversy.” 124 Irish children have been sent to the clinic for assessment or treatment over the past 3 years, with 7,883 British children, some as young as 4, being […]
The European Commission appears to have negligently breached the terms of its contract with AstraZeneca by accidentally releasing a largely unredacted version of the contract. The move appears to break Section 16.4 of the contract, which states that confidential material shall not be disclosed to third parties. The EU had been calling on AstraZeneca to […]
South Dublin County Council (SDCC) have amended a €400,000 tender for pound services after Gript submitted questions regarding the tender to the Council. The tender related to the provision of “a dog pound facility and related services.” Procurement experts told Gript that the design of the tender advantaged the current incumbent, Ashton Dog Pound, and […]
Robert C. O’Brien, National Security Advisor to President Trump, has declassified a strategic document, the “U.S. Strategic Framework for the Indo-Pacific” 20 years early. The document sets out the Trump Administration’s high-level objectives and concerns in the Indo-Pacific region. The document is largely concerned with China, saying America needs to prevent China from “establishing new, […]
Clinical trials in Brazil have shown China’s Sinovac vaccine, called CoronaVac, to be only 50.4% effective against Covid-19, and not 78.4% effective, as had initially been claimed. Brazil had agreed to buy 100 million doses of CoronaVac, despite Brazilian President Bolsonaro’s initial criticism of the vaccine. Brazil has had 8.2 million cases of Covid-19 amongst […]
Der Spiegel, the German newspaper, has reported that tensions are growing within the EU over the EU vaccine programme over the percentage of vaccines that are set to be given to Germany. The programme saw the European Commission source vaccines for all member states, and these vaccines are meant to be distributed to each EU […]
The European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR), a political group in the European Parliament, has called on the EU to be “held accountable” for the failures the ECR says have stalled vaccine rollouts in Europe. These failures, they say, have taken place whilst “millions across the continent have suffered.” The ECR currently has 62 MEPs, drawn […]
A member of the Policing Authority, an organisation tasked with overseeing the performance of the Gardai, recently shared tweets saying that Garda had “murdered” George Nkencho “with no remorse” and that Mr Nkencho had been “gunned down” by Garda, who “didn’t even try to detain him”. Dr Vicky Conway, a Professor of Law at DCU […]
The Department of Justice’s new report, titled ‘Legislating for Hate Speech and Hate Crime in Ireland’, recommends the introduction of draconian and expansive hate based laws in Ireland but contains absolutely no recommendations on how to protect free speech and ensure the laws don’t stifle public debate. The report, published last week, will be used […]
The Tavistock Clinic, Britain’s only sex-change clinic for children, has been refused permission to appeal the results of the recent Bell -v- Tavistock case by the British Divisional Court. That case had found that children under 16 likely could not meaningfully consent to puberty blockers or sex-change hormones gives the immense impact the treatments could […]
A new campaign is calling on people across the world to buy Australian wine this Christmas as a way of pushing back against Chinese Communist Party (CCP) attempts to intimidate Australia. China recently imposed tariffs of up to 212% on Australian wines after claiming that Australia had been dumping discounted wine into China, which the […]