From Thursday every pub and restaurant you go into will be forced to collect a dossier of your time with them. They’ll take your name, your number, the time you were there, what you ate, and, presumably, a rather good explanation of why you ordered your steak well done. They’ll keep that list for the […]
A petition calling on Fingal, South Dublin, and Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown County Councils, and Dublin City Council, to re-tender for their dog pound and warden services has garnered nearly 20,000 signatures. The Councils currently pay over one million euro to Ashton Dog Pound, which is currently being investigated by Gardai for animal cruelty, for those services […]
The Australian Home Affairs Minister, Peter Dutton, has written to the chair of the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security (PJCIS), Andrew Hastie, to ask that the Committee investigate “the nature and extent to which foreign actors are interfering in Australian universities, including staff and student bodies, publicly funded research agencies and competitive research […]
Chinese diplomats have responded furiously to a Czech delegation to Taiwan led by the speaker of the Czech Senate. Wang Yi, China’s Foreign Minister, said earlier today that Miloš Vystrčil, the speaker of the Czech Senate, will be made to “pay a heavy price” for his involvement in the delegation and that the Chinese government […]
The last number of years have seen growing rifts between transgender and feminist activists over the issues of female only spaces, women’s rights, and the idea of “gender-affirmative care”, which effectively argues that clinicians and society in general should agree with any statement a child makes about their gender identity, an approach which critics argue […]
On Saturday Gardai seized 32 dogs that are believed to have been stolen from their owners. The seizures came after searches at Stockhole, Cloghran, and Swords. The 32 dogs, consisting of 3 Chihuahuas, 4 Pugs, 1 Jack Russell and 24 Dachshunds, were then delivered by dog wardens to Ashton Dog Pound in Castleknock. An investigation […]
Multiple sources, including former staff, have told Gript that injured or ill dogs in Ashton Dog Pound were routinely refused access to pain relief or veterinary aid as the dogs “would be dead soon anyway.” The allegations came after a Gript investigation uncovered a series of photographs of potential animal welfare issues in the pound. […]
NASA has announced that it will be examining the unofficial nicknames given by the scientific community to “cosmic objects” such as planets, galaxies, and nebulae. They say that they must do this as it has become clear that “certain cosmic nicknames are not only insensitive, but can be actively harmful.” Even seemingly innocuous nicknames, they […]
Independent Clare TD Michael McNamara has said that the Irish Government’s failure to forcefully condemn the actions of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in the Xinjiang province of China “lessens us as a people”, and that “by failing to do everything we can to condemn what is happening in Xinjiang we are condoning it.” Speaking […]
The Daily Mail has acquired a significant portion of the bodycam footage taken by police officers during the arrest, and subsequent death, of George Floyd. The footage shows officers approaching Floyd, his attempts to resist arrest, and his subsequent death from cardiopulmonary arrest. The leaked footage came from the bodycams of officer Thomas Lane and […]
Ashton dog pound, which has received millions of euro in public funds, was searched by police on Monday of this week, with return visits on Tuesday and Wednesday. Gript understands that the move came after Gardai were informed of the recent death of a dog in the pound and potential issues with the control of a […]
The Irish Freedom Party [IFP], a Eurosceptic political party, had one of their information stalls destroyed by a small group of far-left thugs in Belfast over the weekend. The group appears to have been comprised of Communist, Socialist and Antifa agitators, but it also included members of Saoradh, an organisation believed to be the political […]