Students should associate the Irish language with “pride” and “identity”, a Fianna Fáil TD has said, as he proposed a mandatory Gaeltacht stay as part of the Leaving Cert. Ben Scallan reacts.
We’ve launched something new: The Cost of Politics tracks exactly how much TDs, Senators, and political parties are costing the taxpayer. www.gript.ie/cost-of-politics
Following the Capel Street stabbing, a Fine Gael TD has said Ireland should follow recent UK policy as a good example of how to get knives “off our streets”.
“Children are becoming inoperable”: Gary Farrell of Scoliosis Ireland says it is a national crisis that children are languishing up to four years on HSE waiting lists for vital scoliosis surgeries. He tells Gript that repeated Government promises have not resulted in action:
The Department of Justice is responsible for family re-unification of refugees from Afghanistan, Tánaiste Simon Harris has said.
TUAM: We seem to be obsessed in modern Ireland with digging up the past, says MARIA MAYNES, but the State’s own Commission of Investigation into the Galway mother and baby home lays bare some important facts which have gone under the public radar:
David Cullinane defends Sinn Fein’s position on transgender issues, saying that he doesn’t believe there is any political appetite to get rid of the Gender Recognition Act, and that he believes the party’s stance is broadly in line with the public.
WATCH: Gript Media has obtained new footage of the stabbing of a Garda in Dublin earlier this week, in which the assailant can be heard shouting “Allahu Akbar” as he commences the attack.
Is large-scale immigration always financially beneficial for a society? Is it ever? Ben and Jason discuss the matter following Finance Minister Paschal Donohoe’s insistence that it is. https://youtu.be/An_-7jIctKA
“I haven’t seen a rich woman carrying a baby for a poor woman”: Olivia Maurel was born from surrogacy, and now fights against the practice. She speaks to Gript about her story as a child of surrogacy, and what she says are the dangers of the surrogacy industry.
Finance Minister Paschal Donohoe rejects the view of economist David McWilliams that Ireland’s immigration rate will have to be “halved at least” in order for infrastructure to keep up with population growth, arguing that population growth has instead bolstered the economy.
The latest housing figures show that a clear majority of those entering emergency accommodation in Dublin are foreign nationals, reports FATIMA GUNNING, with only 42% of housed individuals being Irish nationals.