“There’s gangs of men hanging around on the street — it’s getting increasingly dangerous”: Stephanie Simons, owner of Bowie Aesthetics on Dorset Street, says she is shutting her store because the area has become a “no go zone” for her staff and clients.
The asylum seeker housing business laid bare. GRIPT’s Gary Kavanagh has mapped €4.3bn of State payments to private companies to provide accommodation, and related services, for asylum seekers and Ukrainians, firm by firm, name by name. https://www.youtube.com/live/eGLNYYcM6T8?si=OeHj7LZGG8jKxg3e
Ben Scallan asks Jack Chambers if there are any plans to rectify this:
“Micheál is a first class revisionist”
Fatima Gunning and Gary Kavanagh discuss some of the week’s top stories.
Social Democrats’ Immigration spokesman Gary Gannon TD tells Ben Scallan that his party has “certainly never denied” that deportation of false asylum seekers is necessary, adding: “Deportations are part of an effective asylum system.”
Tens of thousands took to the streets of Dublin today to protest the government’s immigration policies.
Gript’s Niamh Uí Bhriain, on Tipp FM, discusses the vote by teachers at the INTO conference against a motion to remove religious education from schools. https://tippfm.com/listen-back/tipp-today-listen-back/tipp-today-podcast-25-04-25/
If you don’t agree with the Catholic Church, there are plenty of other churches one can join, says MARIA MAYNES who thinks that the Mary McAleese and some in the Irish media are using the death of Pope Francis to promote their own agenda.
“You should maybe become a Rabbi” – Gript Media Columnist Laura Perrins and Sunday Times Columnist Alison O’Connor had a firey debate on women Priests on Virgin Media’s Tonight Show last night. https://play.virginmediatelevision.ie/watch/vod/52862325/the-tonight-show-tue-22-apr
Stella O’Malley joins Fatima Gunning and Gary Kavanagh discuss some of the week’s top stories.
Professor Donal O’Shea and Dr Paul Moran