Some Irish colleges now offer high-points courses to students on a random basis, partly due to grade inflation. Asked if this was fair, Norma Foley said students who miss out on their dream course can pursue “other avenues”, and that grade inflation ensured “equity” amid Covid.
Asylum seekers moved to Dundrum House Hotel say protesters are in the “same shoes” as them after being left feeling “frustrated” and “anxious” by IPAS actions.
According to Europol data, the vast majority of terror arrests in Ireland over the last decade involved far-left Socialist dissidents and Jihadists – yet the media can’t stop talking about ‘the far-right’, who statistically pose a much smaller threat. Ben Scallan comments.
Gript revisits the Grand Canal migrant tent shantytown, which has re-emerged with 46 new tents despite the metal barriers. A significant number of men living in the tents say they are from Jordan.
“We have never had as many teachers employed in the system as we do currently.”
In the first of 3 videos, Gript speaks to locals in Dundrum, Tipperary, who say that government actions in relation to IPAS centre is “abominable”.
Mattie McGrath criticises Garda response to local protest in Dundrum, Tipperary saying Gardaí are difficult to come by when locals need them.
Kaya Jones, speaks to Gript about the music industry’s exploitation of women, leaving the pop group to stay true to her beliefs, coming out as a conservative, and why she now speaks out against abortion
The Irish government’s spending has increased by almost 50% in the space of 5 years
Protesters at Thornton Hall asylum site say many “have their heads in the sand” about the size of the asylum seeker facility.
Irish politicians from almost every party consistently use the same talking point: that communities have “no veto” over who lives in their area. Helen McEntee said that such a veto would be used “by those who simply don’t want this to happen at all.
Detective Chief Superintendent Séamus Boland says that just possessing such a vehicle can be considered evidence of organised crime.