Asked why Ireland is raising carbon tax when its emissions are a fraction of a percent of the world total, Finance Minister Michael McGrath says he hears this point “quite often”. However, he says “We have to play our part” because “we are part of a collective European Union.”
Tánaiste Micheál Martin has said that “the State has within its power the capacity to make sure that we don’t have tents back up on Mount Street”, adding that it is “not acceptable for migrants” and that government has a “determination” to ensure it won’t happen again.
Gript reporter Fatima Gunning gives a first hand account of what happened in Newtownmountkennedy when riot police clashed with protestors last week. https://tippfm.com/podcasts/newtownmountkennedy-really-happened/
Tánaiste Micheál Martin says that the Department of Justice failing to register an asylum seeker as a sex offender, despite being aware of his offence for years, is “not satisfactory at all”. He added that the Department must “inquire as to why that happened.”
Niall Boylan says he would object to amendments in EU law that allow biological males into women’s single sex spaces.
Activist Kellie Jay Keen says “lies don’t last” and that it’s “impossible to imagine” how laws were passed in the UK and Ireland that allow violent men be house in female prisons.
Cllr John Snell speaking from the protest at Newtownmountkennedy today where a large crowd marched from the town to the proposed IPAS centre
Speaking at an event at the RDS, Countess CEO Laoise de Brún says the Gender Recognition Act must be amended in order to protect vulnerable women
“Big trouble here”: A Palestinian asylum seeker living in the IPO tent city on Mount Street has told Gript that he can’t sleep at night because as many as “10 or 11” other asylum seekers living in the tents are buying drugs. He asked to have his face blurred to avoid “trouble.”
Gardaí advance on and pepper spray protesters opposing an IPAS centre in Newtownmountkennedy in clashes last night. Gript captured front line images.
Chaotic scenes at Newtownmountkennedy tonight as a local protest opposed to immigration centre clashed with gardaí who deploy riot shields and pepper spray
Gript Media reporter Fatima Gunning was pepper-sprayed this evening by a member of An Garda Siochána in Newtown Mount Kennedy, despite having repeatedly and audibly identified herself as a working journalist.