Green Party leader and cabinet Minister Eamon Ryan tells Gript Media that the Green Party vote is holding up, with a majority of Green Councillors in Dublin set to hold their seats and the possibility of some gains nationwide.
Gript’s Dr. MATT TREACY, who has been tallying elections for far longer than he might like to admit, gives his very early impressions of the early trends in the Dublin Count Centre
Boxes being emptied as the count begins at RDS, Dublin
“Ideology is being driven into our schools”: European election candidate Eddie Punch says he has “huge concern” about a proposed Leaving Cert module that would teach students to engage in climate activism, adding that this is being driven by “a small, unrepresentative cabal”.
An NGO event in Cork City Hall this month heard that Gardaí should be “ashamed” of killing George Nkencho, and that his death was due to racism. Ben Scallan presses Justice Minister Helen McEntee on the fact that her Department funds the NGO behind the event.
Newtownmountkennedy grandmother says she no longer trusts Gardaí after clashes last month in which she says her daughter and son-in-law were “badly pepper sprayed”.
A Fine Gael election policy document released last week claims that under the party’s leadership, Garda numbers are “up 2,000 since 2019.”
Green Party pushing for EU-wide hate speech laws
Half of the law-and-order pledges Fianna Fáil made in its 2019 local election manifesto have re-appeared in their 2024 manifesto. Ben Scallan asks Education Minister Norma Foley why the public should believe her party will achieve these if they didn’t over the last 5 years.
Dublin Lord Mayor Daithí de Róiste speaks to Gript about a new housing development in Dublin 1 beside the Ilac Centre. He also discussed people “acting the maggot” at the Dublin-New York Portal project, saying.
Integration Minister Roderic O’Gorman says his Department is projecting around 22,000 asylum seekers arriving in Ireland this year – a dramatic increase on the 13,000 that arrived last year.