“My name is Ms. Murphy and my pronouns are ‘she/her’”: Ireland’s official State curriculum body has urged teachers to introduce themselves to students by announcing their gender pronouns to the class. Ben Scallan comments: #gript
Irish Minister defends funding activist NGOs
New Zealand has finally dropped its Covid restrictions, in late 2023. But is the damage to their national reputation already done? Ben Scallan comments: #gript
Ireland’s official anti-disinformation body failed to provide a single example of disinformation when asked, despite its CEO claiming that electoral disinformation is spreading at an “enormous” scale. Ben Scallan reports: #gript
Prof Mattias Desmet on ‘mass formation’ during the Covid period, the social isolation and anxiety that drives it, and on the danger of a ‘technocratic state’ based on the theory of ‘man as a machine’. Prof Desmet writes at: https://mattiasdesmet.substack.com/
Irish Public Expenditure Minister Paschal Donohoe says he “respects” the decision of groups like the National Ploughing Championship to not accept cash payments at events. #gript
Parents and educators say that schools may be held responsible for harm caused to children by teaching trandgender ideology in schools, as a new curriculum comes into play next month. #gript
FF Junior Minister on the hate speech bill: “We have a serious communications job to do”
Mothers in Ballybrack, County Dublin say they are concerned for the safety of their community after learning that 60 male asylum seekers are to be moved into the area.
Two arrested at protest outside proposed direct provision centre in Ballybrack, Dublin.
The controversy around libraries is not about banning books, or LGBT issues, but around concerns that 12 year olds can be told how to use Grindr and how to order puberty blockers online, says Jana Lunden.
SPHE curriculum encourages kids to research transgender celebrities and make presentations on how to support trans people and what language not to use.