“I don’t envy the children of the future with the kinds of things the government are doing now”: Limerick TD speaks on energy crisis.
“Shot down, dismissed, shouted at”: East Wall asylum protesters vow to “continue to hold momentum.”
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“They do what they like”: Rural TD slams all the private jets flying into COP27 for a meeting on climate change:
Listen back: Gript Editor John McGuirk debates academic and activist Ebun Joseph on Newstalk breakfast on the subject of whether historic names of buildings are racist. More on: https://www.newstalk.com/news/trinity-college-may-rename-library-named-after-slave-owning-philosopher-1406168
“Why wasn’t this done for homeless Irish citizens?” Gript asks Integration Minister Roderic O’Gorman about his government’s rapid rollout of accommodation for asylum seekers in areas like East Wall.
While Gardaí are getting beaten to a pulp on camera in Ballyfermot, Helen McEntee is telling papers how she’d “love” to remain Justice Minister. BEN SCALLAN reacts:
“If it’s not good enough for where the upper classes live, then it’s not good enough for East Wall”: Dublin locals react to asylum centre.
It is an “absolute disgrace” to hike the price of tolls for commuters during an economic crisis, a TD has said.
Carol Nolan TD has said that if the Greens at COP27 got their way, we’d be eating grass & insects.
“There’s no protection for the farm, the family home, or the family that live there”: Rural Independents table a bill to protect family farms from “vulture funds.”
Climate Minister Eamon Ryan says that women and gay people suffer more from climate change. Ben Scallan reacts: