“That awkward moment when you’re so opposed to the government, that you march with them to support their policies, while using their election slogans.” @Ben_Scallan on the #IrelandForAll march in Dublin on Saturday.
“Would you vote for Bertie Ahern for president?”: Irish people react to rumours of the former Taoiseach’s run.
WATCH: Age NI Director Paschal McKeown calls for the GAA to end its cashless digital ticketing system, which the charity says could lead to isolation and discrimination against older people in particular. #gript
Watch Michelle’s gorgeous and super-easy recipe for Valentine’s chocolate treats.
Is Ireland’s capital city “put to shame” by others? John and Fatima compare the state of Dublin to Seoul, Venice, and Florence. FULL PODCAST: https://gript.ie/podcasts/the-week-that-really-was-16-the-madness-of-martin-nolans-sentencing/
Simon Harris says that Ireland’s immigration system has strict rules, because the government is issuing deportation orders all the time. But this is seriously misleading – BEN SCALLAN explains why.
The mother of a formerly ‘trans identified’ girl says she was ‘shocked’ at the ‘unquestioning’ attitude of some health care professionals who treated her “autistic”child.
BEN SCALLAN: “Ireland’s political and media establishment are now having to answer questions that have never come up before about border security, and justify policies which went unchallenged for years. And it turns out they’re not very good at it.”
Homeless and autistic: Family need help
Michael Fitzmaurice TD on legalising pepper spray, tasers
EXCERPT from the week that really was: John McGuirk argues that attempts to redefine St. Brigid as a “Celtic Goddess” amount to a form of “cultural bullying”: PODCAST: https://gript.ie/podcasts/the-week-that-really-was-15-the-5000-undocumented/
“It seems like if you casually “express an opinion” within two football fields of an asylum centre, that could be construed as a violation of this proposed law as it’s currently laid out”: BEN SCALLAN unpacks the government’s bill to ban peaceful protests outside asylum centres, like the ones at East Wall and Finglas: