Irish teachers have been encouraged to learn about “crossdressing” for “erotic enjoyment,” as well as “drag,” and “gender-fluid” identities by the Department of Education when preparing RSE & SPHE lessons for primary students. Ben Scallan reacts.
WATCH: Gript interviewed an alleged asylum seeker in Kinnegad, who said he travelled to Ireland from Spain using a €4000 fake Bulgarian passport. #gript
“Our children aren’t safe”: Kinnegad locals express concern over lack of vetting for asylum seekers in their town.
BEN SCALLAN: The Greens want a commission to shut down so-called “misinformation” during elections & referenda. But make no mistake: this will be abused, & will further erode our rapidly vanishing right to freedom of speech.
BEN SCALLAN: Taoiseach Micheál Martin wants a Citizens’ Assembly on Irish neutrality – despite previously saying that Citizens’ Assemblies are often just mouthpieces for “the loudest lobby group of the day” and not reflective of public opinion.
Independent TD Richard O’Donoghue says regional imbalance and neglect of Shannon Airport is what causes extreme queues and car hire costs.
“Huge energy” at the Rally for Life as thousands packed O’Connell to demand that the abortion law be held to account and that the government ‘rethink abortion’.
WATCH: Fine Gael Senator Regina Doherty says there are 9 genders, and that women shouldn’t worry about biological males in changing rooms because men can already attack women everywhere else in society. @Ben_Scallan reacts.
“I HIT A NERVE”: Carol Nolan TD speaks on her immigration clash with Housing Minister Darragh O’Brien in the Dáil, dubbing the Minister’s response “a disgrace.”
BEN SCALLAN: Fine Gael Senator Garrett Ahearn says Mattie McGrath’s views on capping refugee numbers “do not reflect the majority.” But according to recent polls, they actually do – and Ahearn, not McGrath, is woefully out of step with public opinion:
Gript hit the streets to ask visitors to Dublin how expensive our fair city really is.
An elderly man is fighting to save his beloved pet dog after a court order to have her destroyed was upheld. Kim has no previous history of biting or bad behaviour.