“And the grammy award goes to:” Definitely not Tom Mac Donald! Not in a million years. Unless of course he becomes bigger than the Grammys –which is not an impossibility- and they come crawling on their ailing, failing, broke knees. Mac Donald, a provocative polemicist, has amassed a substantial catalogue of extremely well produced rap […]
This week, Gript’s #MyLockdown series will try to tell the stories of the people who have suffered the most over the past twelve months, in their own words. Submissions have been edited, in some places, for clarity of language, as well as spelling and grammar, but no content has been added. The stories are those […]
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Since February 1st a South East Asian country that rarely makes the news here in Ireland has been gradually and tragically turning into a bloodbath. For Myanmar (or Burma) this is in some ways a new eruption of a wound that has afflicted the country for decades, you could say generations. In other ways, it […]
A farmer’s son, Peadar Ó Laoghaire was born in Clondrohid, Cork, and grew up in the Muskerry Gaeltacht. The Ó Laoghaire family have been in this area for centuries and he was a descendant of the Carrignacurra branch of same family. Both his mother and father were of the Ó Laoghaire clan. His mother was a […]
The US Catholic Bishops recently commented that Catholics should opt for the Moderna or Pfizer vaccines over the Johnson & Johnson version if offered the option. The Canadian Group of Bishops followed suit advising that Catholics should “prefer” the Moderna and Pfizer vaccines because, although “unethically-derived” cell lines may have been used in final testing, the connection to […]
Today marks the centenary of the Battle of Crossbarry, a hugely significant victory for Tom Barry’s flying column in the War of Independence, and one of the largest battles in that conflict. Barry’s men were outnumbered 10 to 1 according to accounts, and were being trapped by a huge encircling operation involving 1,000 British troops […]
Canada’s House of Commons has passed a revised bill which expands access to euthanasia, eventually including people suffering solely from mental illnesses. The bill is intended to amend the current law so that it will comply with a 2019 Quebec Superior Court ruling which struck down a provision that allows assisted dying only for intolerably suffering individuals […]
One year on, close to our national holiday, how’s Ireland doing? Not good. We remain on course for the longest and potentially most fiscally and socially damaging lockdown in Europe – and we have some stiff competition there. A lot done; more to do. Last autumn, to justify requesting our second lockdown, NPHET modellers predicted […]
St Patricks Day: GPO Dublin, Gardai enforce Lockdown
St Patrick is now one of the world’s best known Catholic figures but the earliest known celebration of the saint is believed to have been held on March 17, 1631, marking the anniversary of his death in the 5th century. In that year, bubonic plague raged across parts of Europe, especially impacting Italy where the epidemic […]
“Tomorrow is St. Patrick’s day the first day of the session The landlord’s marshal has decreed the rope will finish me” It may have romantic connotations of a rapier wielding highwayman, but the term “Raparee” is actually an Anglicisation of the Irish word Rópaire, and it refers to the end that usually awaited […]