An English rugby star has called on the Government to incentivise marriage, as a new report shows cohabiting couples are four times more likely to separate, and that family instability is a leading cause for negative outcomes for children. Writing in The Telegraph England player Courtney Lawes said that in his view marriage provided stability to families, […]
The sack of Rome, considered by most historians to mark the fall of the Western Roman Empire, happened on this day, August 27th, 410AD. It was the first time in 800 years that Rome had fallen to a foreign enemy. The Empire had been in decline for almost two centuries, with invasions, on and off, […]
No more Heidi or cuckoo clocks? As headlines go ‘There should be integration courses for the Swiss’ was one surely written to catch attention, but sociologist Ganga Jey Aratnam argues that this will become the reality as Swiss people are set to become a minority in their own country. In an interview with Tages-Anzeiger, Aratnam said that Swiss […]
Tech giant Facebook has agreed to pay the French government €106 million taxes to settle a dispute over taxes raised on revenues earned in the country. The charge would cover the period of Facebook’s operations in France from 2009 to 2019. The social network trailblazers also agreed to pay €8.46m in taxes on revenues earned […]
A pub near to the Champs-Elysees was reportedly raided by Paris riot police over coronavirus concerns. Football fans at a bar in Paris were met with riot shields and batons after failing to social distance while watching the Champions League final. Watch more videos from Sky News here: https://t.co/mQhSgQx3wz pic.twitter.com/DwfBh6QCGi — Sky News (@SkyNews) August […]
Thousands of people from across the country have attended a rally in Dublin city centre where speakers called for an end to the lockdown and said that citizens should have freedom of choice in relation to the covid-19 restrictions. They also said that the government needed to provide transparency in relation to evidence-based decision making. […]
A shocking stabbing in the north Dublin suburb of Balbriggan has been caught on camera, bringing attention to the gang violence in the area once more. Yesterday it was reported that a teenager was taken to hospital after a stabbing in Balbriggan. He is said to be refusing to co-operate with a Garda investigation into […]
The popular streaming service, Netflix, has come under for its new show which critics say is “sexualising children” and may amount to “promoting paedophilia”. Netflix describes the film as a story about an 11-year old joining a “twerking dance crew” and using that experience to “explore her femininity” and ‘defy’ her family’s traditions. Critics have […]
The shocking story of the abuse of a blind pensioner by a home carer raises serious issues around the treatment of elderly people in this country. As revealed by a report in the Irish Mail on Sunday, an elderly woman who was blind and vulnerable was treated in an abusive and appalling fashion by a supposed carer who […]
18-year-old Mayo student Elijah Burke has won a High Court challenge on calculated grades against the Department of Education. Burke had been excluded from the calculated grades process as a result of him being taught solely by his mother, Martina Burke, for the duration of his education. As an immediate relative, she was deemed by […]
As reported previously on Gript, a foreign development group is in ongoing discussions regarding the establishment of a new city in Ireland with a “target population” of fifty percent Hong Kongers and the remaining being from the host country. Now, it seems, Dundalk might be the latest spot under scrutiny for such a city. Local […]
Doctors have warned of a “looming mental health crisis” and a “”tsunami of referrals” as new data shows that the number of adults in Britain with depression has doubled during the Covid-19 lockdown. Almost 20% of people said they had experienced depression in the month of June – doubling the number (9.7%) who gave that […]