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 […]
Anger and frustration have been widely expressed on social media at the government’s decision to revert to holding matches behind closed doors. Thousands of families who had returned to matches and training, with a maximum number of 200 people in attendance, have now been told that they need to adhere to a 15 people limit on outdoor gatherings. […]
The Independent TD for Laois Offaly and strong pro-life advocate, Carol Nolan, recently exposed the fact that the HSE had provided an incredible €2.9 million in payments to GP’s and Clinics who provided abortions in a community setting in 2019. Deputy Nolan has now obtained further information, following another series of Parliamentary Questions to the […]
North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un has announced that having a dog is “decadent and bourgeois” – and declared that owning a pet is now against the law. The Daily Mail reports that: ‘Authorities have identified households with pet dogs and are forcing them to give them up or forcefully confiscating them and putting them down’, […]
Residents of the Elm Park housing estate in Clonmel, Co Tipperary, have spoken of their desperation and fears following a full week of sustained and violent clashes between a significant number of youths in the area. Speaking exclusively to Gript on condition of anonymity, Elm Park residents have said that the situation has now reached […]
New figures show that Britain has crashed into the worst recession in its history, with the country’s economy diving by 20.4% between April and June this year. Experts warn that the crash in Britain’s GDP for the April-June period is the worst since records began in 1955, with unprecedented drops in services, production and construction. […]