Fascinating, and interesting, on a number of levels, this story: Mercedes Formula 1 driver Lewis Hamilton suffered from dizziness after the Hungarian Grand Prix and said “everything got a bit blurry on the podium”. The seven-time world champion said he was “just so exhausted afterwards” and said it was “one of the weirdest experiences I’ve […]
Fun thought experiment: Imagine for a second what would happen if a columnist with the Times of London declared that Ireland was a country “awash with ignorance and squalor”, and, as Fergus Finlay goes on to say, “riven with racism, and led by irresponsible charlatans”. How would we react, if that was written about Ireland? […]
You know what? Hands up. At the very beginning of the vaccine rollout, we at Gript were very critical of how slow and poorly co-ordinated it was. We ended up having a rollout that was significantly slower than that in the UK and Northern Ireland, and there was, indeed, much to criticise. But it would […]
“Death free” is obviously an exaggeration, since yes, some people are still dying. But take a good look at this chart. The red line is deaths, the grey line is cases. In every previous wave, deaths surged about two weeks after cases surged. This time? Not happening: COVID deaths lag confirmed COVID cases by 2 […]
It is very important that people do not misunderstand what the headline above means, so let’s be absolutely clear. First, this is a report, albeit one from NBC news, which means that it should be taken seriously. But it is also not 100% fact, or anything like that. Second, their sources are good, but their […]
Credit to Julianne Corr at the Times for this entertaining scoop: The third level college that ran Ireland’s first influencer course hopes to offer the programme to secondary school students as part of their transition year studies, its organiser has said…. …Irene McCormick, the programme director, said that about 240 people had applied for the […]
There can be no doubt that losing your mother at the age of eleven is hard enough, without having to suffer through a million cameras at her funeral, every single one of them watching you for signs of grief and emotion. There can be no doubt that such an experience, coupled with learning more, as […]
When we think of “covid cases in hospital”, the average person probably assumes, through more than a year of exposure to talk of covid, that they refer to people who have contracted covid 19, developed symptoms, and gotten so sick that they needed to be admitted to hospital for treatment. And indeed, in many cases, […]
Data centres, much like cars, air conditioning, farting cows, home heating, air travel, global shipping, and making anything out of wood, are fast becoming a bete noir for Ireland’s climate movement, summed up by an official denunciation of the fast-growing sector in the pages of the Irish Times yesterday, penned by Una Mullally. Here is […]
The movies do a strange thing to the human mind. All our lives, we have been taught that the good guys eventually triumph. The stories we tell, the books we read, the legends we pass down from generation to generation mostly have within them a comforting lie: That the heroes succeed. Movies like “Independence Day” […]
Quietly, this is one of the most scandalous episodes in Irish journalism for long and many’s the year. And rather than being appropriately embarrassed, the editor was out over the weekend, bragging about it. “An absolute box office piece”, says he, without shame: Sunday Independent P1– Gardai probe sinister calls to Nphet chiefs– Sinéad O'Connor […]
A few caveats here: First, Behaviour and Attitudes has consistently found Sinn Fein support higher, and other party support lower, than other pollsters. That does not mean they are wrong, but it is worth noting. Second, they were not hugely accurate at the last general election, though that also does not mean they are wrong […]