Somebody said to me yesterday that living in Ireland at the moment had pushed them to the point where they were wondering if they were the ones who had gone mad, and everybody else was still perfectly sane. “You start to ask yourself that”, this person said, “when nothing makes sense any more”. They were […]
If you listened to the radio, yesterday, or read a newspaper, yesterday, then there’s a good chance you’ll have come across the horrifying news that Ireland has had a “record number” of racist incidents over the last year. There is a good chance, too, that you’ll have heard that this is entirely the fault of […]
Three weeks after the Governor of the US State of Texas announced an end to all Coronavirus lockdown restrictions, including the mandatory use of facemasks, and two weeks after those measures took effect, cases of Covid are still falling in the Lone Star state. In the first week of March, when the announcement was […]
This is….. not a decision that makes a whole lot of sense, actually: GREEN PARTY COUNCILLOR Hazel Chu has announced that she will run as an independent candidate in the upcoming Seanad by-election. Chu, the Lord Mayor of Dublin and the Green Party’s chairperson, did not receive backing from her party to run but submitted […]
The question in the headline is not one which you really should be asking, in a modern western democracy, but asking it appears to be necessary. Consider this story from Chai Brady, a very good reporter with the Irish Catholic: A Co. Cavan priest who has not prevented parishioners from attending Mass in the church […]
In your life, have you ever spent a day wondering why the Kerryman newspaper is called the Kerryman, and not the Kerry people? Chances are, you have not. Josepha Madigan, on the other hand, feels so strongly about it that she went on national radio yesterday to urge that the name be changed, so that […]
It’s not especially pleasant to be in the news in general, but it’s more unpleasant than usual when you’re getting pummelled across the various newspapers for something that’s your own fault. So hands up, first of all: When I said on RTÉ’s Prime Time programme on March 2nd that “Éirígí” were “the people who murdered […]
UPDATE, 1.25pm: Newstalk, since this story was published, appear to have re-instated the original interview with Ewan MacKenna in full. This poses several questions that are quite serious: If, for example, the defamation lawyers working for Newstalk had insisted that the section be removed, there would be no reason to re-instate it. The decision to […]
Many Irish people may be frustrated at the length of time they are waiting to get their Covid vaccine, but that’s not where the delays end. Gript can reveal that there are extensive – and inexplicable – delays in approving qualified people to administer the vaccine to the public, with one Pharmacist’s application to become […]
It’s hard to put into words just how remarkably bad this situation with the AstraZeneca vaccine is, but they pay me the big bucks to try. So here goes. Let’s start with the Irish Times: A string of countries across Europe have temporarily halted AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccinations until reports of blood clots are reviewed, a […]
Two weeks ago, the state of Texas lifted its mandate for the public to wear facemasks. At the time, President Biden said it was a grossly irresponsible move and “neandarthal thinking“. Obviously, the numbers in Texas are worth watching in the weeks and months to come, and we will do that, here at Gript, in […]
In any other country, it is hard to imagine a situation where a cabinet minister – let alone the deputy Prime Minister – would remain in office while the subject of a criminal investigation into actions they took in the course of their duties. And yet, in Ireland, it seems to be viewed as a […]