The Minister for Education, Norma Foley, was the subject of an interview/profile in yesterday’s Sunday Independent, written by Hugh O’Connell, which was notable for several reasons. Perhaps the most glaring thing to note is that in a 25 minute interview with the new Minister for Education, the subject of how schools might safely and promptly […]
If you are a daily reader of Gript, you’d have encountered this conclusion, about the recent surge in Coronavirus in the US, on our site two days ago: You can see that the surge in hospitalisations is more recent than the surge in cases, and that makes sense. Some people who were diagnosed three weeks […]
Surely, not since Marshall Nugent* liberated Rome from Napoleon has an Irishman won such an impressive victory on the continent: “The 19 finance ministers of the euro zone have elected Paschal Donohoe to be the president of their influential Eurogroup, giving Ireland a significant platform as the European Union debates how to handle the economic […]
While many Government TDs are shredding each other to pieces over who got jobs and who didn’t, Fine Gael’s Jennifer Carroll MacNeil is quietly continuing to build a reputation as one of the more diligent and effective new members of the Dáil. Last night, the Dun Laoghaire TD took to social media to deliver a […]
Last night, the Minister for European Affairs, Thomas Byrne, went on the Tonight Show on Virgin Media to defend Barry Cowen, the Minister for Agriculture, after the stories in recent days about Cowen’s drink driving offence four years ago, and absence of a full driving licence. While Byrne was on the programme, Ken McFadden, a […]
One of the more unusual things that’s been happening in the (increasingly ignored) world of Coronavirus recently is that the massive surge in cases in the United States has not, as yet, been accompanied by a surge in deaths from the virus. This has prompted some people – in and outside of science – to […]
This might be the classic Irish scandal. Here’s the update from the Independent’s Philip Ryan: PARC road safety group chair Susan Gray says Barry Cowen told her he never sat a driving test before his drink driving ban in 2016. — Philip Ryan (@Philip_Ryan) July 8, 2020 We don’t know how long the Minister for […]
The HSE’s new app for tracking Coronavirus infections, and the contacts of those infected, was launched last night. Less than 12 hours later, it’s proving very popular: Over 100k now.Huge interest in this app. https://t.co/FZ3mbJmaFS pic.twitter.com/PvmLVwMCIV — Adrian Weckler (@adrianweckler) July 7, 2020 It’s going to use a huge amount of data. What will that […]
Children’s Minister Roderic O’Gorman is introducing a law to make it easier for children to change their genders – based on the recommendations of a review group Chaired by a Trans rights activist that did not have one single medical expert on it. Up until now, if a ten year old wanted to change their […]
Kanye West for President? Come off it. There’s no way they’re going to elect a loudmouthed celebrity with a big twitter following and no prior political experience, is there? They can’t? Can they? Yes they Kanye. https://twitter.com/kanyewest/status/1279575273365594112 The single biggest thing going against him, believe it or not, isn’t that he’s a pop star with […]
It is not hard to see why supporters of the Children’s Minister, Roderic O’Gorman, might feel aggrieved by the controversy swirling around him online. From their point of view, this is an open-and-shut case: The now Minister appeared in a photograph, at Dublin Pride, in 2018, with UK campaigner Peter Tatchell. After his appointment, that […]
Here are the restrictions on travel from Ireland into the UK, with a UK-Government required 14-day quarantine period if you fly from Dublin to London. Notice anything? And here are the equivalent restrictions if you fly from the UK into Ireland: One thing to note here, in fairness: In the case of Ireland, self-isolation seems […]