September 7th 2021 is the 100 year anniversary of the foundation of the Legion of Mary
Now it is being reported that ministers might defy the advice of their own official vaccine advisors
Background Bunreacht na hÉireann became the fundamental legal code of the Irish nation-state in 1937 and has since been amended over thirty times. These amendments reflect the Nation’s, underlying, collective psyche as it evolves over time and under the pressure of modernity. Ranging from the acceptance of the European Union’s (EU) legal supremacy, to the […]
In all honesty, it has been a struggle to maintain any interest in the ins and outs of what Simon Coveney said, or did not say to an Oireachtas Committee investigating the Katharine Zappone fiasco. We have had the spectacle of one minister, Simon Coveney, spinning the country an obvious cock and bull story about […]
ISAG member Tomás Ryan took to the national airwaves this week to suggest that, at the current rate, Irish schools should be closed. The Trinity College neuroscientist made the remarks on Wednesday while speaking on Virgin Media’s The Tonight Show, and unveiled ISAG’s latest fatwa target: the concept of personal responsibility itself. Check out this […]
We’re often critical of the Irish Council for Civil Liberties here at Gript, and nearly always because, well, they’re not very good at defending civil liberties. It is unusual, for example, for an organisation dedicated to civil liberties to be at the forefront of demands for restrictions on the right to protest, as they are […]
There have been sufficient articles written in Ireland about the legacy of so-called “catholic guilt” in Ireland that, if stacked one on top of the other, you’d be unwise to bet against them reaching the moon. How many times, over the years, have you heard people sobbing on the radio about dealing with the “legacy […]
Our Table is very much part of Ireland’s well-funded NGO-industrial complex
An Tánaiste’s office Leo Varadkar has released text conversations he had with Simon Coveney and Katherine Zappone around her appointment and the #MerrionGate controversy. Text messages between Leo Varadkar and Simon Coveney & Katherine Zappone on #MerrionGate pic.twitter.com/l4ta0cNLhW — Kieran Cuddihy (@kierancuddihy) September 1, 2021 The tweets make it clear that: 1. Katherine Zappone talked to Tánaiste […]
Senator Craughwell stated, there is also no getting away from the fact that the public perception is that “If you’re in the club you’ll be looked after.”
If you knew Post-Everything Fianna Fáil less well, then you might get the impression that there was something other than desperation behind their latest appeal to the dwindling band of people who might vote for them. Their Housing Minister Darragh O’Brien has apparently written to the Catholic Primate of All Ireland Eamon Martin to suggest […]
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