As draconian restrictions on people’s capacity to live their lives persist, as Ireland is now segregated according to your private healthcare choices, as Lockdowns haunt every day like a spectre and as the silver lining of freedom after vaccination is turning out to be more of a mirage in the dessert, I grow increasingly concerned […]
Yesterday, Google CEO Sundar Pichai emailed all employees regarding the company’s plans to re-open its offices around the world. The email states that all who are working on one of its “campuses” will need to be vaccinated. This will apply immediately to the United States but “will expand to other regions in the coming months.” […]
The bible begins with the creation of everything that exists (Genesis, chapter 1). How is this creating done? Does God overcome some primordial, recalcitrant demonic force? No, although such accounts are found in the book of psalms. No, in Genesis God creates simply by speaking: “God said ‘let there be light’, and there was light.” […]
The Irish government has appointed Katherine Zappone to a new taxpayer-funded role as free speech ambassador to the UN – despite the fact that Zappone supports social media censorship and has backed so-called “hate speech” laws. They’re clearly just trolling us at this stage. Zappone, who was a TD and government minister, but lost her […]
What does it say about a country when its people are forced to go to the High Court to seek an inquiry into the appalling mismanagement of state support for nursing homes during the Covid crisis? The horrendous consequences for elderly people from the State’s inexplicable and unaccountable inactions are stark and harrowing. More than 2,000 […]
The oft-repeated saw of the past year, “If it saves one life,” is patently a preposterous objective. It’s use, you could argue, is very effective however. The linguistic design is emotional and irrational, with a legitimizing façade of science. Genius propaganda, one could argue. Laying out the “covid suppression” arguments flaws, in sequential reasoning, highlights […]
Irish mainstream media generally aren’t great at their jobs, but the coverage of the Dublin anti-lockdown protest on Saturday really took the cake. The protest march, which started at the Customs House Quay and finished at Merrion Square outside Leinster House, was organised in solidarity with similar anti-lockdown protest marches happening in cities around the […]
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 […]
There is no doubt but that the large protests against the Government’s proposals to pass legislation requiring people to provide proof that they have been vaccinated in order to access some services, caught the establishment by surprise. Some of the biggest crowds of any protest in Covid times turned out at both the Convention Centre […]
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 […]
2020 was a record breaking year for mortality in Ireland. In fact, a government report shows that some of last year’s rates were the lowest of all time. Every May, the Central Statistics Office (CSO) publishes its Vital Statistics Yearly Summary. This report contains data about births, deaths and marriages in Ireland for the previous calendar […]