Boys marked down in Leaving Cert?
The most revealing document released by the Irish Government yesterday was a text from Katharine Zappone to Simon Coveney sent in the early part of this year. Joe Biden had just been inaugurated as US President, and Zappone wanted Coveney to make an introduction for her to “Sam” (Samantha) Power, Biden’s UN Ambassador. Biden, she […]
As you’ve probably heard by now, a World Cup qualifier between Brazil and Argentina was dramatically stopped by health authorities yesterday on live TV. Yet more regulatory Covid chaos, televised for all to see. As the world watched, Brazilian health officials stormed the Corinthians pitch in Sao Paulo five minutes into the game to detain […]
On the one hand, it is perfectly understandable that Leo Varadkar’s legion of defenders – both those who are true blue Fine Gaelers, and those who are not, but who think the Tánaiste is unfairly targeted by his critics – should feel put out by the latest controversy engulfing their man. Yes, every single one […]
We Didn’t Need Lockdowns; Rapid Testing Could Have Kept Society Open.
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 […]