The author is a senior executive working in the energy sector in Ireland whose identity is known to Gript. We have agreed to provide him anonymity so that he can speak freely. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ I have a confession to make. […]
Long standing, and highly respected ex-RTE political editor David Davin Power had a one-word response to this video, yesterday afternoon: “Remarkable”. #China has completed greatest poverty reduction programme in human history, while #Homelessness in the West is at record levels. In last 40 years China bombed nobody or isn't Sanctioning any countries to death – […]
The legislation which permits lockdowns was set to expire on 9th November last, but the Oireachtas extended it. It is expected the government will push for it to be extended yet again, beyond the current expiry date of 9th June. That should not happen. The legislation is Part 3 of the Health (Preservation and Protection […]
As an instinctive authoritarian with a healthy degree of scepticism about “the youth”, let me just say this: Is it time for a second look at the Social Democrats? A Dublin councillor says a change to drinking laws, and curfews on younger people, could be a solution to anti-social behaviour. Social Democrats councillor for Howth […]
According to the taxpayer funded lobby group which came up with the idea, “Minimum Unit Pricing” for alcohol is a simple enough idea. Here is what they say: “Minimum unit pricing (MUP) is a “floor price” beneath which alcohol cannot legally be sold and is based on the amount of alcohol in a product, measured […]
RTÉ’s Social Affairs and Religion Correspondent Ailbhe Conneely is going to bless us with a series this week “exploring racism in Ireland.” Well, colour me pink. Why has no one ever tackled this thorny subject up to now? If there is not some sort of bursary or paper hat for this daring initiative, then there […]
There was, across much of the media, and politics, widespread condemnation in recent days of the news that a global property firm, Round Hill Capital, was set to purchase most of the homes in a new 170-home development in Kildare. The frustration amongst a lot of people on hearing this news was perfectly understandable, if […]
This image of a Red Army soldier in Berlin in May 1945 was tweeted as part of its celebration of May Day by the youth wing of Sinn Féin. No pasaron. pic.twitter.com/Lbtng876P9 — Ógra Shinn Féin (@Ogra_SF) May 1, 2021 (Incidentally, the original photos was altered to hide the fact that the soldier was […]
Curiouser and curiouser. The Central Statistics Office has now issued an updated analysis of deaths in Ireland and they’ve reported excess deaths during the Covid crisis as in a range “between 2,034 and 2,338”. This means that, even allowing for the fact that the analysis covers a period of time which is straddling two winter peaks […]
Following the raising of the issue by Aontú leader Peadar Toíbín in the Dáil again, An Taoiseach Micheal Martin has finally agreed to meet with families of the victims of the loyalist Glenanne Gang. The gang operated mostly during the 1970s and is believed to have murdered over 120 people. Almost all of them were […]
Tánaiste Leo Varadkar has issued a very stark warning that Catholic schools are no longer welcome in modern Ireland. Despite a Constitutional provision that the Government must provide for the education of children, it is clear that the current administration thinks that it has a monopoly on the content of what children get taught because […]
Completely white from head to foot, a troupe of haz-suited figures march in a column through an empty city. The city is lit up with flashing florescence, indicating a frenetic hive of energy, but the ghostly emptiness tells a different lie. The column are masked and anonymous and, reminiscent of Star Wars storm troopers, march […]