When former Housing Minister Eoghan Murphy came out in support of “co-living” apartment developments, he was not surprisingly subjected to widespread criticism. The notion that people would be paying high rents and not even be guaranteed their own cooking and bathroom facilities invited comparisons to older, but cheaper, tenement accommodation. The backlash convinced his successor […]
Dr. Martin Feeley served as Clinical Director of the Dublin Midlands Hospital Group until September 2020, when he resigned after the HSE said his criticisms of lockdown made his position “untenable”. In this piece, he sets out his views on the Government’s Covid Vaccination strategy, and asks whether universal vaccination for Covid is appropriate, when […]
If you were to ask a progressive parent in Ireland, or indeed most of the western world, about their attitude to teenage sexual activity, the chances are that at some stage you would hear somebody say words to the effect of “if they are going to do it, let’s make sure it’s as safe as […]
A story, from the Irish Times, to lift the spirits. After all, if we at Gript can’t cheer a Professor telling a bunch of layabout students that they are illiterate dunces who don’t belong in a University, well, dear reader, what are we even for? Dr Paul Stokes, a lecturer in the sociology department, delivered […]
Establishment media coverage of the large protest against the lockdown in London last weekend provided a typically distorted view of what had actually taken place. If you were dependent on most of the English speaking broadcasters, you would have gained the impression that there were maybe “several thousand” in attendance and that there were incidents […]
Families with loved ones diagnosed with a terminal illness are questioning death certs that cite Covid as the cause of death, according to Independent TD Michael Collins. “This has been raised by numerous families with loved ones that have passed away and it’s upsetting for them and it’s unfair. A lot of the public are […]
Not many people, likely, remember the name of Richard Reid, or the way he changed a small part of our lives forever. On December 22nd, 2001, Reid, an American national who had, nonetheless, fallen into the fever-swamps of radical Islamism, boarded a plane in Paris, France, bound for Miami, Florida. About halfway through the flight, […]
Tricky pub quiz question – who is Ireland’s Minister for Defence? The reason it’s a tricky question is that Ireland, uniquely amongst countries, doesn’t have a Minister for Defence or certainly one with sole responsibility for the defence of the country. Given that the defence portfolio is stitched on to Simon Coveney’s responsibilities as Minister […]
One can reasonably expect harsh austerity measures are not far away after this year of largesse however, as the country mimics a bi-polar dog going back to its vomit.
We live in an open society, in which social relations are marked by individual freedom, personal responsibility, and mutual trust. In an open society, we rely on people to make their own risk assessments in matters of personal and public health, without the need to carry health certificates on them at all times, or be […]
Like her or loathe her, Arlene Foster has had an uncanny ability to survive the minefield of Stormont politics.
Young Fine Gael is not an organisation that customarily evokes our sympathy, here at Gript. It is, after all, the youth wing of the largest party of Government – a Government that has, over the past year, led an almost relentless assault on people’s civil liberties and freedoms. Signing up to Young Fine Gael means, […]