Josepha Madigan is on a linguistic crusade. Gendered language is the heresy that needs to be taken down. Where better to begin than with a newspaper with a ‘backward’ title from a part of the country liberal Dublin loves to sneer at? I would suspect The Kerryman newspaper’s readers won’t appreciate the crusading zeal of […]
This week, Gript’s #MyLockdown series will try to tell the stories of the people who have suffered the most over the past twelve months, in their own words. Submissions have been edited, in some places, for clarity of language, as well as spelling and grammar, but no content has been added. The stories are those […]
The question in the headline is not one which you really should be asking, in a modern western democracy, but asking it appears to be necessary. Consider this story from Chai Brady, a very good reporter with the Irish Catholic: A Co. Cavan priest who has not prevented parishioners from attending Mass in the church […]
The Vatican’s latest affirmation of marriage as the lifelong union of one man and one woman is presented as an unfeeling even judgmental rejection of the love of same sex couples. It is however just a re-iteration of the Church’s well considered understanding of what Scripture and Jesus have to say on the subject. The […]
Last October, after an extensive and supportive media build-up, the Dáil voted on a bill proposed by the Socialist TD, Gino Kenny seeking to legalise Assisted Suicide in Ireland – ensuring doctors could end the lives of patients. At that time, a majority of TDs backed the legislation by 81 to 71 votes. Four out […]
The US Catholic Bishops recently commented that Catholics should opt for the Moderna or Pfizer vaccines over the Johnson & Johnson version if offered the option. The Canadian Group of Bishops followed suit advising that Catholics should “prefer” the Moderna and Pfizer vaccines because, although “unethically-derived” cell lines may have been used in final testing, the connection to […]
On 6 June 2018, the Government, headed up by then Taoiseach Leo Varadkar approved the first steps in the process that would lead to publication of the General Scheme of the Sex Offenders (Amendment) Bill. The main intention of this Bill would be “to manage the risk posed by sex offenders and to prevent further […]
Some of the left in Ireland can see the ‘far right’ everywhere, it seems: it’s their very own conspiracy theory, fueled by a mixture of paranoia, intolerance of anyone with a different opinion, and a strong dislike of religion. All these elements seemed to coalesce perfectly in this stupid-but-nasty tweet from Councillor Anthony Flynn who […]
In your life, have you ever spent a day wondering why the Kerryman newspaper is called the Kerryman, and not the Kerry people? Chances are, you have not. Josepha Madigan, on the other hand, feels so strongly about it that she went on national radio yesterday to urge that the name be changed, so that […]
NPHET’s Advised Against Border Quarantines at the Start of The Outbreak – Part 1 On the 25th of February 2021, the Dáil voted to require all travellers coming to the country from high-risk regions to complete a mandatory 14 days of quarantine. A border quarantine is a standard public health policy in a period of […]
It’s not especially pleasant to be in the news in general, but it’s more unpleasant than usual when you’re getting pummelled across the various newspapers for something that’s your own fault. So hands up, first of all: When I said on RTÉ’s Prime Time programme on March 2nd that “Éirígí” were “the people who murdered […]
Our economy is crippled, and we’re facing into an expected surge of non-Covid deaths – everything from cancer to heart disease – because of the restrictions placed on our heath service for the past year. But is this never-ending lockdown actually following the science? A growing number of leading experts don’t seem to think so, […]