Our latest progressive reform only applies, it should be noted, to those schools which are fully under the control of the state. If your child attends a diocesan school, then he or she will still be able to learn in a classroom adorned with religious symbols, and will still have a graduation mass, and all […]
To listen to the Government, one might think that the latest surge in Coronavirus cases was coming from just about everywhere except for schools. Talk to teachers, however, and you’ll find that there is great concern that many of the cases are connected to education, and are not being reported. Gript spoke to four teachers […]
What was to be a few weeks of removal of all of our civil liberties to “flatten the curve” and “protect the NHS” has now eight months later morphed into a dystopian police state. Humans, that most social of species, seem isolated in a laboratory which used to be their lives, in terror of an […]
Great news everyone! If you have private health insurance because you were a fiver over the income threshold for a medical card, then guess what? Yes, you have just earned yourself the right to be charged a whopping €813 for a creaky, zero privacy stay on an HSE hospital trolley. But wait, it gets […]
Constitutional questions are unlikely to be uppermost in our minds now, when we feel concerned both about those most vulnerable to Covid-19 and about those most severely affected by past and present measures responding to it. In terms of the collateral damage caused by those measures, we think of things like physical and mental health, […]
A democracy’s fortitude and constitutional structures can only be judged by their performance through times of strain – times such as when there is no government in place or where a pandemic rages. We are in such a time now, and the rot within the democratic processes and the institutions of this country are plain […]
It has been revealed that programmes seeking to ‘normalise’ abortion have been held for staff at 5 major maternity hospitals in Ireland. The programmes are being organised in conjunction with the World Health Organisation. Here are a few things that the World Health Organisation believe about abortion and the provision of abortion services. There is […]
There’s a lot you can legitimately criticise Simon Harris for – and trust me, I do. But even a broken clock is right twice a day, and it was only a matter of time before even a politician like him surprised us all with a salient point. As reported in the Irish Times this morning: […]
There’s been some sustained criticism of the Archbishops in recent days for their seeming passivity on the question of whether people should be allowed to go to mass during the lockdown, including from Gript columnists like Professor Ray Kinsella, writing here. And don’t the critics have a point? What’s the point in having Archbishops in […]
Another day, another one of these: A Dublin GP says he has decided to close his practice after being threatened with suspension by the Medical Council over his anti-lockdown and anti-mask views on Covid-19. Dr Marcus de Brun said he decided to end his HSE contract and to step back from public speaking “under duress”, […]
As the economy tanks, and tens of thousands of Irish people lose their jobs due to lockdown, our nation’s intrepid leaders have turned their attention to the issue that clearly matters most: cows farting in Leitrim. The government has officially announced their new Climate Action Bill, which will aim for a “net-zero” greenhouse gas economy […]
An interesting emerging story, this. Here’s the Tánaiste, in his now legendary/infamous (pick your adjective) appearance on Claire Byrne on Monday night: “But what happened on Sunday night came out of the blue. Last Thursday, when we received our advice from NPHET, there was no suggestion at all that they were going to level five” […]