Two and a half years ago, those of us who raised the horrifying possibility that Irish babies might be born alive as a result of abortions, and left to suffer slow, painful deaths, were denounced as scaremongering monsters who were out to upset women and lie to the public. But we were telling the truth. […]
On Tuesday of this week the Seanad debated the second stage of the Criminal Justice (Hate Crime) Bill 2020, which is being brought forward by Senators O’Loughlin, Chambers, and Gallagher. The Bill has mostly slipped under the radar but that is not to say it is a minor bill – if it were to be […]
Dublin Zoo is urgently appealing for public financial support after the Government’s lockdown resulted in a 90% loss in revenue, it says. The Zoo – which is a registered charity – has running costs of about half a million euro per month. But most of this money is generated by gate receipts. On Wednesday October […]
A paper examining the practice of late-term abortion and feticide in Irish maternity hospitals paints a deeply disturbing picture of the brutal reality of Ireland’s abortion regime. Three medical professionals from various departments of University College Cork sought to look at the experience of 10 Fetal Medicine Specialists who provided abortion in Ireland in cases where […]
As we reported yesterday, Aontú leader Peadar Tóibín has introduced a bill to the Dáil which seeks to prevent the distribution of pornography to children by media companies, including internet service providers. It’s a worthy goal. Here he is, explaining it in more detail: Internet companies are providing hard core pornography to children as young […]
Who would have thought the Irish Independent, one of the oldest papers in the country, would be reduced to discussing whether babies can be “trans” in the “LGBTQIAAPK2S+ movement”?
What’s the point of this, exactly? GOVERNMENT WILL TODAY move to introduce a regulation that will give gardaí the power to fine people who gather outside to drink alcohol. The new fines will be separate to existing laws which already state it is an offence to consume alcohol bought in a closed container (like a […]
In the midst of a housing crisis that dominated the General Election earlier this year, and in a country with – at last count – ten thousand homeless people, Dublin City Council was last night presented with a plan to build 850 new homes in Coolock. 250 of these would have been social housing. The […]
Governments seldom fulfil promises made in pre election manifestos or even Programmes for Government. So the small and fractured Green Party can be happy that when it disappears again from public prominence, it will have left yet another toxic legacy as it did in 2011. For a party that only won 7% of the vote in the […]
A Universal Basic Income, for those of you who don’t know, is a policy idea which would see the Government giving everybody in the country a guaranteed baseline amount of money every month, regardless of their financial circumstances. No matter who you are, you get a fixed amount of income every month from the Government. […]
On Friday, we reported on the contents of Fianna Fáil’s new Hate Crime Bill, which will be debated in the Seanad this week. Ahead of that debate, it is worth setting out for our readers why we at Gript believe hate crime laws are one of the worst ideas ever introduced by Irish politicians. Here […]
As Ireland’s trading relationship with China continues to expand, so too does the interest of the Chinese Communist Party in using this as the basis for expanded political influence. Total bilateral trade between the two countries in 2019 was over $15 billion, with a balance of around $5 billion in Ireland’s favour. That in itself […]