The Irish government has appointed Katherine Zappone to a new taxpayer-funded role as free speech ambassador to the UN – despite the fact that Zappone supports social media censorship and has backed so-called “hate speech” laws. They’re clearly just trolling us at this stage. Zappone, who was a TD and government minister, but lost her […]
What does it say about a country when its people are forced to go to the High Court to seek an inquiry into the appalling mismanagement of state support for nursing homes during the Covid crisis? The horrendous consequences for elderly people from the State’s inexplicable and unaccountable inactions are stark and harrowing. More than 2,000 […]
The introduction of vaccine certification in this country and elsewhere, apart from leading to instinctive revulsion among those not yet inured to greatly increased state curtailments of basic freedoms, has led to comparisons with other systems of control. The requirement for proof of vaccination has been likened to the internal passport system that was in […]
The oft-repeated saw of the past year, “If it saves one life,” is patently a preposterous objective. It’s use, you could argue, is very effective however. The linguistic design is emotional and irrational, with a legitimizing façade of science. Genius propaganda, one could argue. Laying out the “covid suppression” arguments flaws, in sequential reasoning, highlights […]
In his newest book, Charles Camosy, the award-winning author of Resisting Throwaway Culture, provides a timely and thoughtful release on the urgent need to defend human dignity. There is perhaps no more important value than fundamental human equality. And yet, despite large percentages of people affirming the value, the resources available to explain and defend the basis […]
Irish mainstream media generally aren’t great at their jobs, but the coverage of the Dublin anti-lockdown protest on Saturday really took the cake. The protest march, which started at the Customs House Quay and finished at Merrion Square outside Leinster House, was organised in solidarity with similar anti-lockdown protest marches happening in cities around the […]
The Wuhan pneumonia, more commonly referred to as COVID-19, has now been raging for more than a year and a half, and even today there are new variants of the virus emerging, including Alpha, initially detected in the United Kingdom, Beta in South Africa, Delta in India, and Gamma in Brazil. And a year and […]
Like many children of the 70s, I came of age watching Olympians like Mary Lou Retton, Greg Louganis, Scott Hamilton, and Carl Lewis. They were like young gods; the world held its breath as they gracefully broke the rules of gravity, time, distance, force and speed. The laws of nature appeared to bow to their […]
Fun thought experiment: Imagine for a second what would happen if a columnist with the Times of London declared that Ireland was a country “awash with ignorance and squalor”, and, as Fergus Finlay goes on to say, “riven with racism, and led by irresponsible charlatans”. How would we react, if that was written about Ireland? […]
You know what? Hands up. At the very beginning of the vaccine rollout, we at Gript were very critical of how slow and poorly co-ordinated it was. We ended up having a rollout that was significantly slower than that in the UK and Northern Ireland, and there was, indeed, much to criticise. But it would […]
“Death free” is obviously an exaggeration, since yes, some people are still dying. But take a good look at this chart. The red line is deaths, the grey line is cases. In every previous wave, deaths surged about two weeks after cases surged. This time? Not happening: COVID deaths lag confirmed COVID cases by 2 […]
No doubt you have heard of “advance directives” – guidelines for your carers, guardians or doctors on what do to in the event that you are not competent to instruct them. Right-to-die associations often promote them as a way of avoiding life with dementia. But what if the people with the power to “pull the plug” refuse? […]