Táinaiste Leo Varadkar and Taoiseach Micheál Martin have called for the AstraZeneca vaccine to be used on young people within weeks, despite the potential health risks, saying “it would be a shame not to use them.” I’m not sure that’s what you’d call the most rigorous medical reasoning to be honest. As it stands, adenovirus […]
The Road Safety Authority has been accused of victim-blaming by hosting a campaign to encourage cyclists and pedestrians to wear hi-vis gear when out on the road. According to the Irish Independent, the agency said that it had received 25 formal complaints about its Seatbelt Sheriff and Hi-Glo Silver campaigns, with complainants claiming the campaign […]
Simon Coveney, last week: RIYADH: Saudi Arabia’s Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Adel Al-Jubeir on Wednesday held a meeting at the ministry’s headquarters in Riyadh with the Irish Foreign and Defense Minister Simon Coveney. The two sides discussed during the meeting bilateral relations and means to develop them and exchanged views on regional and […]
We do not really cover sports here at Gript, so it is a delight to be able to write about my beloved Formula One under the guise of writing about the latest evidence that Ireland’s overly cautious pandemic policies are insane. There are two questions here: First, will Max Verstappen embarrass reigning seven-time world champion […]
The concession of full liability for the catastrophic misdiagnosis of an unborn baby at Holles Street has thrust the issue of pre-natal genetic testing and genetic testing in general into the public spotlight. It is not possible to say ‘back into the public spotlight’ because there has never been anything resembling a sustained and […]
A fool and his money are easily parted and corporations love these fools. They used to have to work to prise money from the reluctant public who demanded value for these exchanges, but now they can do that with a lot less work by proclaiming the creed of social justice. Interestingly, in this regard, Big […]
Baby Christopher RIP
There was universal delight, and joy unconfined, in the media yesterday, amidst the release of the latest “trust in media” figures from Reuters. Irish people may have turned on the Church, their politicians, big business, and most institutions, but, as it turns out, we sure do love our journalists: Irish people’s trust in media increases […]
A report on housing published this morning by Davy’s estimates that 200,000 new houses will have to be built over the next three years. That will require an average annual new build of 66,600 Less than 21,000 were built in 2020, with an even smaller number of completions projected for 2021. This will be to […]
What is interesting about this, aside from the abject moral corruption of the sisters of charity, which we will come to in a second, is why on earth there would be a question about doing gender reassignment surgery in a maternity hospital. If it is doing gender reassignment surgery, then it is not, to put […]
Celebrate with us, or else…
Like most truly terrible ideas, the notion that companies, state agencies, and other institutions should proactively discriminate in favour of people from minority backgrounds and races is built on a foundation of good intentions. It is important, after all, to recognise that most people, most of the time, are trying to do good things, and […]