This morning, the hashtag #LeoTheleak is trending on social media. The Shinbots were up early then. Yesterday, or the day before, it was #Shinners or something wearily familiar, because, as we all know, Fine Gael are now well able to take the fight to the enemy on Twitter. It’s all mostly so trite and nauseatingly […]
In recent days, it has been widely reported in other media that the Irish taxpayer funds An Taisce to the tune of €3m per year. It has been widely reported, because An Taisce is leading the campaign against a new cheese factory in the South East of the country, potentially costing the region hundreds of […]
Average monthly rents in Ireland have effectively doubled since 2011, according to a new report from Daft.ie. According to the new report’s figures, in the first quarter of 2021, rental prices outside Dublin soared to 7.1% higher than in the same period last year, costing renters an eye-watering €900 more annually. Comparatively, rent costs in […]
The GAA, according to rule 1.11 of its constitution and rules, is a non-party political organisation. That means, in short, that it does not get involved in, or take sides in, matters of political controversy. The rule has some leeway built into it, as nearly every rule in Ireland does: Non party political does not […]
An Taisce has once again succeeded in annoying many people over its ongoing objection to a proposed cheese processing plant in Kilkenny. The project which will potentially create a large number of much needed jobs has been approved by Kilkenny County Council and An Bord Pleanala and survived a High Court challenge last week. However, […]
Yesterday, a cavalcade of cars made their way around Ballymurphy in West Belfast. The small streets were crowded as a whole community celebrated a vital, historical ruling. Photographers captured the jubilant, delighted faces: neighbours hugging each other in the bright sunshine, relief and joy and tears and smiles from the families who had waited so long for this day. White […]
The tactics being rolled out by most politicians and commentators in favour of banning anti-abortion protests are clear: demonise your opponent.
It is an extraordinary thing, in a modern western democracy, to hear a mainstream politician openly suggesting a complete ban on all immigration. Such calls, after all, are usually reserved to the fringes of the political fringe. Even Donald Trump, the most openly anti-immigration world leader of recent times, never went so far as to […]
There are many things one could say about Donald Trump and his successor, Joe Biden, but perhaps the only thing one might say that would unite critics and fans of both is this: Trump was vastly more riveting telly, whether you considered him the hero, or the villain. And with him gone, the TV network […]
From 2012 to 2017 the decision to relocate the National Maternity Hospital at Holles Street to a site on the Elm Park campus of St Vincent’s Hospital in Dublin, owned by the Religious Sisters of Charity, created sustained levels of public controversy. Indeed, the proposal was attacked from every side of the political and cultural […]
A report on Sky News Australia last night has added another dimension to the debate over the origins of the Covid-19 panic. This follows the claim which Gript covered last week that the virus had been artificially created in a laboratory in Wuhan, and then escaped into the general population. None of this implies that […]
Normally, we don’t cover the usual blather from the Irish Department of Foreign Affairs here at Gript for the simple reason that it is all rather predictable: You will get condemnations of anything Israel does, bland statements about how great the European Union is, and complete and utter silence on anything unpleasant done in any […]