Somebody said to me yesterday that living in Ireland at the moment had pushed them to the point where they were wondering if they were the ones who had gone mad, and everybody else was still perfectly sane. “You start to ask yourself that”, this person said, “when nothing makes sense any more”. They were […]
If you listened to the radio, yesterday, or read a newspaper, yesterday, then there’s a good chance you’ll have come across the horrifying news that Ireland has had a “record number” of racist incidents over the last year. There is a good chance, too, that you’ll have heard that this is entirely the fault of […]
When the leader of Sinn Féin walked through the streets of New York calling on England to “get out of Ireland”, she forgot to include an asterisk. Mary-Lou McDonald, the Dublin leader of the party, is most definitely capable of delivering a speech in the Dáil, often calling out the blindspots of her opponents in […]
Most people know something about the European Court of Human Rights which is based in Strasbourg and is under the auspices of the Council of Europe. On 2 March 2020, I wrote an article here which demonstrated how the independence of the ECHR has been undermined by George Soros and his Open Society Foundation (OSF). […]
Australia is swimming – literally – in crises at the moment. Parts of the eastern coast are under water at the moment with once-in-a-hundred years flooding. The Covid-19 pandemic has been contained with masking and lockdowns, but everyone is still jittery. A Royal Commission exposed an elder abuse crisis in nursing homes. There’s a hidden […]
The Cabinet today is to approve a proposal that will mark a radical undermining of the vote of the people in the citizenship referendum in 2004. That referendum, carried with almost 80% approval, closed off a loophole whereby a large number of people had come to Ireland, in order to be automatically be granted Irish […]
Three weeks after the Governor of the US State of Texas announced an end to all Coronavirus lockdown restrictions, including the mandatory use of facemasks, and two weeks after those measures took effect, cases of Covid are still falling in the Lone Star state. In the first week of March, when the announcement was […]
This is….. not a decision that makes a whole lot of sense, actually: GREEN PARTY COUNCILLOR Hazel Chu has announced that she will run as an independent candidate in the upcoming Seanad by-election. Chu, the Lord Mayor of Dublin and the Green Party’s chairperson, did not receive backing from her party to run but submitted […]
Another step in “an explosion of new techniques and ideas for studying early development” of human embryos came last week from Israel. Researchers there have successfully grown mouse embryos for 12 days, which is about half the animal’s natural gestation period. The rough equivalent for a human would be a first-trimestre baby. They published an article […]
Josepha Madigan is on a linguistic crusade. Gendered language is the heresy that needs to be taken down. Where better to begin than with a newspaper with a ‘backward’ title from a part of the country liberal Dublin loves to sneer at? I would suspect The Kerryman newspaper’s readers won’t appreciate the crusading zeal of […]
This week, Gript’s #MyLockdown series will try to tell the stories of the people who have suffered the most over the past twelve months, in their own words. Submissions have been edited, in some places, for clarity of language, as well as spelling and grammar, but no content has been added. The stories are those […]
The question in the headline is not one which you really should be asking, in a modern western democracy, but asking it appears to be necessary. Consider this story from Chai Brady, a very good reporter with the Irish Catholic: A Co. Cavan priest who has not prevented parishioners from attending Mass in the church […]