Many Irish people may be frustrated at the length of time they are waiting to get their Covid vaccine, but that’s not where the delays end. Gript can reveal that there are extensive – and inexplicable – delays in approving qualified people to administer the vaccine to the public, with one Pharmacist’s application to become […]
Canada’s House of Commons has passed a revised bill which expands access to euthanasia, eventually including people suffering solely from mental illnesses. The bill is intended to amend the current law so that it will comply with a 2019 Quebec Superior Court ruling which struck down a provision that allows assisted dying only for intolerably suffering individuals […]
One year on, close to our national holiday, how’s Ireland doing? Not good. We remain on course for the longest and potentially most fiscally and socially damaging lockdown in Europe – and we have some stiff competition there. A lot done; more to do. Last autumn, to justify requesting our second lockdown, NPHET modellers predicted […]
Chuir na Sasanaigh tús le córas oideachais do pháistí na tíre ag tús na 1830idí. Ba í an phríomhchúis leis ná aigne na ndaoine a chur faoi smacht agus an Ghaeilge a bhriseadh in Éirinn. Bhí ar na páistí ‘an phaidir’ seo a rá ag tús gach lá scoile, ‘I thank the goodness and the […]
Last night (Monday) the Stormont Assembly voted 48 to 12 in support of a Democratic Unionist Party Bill that would ban abortion of unborn children with ‘non-fatal’ disabilities. There were 27 abstentions including all of the Sinn Féin MLAs. One wonders what the party bosses in the “core group” would have ordered the sheep to […]
Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael, the Greens, Sinn Féin, People Before Profit, as well as Social Democrats and Labour TDs have all declared that Ireland should lower the voting age to 16 – an idea so bad it’s almost difficult to put into words. But let’s try anyway, since you won’t find much opposition to it […]
It’s hard to put into words just how remarkably bad this situation with the AstraZeneca vaccine is, but they pay me the big bucks to try. So here goes. Let’s start with the Irish Times: A string of countries across Europe have temporarily halted AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccinations until reports of blood clots are reviewed, a […]
An Australian surrogacy lobby has called for commercial surrogacy to be legalised in Australia. It is currently banned in all of the country’s states. However, in 2019-20 275 babies born overseas to surrogate mothers were granted Australian citizenship, the highest number on record. Thailand and India, formerly popular destinations, no longer allow foreigners to employ surrogate mothers, […]
Two weeks ago, the state of Texas lifted its mandate for the public to wear facemasks. At the time, President Biden said it was a grossly irresponsible move and “neandarthal thinking“. Obviously, the numbers in Texas are worth watching in the weeks and months to come, and we will do that, here at Gript, in […]
Let me begin by making a statement of the obvious. If you are a third level student from a disadvantaged background, then the chances of you having to work part time and during your holidays are significantly higher than if you were a student from one of the more economically privileged social groups. Of […]
Last week, a Polish member of the European Parliament, Dominik Tarczynski of the governing Law and Justice (PiS) Party, delivered a rousing speech. In it, he excoriated the EU for its ongoing attempts to bully Poland into accepting left liberal decrees that have nothing whatsoever to do with the concept of a voluntary union based […]
A scandalous event is set to shake South Africa in the near future: A former president of this country could soon be in prison. The country’s deputy chief justice, Justice Raymond Zondo, has called on the Constitutional Court to find former president Jacob Zuma in contempt of court and requested the “Apex Court” to sentence […]