The Decade of Centenaries Programme that was initiated in 2012 and which is set to end in 2023 has allowed us to revisit and to celebrate some of the great milestones of Irish history. These include the foundation of the Irish Volunteers, the Home Rule and Land Bills, the 1913 Lockout, the 1916 Rising, the […]
Sinn Féin have put in a submission to the Commission on the Defence Forces, warning of the alleged danger of “far-right disinformation hacking into the minds” of Irish soldiers, posing a “serious threat to democracy itself.” In possibly one of the most melodramatic and bizarre submissions ever written, Sinn Féin Defence Forces spokesperson Sorca Clarke […]
What at first sight might have appeared to have been an April Fool’s stunt, was pretty quickly elevated into real news. The Irish Independent reported in the early hours of the morning that members of the Dublin senior football team were seen, and photographed, at a training session at the Inisfails ground north of Coolock. […]
The allegations that the French philosopher Michel Foucault – who has been long admired and oft-quoted by the liberal left in Ireland – repeatedly raped pre-pubescent boys in Tunisia during his time as a lecturer there in the late 1960s have raised serious concerns in his native country. Another French writer Guy Sorman claims to […]
Looking back on the last few NPHET pressers and Taoiseach Micheál Martin’s message to the nation last night (March 30), the reckless embrace of societal paralysis prompts a lot of head scratching. When you aren’t ruled by fear of an endemic virus which has pretty low mortality for all but a select cohort, the absence […]
We try to focus on Irish news here at Gript, but there’s an interesting story from Florida that is worth covering for several reasons. One of those, incidentally, is that this guy, Ron DeSantis, is definitely running for President, and angling for all those Trump voters: The governor of Florida said he will take executive […]
If you are one of those people (and, if you are a regular Gript reader, chances are this applies to you) who wonders why in the hell the Government persists in listening to every word NPHET says, then here’s a poll that explains it perfectly. The IPSOS MRBI annual trust survey asks Irish people who […]
It is indeed time to stand up against real bullies and real hate speech. Not the sort that merely offends but the sort that demonstrably endangers. Our culture has become obsessed with microaggressions, yet it often fails to challenge the kind of thuggish aggression, masked as righteous anger, that threatens the fundamental freedoms of others. […]
“Armenia is facing a demographic catastrophe,” Nune Pashayan, a health department official, told a news conference this week. The government plans to triple funding for reproductive programs. Mr Pashayan cited a number of statistics. The fertility rate is 1.6 (and needs to be 2.1 to maintain the population). According to the latest data, 14.9% of women […]
The Minister for Justice Helen McEntee has confirmed there are 5,279 applicants residing here that are still waiting to receive what is termed a ‘first instance decision’ from the International Protection Office. A first instance decision is where the International Protection Office assesses the validity of an applicant’s claim before recommending one of the […]
If you have a son, or a daughter, approaching the age when the opposite sex (or, in these enlightened times, any one of the 43 genders) starts to capture their attention, and want to give them some really good life advice, might we suggest this: “don’t settle for anything less than somebody who loves you […]
On Saturday last, Prof Gerry Kileen of the Zero Covid group was a guest on ‘Saturday with Katie Hannon’ on RTÉ where he claimed that 1 in 30 school children would be hospitalised with Covid. In conversation with the presenter, Kileen said he was concerned about the reopening of schools and disagreed with NPHET’s assertion […]