To be honest, it’s hard to understand where the present panic in some quarters about mandatory vaccinations for Covid 19 has come from. No elected Government, facing into an election at some point in the next five years, is going to want images on the television of policemen dragging four year old girls from their […]
As Gript readers will be well aware, a recent study from UCC has revealed the horrendous reality of how late term abortions are being conducted in this state as well as the astonishing level of medical speciality infighting that is taking place within the Irish maternity hospital network. The silence on the issues that […]
The EU’s pre- Christmas Summit, on 10/11th December, is just over a week away. Brexit looms, of course, but the make or break issue on the table is the EU’s €1.8 trillion fiscal response to impact of the Covid-19 endemic. This pivotal initiative has been in stasis for almost six months. The reason is a […]
“It has not yet been decided how many people can visit each other at Christmas.” So read a recent Irish Times report on the imminent scaling back of Covid restrictions. Many of us have become so accustomed to being instructed by government officials how to conduct our private life that this sort of statement, instead […]
Pat Finucane’s family were sitting down to Sunday dinner at their home in North Belfast on February 12th, 1989 when their door was smashed in by masked loyalist killers wielding sledgehammers. The gunmen then shot Finucane fourteen times in front of his wife Geraldine and his terrified children. He was 39 years old. Since that […]
What’s the world coming to when a senior Sinn Fein TD can’t even gloat about the deaths of 18 young men without people getting all upset? Sinn Fein TD Brian Stanley was all in favour of praising the Warrenpoint ambush just two days ago. But now? Mary Lou has had a word, and Brian is…. […]
“The issue of indemnity”, Taoiseach Micheál Martin told reporters last week, “is under discussion”. If you’re not familiar with what he meant by the issue of indemnity, here’s a quick refresher: In August, media outlets reported that vaccine makers were lobbying the EU for an indemnity in return for providing the vaccine: The European pharmaceutical […]
The European Commission has announced that they will be making perceived “hate speech” a crime under EU law, with particular emphasis on stamping out speech targeted at “lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, non-binary, intersex and queer (LGBTIQ)” individuals or groups. The report, which was released earlier this month, describes how “hate speech” will be added to […]
I was disturbed but not really surprised when I read a October 21 New England Journal of Medicine article by Scott D. Halpern MD PhD titled “Learning about End-of-Life Care from Grandpa”. Dr. Halpern, a palliative care doctor and ethicist at the University of Pennsylvania, wrote about his elderly grandfather who had been widowed for the third time […]
In northern latitudes the sound of spring begins with the booming of snow-covered ice cracking in frozen rivers. Is something like that happening in Belgium? Officials in the Belgian city of Leuven are investigating about ten euthanasia cases which may not have been done legally. The public prosecutor was tipped off by an anonymous letter to […]
The latest and most serious attempt to overturn the referendum which overwhelmingly approved changes to the criteria governing eligibility for Irish citizenship in 2004 comes before the Seanad on Wednesday. There have been, as we have noted before, several other Private Members Bills tabled by communist TDs, but this one in the name of Labour […]
If you needed any more evidence of the lockdown being catastrophic for society and human life, it was provided this weekend by one of the Government’s own top experts. Professor Risteárd Ó’Laoide, the National Director of the National Cancer Control Programme, has said the impact of covid-19 on referrals for lung, breast, and prostate cancer […]