In the week that marked the 23rd anniversary of the signing of the Good Friday Agreement on April 10, 1998, the loyalist violence in Belfast underlined the fact that little has changed regarding the fundamental nature of society in the north of Ireland. It is unlikely that many of the people taking part in the […]
Don’t expect those on the real gravy train to tackle anything other than mere trifles like social media accounts and “foreign interference”.
This weekend, in the name of safety, the Irish Government interned – without trial – a fully vaccinated man who had also provided a negative covid test, and fully intended to prevent him from going to see his dying father. The man took them to court, and, rather than allow the court to rule on […]
Professor Gerry Killeen will be familiar to readers of Gript, being, as he is, one of the leading lights in the Zero Covid campaign, and being the apparent owner of an access-all-areas pass for the RTÉ campus in Donnybrook, where he’s never off the air. Professor Killeen, like a lot of the Zero Covid types, […]
Despite the Irish elite’s fawning attitude to the American Democrats, it would seem that the Biden administration is paying them no heed. One of the reasons that the Woke corporations – and their dependents in countries such as Ireland – hated Trump was that the former U.S. President was attempting to ensure that Ireland and […]
The so-called Enlightenment placed man at the center of the universe, edging aside the “God-centered” worldview once prevalent among Western elites. Then came the Industrial Revolution, spawning the age of “Economic Man.” Matters of consequence came to be viewed primarily through the prism of economic impact. That is something that both Karl Marx and the robber barons […]
Independent Wexford TD Verona Murphy has hit out at regulators over new “Stalinist” rural planning rules that she says will force rural people into “urbanised ghettos”, claiming that a “Dublin-centric government” does not understand rural issues. “For a long time now there’s been a lot of disquiet in relation to planning regulation and particularly in […]
A report by The Legal Services Regulatory Authority (LSRA) has shown that during the period from 7 September 2020 to 26 March 2021, it received a total of 2,352 phone calls and e-mails requesting information and/or complaint forms. This represents a substantial increase on the 1,271 emails and phone calls received during the previous […]
Back in 2017, Columbia University’s Knight First Amendment Institute sued President Donald Trump for blocking seven of his followers. Apparently they had criticised him, and the thin-skinned owner of the @realDonaldTrump account retaliated by blocking them. This made it impossible for the seven followers to read Trump’s tweets or to respond to them. “Now I […]
Dr. Martin Feeley served as Clinical Director of the Dublin Midlands Hospital Group until September 2020, when he resigned after the HSE said his criticisms of lockdown made his position “untenable”. In this piece, he sets out the reasons why, after 15 months, a comparison between the experiences of Ireland and Sweden have served only […]
Responding adequately to the sad news of the Kambala sexual assault petition — the latest spotlight on the sexual assault epidemic — is a sobering challenge for us all. Leading educators in our secondary schools, depressed by the recent revelations and struggling to find solutions, are themselves revisiting calls for better “consent training” for students. But, as others have argued, “consent […]
This is the second article of two that review NPHET’s decision to advise the Irish government against a border quarantine in February 2020. NPHET would later go on to reverse its position on the matter, but by that stage it was too late. The first wave was already well underway, and NPHET’s indecision at this […]