The Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment has just released its statistics on the number of work permits issued to Irish companies for February 2021. Despite the Covid crisis, there has been little change in the numbers of people arriving in Ireland to take up jobs when huge numbers of people already here are dependent […]
Today, the Sinn Fein Spokesperson on Children, Kathleen Funchion will move the second stage debate on the Civil Registration (Right of Adoptees to Information) (Amendment) Bill 2021. As Deputy Funchion has already made clear when the Bill was formally introduced on 17 February, “Its simple objective is to give every adoptee the right to […]
Thank you to Gript’s Gary Kavanagh for helping with the research and writing of this article. RTÉ is the only Irish member of a left-wing climate activism group which aims to “transform” the media. But how can you trust an organisation to tell you the truth when it’s siding with activists instead of scientists? CCN, […]
Quietly, this is one of the most significant stories in global politics today, but (probably understandably) it’s not going to make headlines in most Irish media outlets: China’s military executed a coordinated test launch of its top anti-ship ballistic missile into the South China Sea last August to send an “unmistakable message,” the head of […]
Look, Leo, some of us knew this already. Apparently, though, other people needed to be told again: “There is a misconception that Fine Gael is a conservative party when it has in fact played a “crucial role” in advancing equality and in particular gender equality, Tánaiste Leo Varadkar has said. Noting that women have often […]
By far the most terrifying aspect of the transgender phenomenon is the spectre of government intervening to force parents to allow their children to “transition.” As young people increasingly inhabit digital communities populated exclusively by their peers and impervious to adults, transgenderism is becoming a social phenomenon. I have spoken to many parents who have […]
Unbiased journalism, and critical inquiry is absent in reporting of lockdown protests ‘When a fallacy is left unchallenged, it becomes strengthened in the average mind as the absolute truth’. This is something the mainstream media in Ireland know only too well. Following the anti-lockdown protests in Stephen’s Green and the ensuing scramble to denounce the […]
PODCAST: Listen to John Aidan Byrne, Irish commentator based in New York, talks Dick Bove on the return of 1970s style inflation in the US Odeon Capital Group’s Dick Bove sees US prices soaring 70s-style as US money printing hits new records, and national debt exceeds $28 trillion Dick Bove, the famed bank analyst […]
To mark International Women’s Day, The Labour Party published a new manifesto called Labour. Working for Women. In it, the party, under Alan Kelly’s leadership, has provided its clearest signal yet that it will seek a radical and extreme liberalisation of the current abortion law. The manifesto also commits to making peaceful protest against […]
It’s been a while now, but there was a time, at least when this writer was a toddler, when falling into thorny bushes was an occupational habit of being a small child. Today? It’s the equivalent of a decent sized win on the Lotto: A child left with facial scars after falling into brambles while […]
The text of Article 15.2 of Bunreacht nah Eireann, the Irish constitution, is set to form the basis of a case taken by Barrister and Activist Tracey O’Mahony, which seeks to challenge the constitutionality of almost every lockdown restriction enacted by the Irish Government, Gript can reveal. In court documents lodged this week, which have […]
The dying process is an under-examined aspect of euthanasia and assisted suicide. Most people assume that it is swift and painless, but this is not always the case. In Oregon, for instance, which publishes very informative statistics about its “Death with Dignity Act”, the longest reported time to die was 104 hours – 4 days […]