The EU Economic Policy Committee has confirmed that the climate finance support provided by the EU and its member states (the UK included) amounted to €23.2 billion in 2019, a 6.9% increase compared to 2018. The total without the UK stood at €21.9 billion, a 7.4% increase compared to the total for the EU […]
Minister English will take a while to live this one down.
The money, you see, was only resting in Elisha McCallion’s account. That, at least, is the version of reality we are being asked to accept by the Sinn Fein leadership, which yesterday sought, and received, the resignation of the Derry-born senator over the mysterious diversion of ten thousand pounds of UK taxpayers money, which ended […]
Perhaps no country in the world has been the subject of more debate and scrutiny during the Coronavirus pandemic than Sweden. In the eyes of those who oppose the lockdown approach adopted by almost every other western country, Sweden is the example of a country that has successfully battled the virus without imposing draconian restrictions […]
A recent report conducted by the Social Policy Department at UCD for the Dublin Regional Housing Executive contains some interesting insights into the response to homelessness in the city. Among the groups who took part were Merchants Quay, Crosscare, Focus, and the Capuchin Day Centre. Seemingly, no homeless persons nor any of the smaller voluntary […]
The problem with Direct Provision isn’t just that the system is a disaster. It’s that 90% of applicants are not asylum seekers at all. Now, the government’s new plan for housing immigrants will make an already crippling housing crisis even worse, and allow thousands of migrants to bring their families here with a built-in right […]
The latest episode in ‘How the ‘Gah’ infected the country with the Plague’ came with the news that Waterford County Board is proposing to strip Dungarvan GAA club of its intermediate football title. Unlike other episodes, such as the one in which the Blackrock hurling club in Cork and it’s crazy supporters supposedly embarked on […]
Update: Wow. Jeremy Corbyn MP has been suspended by the Labour Party. — Britain Elects (@BritainElects) October 29, 2020 __________________________________________________________________ The leader of the UK Labour Party and the British Opposition, Sir Keir Starmer, has said that the publication of a report into anti-semitism in the party is “a day of shame for the Labour […]
Last week, we published a story about mounting concerns amongst teachers that the Government’s public spin about the safety of schools is not matched by the realities on the ground. Teachers across the country told us, here at Gript, that they felt that there is a concerted effort by the authorities to artificially depress the […]
As everyone knows, people with disabilities are being wiped out by abortion. The most lethal form of discrimination is being openly practised in many supposedly civilised countries, with up to 90% of babies diagnosed with Down syndrome now aborted before they are born. Meanwhile, the world stands idly by and talks about equality and inclusion while ignoring the elephant […]
The author, Carol Nolan, is the Independent TD for the constituency of Laois-Offaly Over the course of my political career, I have often found myself wondering if anyone in government has ever actually met a real child. On the face of it, this appears to be an almost ridiculous thing to say. But the latest […]
Intolerable and hopeless (meaning without prospect of improvement) suffering is an eligibility criterion for euthanasia/assisted suicide in the Netherlands, Belgium, and Canada. Despite having been used as such a criterion for decades (at least in the Netherlands; shorter periods in other countries), it is still widely debated as to its meaning and applicability as an […]