According to a government briefing, if Ireland accepts 200,000 Ukrainian refugees it could cost billions annually. Today at a briefing on the potential cost of accommodating Ukrainian refugees, Ministers were told that the State could pay €400m per year for every 10,000 people taken in, or €2.5 billion for 100,000. However, the government has already […]
Irish pig farmers are calling for support for their struggling industry, which they say is “staring into the abyss.” Pig farmers have been hit hard by rising costs of animal feed, as well as fuel due to the ongoing energy crisis. Pigs are the third most common kind of livestock farmed in Ireland, and the […]
In an RTÉ-commissioned poll on “hate speech” legislation a few years ago, only 19% of viewers said they were in favour of such laws. The poll ran on Claire Byrne Live and was conducted by Amárach Research in 2017, the year after the Brexit referendum and the election of then-US President Donald Trump. 2017 was […]
Three men in their 20s
Later this year, he is scheduled to become Taoiseach again. If he does, that probably locks him in as Fine Gael leader until the next election.
“Laissez-faire attitude”
Elderly people in the Republic of Ireland are going blind for lack of a simple 20 minute procedure. That’s what Gript was told by Independent TDs Michael Collins and Danny Healy-Rae, standing outside the Dáil at 5:45 a.m. on a freezing cold March morning. Collins, who represents Cork South-West, told the Gript team about the […]
According to property website Daft.ie, Ireland is seeing an “unprecedented” lack of houses for sale online, with average prices increasingly sharply since last year. According to the Irish House Price Report for Q1 in 2022, nationally average house prices rose 8.4% nationally since last March, partially due to inflation. While Covid-19 initially reduced house prices, […]
Newstalk has seen significant backlash online after accusing Harry Potter author JK Rowling of “opposing rights for trans people” similar to Vladimir Putin. Rowling has been noted for her belief that transgender self-identification was a threat to women in areas such as sports, women’s toilets and changing rooms. She has also expressed concern that young […]
Pushback
Special Needs assessments increased by a third during pandemic
The Minister for Foreign Affairs, Simon Coveney, was forced to abruptly abandon a speech he was delivering at a peace event in Belfast after being told of a bomb scare. This is the moment Irish Foreign Affairs Minister Simon Coveney was told by his security of a bomb threat as he was mid-speech at a […]