Alright, hands up. “Mary-Woo!” is the single worst joke you’ll see on Gript this year, and hopefully, there won’t be one as bad again for a long, long, time. Still, there were plenty of reasons for people to be cheering in Sinn Fein headquarters yesterday. The party has moved into a clear national lead, at […]
Meath West TD Peadar Tóibín has described the Government’s actions on Covid as a “yo-yo policy” and says that proposals to introduce new Covid Restrictions even before the current restrictions are relaxed has shattered any sense of certainty that many people and businesses needed and thought that they had. “The Táiniste Leo Varadkar stated on […]
The Irish government is set to give “significant” funds to a new Migration and Media Academy being established in Ireland, and those funds will be of “enormous impact” for the initiative. Ireland was chosen as the location for the new global academy because the university system was “particularly interested”, the media was “open and excellent”, and “in particular, the government […]
You may have heard the news that Ireland is the second best country in the world to live in, according to the human development index: Ireland is second only to Norway on a United Nations annual ranking of 189 countries measured according to average longevity, education and income. The measure puts Ireland ahead of countries […]
An anti-lockdown activist who refused to wear a face mask on a Bus Éireann has been sentenced to two months in prison.
Peadar Tóibín TD has called on the Minister for Health, Stephen Donnelly to make a statement in the Dáil to correct a statement he made in relation to a Covid-19 outbreak in a nursing home in Galway in October. The Minister accused the Aontú leader of telling a “flat out lie” when he raised the […]
The HSE has used Covid as a cover to close small rural hospitals, Independent Td Mattie McGrath has claimed. “The HSE are doing things now in the middle [of the Covid crisis] that they wanted to do for a long time,” Deputy McGrath said. “That’s disband and close all the rural hospitals. We are under […]
In an odd sort of way, the Taoiseach was making a very reasonable point yesterday, when he stood up and told the country, in the Dáil, that the banks were not bailed out when his party last lead a Government. But rarely in Irish history can a reasonable point have been made in a more […]
It’s a basic principle of Irish democracy that taxpayer funding may not be used to promote candidates for election, or sides in referendums. Actually, let me rephrase that: It used to be a basic principle of Irish democracy that taxpayer funding may not be used to promote candidates for election, or sides in referendums. But […]
The Minister for Health will first monitor the effectiveness of vaccines on the transmissibility of Covid-19.
A major pornographic website which allegedly hosted videos of human trafficking victims and children being sexual abused has funnelled almost €1.5 billion in revenue through their Irish subsidiaries.
An Garda Síochána have said a new social media challenge poses a significant risk to life.