This week, a group of young people from the ‘We Need Worship’ campaign released a video calling on the government to consider reopening churches and places of worship. It comes as businessman Declan Ganley launches a case in the High Court seeking to overturn the ban on worship currently in place under level five restrictions. Following […]
A Co. Cavan priest has been threatened with prosecution for holding a number of public Masses in violation of Covid-19 laws.
Irish Equity has welcomed the proposal to introduce a basic income scheme for workers in the Arts sector. The scheme is among a range of supports for artists and performers which are proposed in the report of the Arts and Culture Recovery Task Force and which was accepted by the Government today. It will provide […]
Dublin Zoo is urgently appealing for public financial support after the Government’s lockdown resulted in a 90% loss in revenue, it says. The Zoo – which is a registered charity – has running costs of about half a million euro per month. But most of this money is generated by gate receipts. On Wednesday October […]
The Workers’ Party councillor Éilis Ryan has said Ireland should consider making the Covid-19 vaccine mandatory.
Aontú will introduce a Bill to the Dáil today seeking to make the online provision of pornography by internet companies to children illegal. The party leader says that some 60% of teen boys are now seeing porn before the age of 13. Meath West TD Peadar Tóibín said the Bill will be introduced and discussed […]
What’s the point of this, exactly? GOVERNMENT WILL TODAY move to introduce a regulation that will give gardaí the power to fine people who gather outside to drink alcohol. The new fines will be separate to existing laws which already state it is an offence to consume alcohol bought in a closed container (like a […]
In the midst of a housing crisis that dominated the General Election earlier this year, and in a country with – at last count – ten thousand homeless people, Dublin City Council was last night presented with a plan to build 850 new homes in Coolock. 250 of these would have been social housing. The […]
Tipperary’s Gaelic footballers will wear commemorative jerseys to mark the centenary of Bloody Sunday in their Munster final clash with Cork this Sunday. The jersey features an image of Michael Hogan, the Tipp player shot dead by British forces along with 13 others at Croke Park on 21st November 1920. Black and Tans, along with police, […]
A group of doctors and scientists are calling for an end to the Covid-19 lockdown with one spokesman saying that NPHET should be disbanded. They say that “lockdowns are harmful to society and do not work to contain pandemics.” Almost 170 experts have signed a white paper from the group called ‘COVID-19: A Rational Approach’, […]
A judge has slammed the child protection agency TULSA for what he described as using the “might of the state” to continue a “habit of splitting siblings, heaping one trauma on top of another” Judge Desmond Zaidan. said that it was the “First Commandment” not to split up siblings and said he laid “all the […]
On Friday, we reported on the contents of Fianna Fáil’s new Hate Crime Bill, which will be debated in the Seanad this week. Ahead of that debate, it is worth setting out for our readers why we at Gript believe hate crime laws are one of the worst ideas ever introduced by Irish politicians. Here […]