Two Cork camogie stars who took part in Saturday’s protest in the city centre against the continued Covid-19 restrictions have said that people with other illnesses are “collateral damage” in the lockdown being imposed by the government. Cork camogie players Katrina and Pamela Mackey told Red FM that the lockdown had gone on for twelve […]
LMFM radio presenter Ken O’Sullivan took to Twitter this weekend to express his desire to see anti-lockdown protesters who took part in a peaceful assembly on Saturday in Cork fired from their jobs. “Y’know what would have been a great idea?”, he wrote. “If somebody thought to go in amongst the gobshites at that #corkprotest […]
A Trinity college student running for the position of University Times editor has pledged that if he wins he will give his student accommodation to an asylum seeker. Peter Caddle, who is a fourth year Philosophy student, is known for being involved with the free speech student publication the Burkean, which last year exposed systematic […]
Question: In what country in the world do the authorities consider it perfectly safe to queue up for a McDonalds drive-thru, and collect your happy meal, but too dangerous to queue up for communion after an online mass? Take a wild guess: The Archdiocese of Dublin has advised parishes and priests not to organise events […]
It’s a little bit gauche to write about oneself, which is why, when possible, we avoid doing that here at Gript. There are times, though, when it becomes unavoidable, such as when one of the country’s leading columnists prints a complete falsehood, as Justine McCarthy of the Sunday Times did yesterday, when she accused this […]
At the anti-lockdown assembly in Cork City Centre 6th March 2021 Photo credits: John Tangney
Crowds have protested in Cork city against the continued lockdown, despite Garda checkpoints seeking to turn back demonstrators and warnings that those attending could face fines. Protestors gathered in Patrick’s Street in the city centre and heard from speakers including Peter O’Donoghue, who said he was marching for his mother, who having buried her second son, […]
The number of vaccines administered this week, to date, is lower than we have seen in the previous two weeks. The current rate of administration means it is highly unlikely that we will hit the Government’s vaccination target for March. The Government has said that they will aim to administer 84,000 doses next week. Hitting […]
HSE welcomes the news as a “great sign”.
The Archdiocese of Dublin joined with Gardaí in pressing for an end to priests giving Holy Communion to parishioners after Mass.
Yesterday Gript reported that the International Fact-Checking Network, the IFCN, had told Gript that some of the fact-checking material published by the Journal.ie did not meet their requirements to be considered fact-checking but was instead “non-fact-checking content.” You can read more on that story HERE. The IFCN accredits the Journal as a fact-checker and their […]
Gardaí have stated that organisers of tomorrow’s anti-lockdown rally in Cork, which is headed by a Socialist anti-water charges campaigner, could face a criminal investigation if the protest takes place as planned. However, organisers of the demonstration were defiant ahead of the event, saying that they had a constitutional right to protest despite the restrictions. […]