A priest addressed a group gathered to pray in the Phoenix Park last night as pressure grows on the government to lift a ban on public Masses.
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 […]
Two homeless people were found dead in Dublin over the bank holiday weekend, bringing to “over 50” the number of those found dead while homeless in the first ten months of 2020. Independent Councillor Anthony Flynn told the Irish Times that the number of deaths of homeless people had increased from 37 at this point […]
The Irish government will not be lifting a ban on public worship services over the coming weeks after five Catholic bishops met with Taoiseach Micheál Martin last night.
A Dublin gym has reportedly been shut down by authorities following their defiance of the covid-19 lockdown. The Mind Over Matter gym in Coolock made a stir online last week when they published an Instagram post to explain why they would be keeping their doors open despite the government’s level 5 restrictions. “We are writing […]
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 […]
The bad news for Donald Trump, in this new poll from the excellent Ireland Thinks (which increasingly does polling on interesting questions that other companies just don’t) is that if Ireland was the 51st state of the Union, it would be the most Democratic state there is. Even in ultra-liberal Vermont, Trump will get something […]
The abbreviation “NGO” stands, as most people know, for “non governmental organisation”. In other words, it covers a whole range of charities, political lobby groups, and representative bodies who take part in the political process, but who are not political parties, or part of the Government. Amnesty Ireland is an NGO, as is the Irish […]
A new campaign seeks to press TDs, Ministers, and church leaders with an urgent “We need Worship” message from thousands of people who say they are being “denied the right” to express their faith. The We Need Worship group said that there was no evidence that religious services had contributed to the spread of Covid-19. […]
“The choice we faced last week was pass the legislation and preserve the database of information, which will be available once further legislation has passed in the coming months, or allow the database be deleted or destroyed forevermore,” Collins is reported to have said according to the Irish Examiner.
In a move likely to anger Beijing Young Fine Gael has called on the Irish Government to build its relationship with Taiwan by formally establishing a representative office in Taiwan, saying that “Ireland must be stronger in our support to fellow liberal democracies like Taiwan in the face of rising authoritarianism.” The move came after […]
A video made by an Irish commentator which targets alleged scaremongering in media discussions of Covid-19 has gone viral racking up more than 150,000 views across social media problems. Ivor Cummins, a bio-engineer, took issue with what he described as a “tale of terror” being told on the Tonight Show on Irish Virgin Media where […]