If you are a daily reader of Gript, you’d have encountered this conclusion, about the recent surge in Coronavirus in the US, on our site two days ago: You can see that the surge in hospitalisations is more recent than the surge in cases, and that makes sense. Some people who were diagnosed three weeks […]
Surely, not since Marshall Nugent* liberated Rome from Napoleon has an Irishman won such an impressive victory on the continent: “The 19 finance ministers of the euro zone have elected Paschal Donohoe to be the president of their influential Eurogroup, giving Ireland a significant platform as the European Union debates how to handle the economic […]
While many Government TDs are shredding each other to pieces over who got jobs and who didn’t, Fine Gael’s Jennifer Carroll MacNeil is quietly continuing to build a reputation as one of the more diligent and effective new members of the Dáil. Last night, the Dun Laoghaire TD took to social media to deliver a […]
Last night, the Minister for European Affairs, Thomas Byrne, went on the Tonight Show on Virgin Media to defend Barry Cowen, the Minister for Agriculture, after the stories in recent days about Cowen’s drink driving offence four years ago, and absence of a full driving licence. While Byrne was on the programme, Ken McFadden, a […]
Aontú Leader Peadar Tóibín TD has called on the government to allow children their childhood, and not drag children as young as 5 years old into adult gender politics. “The new Children’s Minister Roderic O’Gorman seeks to change the law to allow for 16- and 17-year olds self-declare their gender possibly without parental consent. The […]
An SDLP Councillor in Coleraine has announced she is leaving the party as a result of its changed stance on abortion. Stephanie Quigley said she had come to the decision as the issue of the right to life was at the core of her politics. “As we journey through life there are always ‘crossroads’ moments […]
Some of the world’s best known writers and thinkers have signed an open letter in Harper’s Magazine expressing concern about ‘cancel culture’ and a growing intolerance of opposing views. “The free exchange of information and ideas, the lifeblood of a liberal society, is daily becoming more constricted,” they write. The letter says “censoriousness is also […]
One of the more unusual things that’s been happening in the (increasingly ignored) world of Coronavirus recently is that the massive surge in cases in the United States has not, as yet, been accompanied by a surge in deaths from the virus. This has prompted some people – in and outside of science – to […]
This might be the classic Irish scandal. Here’s the update from the Independent’s Philip Ryan: PARC road safety group chair Susan Gray says Barry Cowen told her he never sat a driving test before his drink driving ban in 2016. — Philip Ryan (@Philip_Ryan) July 8, 2020 We don’t know how long the Minister for […]
Parents of 670 teenage students with Down syndrome have won a battle to ensure they can be enrolled in a summer education programme for children with special needs. Draft guidelines published by the Department of Education last month indicated that the students would not be eligible for the summer tuition, causing much distress to parents and […]
Gun violence has exploded in New York city after authorities disbanded a special anti-crime unit on June 15, with three times as many shootings from the same period in 2019, according to police statistics. The New York Post revealed that the disturbing figures also revealed a “shocking rise in gunfire” as the number of incidents […]
Organisers of the online Rally for Life say at least 40,000 people tuned in to watch rally events live last week, and that they aim to grow that audience tenfold online given the success and popularity of the virtual rally. The Rally for Life is Ireland’s largest pro-life event and took place online this year […]