Next Sunday Pope Francis will proclaim John Henry Newman a saint. To mark this important event, the Central Catholic Library in Dublin is hosting a talk and an exhibition which includes some original letters, first editions of Newman’s books and other items. Cardinal Newman has strong connections to Dublin as he founded the Catholic University […]
Julian Assange, the founder of Wikileaks, has been remanded in custody once more pending an extradition hearing next February which could see him transferred to the USA on spying charges.
At least four people have been stabbed by a man in his 40’s at Manchester’s Arndale Shopping Centre. The incident is being investigated by counter-terror police.
Two Fine Gael TDs, Maria Bailey and Alan Farrell, made unjustifiable claims amounting to €6,000, with Farrell claiming that the €4,214.79 he must pay back was claimed for work done in 2016, but invoiced in early 2017.
Proctor and Gamble, the consumer goods giant that owns brands such as Charmin and Bounty, is facing increasing pressure from environmentalists to start using recycled wood pulp in the manufacture of its toilet paper.
There has been a lot of anger from pro-choice activists this morning in relation to this new leaflet from Aontú. Downs Syndrome and abortion is an emotive subject, as citizens of the republic learned last year. Now Aontú is putting it front and centre of the ongoing debate in Northern Ireland. Debate, actually, is the […]
A former captain of the Tyrone GAA football ladies team says she may now vote for the DUP because of the party’s pro-life stance. GAA star, Lisa O’Hare, who captained the Tyrone ladies team to become Ulster champions in 2000 told BBC that she can no longer vote for either Sinn Féin or the SDLP […]
A harrowing story of attempted suicide posted by well-known Dublin MMA fighter and rapper Rob Steenson went viral and helped to save other young people contemplating suicide. Today, on World Mental Health Day, Steenson told that he had previously posted on social media about his attempt to take his own life when he was 16 […]
It has been alleged by an Italian journalist who is both an atheist and a friend of Pope Francis that the Pope told him that he does not believe that Jesus Christ is divine. Dr. Eugenio Scalfari, a 95-year-old who has regularly interviewed the Pope in the past, wrote in his column in Italy’s La […]
Next Tuesday, October the 15th, the Compass Series will be holding their second public event, with a panel discussion addressing the question ‘Is the State Too Powerful’, followed by a Q&A. The event will be taking place in Buswell’s Hotel at 7pm. The panel for the event will consist of the Gript editor John McGuirk, […]
The Trump impeachment inquiry concerning controversies in Ukraine is underway in Washington D.C.
One of the problems that the Green movement has is that every so often it has to tell the truth about what it actually wants. This doesn’t happen very often, of course – most of the time they get away unchallenged with benign sermons about the new green economy and a just transition and how […]