Biden Secretary of State Antony Blinken has said that the US is concerned about the number of Russian troops gathering at the Ukrainian border and said that “there will be consequences” for Russia if they show aggressive behaviour. “I have to tell you I have real concerns about Russia’s actions on the borders of Ukraine,” […]
The Republic, with 4.9 million citizens, has only fully-vaccinated 300,000, while Northern Ireland, with a population of 1.8 million, has vaccinated almost 200k – a higher percentage per capita. According to the HSE, as of the 9th of April 2021, Ireland has administered 309,922 second doses of covid vaccine. By comparison, Northern Ireland, which has […]
The Cambodian government has lashed out at the Canadian media company VICE after an Irish artist edited photos of victims of communist genocide, adding smiles to their mugshots. Politicians have called it a “grave insult” to victims of the “Cambodian Auschwitz.” The images were originally intended to be colourised mugshots of the victims of the […]
Professor Gerry Killeen will be familiar to readers of Gript, being, as he is, one of the leading lights in the Zero Covid campaign, and being the apparent owner of an access-all-areas pass for the RTÉ campus in Donnybrook, where he’s never off the air. Professor Killeen, like a lot of the Zero Covid types, […]
Arthritis can have a significant impact on people’s mental health and wellbeing, in addition to physical symptoms such as joint damage and pain, according to Arthritis Ireland. The national patient organisation is highlighting the effect the disease has on mental health during National Arthritis Week, which starts tomorrow, 12 April). Covid-19 has exacerbated the situation, […]
Hospital Consultants have warned that non-Covid waiting lists have skyrocketed, with a 100% increase in inpatient waiting lists in some hospitals. They also cautioned that the waiting list may be an “underestimation of the true unmet demand for treatment as they do not yet include all those who have had their care disrupted or have […]
Independent Wexford TD Verona Murphy has hit out at regulators over new “Stalinist” rural planning rules that she says will force rural people into “urbanised ghettos”, claiming that a “Dublin-centric government” does not understand rural issues. “For a long time now there’s been a lot of disquiet in relation to planning regulation and particularly in […]
Kerry hotel gets €140,000 rates bill – despite being forced to close for Covid lockdown. The manager of a well-known hotel in Killarney has revealed he was charged almost €140,000 in rates despite the ongoing lockdown. Tom Randles, the manager of Randles Hotel, tweeted a photo of the bill for €139, 376.75 he had been […]
Meath West TD Peadar Tóibín has called the inability of TDs to question NPHET a threat to the democratic oversight within the country. The Aontú leader said that TDs were unable to ask questions despite “the decisions on practical every aspect of the life of the country being made by NPHET.” “Today Ireland’s workplaces have […]
“One case occurred in a clinical trial and three cases occurred during the vaccine rollout in the USA. One of them was fatal.”
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has voted 16 to 1 to uphold a decision in the Czech Republic which banned unvaccinated children from attending school. The court on Thursday found that this decision was legally valid, as its goal was “protective” for other students, as opposed to a “punitive” measure against the unvaccinated. […]
When it comes to explaining, for an Irish audience, the nature of the Popular Mobilization Forces, as Iraq’s Iran-backed Shia Muslim paramilitary force call themselves, it’s quite hard to know where to begin. The first thing to say, probably, is that as an Iranian-backed, explicitly Shiite organisation, you have to be a Shia Muslim to […]