The controversy comes after French teacher Samuel Paty was killed for displaying an image of Mohammed to students in a school outside Paris.
A garda spokesman said enquiries into the incidents “are ongoing.”
Irish badgers are being cruelly, and unnecessarily injured, traumatised, and killed by the use of snares by Irish Government employees, according to a wildlife rescuer based in the Midlands. Ruairi O’Leochain runs Athlone’s Wildlife Apiaries, and told Gript that the problem was widespread, and the cruelty involved is distressing and unnecessary, especially when cage traps […]
The recent rise in Covid cases in Ireland has nothing whatsoever to do, according to NPHET, with the decision to open schools in Ireland. No. It is instead a result of an increase in household visits, according to the State’s Covid Czars: A doubling in the amount of inter-household visiting since the start of February […]
“We’re in for seemingly endless cycles of outbreaks and remissions, social restrictions and relaxations, lockdowns and reopenings.”
Arlene Foster, Northern Ireland’s First Minister, has told the Secretary of State for the region, British MP Brandon Lewis, to “back off” on compelling Stormont to implement abortion laws. Abortion is considered a devolved issue – to be decided locally in the region – but in 2019, with the contrivance of Sinn Féin and some members […]
The Central Bank has levied a record €37.8 million fine on Ulster Bank for its use of “deliberate” strategies which caused borrowers to be overcharged on their mortgages during the financial crisis. The safeguarding authority found that the bank had also only rectified matters for those borrowers that complained. The fine is the largest ever penalty levied against […]
Parents at the Holy Family School for the Deaf in Cabra have launched an Open Letter addressed to the Government and the HSE urging that the threatened removal of the school’s on-site Speech and Language Therapist be reversed. The open letter, addressed to the Head of Disability Services in HSE as well as Ministers for […]
This is a new one on me, to be honest. I wasn’t aware Cardinals got a salary, as such, and certainly not anything this generous. If this Gript thing doesn’t work out, that’s my next career move, for sure: VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis has ordered cardinals to take a 10 percent pay cut and […]
“Diversity is important”, the Lord Mayor said yesterday, as she launched her campaign for the Seanad, in contravention of the wishes of her own party. The Greens weren’t happy, and the parliamentary party met last night to consider a motion of no-confidence in the Mayor as it relates to her other job – Chairwoman of […]
The historical importance of Moore Street in the birth of the Republic has been highlighted in the Dáil by Aontú leader, Peadar Tóibín, who said that the area which was central to the Rising has been turned into an “outdoor toilet” by Government inaction. “Moore St is the birthplace of the Irish Republic. The lanes […]
The Garda Press Office has declined to comment on whether public gatherings for religious worship are considered part of the “relevant events” banned by lockdown regulations.