Michael Collins, one of the original three-man crew of the first manned mission to the Moon, has passed away at age 90 after “a valiant battle with cancer.” Collins reportedly passed away Wednesday, and “spent his final days peacefully, with his family by his side” according to his relatives. During the Apollo 11 mission in […]
The Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China (IPAC), an international cross-party group of parliamentarians, yesterday launched a global campaign calling on the World Health Organisation (WHO) to invite Taiwan to participate in the World Health Assembly planned for next month. The campaign, titled Let Taiwan Help, argues that Taiwan’s response to COVID-19 was “a great example to […]
The shock announcement comes less than a day after four DUP MPs and 22 DUP MLAs signed a letter of no-confidence in the DUP leader.
The eurosceptic Irish Freedom Party has called for a referendum on what they describe as the government’s “more radical” immigration proposals, saying that “on a matter of profound change, the Irish people should have the final say”. “The Irish Freedom Party are calling for a referendum on recently announced plans relating to immigration,” the party […]
Independent Donegal TD Thomas Pringle has slammed Minister for Higher Education Simon Harris for failing to address issues affecting third level students, and spending too much time on the teen social media site TikTok. “We hear more from Simon Harris on Covid-19 issues than on the issues affecting our tens of thousands of third level […]
Italian police have arrested over 30 people suspected of being members of the Nigerian Black Axe mafia – a “black-liberation” group known for committing rape, mutilation and ritual murder. According to police, the group face about 100 charges, including drug trafficking, human trafficking, prostitution and internet fraud. Allegedly, this gang used Bitcoin in order to […]
Justice Minister Helen McEntee appeared evasive yesterday when asked about how her department would prevent future instances of illegal immigration by Gript reporters. “Minister, your department is planning to give amnesty to tens of thousands of illegal immigrants later in this year,” asked Gript’s Ben Scallan during a press conference on Tuesday about a new […]
Young Fine Gael is not an organisation that customarily evokes our sympathy, here at Gript. It is, after all, the youth wing of the largest party of Government – a Government that has, over the past year, led an almost relentless assault on people’s civil liberties and freedoms. Signing up to Young Fine Gael means, […]
Many Irish people will be familiar with the old English phrase to describe an atmosphere of complete chaos: “It’s Bedlam in here”. Fewer, perhaps, will be aware of where the phrase comes from. In the 1300s, London’s first hospital for the mentally unwell was opened – St. Mary’s Bethlehem hospital, better known as Bedlam. In […]
“Councils around the country are advertising jobs that do not begin until July – several days after the supposed freedom day.”
Here are the latest figures for euthanasia in the Netherlands, drawn from the 2020 annual report. With 6938 deaths by euthanasia, this accounted for 4.12% of all deaths. (If the estimated 15,000 extra deaths from Covid-19 were put aside, the rate would be 4.52%) There were two cases of euthanasia for Covid-19 in 2020. With […]
British secret agents have begun “green spying” operations on the world’s polluting countries to make sure they uphold their climate-change targets, according to the head of MI6. MI6, or “Military Intelligence, Section 6”, is the UK’s main spying agency and is famously depicted in the James Bond movies, will be spying on industrial countries around […]