The wave of unrest follows several months of varying degrees of lockdown, with protestors, business owners and many customers appearing to have had enough.
Frederick Hunt, 74, pleaded guilty in the Dublin Circuit Court this week to producing and distributing hundreds of images of child pornography. Hunt, who is a retired Irish Times employee, was also found to have carried out illegal activities on his work computer in the Irish Times building in Dublin. He pleaded guilty to seven […]
The HSE has told nursing homes that some residents who are frail and elderly should not be vaccinated against Covid-19.
Gardaí have massively increased their enforcement of fines for breaches of the 5km travel limit over the weekend, promising greater presence on backroads which people have reportedly used until now to skirt around the main Garda checkpoints. The government has ordered that citizens remain at home unless they have to travel for work, school, or […]
Bad news, this Tuesday morning, for those of you hoping that the Communist revolution is just around the corner. News reaches us, here at Gript, of a major split in the Irish Communist movement. It’s so bad, in fact, that The Communist Party of Ireland has been taken over by a “clique” that “has led […]
Hungary’s Justice Minister Judit Varga announced that “systematic abuses” of freedom of expression by tech giants should be addressed by the current government.
Angela Merkel has said the country could need 10 more weeks of hard lockdown measures in order to overcome the situation.
The former campaign director for the “Abolish the Seanad” referendum campaign, Regina Doherty – who currently serves as leader of the Seanad, in Ireland’s greatest example of failing upwards – is not happy with the report into the Mother and Baby homes, which was published last week. She wants a report into the report, she […]
Free-speech platform, Parler, posted online at the weekend, with CEO John Matze posting a message to “lovers and haters” “Hello world, is this thing on?” Mr Matze wrote, a week after the site, which some conservatives see as an alternative to Twitter, was taken off line by Amazon Web Services and booted out of Google […]
Seven weeks ago, in early December, an Ireland Thinks poll for the Irish Daily Mail suggested that 70% of Irish people were eager to take the Covid Vaccine. Now, after three weeks of renewed lockdown, and a vaccination programme underway? That figure has surged to 86%: 🚨POLL🚨 Ireland Thinks / Mail on Sunday Q. Would […]
A Swiss campaign group has gathered enough signatures to trigger a referendum on Covid-19 restrictions in the country. The Friends of the Constitution organisation collected 86,000 signatures which sparked a legal procedure under Swiss law to initiate a national vote on whether or not to repeal the 2020 Covid-19 Act. Switzerland has an usually devolved democratic system […]
Taoiseach Micheál Martin has said that people could be forced to provide proof that they have had a covid-19 vaccine before they are allowed to get on a plane or enter a pub. When asked if he sees mandatory “vaccine passports” being brought in for people to travel abroad, go to the pub, or attend […]