The decision to remove Speech and Language therapists from The Holy Family Deaf school in Cabra was made without consultaion with parents or the school – and will be “devastating” for deaf children, parents say, as it removes a vital and effective service from already disadvantaged children. Dáire Ryan a parent of a child attending […]
On the one hand, everybody’s talking about Stephen Kenny’s job performance after a 1-0 defeat at home to Luxembourg. The team seemed lacklustre, toothless, and lacking in any kind of identity. The best thing you could say about the Irish performance on Saturday night is that all eleven players were definitely there, on the pitch, […]
For some time now, there’s been an ongoing outbreak of baited breath in legal and religious circles as the public try to decipher whether the Irish Government has adopted the policies of Elizabethan England (Popery firmly discouraged) as regards to the holding of masses in Ireland or whether it had gone a step further and […]
Several Garda checkpoints with over a dozen Gardaí were in place around Our Lady of Lourdes Church in Mullahoran, Co. Cavan
Fourteen people have been seriously wounded in what is being described as a terrorist attack on Catholic church in Indonesia. The attack, which national police say was carried out by two people, took place as Catholics gathered in the church in the Indonesian city of Makassar for Palm Sunday services to mark the first day […]
There were sharp exchanges in the Dáil last night as the government refused to accept calls from four independent TDs who called for places of worship to be open for Easter, to limited numbers of the faithful, under strict conditions. Carol Nolan, Richard O’Donoghue, Michael Collins and Mattie McGrath had strongly argued that churches could be re-opened […]
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 […]