Since they were founded last Autumn, the ISAG “Zero Covid” group have enjoyed a warm and friendly relationship with the Irish media. They’ve had several advantages in that endeavour – in the beginning, the Trinity College Press Office, with its extensive folder of press contacts, would send out press releases for them. Later, they engaged […]
Ireland is currently under one of the most restrictive covid-19 lockdowns in the world, and the worst in Europe, according to analysis by Oxford University. Ireland’s Level 5 restrictions ranked near the top of the global “stringency index” which has been developed by the university, and which records the strictness of lockdown policies across more […]
Israel has passed a law allowing the names of unvaccinated people to be shared among government agencies. The new law will give the ministries of education, welfare and local governments access to the names in order to “enable these bodies to encourage people to vaccinate by personally addressing them”, according to the parliament. One third […]
The Zero-Covid advocacy group, ISAG, passed information that “may or may not be true” to the Government, in order to give the Government the chance to “line up with our proposals”, Gript can reveal. Dr. Anthony Staines, who has previously featured in Gript reporting as the author of an internal note telling ISAG members to […]
The owner of a beauty salon in Balbriggan was arrested by Gardai today after opening her business for a second day because she says she needed to support her family and pay her bills. Christine McTiernan, who runs C&N Beautyroom, argued that she has the constitutional right to earn a living and this should allow her […]
The latest available data shows that Ireland narrowly missed its target of vaccinating 80,000 people last week. HSE Chief Executive Paul Reid set the target last Monday, when he said that the country would complete “over 80,000 vaccinations” over “a very key week.” A strong start to the week fell apart over the weekend, with […]
An internal whistle-blower in the Coca-Cola company revealed that employees were told to “Try to be less white” in what they said was a required training course. Screen shots of an online employee training course on “Racism and Confronting Racism” show 4 slides which critics say are actually racism in the guise of an anti-racism […]
After Gary’s revelation yesterday that Professor Anthony Staines was sharing texts from “rules for radicals” urging the zero covid group to “look for ways to increase anxiety, insecurity, and uncertainty” in the population, it’s worth taking a deeper dive into the trove of zero covid correspondence we’ve recently received here at Gript. Because, as you’re […]
Can you imagine if the Ceann Comhairle tried this stunt with some of the Dáil’s tracksuit brigade? Conservative MP Jonathan Gullis snubbed from making a virtual contribution to Parliament after being judged to be dressed too casually… pic.twitter.com/ltyvkm8qtl — Lewis McKenzie (@LewisMcKenzie94) February 23, 2021 Tory MP Jonathan Gullis is the victim here. But was […]
Trapped for 2 years More than 18,000 people have now signed a petition calling on the Irish government to intervene and get an Irish citizen home from China where he has been kept against his will for 2 years. Dublin businessman Richard O’Halloran has now been under detention in China since March 2019. He is […]
A beauty salon owner in Balbriggan opened her business this morning, only to be swiftly shut down by the Gardaí. At least two businesses have been closed by An Garda Síochana in recent days after a gym in Donegal and beauty salon in north Dublin decided to open their doors to customers. The businesses were […]
The Sino-Vatican agreement on the appointment of bishops in China appears to have been torn up by the CCP. New regulations on the appointment of religious leaders by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) omits any mention of the Vatican’s role in approving bishops to the state-run church there, casting doubt over the integrity of the […]