If this works out, then I’m looking forward to sending a personal bill to London for my share of the reparations owed for the famine, and other offences caused over the past 800 odd years. A west brit I may be, but I have my eye on getting a PlayStation five, and if reparations are […]
My colleague Gary Kavanagh popped this into our Gript group chat yesterday evening with a three word comment that bears repeating – “Hearts and Minds”: It’s okay not to attend a wake, funeral service, burial or cremation these days because only 10 mourners are allowed due to COVID-19 restrictions. There are other ways to sympathise […]
Independent TD Noel Grealish and former Fianna Fáil TD Donie Cassidy are to appear before a Co. Galway district court.
RTÉ is reporting that the government has agreed to give Leaving Certificate students the option of a calculated grade or written exam in each subject. Minister for Education Norma Foley is set to announce a two-track Leaving Certificate exam process that will see students choose to receive a calculated grade or to do a written […]
The seven-day average of total vaccine doses administered has increased slightly to 25,956, after having fallen to an all-time low of 24,796 yesterday. The average number of doses administered per day has fallen by roughly 35% since the 9th of February. Between Monday the 8th and Sunday the 14th of February, the last day we […]
“Endless Russophobia”, she says, stalks the halls of the European Parliament in Brussels. More on that in a moment. But first, watch the whole thing, and pay close attention to what she says about Putin’s recently imprisoned political foe, Alexei Navalny: Is Navalny, as she says, a “vicious, anti-immigrant, racist”? Well, on the […]
A bit of a hangover from yesterday, which we didn’t get around to, but worth writing about anyway. Honestly, Mary, you’d be so much happier if you just left the Church and became a Protestant. Or a Muslim. Or a Hindu. Literally anything really. Why is she doing this to herself? The Catholic Church’s failure […]
The bishop of Raphoe has said politicians are wrong to deem religious services “non-essential”.
A Dutch court has ruled to end a government-imposed covid-curfew, calling the restriction a “far-reaching violation of the right to freedom of movement and privacy”, and arguing that it curtailed Dutch citizens’ rights to demonstrate and freely assemble. The court said in a statement that “the curfew must be lifted immediately” and claimed that through […]
369 elderly people died in Irish nursing homes in January, bringing the total number of nursing homes deaths since the outbreak to over 1,500.
The 7 day average of total vaccine doses administered has now fallen to 24,612, the lowest level recorded since the HSE started releasing daily vaccination numbers. The average number of doses administered per day has fallen by nearly 40% since the 9th of February. Between Sunday the 7th and Saturday the 13th of February, the last day […]
As many as 23 of Berlin’s new “green” electric buses stopped running during the recent cold snap and had to be replaced with diesel alternatives, German media has reported. According to the Berliner Morgenpost, Berlin’s main public transport operator, the Berliner Verkehrsbetriebe (BVG), last week’s low temperatures caused problems with the electric vehicles batteries, with […]