Coronavirus running wild, economy sputtering to a halt, no-deal Brexit coming down the tracks, and, at last count, six thousand and seventy-seven homeless people in the country. And the Government’s hot new idea? Counting the skin colour of lecturers in Irish Universities to make sure they’re “diverse” enough: IT WILL BE compulsory for third-level institutions […]
Some of Britain’s best known writers and actors, including famed author Ian McEwan and actor Griff Rhys Jones have signed an open letter defending JK Rowling after the Harry Potter creator was the focus of sustained attack in social and mainstream media for her views on gender identity. Rowling has stood her ground after expressing concern that […]
Highly amusing. This all began at 2.50AM, when somebody noticed an…. unusual tweet from the MEP’s account concerning his constituency colleague, ex-Green candidate Saoirse McHugh: The apparent tweet, slash google search gone terribly wrong, was swiftly deleted, and that would seem to have been the end of that. An embarrassing middle-of-the-night blunder, worthy of a […]
Credit to Aoife Moore in the Examiner for this scoop: The government is examining the potential for an “insane” pilot scheme to shoot seals with high-powered rifles from boats. The scheme would see licenses granted potentially in Kerry and Cork to protect fishermen’s catches. The latest population estimates available to government indicate that there are […]
Credit to the Trinity News, the college’s student newspaper, for an immensely entertaining report about the thought process which has led to the College Historical Society to un-invite Professor Richard Dawkins, who was scheduled to give an address to students next year: The College Historical Society (the Hist) has tonight rescinded its invitation to Richard […]
A Canadian doctor has warned that the number of people dying by assisted suicide increased five-fold in Canada after it was legalised in 2016 on ‘limited grounds’. Dr Martin Owen, writing in the Irish Times responded to those who argued that the Dáil should look to countries such as Canada when considering whether it was […]
The good news: S/he is behind bars, for the moment: A TEENAGER has been remanded in custody charged with making threats to kill two people. Barbie Kardashian (18), of no fixed abode, appeared before Limerick District Court charged with four counts of making threats to kill or cause serious harm. The bad news: S/he, legally […]
The Ombudsman, Peter Tyndall, has said that it is a “matter of frustration” for him that he has not been given the power to investigate the tragic and shocking death of Ultan Meehan in Kilbrew Nursing home in Meath earlier this year. Mr Meehan suffered from dementia and also from cancer of the head which had caused […]
Update two: Gript has been made aware that the media reporting of this story has been impacted by a court order by the President of the High Court restricting the right of media outlets to report on the Gender Dysphoria aspect of this story (in other words, banning newspapers from revealing that the person involved […]
A senior medical expert has said that the government needs to stop “scaring the nation” on Covid-19. Dr Martin Feeley, the former clinical director of the Dublin Midlands Hospital Group, previously said Covid-19 is “much less severe” than the average annual flu. He was forced to resign by the HSE for his comments, despite a […]
The Hair and Beauty sector is contributing €2.79 bn to the economy’s GDP – but the Government will drive more customers into the already significant black market, if it does not do the right thing on VAT in the upcoming budget, according to the representative body HABIC (Hair & Beauty Industry Confederation). Already a burgeoning proportion of […]
Abortion survivors have thanked U.S. President Donald Trump after he announced an executive order on Wednesday which would require that medical care be given to babies who are born alive after a failed abortion attempt. “Today I am announcing that I will be signing the Born-Alive Executive Order to ensure that all precious babies born alive, […]