Julian Assange was offered a “win-win” deal to avoid indictment and extradition to the US, according to the journalist’s barrister fighting his case in a London court.
A local residents group in Donegal claim they have not been given a “fair say” after planning permission for a new development was allegedly passed without sufficient consultation.
The first thing that any new British Prime Minister has to do, upon taking office, is to pen “the letter of last resort”. We have no idea what’s in it, but we know what it is: Instructions given, in a sealed envelope, to the commanders of Her Majesty’s nuclear submarines, only to be opened in […]
Champion boxer Kellie Harrington has called on Ashton Dog Pound, which is currently under investigation by the Gardai on animal welfare grounds, to be shut down. Ashton has received millions of euro in funding from Fingal County Council, South Dublin County Council, Dublin City Council, and Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council. Kellie told Gript “I am […]
The University of Chicago English Department has announced that it “is accepting only applicants interested in working in and with Black Studies” – meaning that students who wish to study english there will also have to take a course that many say draws its inspiration from the Black Lives Matter movement that includes the dismantling of the […]
Ten members of staff in the Tesco in Clearwater Shopping Centre have tested positive for COVID-19, with two of those cases requiring hospitalization. Gript have been told that staff members have been ordered by management not to inform the public about the outbreak, and that not all members of staff in the store have been […]
Former Attorney General and justice minister, Senator Michael McDowell has slammed NPHET’s advice to send Dublin into a fresh lockdown as flying in the face of science. “It hasn’t been scientifically justified, it’s wrong, it flies in the face of the strategy that this government announced two weeks ago that they were going to open […]
A new law passed in the North-Western Nigerian state of Kaduna will mean that men convicted of rape will face castration and a life sentence in prison, while anyone molesting child under the age of 14 will face the death penalty. Women who molest children over 14 will reportedly have their fallopian tubes removed. The […]
The video is here, courtesy of ex-FG TD Noel Rock. It’s a fairly simple act of, well, scumbaggery: https://twitter.com/NoelRock/status/1306967632516714497 Question: He’s the Tánaiste, the number two politician in the country, and an obvious target for those who are legitimately or illegitimately disgruntled. Why doesn’t he have security? People would complain about the cost, of course, […]
The party has confirmed that certain elected representatives “received letters from the police this morning asking them to present for voluntary interview.”
Legendary blues singer, Van Morrison, is to issue three new songs that protest against the Covid-19 lockdown, where he describes what he sees as ‘government overreach’ as the behaviour of ‘fascist bullies’. The famed artist, known for songs like Brown Eyed Girl and Gloria, has accused the authorities of “taking our freedom” in a sharp […]
Last week, #CancelNetflix was trending on social media for days as outrage kept building after the streaming service uploaded the movie ‘Cuties’ which was slammed for “normalising paedophilia”. The hashtag seems to have produced a massive surge in subscription cancellations for Netflix according to research company YipitData, who told Variety that cancellations in the U.S […]