A Irish woman living in Gran Canaria was gang-raped by four North African migrants after she stopped to express concern for their plight, it has been reported. Local papers said that the woman was 36-years old and had lived on the island for several years with her family. She was walking through the Agua La Perra […]
Illegal drug use is the scourge of cities, towns and rural villages right across the state. Gone are the days when the problem was confined to major urban areas. In fact, nowadays hard-core drug use is approaching something like routine. It is also the source of endless heartbreak for families, parents and children whose […]
The Gardai are very busy at the moment, of course, with Covid 19 duties meaning that their force is spread thin across the country stopping people in their cars to ask them where they are going, as well as fining people at the airports, and on the beaches, and just about anywhere else you can […]
Lisa Montgomery was born with permanent brain damage, because of her mother’s drinking during pregnancy. When little Lisa was three years old, her stepfather slipped into the room she shared with her eight year old half-sister, Diane. Lisa, according to evidence presented years later, held her sister’s hand while the older girl was raped by […]
The Department of Justice’s new report, titled ‘Legislating for Hate Speech and Hate Crime in Ireland’, recommends the introduction of draconian and expansive hate based laws in Ireland but contains absolutely no recommendations on how to protect free speech and ensure the laws don’t stifle public debate. The report, published last week, will be used […]
The European Commission has announced that they will be making perceived “hate speech” a crime under EU law. But who decides what is hateful? Ben Scallan reacts. #gript
Let’s face it: they’re not wrong. If ever there was going to be a time to legalise drugs, it’s now, right? We can all forget about this blasted pandemic and get high: Drugs could be decriminalised under the current government if all parties work together to help those with addiction issues, Labour said. Aodhán Ó […]
Two brothers have been sentenced to two years in jail each for forcing an elderly and vulnerable woman to pay an “extortionate price” for chainsaws, power washes and generators she had no use for and did not want. An Garda Síochana report that “the men called to an elderly lady’s home in West Cork, uninvited, and […]
The so-called “homicidal girl” who is at risk of being released into the public in the next few days had the authenticity of her change of gender questioned by two separate experts, court documents reveal. The media has been precluded, by a court order, from reporting on the fact that the “girl” in question is […]
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 […]
Every year since at least 2005, in the run up to Halloween, the Gardai roll out Operation Tombola. The main aim of the Operation is to disrupt, seize and prevent the supply of illegal fireworks and to mitigate the associated public disorder and anti-social behaviour that usually goes with such sales. As the law currently […]
Ben Scallan: “Why is Hazel Chu asking what Deliveroo is doing about crime in the city, when she is literally the Lord Mayor of Dublin? Isn’t presiding over the city her job?”