Yesterday, Dr. Anthony O’Connor, a consultant gastroenterologist (the speciality dealing with ailments of the stomach and digestive system and not, notably, dealing with respiratory diseases like Covid 19) announced that he would no longer continue to tweet about the Covid 19 crisis – or indeed tweet at all – after “somebody close to Stephen Donnelly” […]
Alright, hands up. “Mary-Woo!” is the single worst joke you’ll see on Gript this year, and hopefully, there won’t be one as bad again for a long, long, time. Still, there were plenty of reasons for people to be cheering in Sinn Fein headquarters yesterday. The party has moved into a clear national lead, at […]
In an odd sort of way, the Taoiseach was making a very reasonable point yesterday, when he stood up and told the country, in the Dáil, that the banks were not bailed out when his party last lead a Government. But rarely in Irish history can a reasonable point have been made in a more […]
Jobpath is described by government as an approach to “employment activation” which caters mainly for people who are long-term unemployed (12 months or more) to assist them to secure and sustain full-time paid employment. Depending on where you live in the country it is delivered by one of two private companies – Seetec Limited […]
Just as the Government rolled over for the far left on the Euthanasia Bill, it seems that they will do the same on Labour’s Private Members Bill which seeks to overturn the decision of the 2004 referendum on citizenship. Yesterday in the Seanad, Minister for Justice Helen McEntee told Senator Ivana Bacik that she supported […]
Peadar Tóibín’s Aontú have drawn level with the Labour Party on 4% in the latest Ireland Thinks opinion poll for the Mail on Sunday, which also shows that about 20-25% of Irish voters would not take a Covid vaccine. More on the vaccine below, but first, here are the party figures: 🚨Poll🚨Ireland Thinks / Mail […]
In the midst of a housing crisis that dominated the General Election earlier this year, and in a country with – at last count – ten thousand homeless people, Dublin City Council was last night presented with a plan to build 850 new homes in Coolock. 250 of these would have been social housing. The […]
On Friday, we reported on the contents of Fianna Fáil’s new Hate Crime Bill, which will be debated in the Seanad this week. Ahead of that debate, it is worth setting out for our readers why we at Gript believe hate crime laws are one of the worst ideas ever introduced by Irish politicians. Here […]
The new Hate Crime Bill, introduced by Senators Lisa Chambers, Fiona O’Loughlin, and Robbie Gallagher last week is a remarkably poor piece of legislation. You can read it all here. The bill creates a new offence of “aggravated hate crime”. What it essentially tries to do is to tack motive onto existing crimes as an […]
“The choice we faced last week was pass the legislation and preserve the database of information, which will be available once further legislation has passed in the coming months, or allow the database be deleted or destroyed forevermore,” Collins is reported to have said according to the Irish Examiner.
What’s the point of giving every student in the country €250 in the budget? The pubs are closed, after all. But nonetheless, that’s what the Government is doing, apparently: NEW: In budget third level students to be given €250 each to help meet the cost of this year. Total cost €50m. Details to be worked […]
Thankfully, the Government remembered who elected them and rejected the NPHET call for Level 5 restrictions. It was clear that the leaking of the proposed lockdown last night had elicited a pretty wide ranging rejection. Unlike the announcement of the first lockdown in March when people were naturally in a state of shock and in […]