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Many rank and file Gardai are deeply upset and frustrated with the role that the Garda organisation has been asked to play during the Coronavirus lockdown, according to three members of the force who spoke with Gript. Last week, Gript was approached by a Garda Sergeant based in Dublin who provided an extensive list of […]
Give Fianna Fáil TD Cathal Crowe some credit: The last time he was in the news, it was because he was the politician with sufficient foresight to realise that Fine Gael’s proposal to honour the Dublin Metropolitan Police would be unpopular, and his intervention resulted in that pleasant pre-pandemic month we all spent debating the […]
This is the moment a car being chased by Gardaí careered through the village of Muff, Co. Donegal and hit five vehicles, including a Garda car blocking the way.
Gardai enter a church in Athlone today and forced a stop to the celebration of Mass. One woman praying in the church told Gript she found the Garda actions “deeply upsetting “. More to follow
A group of former Debenhams workers were removed by Gardai after they locked themselves inside the loading bay of the store where the retailer had operated on Henry Street last night, saying they wished to prevent the removal of stock from the store. Around 2,000 workers lost their jobs in April 2020 when Debenhams announced the company was going […]
A Campaigner and former councillor has said that an anti-lockdown event planned for Easter Saturday will go ahead despite his arrest at a protest yesterday in Cork city centre. Diarmaid Ó Cadhla was one of three men arrested on St Patrick’s Bridge yesterday afternoon while holding banner saying “No to Lockdown”. They were taken to […]
Pastor Sean Cronin, of Open Gates Church in Ballymun, was arrested on Sunday whilst speaking at a service in Abundant Grace Church in Ringsend. It appears he was arrested for a breach of the Health Act but the Pastor told Gript that the situation “wasn’t very clear” and that he “still wasn’t sure if they’ve […]
The Garda Press Office has declined to comment on whether public gatherings for religious worship are considered part of the “relevant events” banned by lockdown regulations.
The vicious fight on the Samuel Beckett Bridge in Dublin city centre, during which at least one teenager was stabbed has brought the issue of knife crime sharply back into public focus. It is of course just the latest incident in a long and pitiful litany of knife related crime as a quick review will easily demonstrate. We […]
Broadcaster Niall Boylan has slammed RTÉ for publishing the addresses of anti-lockdown protestors after they were arrested on Saturday and subsequently charged in court. He claimed that while what RTÉ had done was perfectly legal, a” line of decency” had been crossed. The popular presenter said that “printing the names and addresses of two women […]
The question in the headline is not one which you really should be asking, in a modern western democracy, but asking it appears to be necessary. Consider this story from Chai Brady, a very good reporter with the Irish Catholic: A Co. Cavan priest who has not prevented parishioners from attending Mass in the church […]
The Archdiocese of Dublin joined with Gardaí in pressing for an end to priests giving Holy Communion to parishioners after Mass.
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