If you don’t agree with the protestors in Dublin city centre on Saturday, that’s fine. I am not sure I do myself. Or I haven’t really engaged with what they are protesting about to understand what aspects of ‘lockdown’ are being protested. However, I understand why many felt the need to protest and the right […]
Greene drives northbound on the M50 towards the M1 as she is chased by several Garda cars.
The Donegal gym owner was asked to open by numerous clients.
A homeless man in Cork has been fined €200 for “hopping into a Garda car” on a cold night in Cork last month.
The owner of a beauty salon in Balbriggan was arrested by Gardai today after opening her business for a second day because she says she needed to support her family and pay her bills. Christine McTiernan, who runs C&N Beautyroom, argued that she has the constitutional right to earn a living and this should allow her […]
A beauty salon owner in Balbriggan opened her business this morning, only to be swiftly shut down by the Gardaí. At least two businesses have been closed by An Garda Síochana in recent days after a gym in Donegal and beauty salon in north Dublin decided to open their doors to customers. The businesses were […]
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 […]
My colleague Gary Kavanagh popped this into our Gript group chat yesterday evening with a three word comment that bears repeating – “Hearts and Minds”: It’s okay not to attend a wake, funeral service, burial or cremation these days because only 10 mourners are allowed due to COVID-19 restrictions. There are other ways to sympathise […]
If you are one of the ‘too Irish’ citizens of this “ethnostate” then perhaps you might do well to give the Irish National Integration Conference a miss. It is running all week from Monday to Thursday and the organisers in the Immigrant Council of Ireland have been kind enough to place the proceedings on their site if […]
The job of An Garda Siochána, just like any other police force, is to maintain public order, and to investigate crime. The definition of a crime varies from country to country. In Ireland, for example, soliciting the services of a prostitute is illegal. In Ireland that’s a crime – in the Netherlands, by contrast, it’s […]
Amidst all of the touchy-feely mainstream news media tributes to the different branches of the public service in this Time of the Virus, it would seem that some find it difficult to abandon old ways. While the Gardaí have attracted mixed reviews for their Dancing Against the Pandemic – as opposed to their removing people […]
In a move that will surely unsettle those who are already concerned about civil rights intrusions, mobile phone carrier Three has confirmed that it is now providing data about its customers’ movements to the government so that it can monitor compliance with the Covid-19 lockdown. The movement data – where and when people travelled – of some 2.4 million […]