Or how Irish Politicians learned to stop governing
15-year-old activist Cara Darmody is staging a 50-hour protest outside Leinster House. With 22k children facing a 2+ year wait for HSE assessments, she’s calling out government law-breaking and demanding an emergency international recruitment plan for therapists.
New officers forced to salute senior civil servants
‘Propaganda unit stifling free speech’
A single laptop purchase is not the problem
Fuel protests
Changed utterly
Party’s three youngest TDs admit: “We are deeply worried” following fuel protests
“They couldn’t have handled it worse…every time they opened their mouths, another 10,000 people supported us”: Demonstrators outside the Dáil vent their frustrations about the Government’s handling of the fuel protests of the last
FLASHBACK: In October 2025, Michael Healy-Rae explained to Gript why he was part of a Government that was hiking carbon tax given his previous criticisms of the tax. He argued that even if he was “dead”, it would remain in place until 2030 with or without him in office:
“This government have let the people of Ireland down.”
As Tóibín says Government support package does not go far enough