A bombshell report by the US House Judiciary Committee has accused Coimisiún na Meán of censoring social media coverage of elections. On this week’s Gript livestream, Jason has a look at it and discusses Coimisiún na Meán’s role in the Irish media landscape. LIVE at 7pm 04/02/26
“Are you going to have manners?”: In a sharp exchange, Taoiseach Micheál Martin was pressed by journalist Louise Burne on his handling of the Jim Gavin saga. He claimed there is an “agenda” to attack him in recent weeks.
“Men and women argue so differently it’s not even funny”: BEN SCALLAN explains 3 takeaway lessons he learned from being on Virgin Media’s ‘Dinner With The Enemy’.
Did you know that up to 15% of a new private house’s cost goes just towards taxes and levies from the Irish State? BEN SCALLAN explains.
Social Protection Minister Dara Calleary defends Micheál Martin amid the Jim Gavin debacle, saying: “[Micheál Martin] has been in the trenches with me…he has my full confidence.”
“That’s a good thing… you do not want somebody who celebrates cold blooded murder educating your children”. On the Niall Boylan show, Niall and Gript’s Laura Perrins debate the firing of people for celebrating the Charlie Kirk murder. Full podcast: https://niallboylan.com/podcast/charlie-kirk-free-speech-or-cancel-culture-episode-511
Housing Minister on why delivering housing is so hard: “Over the last number of years we’ve made a lot of decisions that I think were very good in isolation with really good intentions, but when you add them up, what we’ve actually done is tied ourselves in regulatory knots.”
Gript reporters discuss questions over whether the Carlow shooter was was sold guns by Garda members. WATCH FULL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMT9VEa00vc&t=889s
Gript Media’s John McGuirk and Virgin Media’s Kieran Cuddihy debate taxpayer funding of NGOs.
The asylum seeker housing business laid bare. GRIPT’s Gary Kavanagh has mapped €4.3bn of State payments to private companies to provide accommodation, and related services, for asylum seekers and Ukrainians, firm by firm, name by name. https://www.youtube.com/live/eGLNYYcM6T8?si=OeHj7LZGG8jKxg3e
Modern journalists are largely (with some honourable exceptions) defined by two characteristics. One is a studiously-cultivated, carefully-curated ironclad-stupidity.
At the bottom of this statement, you will find a court order granted to An Garda Síochána in June of last year.