You know what? Hands up. At the very beginning of the vaccine rollout, we at Gript were very critical of how slow and poorly co-ordinated it was. We ended up having a rollout that was significantly slower than that in the UK and Northern Ireland, and there was, indeed, much to criticise. But it would […]
Data centres, much like cars, air conditioning, farting cows, home heating, air travel, global shipping, and making anything out of wood, are fast becoming a bete noir for Ireland’s climate movement, summed up by an official denunciation of the fast-growing sector in the pages of the Irish Times yesterday, penned by Una Mullally. Here is […]
Poor old Ireland: Varadkar says he believes “we need to get through at least another winter before we can say the pandemic is behind us” – he says vaccinating all adults might not be enough to bring about herd immunity, and teenagers being vaccinated may also be required before any full reopening pic.twitter.com/6hkymiVyIx — Gavan […]
Thousands of protesters assembled outside the Convention Centre in Dublin to say #NoVaccinePassports
As we noted last week on Gript, the result of the Dublin Bay South bye-election, where the media set the posh against the privileged, was never going to be much of a surprise. The constituency is one of the wealthiest areas in the country. As far as gated houses and disposable incomes are concerned, DBS is not so […]
The available statistical information on the Irish abortion regime is summarised in this article. The abortion regime put in place in 2018 was certainly not designed with information-gathering in mind, but we do now have two official reports from the Department of Health (2019 and 2020), and some additional information for 2019, the latter thanks […]
The Irish Government has now announced that it will rush through legislation so that emergency generators required to fill the gap left by the State’s switch to ‘green’ or renewable energy can bypass planning laws. The move is in response to serious concerns about electricity blackouts in the winter months – with senior sources saying […]
55 local Rallies for Life have taken place across the country urging the public and TDs to #RethinkAbortion in view of the shocking outcomes of the abortion regime so far. Because of Covid-19 restrictions, the local rallies took place in lieu of the national pro-life march on the first weekend of July , but organisers […]
As Islamic terrorism is declining across Europe, in Ireland the problem is growing. The number of people arrested in Ireland last year after being suspected of being engaged in Islamic terrorism has tripled from the year before, a new report has revealed. In 2020, 18 individuals in total were arrested on suspicion of Islamic terrorism. […]
Only 25 per cent of children were physically active every day.
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