The number of new registrations is obviously connected to greater economic activity over the three months between April and June.
It was originally scheduled for October 2020 but was subsequently postponed several times.
Credit to the Irish Farmer’s Journal, for this scoop, and to their reporter, Declan O’Brien. You can read the full article here, if you have a subscription. But the basics are easy enough to understand: The ineffectiveness of Government efforts to cut carbon emissions by curtailing Irish livestock numbers has been exposed by forecasts of […]
We have to move beyond the insulting caricatures that exist on ‘both sides’ of the debate
Boxer Kellie Harrington has won gold in the lightweight boxing final at the Olympic Games, in a unanimous decision victory over reigning world champion Beatriz Ferreira of Brazil.
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 […]