Ireland is progressing. It is moving from a dark, priest-infested isle into the light of modernity. That is what we are told. Day after day, week after week – the Irish media and political establishment assures us that as the hour hand moves forward so too does Ireland. This is a lie. Possibly the greatest […]
An Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has announced that all schools, colleges and childcare facilities are to close from 6pm today until 29th March.
An interesting email into us yesterday from Hermann Kelly, leader of the Irish Freedom Party, raised the question of why the Taoiseach and the Government appear to be persistently providing false information about the amount of money the Government sends to the EU annually. Speaking in Trinity College last week, the Taoiseach gave his usual […]
The lady is thought to have been an older person and was being treated in hospital.
“The cases of Coronavirus are rising fast – but is government inaction making things worse?” asks Ben Scallan. #gript #coronavirus
Do you think the Irish Government is doing all it should to keep us safe from COVID-19? Do you agree? VOTE ABOVE #gript
It’s very easy to write about how the Irish Government is bungling the Coronavirus crisis (for it is, now, a crisis) by not moving quickly enough to restrict public gatherings and enforce strict containment measures, and to list the many ways in which it is failing to do so. Primarily, it’s easy to write because […]
The European Parliament called for the legalisation of abortion in Ireland. The opinion, passed in Strasbourg by 321 votes to 122; it carried no legislative weight but provoked a storm of political controversy. It was not the first and wouldn’t be the last time institutions within the European Union would admonish Ireland for it’s pro-life […]
Professor of Immunology, Kingston Mills, has called on the authorities to cancel the St Patrick’s Day festival, as cases of the coronavirus begin to climb in Ireland. Do you agree? VOTE ABOVE #gript
It is expected that Bank of Ireland will not pay corporation tax for at least another ten years, whilst AIB and Permanent TSB will not pay any until almost 2040.
Ireland has the highest rate of families with three or more children in the EU, a report has found. Despite this, our fertility rate is now below replacement level. The study found that in 2017, 7 per cent of Irish households had three or more children. This was more than twice the average across the 28 member […]
Following Tuesday’s confirmation that two Irish dual-citizens have tested positive for coronavirus in Japan, it has since emerged that two other Irish citizens on board another recently quarantined cruise ship returned home to Ireland without being screened on entry.