When I put this down on the list of things to write about, yesterday afternoon, the plan was simple enough: Point out how ludicrously insane this statement is, and question how in the world it ended up being allowed to go unchallenged on the national broadcaster. But then, last night, we heard that the Government […]
It’s tempting to say that London, in the video below, is “getting back to normal”. But that’s not quite right, is it? It’s standing room only in Soho this evening. A carnival atmosphere. “This is London,” one man tells me. pic.twitter.com/KdeqvQCaFN — Matthew Thompson (@mattuthompson) April 12, 2021 For one thing, though the United Kingdom […]
This weekend, in the name of safety, the Irish Government interned – without trial – a fully vaccinated man who had also provided a negative covid test, and fully intended to prevent him from going to see his dying father. The man took them to court, and, rather than allow the court to rule on […]
Professor Gerry Killeen will be familiar to readers of Gript, being, as he is, one of the leading lights in the Zero Covid campaign, and being the apparent owner of an access-all-areas pass for the RTÉ campus in Donnybrook, where he’s never off the air. Professor Killeen, like a lot of the Zero Covid types, […]
Dr. Martin Feeley served as Clinical Director of the Dublin Midlands Hospital Group until September 2020, when he resigned after the HSE said his criticisms of lockdown made his position “untenable”. In this piece, he sets out the reasons why, after 15 months, a comparison between the experiences of Ireland and Sweden have served only […]
Meath West TD Peadar Tóibín has called the inability of TDs to question NPHET a threat to the democratic oversight within the country. The Aontú leader said that TDs were unable to ask questions despite “the decisions on practical every aspect of the life of the country being made by NPHET.” “Today Ireland’s workplaces have […]
As a Monaghan native, let me reassure the rest of the country of one thing: All this additional training will not make too much of a difference. We’ll still likely get dumped out of the championship by Cavan at the first hurdle: Video footage has emerged purportedly showing members of the Monaghan senior football team […]
One thing that has genuinely been remarkable to witness over the course of Ireland’s covid journey is how the comparisons between Ireland and the UK in the Irish media have…… sort of disappeared? You will recall, of course, that in the early days of the pandemic, Irish journalists and political types could not stop comparing […]
On March 10th, four weeks ago tomorrow, the State of Texas in the United States ended all Coronavirus lockdown restrictions. By all, we mean just that: All. No masks. No restrictions on travel. No limits on opening businesses or gathering indoors. No laws against religious worship, or going to the beach. All restrictions in Texas […]
Rarely has a news story been more perfectly calibrated to appeal to the various prejudices of Ireland’s media class than the news this weekend that two young women had absconded from their mandatory appointments with two-week detention, having returned from Dubai, where they had gone to have cosmetic surgery. The women in question, we are […]
Dublin’s O’Connell Street locked down on Easter Sunday Photo credit: Krzysztof M
Fr. PJ Hughes was fined 500 euro and threatened with arrest for saying Mass to a handful of parishioners in Co. Cavan yet in Knock, over the Easter weekend, a greater number were present in the Basilica for the Good Friday solemnities yet there was no word from the Gardai. The presence of RTÉ transforms […]