Confiscation is not the official term, of course, but what’s a better word for this carry on? PARENTS WHO HAD to submit their own passports as part of the application for their child to get a passport may have to wait as long as six months to receive their own back. Furthermore, anyone who had […]
Yesterday, we reported that Texas became the first US state to lift all Coronavirus restrictions, including – controversially – the statewide facemask mandate. From today, Texans are free to go about living their lives just like they did when the Coronavirus was still a twinkle in the eye of an imprisoned, and illegally captured, pangolin […]
“Like the Penal Times”: TDs, including Michael Collins, Mattie McGrath and Carol Nolan have called for a Dáíl Debate to allow churches to open for Holy Week before Easter. Michael Collins TD said that the media were ignoring the read need and desire of people for worship. #gript
Aontú leader Peadar Tóibín TD has called for the easing of restrictions around funeral services and burial, saying that churches are often the biggest building in a given town. He said that the “cruel” restrictions at funerals was in contrast to the daily experience of people standing in queues for goods in busy shops and […]
Gript.ie editor John McGuirk debated Neale Richmond of Fine Gael on Prime Time last night, defending people’s right to peaceful protest and pointing out why so many are upset at the Government’s appalling mishandling of the Covid-19 crisis. In a robust exchange, he said that when reasonable people, including legal and medical experts, sought to […]
Have we passed a crisis point? On Saturday night I watched a FB live stream from one Fabu-D who had been at the anti-lockdown protest in Dublin that day. It was revealing, and in the context of the crisis we are in I think it bodes badly. It wasn’t the events in Dublin that fascinated […]
It is not especially surprising that there was a large protest in Dublin City Centre at the weekend. It is, in fact, vastly more surprising that there have been so few protests like it. When you stop staring at the tree, stand back to take a look at the woods, what you see in Ireland […]
And when they do, they should apologise to the rest of us so we can get back to building our society even as we face a monster debt that will probably last at least 2 generations. If you think zero Covid is possible, I’ve got news for you, you’re living in cloud cuckoo land. Covid-19 […]
It has taken more than a year – one filled with of grief, suffering and misery across all cohorts of society – but the nation’s paper of record finally seems to be coming around to the idea that this never-ending catastrophe might have something to do with the secretive, unelected and unaccountable set of policymakers […]
John Ahern of Christian Voice Ireland talks with Gript about the need to reopen churches, the harms that have been caused by closing them, and how most European countries have kept their churches open. https://www.christianvoice.ie/
Is the tide of public opinion…… finally turning? There is strong support for reopening society and the economy as soon as possible, according to the latest Irish Times/Ipsos MRBI opinion poll, with only a minority favouring a long lockdown until the virus has been eliminated. The poll also shows that the zero-Covid approach is not […]
“What about the rest of us?” Ex-professional footballer and gym owner Gary Dempsey speaks out against the covid lockdown. #gript