Yesterday Leinster House hosted yet another festival of virtue signalling or what was billed as a debate on the Labour Party’s proposal to pursue a “national aggressive suppression strategy” to bring about Zero Covid. This is something many experts believe is impossible – and in any event is that not what the much heralded vaccine […]
The Taoiseach’s decision not to rule out this year’s White House St. Patrick’s Day trip is incomprehensible and represents a classic case of self-preservation during a global pandemic, according to Deputy Mattie Mc Grath. The Rural Independent TD described the decision to “plough ahead” with the trip to the White House as “completely irresponsible”. “The […]
The HSE has used Covid as a cover to close small rural hospitals, Independent Td Mattie McGrath has claimed. “The HSE are doing things now in the middle [of the Covid crisis] that they wanted to do for a long time,” Deputy McGrath said. “That’s disband and close all the rural hospitals. We are under […]
The Rural Independent Group has called on the current Taoiseach, Michael Martin, and the leader of the Green Party, Eamon Ryan, “to emerge from hiding and earnestly address” the controversy surrounding the actions of the Tánaiste, Leo Varadkar, who shared information on a GP contract with the IMO with a rival organisation. Commenting on the […]
“It’s like a tyrannical regime” – Mattie McGrath TD lashes out at health minister Stephen Donnelly over new “draconian” powers. #gript
Independent TD Mattie McGrath has given an impassioned speech in the Dáil where he said the Irish people would rise up against tyranny. “Come back Seán Treacy and Dan Breen and the magnificent men of Tipperary,” he said, claiming Ireland needed that leadership now. The Tipperary TD said the government was making a […]
Michael Collins & Mattie McGrath, TDs, “People shouldn’t be made to feel a burden”. TDs on opposing the Assisted Suicide bill #gript
The Rural Independent Group in the Dáil have slammed what they described as the Government’s “complete ineptitude at addressing the grotesque interest rates being charged by banks on Irish homeowners with mortgages”. They point to Central Bank figures which show Irish mortgage holders were charged interest over the past twelve months at 2.83%, compared to […]
Tipperary TD Mattie McGrath has slammed NPEHT for the irresponsible manner in which they have leaked their recommendations that the entire country should be moved to level 5 to the media. The Independent TD has said that such news is detrimental to the business community and wider society and has called on NPHET to be […]
“AN ATTACK ON RURAL IRELAND”: Independent rural TDs Mattie McGrath and Michael Collins blast government
Mattie McGrath says lift lockdown on rural pubs and let people get back to living alongside Covid-19
‘Are they really serious, or do they think there’s no pandemic’ asks Mattie McGrath re #GolfGate but says that Phil Hogan, the EU Trade Commissioner who also attended should resign. #gript