In the week that marked the 23rd anniversary of the signing of the Good Friday Agreement on April 10, 1998, the loyalist violence in Belfast underlined the fact that little has changed regarding the fundamental nature of society in the north of Ireland. It is unlikely that many of the people taking part in the […]
When the leader of Sinn Féin walked through the streets of New York calling on England to “get out of Ireland”, she forgot to include an asterisk. Mary-Lou McDonald, the Dublin leader of the party, is most definitely capable of delivering a speech in the Dáil, often calling out the blindspots of her opponents in […]
The Standards in Public Office (SIPO) ethics watchdog is investigating whether Sinn Féin used funds raised abroad to purchase a Donegal constituency office with €180,000 in cash.
Councillor Paddy Holohan has announced his decision to leave Sinn Féin, saying he would not renew his membership of the party because he had been treated ‘highly unfairly’ in regard to an internal party investigation. He said “today is a brighter day” as he pledged to work as an Independent Councillor on South Dublin County […]
FF, FG, the Greens, SF, PBP as well as SocDems & Labour TDs have all declared that Ireland should lower the voting age to 16 – an idea so bad it’s almost difficult to put into words. Ben Scallan tries anyway. #gript
Last night (Monday) the Stormont Assembly voted 48 to 12 in support of a Democratic Unionist Party Bill that would ban abortion of unborn children with ‘non-fatal’ disabilities. There were 27 abstentions including all of the Sinn Féin MLAs. One wonders what the party bosses in the “core group” would have ordered the sheep to […]
Sinn Féin has been sharply criticised for its bid to ensure that abortion is more widely available in the north of Ireland. Political party Aontú, which has elected representatives throughout the island, said that Sinn Féín were “impatient to see the number [of abortions] increase”, after Mary Lou McDonald said her party would formally ask […]
Today, the Sinn Fein Spokesperson on Children, Kathleen Funchion will move the second stage debate on the Civil Registration (Right of Adoptees to Information) (Amendment) Bill 2021. As Deputy Funchion has already made clear when the Bill was formally introduced on 17 February, “Its simple objective is to give every adoptee the right to […]
“Booooooo!”, I hear you say. And indeed, this intervention by the Tánaiste yesterday won’t be very popular amongst those with republican instincts, who lie awake at night dreaming of the day when the Wolfe Tones song about being a nation once again can be sung lustily and loudly throughout the land. But hasn’t he…… got […]
Wexford Sinn Féin TD Johnny Mythen has become the latest of that party’s representatives to become the target of the Woke. His crime? Well, did he not have the temerity to ask the Tánaiste Leo Varadkar yesterday how many of the new jobs to be created by an offshore wind factory will go to Irish […]
To be fair, it’s a common sentiment on this island, or most of it, anyway. It’s a less common sentiment coming from…. The former Tory Chancellor of the Exchequer? Here he is: The former Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne believes the majority of the English public “will not care” if Northern Ireland leaves the […]
Alright, hands up. “Mary-Woo!” is the single worst joke you’ll see on Gript this year, and hopefully, there won’t be one as bad again for a long, long, time. Still, there were plenty of reasons for people to be cheering in Sinn Fein headquarters yesterday. The party has moved into a clear national lead, at […]