After a Government department informed Ben that it has not researched the potential impact of mis/disinformation laws on free speech, the lads discuss whether the State should be regulating information at all, given its own track record. PODCAST: https://gript.ie/podcasts/were-all-mongrels-now/ ——————– Gript is proud to be an independent source of news, but that means we reject […]
“I think Jeffrey Epstein no longer being alive was convenient for a lot of powerful people” – John and Sarah discuss the announcement from the Trump administration this week that it considers the Epstein affair closed, and his suicide genuine. ——————– Gript is proud to be an independent source of news, but that means we […]
‘Not feasible’: Taoiseach Micheál Martin explains why Ireland doesn’t check to verify whether people served deportation orders have left the State: “We don’t have exit checks between Northern Ireland and the Republic, nor is it feasible to do so.” ——————– Gript is proud to be an independent source of news, but that means we reject […]
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Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin says he takes “full responsibility” for the Jim Gavin debacle. Asked if this means he should face some consequences, Minister James Lawless says he already has faced consequences, because now Fianna Fáil won’t have a candidate in the election. ——————– Gript is proud to be an independent source of news, […]
“Social Contagion is real”: Stella O’Malley explains the concept of social contagion, whereby young people are exposed to deeply damaging ideas on social media, from self-harm to anorexia and transgender identification. ——————– Gript is proud to be an independent source of news, but that means we reject the lavish government or EU funding others enjoy. […]
This week’s podcast covers all the fallout to the great spoiled vote of 2025: Simon Harris’s migration u-turn, Micheál Martin’s jeopardy, the Galway West by-election, and the state of Ireland’s right wing politics. PODCAST: https://gript.ie/podcasts/fallout/ Episode 162 00:00 Introduction and Personal Reflections 02:00 Post-Election Fallout in Ireland 07:01 The Impact of Spoiled Votes 15:50 Leadership […]
This summary email was sent out by Seamuseen O’ today, 19 March: To: sg-plaintes@ec.europa.eu Subject: URGENT: emergency notice of violation of Aarhus Convention Date: 19-March-2018 The EU has been talking about imposing on its member nations refugee ‘quotas’. There are few things which affect the environment more than population increase. Population increase naturally draws up […]
Tánaiste Simon Coveney has confirmed that the Government is taking legal advice as to how sanctions may be used against striking nurses, including docking their pay.
Mr Coveney said the Government does not want to be at odds with nurses but called on unions to live up to their part of the national pay agreement.
“They are great people, doing very difficult work, often in very pressurised circumstances. We want to be working with nurses, with the INMO and with the psychiatric nurses to build a better health service that can attract many young people into this profession,” he said.
“What the Government has said is that we are taking legal advice in regard to the options that are available to us, consistent with the pay agreement that everybody signed up to with their eyes open," he told the Dáil.
There is a responsibility on the Government to deliver on that, and that involves hundreds of millions of euro of extra pay across the public sector. There is also a
The budget and the war: Two topics dominate this week’s podcast, after a very depressing week. Do Irish politicians lack imagination? And is there any prospect at all of peace in the Middle East? John and Sarah discuss:
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Meet the Candidates: Niall Boylan, Independent Ireland, Dublin – Gript In the latest in his interviews of EU candidates, John McGuirk talks to Niall Boylan about whether Independent Ireland is really a political party; Why he’d turn the boats in the Mediterranean around; Why he’s for peace in Ukraine; and whether supporting farmers comes at […]