The plethora of taxpayer-funded bodies in the advert for #IrelandForAll’s march highlights the reality of what’s happening: the government is funding the groups now marching in solidarity with the government – and opposing the majority of the people.’

MATT TREACY writes

https://gript.ie/multi-billion-euro-ngos-rallying-support-for-governments-immigration-policy/

A man who appeared before Limerick Circuit Court after crashing into a roundabout during a Garda pursuit has said that taking magic mushrooms led him to believe his car would turn into an aeroplane. #gript https://gript.ie/cork-man-on-magic-mushrooms-thought-his-car-would-turn-into-an-aeroplane/

"The message is very clear: the people of East Wall and Coolock and Ballymun are always in the wrong and if this left-wing agitator hit them with his car, they probably deserved it."

NIAMH UÍ BHRIAIN writes

#gript

https://gript.ie/the-medias-surreal-dishonest-take-on-a-car-plouging-into-east-wall-protesters/

"The truth is that the people who protest in East Wall and other places like it are all local. The people who will be out on Saturday are internationalist and claim that there is no Ireland as you think you know it. “Ireland for all” is more like the abusive slogan of a “Company Town” than a humanitarian aspiration. "

THADE ANDY writes

https://gript.ie/if-ireland-is-for-all-it-does-not-belong-to-the-irish/

Rip-off Ireland?: The price of a single hotel room in one popular hotel in Naas has risen by almost 60% in less than one year, Gript can reveal, after one surprised consumer and reader contacted us to share the details.

#gript

https://gript.ie/rip-off-ireland-room-prices-up-56-from-last-year-in-kildare-hotel/

The media reporting of a new study on conversion therapy neglects to mention the involvement of several advocacy groups in the design of the study; that the study largely consists of an anonymous online survey, and that the sample wasn't representative" #gript

https://gript.ie/the-misleading-coverage-of-trinitys-conversion-therapy-report/

One of the foremost experts working with people who want to change gender has warned Education Minister, Norma Foley, of the danger of ignoring medical evidence when it comes allowing 16-year olds to change their sex without parental consent.

#gript

https://gript.ie/norma-foley-ignoring-medical-experts-on-danger-of-teens-changing-sex-says-top-doctor/

ON THIS DAY: 18 FEBRUARY 1982: Investigation into Kincora Boys Home announced

#gript


https://gript.ie/on-this-day-18-february-1982-investigation-into-kincora-boys-home-announced-3/

Finally, Japan’s political elite is talking demography. Will they convince anyone?

#gript

https://gript.ie/finally-japans-political-elite-is-talking-demography-will-they-convince-anyone/

Independent TD, Carol Nolan, has said that energy companies have been left with nowhere to hide when it comes to justifying the prices they are demanding from their customers.

#gript

https://gript.ie/td-says-pinergy-price-reduction-shows-energy-companies-cannot-justify-what-they-are-charging-customers/

JOHN MCGUIRK: "I think that for all their pretensions, and their dress-up, and their odes to communist resistance, and the pitiful cultural appropriation of belittled minority status, this was a march of the powerful, raging against the uppity powerless".

https://gript.ie/saturdays-protest-viva-la-quinta-brigada-my-arse/

“This drug is so, so expensive, and we still hear from many women that it is extremely difficult to get the consultant to sign them off for this scheme”.

#gript

https://gript.ie/pregnancy-support-group-reiterates-call-for-cariban-to-be-free-for-women-struggling-from-hyperemesis/

A Catholic priest who was arrested by police for silent prayer within an abortion clinic 'censorship zone' says he was told during interrogation that his cassock could be perceived as 'intimidating'.

#gript

https://gript.ie/priest-arrested-by-police-in-birmingham-told-cassock-intimidating/

JOHN MCGUIRK: "The impulse to re-write books is the same impulse that wants to re-name the Berkely Library in Trinity. The same impulse that pulls down statues and throws them in rivers. The same impulse that cancels not only works of art, but people."

#gript

https://gript.ie/it-is-our-duty-to-give-our-children-the-uncensored-roald-dahl/?fbclid=IwAR0JVgPuGwITtlMBRr__bEe-j9mxlSo-Cgb7DBvZ50vLLPG3MorQn7O_AMI

Players, referees, and parents have reacted with fury and concern at the Ladies Gaelic Football Association’s decision to include biological males in ladies football.

#gript

https://gript.ie/players-referees-and-parents-furious-at-lgfa-decision-to-include-biological-males-in-ladies-football/

The cost to the state of providing free legal aid for asylum seekers has risen sharply - surging by 274% over 5 years between 2017 and 2022, with more than €2 million in case expenditure last year.

#gript

https://gript.ie/274-increase-in-free-legal-aid-for-refugees-over-5-years/

"The battles fought by the Campbell-Fitzpatrick family, by the Ó Scolaí family, and by many others, are a public service. They should not have to risk bankruptcy to carry out that service against an adversarial State"


#gript

https://gript.ie/why-are-families-like-the-campbell-fitzpatricks-forced-to-fight-so-hard-for-accountability/

“Up the Flats” he told journalists at the press meet at the awards, in praise of the inner-city community where he grew up.
#gript

https://gript.ie/up-the-flats-says-barry-keoghan-as-he-keeps-winning-awards

JOHN MCGUIRK: As US politics begins to divide on partisan lines over the war in Ukraine, Joe Biden is increasingly invested in ensuring Ukraine looks like a winner.
"Because if the war starts looking like a loser, well then…. so will he."
#gript
https://gript.ie/understanding-biden-bet-kiev/

JOHN MCGUIRK on Catherine Martin's "misinformation commission":
"The consensus is so strong that disagreement must mean that you have been misinformed. There is literally no other reason that they can imagine for why you might disagree with them"

#gript

https://gript.ie/catherine-martins-new-plan-the-ministry-of-truth/