How will the radical traffic plan for Dublin impact on people who need to get into or to transit across the city centre? Michael McDowell said it would “seriously harm the vibrancy and social and commercial life of Dublin as the capital city of Ireland.”

MATT TREACY writes

https://gript.ie/dublins-coming-radical-traffic-plan-comes-under-scrutiny/

BEN SCALLAN: “As Sinn Féin tries desperately to get its story straight on immigration, the clumsy handling of this pivot could undermine their credibility and electoral prospects, revealing a fundamental inability to adapt under pressure.”

https://gript.ie/friendly-fire-gerry-adams-blasts-the-migration-stance-ofsinn-fein/

The International Criminal Court has applied for arrest warrants against the Prime Minister of Israel Benjamin Netanyahu and his Defence Minister Yoav Gallant – and also against Hamas leaders, including the head the movement Yahya Sinwar.

https://gript.ie/icc-seeks-arrest-warrants-for-israeli-and-hamas-leaders/

BEN SCALLAN: “As Sinn Féin tries desperately to get its story straight on immigration, the clumsy handling of this pivot could undermine their credibility and electoral prospects, revealing an inability to adapt under pressure.”
https://gript.ie/friendly-fire-gerry-adams-blasts-the-migration-stance-ofsinn-fein/

107 homeless migrant tents now line the Grand Canal in Dublin, as Integration Minister Roderic O’Gorman says that the government is expecting 22,000 asylum seekers this year - a “significant jump” on last year.
https://gript.ie/a-total-of-107-migrant-tents-now-lining-the-grand-canal/

After two years of intense conflict, Russia is seeking to stretch Ukraine beyond its limits as Putin's forces create a new frontline in the northeast. https://gript.ie/the-war-in-ukraine-grinds-slowly-and-painfully-on/

JOHN MCGUIRK: The Government's accidental incentivisation of tent cities in Dublin is the perfect microcosm of the entire problem with Irish migration policy.

https://gript.ie/immigration-incentives/

BREAKING: The Austrian Chancellor has hailed Britain’s Rwanda law as the way to fix the EU’s immigration system, describing the UK as a pioneer, and saying the model was a solution for Austria and a path for the EU.

https://gript.ie/austrian-chancellor-praises-rwanda-law-style-solution-to-immigration-crisis/

JOHN MCGUIRK: A look at Luke Ming Flanagan's 2014 election promises shows a candidate who would be unambiguously "far right" by 2024 standards - and one who has changed dramatically after 10 years in Brussels.
https://gript.ie/luke-ming-transformed/

One person has been killed and many more injured after a Singapore Airlines flight https://gript.ie/one-dead-others-injured-as-london-singapore-flight-hit-by-severe-turbulence/

An Independent TD has described the Housing Commission’s report which says Ireland has a deficit of up to 256,000 homes as a “brutal and humiliating condemnation of an ad hoc national housing policy that has laid waste the dreams of an entire generation.”

https://gript.ie/housing-commissions-estimate-of-deficit-of-256000-homes-shows-scale-of-emergency/

PREMIUM: Ranking the candidates' performances at last night's RTE debate. There was one enormous winner, writes JOHN MCGUIRK, but several bad nights and missed opportunities for others:
https://gript.ie/first-rte-debate-eu24/

Senator Sharon Keogan has said that a private warning issued by Revenue officials that the family referendum could force tax changes “should be a national scandal."
It is "an inescapable fact that this government misled the Irish public," she said.
https://gript.ie/senator-revenue-officials-warning-that-family-referendum-could-force-tax-changes-should-be-national-scandal/

MATT TREACY: The Minister says no data is kept on the number of PPS numbers allocated to asylum seekers. The mystery of the unaccounted PPS numbers continues.

https://gript.ie/the-mystery-of-the-unaccounted-for-pps-numbers/

AI girlfriends do sound like something straight out of a sci-fi novel - or movie - but how often do those stories have happy endings, writes JASON OSBORNE

https://gript.ie/if-tech-bros-keep-on-creepin-on-well-all-suffer/

Israel has recalled its ambassador to Ireland after the Government announced that it will formally recognise the state of Palestine May 28th.

https://gript.ie/israel-recalls-ambassador-to-ireland-as-government-recognises-palestinian-state/

"Deineadh Cros Chonga i dTuaim, mar chumhdach do bhlogh den Fhíor-Chros a thug an Pápa Callistus II do Thairrdelbach Ua Conchobair, Ard-Rí Éireann, sa bhliain 1123 AD."

https://gript.ie/cros-chonga/