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/

"A golden thread": Final chapter of history for Carriglea nuns, who are to leave Dungarvan in July after 120 years.

https://gript.ie/a-golden-thread-final-chapter-of-history-for-carriglea-nuns-as-they-leave-dungarvan-after-120-years/

"We do not expect Taiwan to become a member of the WHO overnight. However, Taiwan has long proven its worth on the global stage as a leading force in disease prevention and as a result deserves to represent itself at the WHA," Pierre T.P. Yang writes.

https://gript.ie/let-taiwan-represent-itself-at-the-wha/

The EU Migration and Asylum pact has “mysteriously disappeared” from the agenda in advance of the local and EU elections, so that government parties can “avoid uncomfortable questions on the matter,” Deputy Mattie McGrath has claimed.

https://gript.ie/eu-migration-and-asylum-pact-has-mysteriously-disappeared-from-agenda-says-mcgrath/

A response received by Rural Independent TD Carol Nolan illustrates the huge number of deportation notices issued compared to the small number of those that progressed into deportation orders, few of which are enforced, MATT TREACY writes.

https://gript.ie/notices-to-deport-have-fallen-dramatically-depite-increases-in-asylum-claims-and-new-policy-on-safe-countries/

Déjà vu: Half of the law-and-order promises Fianna Fáil made during the 2019 local election have re-appeared in their 2024 manifesto - though Education Minister Norma Foley is denying that this means they failed to deliver the first time:

https://gript.ie/half-of-ffs-2019-anti-crime-promises-re-appear-in-2024-manifesto/