A petition in support of reforming pet theft laws has gathered over 6,000 signatures, putting it within touching distance of its goal of 7,000.

https://gript.ie/pet-theft-law-reform-appeal-sees-over-6000-signatures/

Brother Kevin Crowley, founder of the famous Capuchin Day Centre, has died this morning aged 90 in his native Cork.

https://gript.ie/brother-kevin-crowley-dies-aged-90/

NIAMH UÍ BHRIAIN: The GPO is hallowed ground - where Pearse read the Proclamation in 1916. While most reasonable people will be happy to see revitalisation in the city, that can be done while also protecting and respecting our history and our heritage.

https://gript.ie/the-gpo-is-hallowed-ground-that-should-be-respected/

Rally for Life to seek urgent task force on abortion. Figures released earlier this year show that more than 50,000 abortions have taken place in Ireland, which rally organisers have described as a "grim and heartbreaking new record".

https://gript.ie/rally-for-life-we-must-stop-aborting-our-future/

Man with 46 previous convictions who was “born again 4 months ago” refused bail over concerns regarding his long history of taking bench warrants.
https://gript.ie/man-refused-bail-to-attend-unbooked-christening/

MATT TREACY: Intel has been issued with almost 1,000 work permits for foreign staff since it began lay offs in 2022.

https://gript.ie/intel-957-foreign-work-permits-issued-during-layoffs/

Holly Cairns will not be running for president, the Social Democrats have confirmed - but they’ve not ruled out backing another candidate.

https://youtu.be/a5GNg8q0azg

Ben and Jason discuss Roderic O'Gorman and Co's defiant trip over to Hungary to participate in a banned pride parade, and how it represents "circus politics" at its very best.

PODCAST: https://youtu.be/Ye965-UDkJs

"Most taxpayers are completely unaware that the Government is splashing out more than €500k on this kind of nonsense at a time when many are struggling to afford the necessities": TD blasts €568k in State funding for research into gender balance in opera.
https://gript.ie/e568k-funding-for-research-into-gender-balance-in-opera/

A Cork TD has warned that the threat of cartel-linked drug imports arriving by sea is “a serious worry”.

https://youtu.be/TIcn7vS07BI

A little girl has died and three others are in serious condition following a road traffic collision in Donegal:

https://gript.ie/young-child-killed-in-donegal-crash-others-injured/

BREAKING: The BBC has settled a defamation case taken by Ryan Casey, partner to the late Ashling Murphy, arising from comments made by Irish Times reporter Kitty Holland. Mr. Casey has issued a statement:
https://gript.ie/ryan-casey-bbc-gript/

DONAL HORGAN: "You have to ask – in whose interests is it to raise the passenger cap at Dublin Airport to 36m or 40m passengers annually especially in an airport which doesn’t have a rail or metro link? Perhaps, the best way of answering that question is by listing all of those who are least likely to benefit from such a change."

https://gript.ie/ireland-needs-more-airport-capacity-but-not-in-dublin/

"I thought to myself on Monday this is not going to be a holiday. This is an endurance test": LAURA PERRINS on Ireland's long summer holidays, and the absurdity of Europeans complaining about the sun:

https://gript.ie/perrins-surviving-summer-holidays/

WILLIAM STEPHENS reviews Giorgia Meloni’s memoir: What emerges is a self-portrait of a serious thinker who knows where her beliefs come from.


https://gript.ie/review-i-am-giorgia-my-roots-my-principles/

EXCLUSIVE: According to the Garda Deputy Commissioner, An Garda Síochana are “structurally biased” and require organisation-wide training to counteract their own implicit prejudice - but the public and the media aren’t allowed to see the training materials:

https://gript.ie/gardai-conceal-internal-bias-training-from-the-public/

A man who received €44K in social welfare on a fake passport while claiming to be an Afghan asylum seeker has avoided jail, in part because he would have been entitled to the payments in his real name.

https://gript.ie/social-welfare-fraudster-avoids-jail/

The Government seems divided over the return of the hate speech bill, with one frustrated Senior Cabinet Minister telling Gript that the law would “infringe on our civil liberties" and make life "impossible for Gardaí” if passed:

https://gript.ie/government-committed-to-updating-hate-speech-laws/?updated=1

A new €3.5 million migrant integration fund has been launched today by Minister Colm Brophy, to enable communities “to play a greater role in promoting the integration of migrants”.

https://gript.ie/new-e3-5-million-migrant-integration-fund-launched/

MATT TREACY: Despite the withdrawal of the planning exemption for Crooksling, the Minister for Justice has made it clear the state intend the site for use as asylum accommodation. Asylum applicants are still living there despite the exemption withdrawal. 

https://gript.ie/crooksling-minister-still-wants-site-for-asylum/

Ursula von der Leyen is set to face a no confidence vote in the European Parliament next week following a motion brought forward by MEP Gheorge Pipera of the centre-right European Conservatives and Reformists parliamentary grouping.
https://gript.ie/ursula-von-der-leyen-faces-no-confidence-vote/