ON THIS DAY: 13 OCTOBER 1889: Birth of Pádraig De Brún, priest, mathematician, poet, professor, Gaelic revivalist

#gript


https://gript.ie/on-this-day-13-october-1889-birth-of-padraig-de-brun-priest-mathematician-poet-classical-scholar-professor-gaelic-revivalist/

MATT TREACY: SDLP Bill on period poverty never mentions women once

#gript

https://gript.ie/sdlp-bill-on-period-poverty-never-mentions-women-once/

WATCH: Why London College is telling women to watch their fertility

#gript

https://gript.ie/watch-why-london-college-is-telling-women-to-watch-their-fertility/

“EU solidarity is a total fiction”: Carol Nolan TD has accused the government of “selling out” Ireland to our “EU masters” by raising the country’s corporation tax rate, which she said was a disgrace to the leaders of 1916.

#gript

https://gript.ie/td-government-sold-out-to-eu-masters-on-corporation-tax/

The easing of Covid-19 restrictions originally planned for October 22nd may be delayed, the government has hinted, after members of NPHET expressed concern over recent virus trends.

#gript

https://gript.ie/easing-of-covid-restrictions-may-be-delayed-govt-hints/

MATT TREACY: Why are Ireland’s case numbers relatively high?

#gript

https://gript.ie/why-are-irelands-case-numbers-relatively-high/

"Extending Vaccine Passes for Indoor Hospitality would be kick in the Teeth for Sector" - Tóibín

#gript

https://gript.ie/extending-vaccine-passes-for-indoor-hospitality-would-be-kick-in-the-teeth-for-sector-toibin/

Independent TDs have described the government budget as “very anti-rural”, slamming the fact that fuel and heating costs “have gone through the roof.”

#gript

https://gript.ie/td-govt-will-get-it-in-the-neck-from-rural-voters-next-election/

JOHN MCGUIRK: The case for Callum Robinson not being allowed to play for Ireland is as strong today as it was a week ago. But he is popular now, so the bullies who litter official Ireland have gone very quiet:
#gript
https://gript.ie/callum-robinson-reveals-the-cowardice-of-official-ireland/

OPINION: Irish Government Healthcare spending has increased by over 20% in a decade, and remains some of the highest in Europe as a percentage of what Government spends. The problem is not a lack of money, it is what we spend the money on:
#gript
https://gript.ie/money-is-not-the-issue-in-irish-healthcare/

Ryan says carbon taxes are good and progressive but polling shows even Green Party voters are opposed to the current Government's energy policies; and the SlainteCare contract looks like the best argument to privatize the health service an Irish government has ever made.

#gript

https://gript.ie/podcasts/trsi-280-apparently-we-do-food-reviews-now/

LEONARD SAX: Boys are falling farther and farther behind their sisters: should we care?

#gript

https://gript.ie/boys-are-falling-farther-and-farther-behind-their-sisters-should-we-care/

The government has raised the country’s 12.5% corporate tax rate after crumpling under foreign pressure, in what will go down as one of the most humiliating and shameful defeats in modern Irish history.
Ben Scallan reacts.

#gript

https://youtu.be/RzTv8kfL_M0

The HSE is no longer working with the anti-disinformation company Kinzen. The partnership ended four days after Gript published a story showing that the HSE misinformation programme, which used data provided by Kinzen, had grossly overstepped its bounds. #gript

https://gript.ie/kinzen-no-longer-working-with-the-department-of-health/

Independent TD for Laois-Offaly Carol Nolan has said that the scale of the imminent threat facing the horticulture sector is a direct consequence of policy incoherence at the heart of government.

#gript

https://gript.ie/the-only-thing-government-is-planting-is-p45s-carol-nolan/

TDs and activists attended an event to present pro-life billboards at the Dáil today as the Life Institute vowed to ramp up a “Rethink Abortion” campaign.

#gript

https://gript.ie/pro-life-billboards-at-dail-as-national-campaign-heats-up-ahead-of-abortion-review/

Pro-life billboard campaign: Govt "white-washing" abortion reality

"13,000+ abortions in 2 years - it's barbaric": Pro-life TDs and campaigners accuse the government of "white-washing" abortion reality amid billboard launch.

#gript

https://youtu.be/NZ99Coe4d7I

Limerick TD goes viral after TikTok post on "robbing, thieving, anti-rural" government

#gript

https://gript.ie/limerick-td-goes-viral-after-tiktok-post-on-robbing-thieving-anti-rural-government/

John Lewis ad row: “What’s the creepy obsession with putting kids in Drag?”

#gript

https://gript.ie/john-lewis-ad-row-whats-the-creepy-obsession-with-putting-kids-in-drag/

The trafficking of pregnant women into Ireland for the purposes of forced adoption is to be identified as an ‘emerging trend’ in the forthcoming submission by the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission (IHREC) to the Council of Europe Group of Experts on Action against Trafficking in Human Beings.

#gript


https://gript.ie/trafficking-of-pregnant-women-to-be-identified-as-an-emerging-trend-in-ireland/

JOHN MCGUIRK: In Ireland during Covid we have blamed the young. The rugby fans. The foreigners. People going on foreign holidays. And now the unvaccinated minority.
The truth is that as we enter a second Covid winter, Government is to blame:
#gript
https://gript.ie/scapegoating-the-unvaccinated-is-a-cover-for-government-covid-failure/