@Editorialz
If they reject the new campsite they should not be allowed to return to Mount Street. They were moved ahead of the Scotland match as well as Paddy's Day.
‘Heated’ rows at Cabinet between those who caused the mess on asylum via
@griptmedia
. It was always going to come to this. A child could have predicted it.
What right has Peter McVerry to call for protesters to be criminalised? via
@griptmedia
. None at all but that is how corporate states operate. They are first cousin to fascist states (the real fascism, not the shouted about by
@fotoole
kind)
@PMVTrust
@AodhanORiordain
Don’t be silly. It is natural (and indeed an act of good citizenship) for people to be concerned about the differences between Europe and the Islamic world and whether or not such differences can have tragic consequences.
The immigration genie is out of the bottle and cannot be simply wished back in . My bugbear has always been emigration not immigration but we have a housing crisis. We must cap the number of refugees temporarily and migrants must come legally
@GerardHowlin
@Editorialz
Answer: The HC Bill is a foreign policy measure. The Establishment, including the MSM, knows that it cannot get another EU treaty past the voters by democratic means so democracy will have to set aside. Harris is a federalist and, I suspect, ruthless. It’s as simple as that.
@Editorialz
It’s a good decision and one I’ve suggested on Twitter. In a State company, no one should be paid more than the boss, even if they are a “star”. The inflated salaries paid to the stars (some fairly mediocre) has been a significant factor in the culture of the station.
@JohnOBrennan2
No you’re not. You are a citizen exercising the right to demonstrate and you are also right. Our immigration policy is a mess as we saw when
@MlMcNamaraTD
politely took HMcE apart at an Oireachtas Cttee
@griptmedia
RTE says abortion now legal "for the first time". Not true. Abortion was permitted in the past on medical grounds. Abortion on demand is now legal for the first time.
@pmaceinri
No, Piaras, there are many people who should answer for this starting with Cameron, Sarkozy and Hilary Clinton, who destroyed Libya and set in train many subsequent disasters. This was not our doing and it is wrong to place blame on anyone here.
@GTCost
One Cabinet member gave NGOs a warning about the consequences of their not supporting the referenda. The scale of annual Exchequer support for NGOs (€6b) is a now a major, but unreported, scandal other than by
@griptmedia
. Corporate state gone mad.
@pb4p
They are doing what the MSM should be doing. Far right protestors don’t go to libraries to remove books. Concerned parents are protesting about inappropriate material in the junior sections of libraries, which they should not have to do
@griptmedia
@john_mcguirk
That was a serious
@ct
of discourtesy to
@Ben_Scallan
to
@griptmedia
and to the media in general. It was very likely planned. I hope GRIPt follows up with the same questions at his next press conference until he answers them
@NUJofficial
@cultfree54
Good piece by
@Tom_Slater_
. It is the same here. Johnson was evil personified but Sturgeon is a saint. It is all about Brexit, which is not acceptable to elites because letting the people decide on the major issues is no longer acceptable to elites
@battleforeurope
@fotoole
@DanielJHannan
I hope you contacted him about it and his head of faculty and/or Vice Chancellor too. That sort of behaviour to a child (or even her father) isn't on.
@battleforeurope
This was beginning to come into view before the war and will again when it ends, if it ends. After almost eighty years of a US military presence in western Eurasia it is time the US went home.
Sovereignty can't be shared, Frank. We control our borders or we don't; our currency or we don't; our laws or we don't. If people want to surrender their sovereignty to a federation, fair enough. That is their right, but they can't be sovereign and not sovereign at the same time.
With some friends outside the Department of Foreign Affairs, Dublin, today, at the last of the four vigils for Julian Assange (in the current series). Some other good causes were also highlighted.
@griptmedia
Good to see the editor of
@griptmedia
on
@TonightVMTV
. The nationality of the alleged assailant is in the public interest, not least because he was, I gather, scheduled for deportation but ended up getting Irish citizenship. How did that happen?
@john_mcguirk
@marie_sherlock
@TomClonan
I honestly don’t know what Maynooth is referring to here. The Government has unsettled the country through the lack of a coherent and fair immigration policy. Solve that problem and the tension will subside.
Government has lost the immigration debate – but does it matter? via
@griptmedia
. My guess is that, five years from now, all the parties will still be singing off the same hymn sheet about immigration but it will be a different hymn
@john_mcguirk
@thejournal_ie
I don’t think they were suggesting they were speaking fir the country although I dare say there is more support for them than there is for the current open door, open-ended policy, which is the cause of these understandable protests
@SimonHarrisTD
@Editorialz
Like I say, I’m a licence payer and therefore a sucker. RTÉ should be floated off and invited to sink or swim. They would swim but in less fancy bathing costumes
@cathmartingreen
@DeptCultureIRL
@GTCost
Eamon Gilmore is the man who made the catastrophic error that has led to SF being the biggest party in the State by votes. Had Labour stayed out of government in 2011 they would now be where SF is today. Personal ambition trumped Labour's duty to their party and to the State.
@JohnOBrennan2
It is essential that GRIPt be part of the national conversation. It is because we have, in essence, a one party state media (on many issues not just Covid) that the establishment is in danger of seeding a far right movement
@john_mcguirk
@Michael_O_Regan
Is it because details of Musk’s private life were published by the station? I seem to recall some journalists being unhappy with details of LV’s private life being published.
@Casey5122dark
The failure of the political system to acknowledge immigration (until the Taoiseach did recently) could be a factor or it could be the hooliganism that seems to have deteriorated since Covid or a maybe a combination of both. The fear must be that it will not prove to be a one-off
@griptmedia
He must live a very sheltered life, in a bubble, you might say. When the public wakes up to the billions handed out to NGOs every year (some badly in need of a moral compass), the row over Tubs.’ pay will pale into insignificance
@Paschald
@BrianStanleySF
@mmcgrathtd
Ireland and the fury of the cancelled . Another piece from outside IRL. They are coming thick and fast and clearly understand what is going on here. Our media needs to catch up
@fergusfinlay
@Ben_Scallan
In corporate/fascist states, the State seeks to incorporate as much of the public square as it can (in our case through paying NGOs €6b a year - well done
@griptmedia
for publishing this) to shut down public debate. The public square is increasingly an echo chamber
@NWCI
@Editorialz
The TV sacking of the former chair was the beginning of the end of the Govt. A defeat for a wording probably sought by O’Gorman, another Green, which would be another step on the way to anarchy, would hasten its end.
Those Who Cry “Far Right” have no comprehension of what just happened in Dublin via
@griptmedia
. The next election is probably the only way we have to force the establishment to face reality. It might be denial all the way until then
@davidjthunder
@PaddyJManning
Yes, the Government should recommend to them that they return home. Some danger there, probably, but at least they would be able to sleep in their own beds or, if not, beds in their own country.
@JohnJCarvill
What was significant, and I thought so at the time, was how few opinion polls there were in the last week or ten days of the campaign. I suspect that was not a co-incidence,
@john_mcguirk
I’m convinced a great many members of the Dail don’t want to be re-elected. I really mean that. Good decision by
@MayoCoCo
to cease Co-operation with
@dcediy
. The Government’s obsession with being the best boy in the EU class is the problem
@Independent_ie
@AodhanORiordain
@Editorialz
The relevant committees could invite her again. If she refuses, they could, I think, demand a second medical opinion (committees’ choice of doctor). If she refuses to be seen by the committees’ doctor, then the committees might then have certain options open to them.
@anliathluachra
@JuneTobinMaher
Yes, the reference to “racists” is entirely misplaced. It would have upset people a year ago but is now ignored. Everyone knows the difference between immigrants, duly processed and welcome, and fake asylum seekers trying to jump the immigration queue without papers.
@jasonomahony
@rtenews
Voting rights are there to be used. It was wrong of
@CharlesMichel
to say that Orban should have kept silent about his decision to let the earlier decision go through. We must remember that Orban is the adult in the European political room
@tconnellyRTE
@NaomiOhReally
@battleforeurope
Impressive. Germany has to live with what it did but it cannot give Israel support, when such support is unwarranted, in an attempt to expedite its guilt. Other EU states must make that clear to Germany. What is happening is too serious
@normanfinkelstein
@dfatirl
@GERMANYinIRL
@dwilliam9940
No, it isn’t. NATO has demonstrated incredible arrogance towards Russia since 1991 (despite the UK taking in gazillions in dirty R money), culminating in the US-engineered Ukr War and the US destruction of the pipeline. So, yes, Putin might strike back
@Telegraph
@IoWBobSeely
@philippilk
It is beginning to be visible on the streets. I’m a lifelong supporter of immigration as opposed to emigration but immigration has to be managed and we do have a housing crisis at the moment.
@irishexaminer
I think there is a typographical error in your headline. What, I presume you meant to say was that “(largely) state funded NGOs (who are part of the public service and know how their bread is buttered) are having a virtue signalling rally in Dublin today”
@Mickcliff
@MichaelNBarron
I take it you don’t live in East Wall today. Your former neighbours have nothing to do with the far right. They are just concerned citizens as they should be.
@anliathluachra
Extraordinary. What has happened here is that the law is being ignored. Policy is being driven by extremists, who are going beyond the law and have the power to do so.
@griptmedia
Any country could succumb to narco-terrorism or narco-caused state breakdown. We need to be careful. A weak state with a weak Government is easily exploited.
@paulmurphy_TD
There might be if NGOs did not get so much money from the Exchequer. Indeed, the scale of Exchequer support for NGOs is approaching (i.e., gone beyond) a scandal. It is going to become a political and campaigning issue.
@Aidan_Regan
The Government, supported by the MSM and the entire Establishment, adopted a very aggressive approach to Brexit after the British referendum. It was obvious that the UK, which is a much stronger state than IRL, would wait for a payback moment. They have now found it.
More PPS numbers issued to Ukrainians than Irish citizens in 2022 – including Irish births via
@griptmedia
. Sooner or later unstoppable force is going to meet immovable object.
@john_mcguirk
@PatLeahyIT
And not just the Hate Crime Bill. Other bizarre (or worse) policies, including in the gender area, need revisiting. The Exchequer-funded NGO sector is a problem. The three Govt. party leaders + Mary Lou, Ivana and HC have all been discovered to have feet of clay. All changed …?
@Editorialz
Is the Government aware of this? I agree with you, by the way, about marriages between people from very different cultures. They can work but it takes a lot of trust, intelligence and give and take to make them work.
@ajamubaraka
When you control the media, you control the narrative and when you control the narrative you control what people think. If Joe Goebbels was around today he would be mightily impressed by how the Western powers that defeated Nazism have copied it since 1945.
Dutch farmers' party secures landslide victory
@UnHerd
. Lesson here: Short cuts by Governments won’t be tolerated. Nor will sectors perceived as easy targets (while, say, mass tourism continues) accept their status
@Bozstar
@think_or_swim
@pmaceinri
They are not haters and racist, Piaras, just your fellow citizens who are much put upon by the Govt. Someone criticised the Government today for not acting fast enough to deal with refugees. In fact, they acted too quickly. They didn’t give themselves time to think it through.
@AnMailleach
Someone is going to have to break ranks in the media and point out that the way out of this is not Level 5 (or 50) but to let the virus run. The death toll over two years will be the same as over ten but without the collateral damage
@PatLeahyIT
@BenLowry2
Irish criticism of the UK is (perhaps subconsciously) a way of avoiding having to face up to our own problems. We need a Freudian expert here
@laineydoyle
@cultfree54
The Os should have walked out. I saw people doing it. I stopped coming to Edinburgh. I hope the Os sent a stiff letter to the
@edfringe
when they got home. Too many shows, too expensive, no quality control, many with zero artistic content and now woke control
@edintfest
@DCMS
@DavQuinn
It was what I would have expected from
@rtenews
but I expect better from
@kevinbakhurst
so I hope he reviews what was a blatantly one-sided piece.
Hemingway: New bombshell discoveries reveal how Facebook CEO Zuckerberg helped swing 2020 election for Democrats
#FoxNews
. Her book took the breath away from everyone who read it, which is why nobody heard about it
@TuckerCarlson
@MZHemingway