Though it has received little media coverage, migrant activists have been protesting outside refugee NGO offices for weeks, accusing them of taking State money to remain silent on deportations:

https://gript.ie/shame-on-you-migrants-protest-refugee-ngos/

Bank Holiday Travel: A number of Dart Stations will be closed over the long weekend for scheduled works:

https://gript.ie/bank-holiday-travel-which-dart-stations-are-closed/

“I’m sorry Chair, that gentleman has just snorted at me like a pig, and I am going to ask you that he be removed from the room,” the Irish Fianna Fáil politician said during the exchange.

https://gript.ie/irish-mep-claims-polish-mep-snorted-at-me-like-a-pig/

NIAMH UÍ BHRIAIN: But while there was much discussion of the damage caused by the ongoing decline in the number of children enrolling in primary schools, it felt as if the reporting deliberately veered away from the most obvious and significant factors leading to that decline:

https://gript.ie/huge-factor-in-decline-in-primary-school-numbers-ignored/

LAURA PERRINS: If you've ever wondered what the value of a woman's most fertile and productive years are, then the Sunday Times gave us an answer at the weekend. You too can preoccupy someone's life for just £11,000 sterling:

https://gript.ie/perrins-dating-relationships-best-years-women/

PATRICK VINCENT: "Why is it necessary to remove one of the most recognisable buildings in Dublin and replace it with a standard-fare modern building that would be easily forgotten as soon as it is out of sight?"

https://gript.ie/patrick-vincent-stephens-green/

Met Eireann has issued a series of weather warnings and a nationwide advisory as heavy rain and high tides create a significant risk of further flooding across Ireland:

https://gript.ie/met-eireann-issues-rain-warnings-for-further-flooding/

Though it has received little media coverage, migrant activists have been protesting outside refugee NGO offices for weeks, accusing them of taking State money to remain silent on deportations:

https://gript.ie/shame-on-you-migrants-protest-refugee-ngos/

JOHN MCGUIRK: Only one lobby group in Ireland is powerful enough to literally demand that our history is legislatively erased - and that lobby group is "Big Gay".

https://gript.ie/mcguirk-its-time-to-stand-up-to-big-gay/

The Department of Agriculture is vaccinating thousands of badgers against TB, with a goal of reducing the amount of badgers that need to be culled each year, the Minister has said:

https://gript.ie/tb-vaccination-programme-aims-to-reduce-badger-culls/

PERRINS: I wish Jessie Buckley well, but you couldn't pay me to be emotionally manipulated the way Stephen Spielberg sets out to do in "Hamnet":

https://gript.ie/perrins-hamnet-spielberg/

JOHN MCGUIRK: A viral moment from the BBC's "Question Time" programme last week declared Net Zero "economic suicide" for the UK.

If it's mere suicide for them, it's ritual disembowelment for Ireland:

https://gript.ie/mcguirk-irish-net-zero-is-an-economic-suicide-note/

MATT TREACY: Locals in Saggart village where the controversial Citywest asylum campus is located are understandably upset that migrants who were put out of the IPAS centre after incidents necessitating a Garda callout are now living in a mini encampment in their village.

https://gript.ie/persons-removed-from-citywest-sleeping-rough-in-saggart/

A retired Shankill computer wiz, who was found in possession of  over 55K images of child sexual abuse, has been jailed for three years.

https://gript.ie/computer-wiz-had-55k-images-of-child-sexual-abuse/

A Dublin father of four, who told his disabled mother that he would burn her “to a crisp", after kicking and punching his sister, has been sentenced to two years in jail.

https://gript.ie/son-told-mum-he-would-burn-her-to-a-crisp/

Ben and Jason bemoan the weather and the Government response to it, before turning to problems of entirely human origin: the State's funding of, apparently, everything, the Deposit Return Scheme's disastrous effect on Dublin and the omnipresence of gambling.

PODCAST:  https://gript.ie/podcasts/on-floods-and-state-funding/

New polling carried out on behalf of the Irish Daily Mail has shown that over half of people agree with a Circuit Court judge who said that cyclists on our roads are “a nightmare."

https://gript.ie/poll-people-agree-with-judges-comments-on-cyclists/

Regulators with Coimisiún na Meán worked with the EU and ‘biased fact-checkers’ before Ireland’s 2024/5 elections, in order to disadvantage conservative or populist political parties, a report from the judiciary committee of the US Congress says.

https://gript.ie/report-regulators-censored-social-media-in-election/

"It beggars belief that housing stock would be knocked down, rather than refurbished and used for social and affordable housing": Mattie McGrath TD has hit out at plans by Tipperary County Council to demolish 52 incomplete houses near Cashel:

https://gript.ie/mcgrath-slams-council-plans-to-demolish-52-houses/

The Cork TD said that families, clinicians and legislators are being left in the dark regarding the government's assessment of the report that was critical of some aspects of gender care for minors and said "there is no excuse for that".

https://gript.ie/td-says-govt-sitting-on-cass-review-assessment/