2+ hour, 1+ min ago  (533+ words) A Five year-old artist has won Sightsavers Ireland Junior Painter of the Year 2026 with artwork exploring "Our Vision for the Future. Elise O Driscoll, a five-year-old home educated student from Donegal, has been named the overall winner of Sightsavers Irelands…...

2+ hour, 25+ min ago  (432+ words) The Socialist party suffered a historic loss in yesterday's regional elections in Andalusia, with the conservative Popular Party (PP) winning 53 out of 109 seats, leaving right-wing populist party Vox " who took 15 seats " in a key position in local government formation." While…...

2+ day, 18+ hour ago  (35+ words) Gript A Wicklow family who are caring for their daughter with leukaemia, while facing homelessness, say they are "too rich" for social housing and "too poor" to get a mortgage....

2+ day, 21+ hour ago  (91+ words) Galway West by-election candidate Se'n Kyne has denied allegations of blackmail and harassment reportedly made against him in a Garda complaint, saying there is "absolutely no truth in that whatsoever." In an exclusive interview with Gript, the Fine Gael senator…...

3+ day, 20+ min ago  (656+ words) The defeat of the proposal put forward by the Social Democrats to scrap the 3-day wait before abortion should now act as a catalyst for "positive action" from the government to "actually help women" and "reduce the spiralling abortion rate…...

3+ day, 2+ hour ago  (655+ words) A new curriculum for Leaving Certificate history is currently under development by the National Council for Curriculum and Assessment (NCCA). It seems certain that Western civilisation will get short shrift, world and Irish affairs will receive the "oppressor" vs "oppressed…...

3+ day, 21+ hour ago  (641+ words) Gript Ciaran Mullooly MEP and Michael Fitzmaurice TD have written to the Food Safety Authority of Ireland seeking an urgent meeting and an immediate review of Brazilian beef and meat products currently present in the Irish food supply chain. Mr…...

3+ day, 21+ hour ago  (389+ words) A response from Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration, Jim O'Callaghan to a parliamentary question from Independent TD for Offaly Carol Nolan has revealed that his Department holds no centralised data on the proportion of international protection applicants classified…...

3+ day, 20+ hour ago  (585+ words) A mother has been jailed for one year after she and four others stole designer jackets from Dublin's Brown Thomas in the lead up to Christmas, 2024." Cathriona Joyce (39) of St Bridget's Lawn, Clonsilla, Dublin 15, pleaded guilty to theft, along with…...

3+ day, 21+ hour ago  (989+ words) Fuel protesters were "left with no other option" but to blockade roads and critical infrastructure, Galway West by-election candidate Noel Thomas has said. Speaking in an interview with Gript today, the Independent Ireland Councillor said the government had "forced" demonstrators…...