1+ hour, 18+ min ago   (569+ words) Four people have been killed after the car they were travelling in on the wrong side of the M9 motorway crashed head-on into another vehicle early Sunday morning. It is reported that the BMW in which the deceased were travelling had…...

4+ hour, 46+ min ago   (994+ words) Gript In the Austro-Hungarian writer Stefan Zweig’s 1939 novel Beware of Pity (Ungeduld des Herzens), one could closely follow the psychological turmoil raging within the soul of Lieutenant Hofmiller after he asks the host’s daughter for a dance at a social…...

7+ hour, 2+ min ago   (624+ words) 16th August, is the anniversary of Hamish Fraser’s Birth in 1913 The Scottish shipyards and mines were one of the few places in Britain where the Communist Party gained a foothold. Beginning with the Red Clydeside strikes against World War I, communists…...

1+ day, 7+ hour ago   (368+ words) The traditional date for their foundation is 632 BC. The Annals of the Four Masters, note that the Oenach Tailten was held yearly for many centuries, even recording its omission in the year 873. According to D.A. Binchy The Fair of Tailtiu and…...

2+ day, 1+ hour ago   (92+ words) Gript Advance HE, which is the UK‑based organisation behind the Athena Swan Charter and the Race Equality Charter, has become one of the most influential external bodies shaping Irish higher‑education policy. How? Because through Athena Swan, Advance HE…...

2+ day, 2+ hour ago   (659+ words) An Irish Senator has demanded the creation of a centralised public database to expose whether state funding for non-governmental organisations is reaching frontline services or being swallowed up by “chief executive salaries.” Speaking in an interview with Gript this week,…...

1+ day, 19+ hour ago   (552+ words) Local women in Galway say they have been left “terrified” and “fearful” and “reduced to warning each other by Whats App” after an alleged gang rape at the main train station in Galway on August 1st, the final day of the…...

2+ day, 3+ hour ago   (774+ words) Independent Ireland Councillor, Linda de Courcy, has said that data released under FOI shows that non-Irish households were up to 1.4 times more likely to get a house or apartment than an Irish household based on housing allocation in 2024 in the…...

1+ day, 22+ hour ago   (140+ words) Gardaí were advised to speak to Nigerian male head of household Gript Official Garda training advised officers engaging with the Nigerian community to speak to the male head of the household first, noting that it was “not uncommon” for men…...

2+ day, 3+ hour ago   (695+ words) Gript ‘Cherchez la femme’ is an old French adage, a bit too sexist for our time so probably little if ever used today, which points to female manoeuvres behind the scene, usually when mischief is afoot. Well, some of the…...