Gary Kavanagh
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All tweets are a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing. Director of the Edmund Burke Institute. Deputy Editor of Gript.
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Personally of the view that Gript can, quite reasonably, take a fair amount of the credit for stopping this terrible law
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Gript has won its Press Council complaint against
@VillageMagIRE
for an article accusing John & Gript of "racism, lying and stirring up hatred."
It was found they beached Principal 1 - truth and accuracy; 2 - distinguishing fact & comment; & 4 - respect for rights.
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I have seen piñatas put forward more compelling defences to an attack than Helen McEntee does here. Legitimately shambolic.
Michael McNamara TD grills Justice Minister Helen McEntee on asylum seeker returns:
"The other country accepted responsibility, accepted they would take them back, a decision was made to transfer them, and you transferred 3 of those 188 [asylum seekers]. Where's the problem?"
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If my math is correct I've spent at least four months with an open OIC appeal against the Department's decision to refuse to release files to me. They seem to be taking the blanket refusal approach to anything referendum related.
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It is simply not appropriate for a media regulator to recommend media outlets shape their internal policies, or external output, to support particular ideological viewpoints.
Ireland’s media regulator has published a new diversity strategy that encourages media organisations to make sweeping changes such as introducing anti-racism and unconscious bias training in an effort to better represent “the diversity of Irish society”.
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Now imagine the people responsible for this telling you they can build houses for less than private developers.
€335,000 just doesn't buy you what it used to. Absolutely obscene that this👇standard bike shelter at Leinster House cost this much.
@john_mcguirk
@DavQuinn
(photo-Irish Independent).
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A direct comparison between Le Pen winning and the Nazi occupation of France is probably not the winning move RTE seems to think it is.
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I can honestly say that Independent Ireland joining, not just a federalist party, but a party whose primary concern is the creation of a federalist Europe, and ensuring the defeat of euroscepticism, was not on my bingo card.
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A deeply important story, or I least I thought so when I wrote it in April. Nice to have that thought validated by it being on the front page of the Irish Times two months later.
Justice officials warned the family and care referendums risked creating prolonged “legal uncertainty” over migration rules before Roderic O’Gorman claimed the proposals had “no legal impact” on immigration law, newly-released records show.
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In Connor McGregor's defence not caring about the constitutional limitations placed on the president never caused an issue for Michael D. Higgins.
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I managed to grab the results of an internal survey of the Department of Justice units that deal with immigration on the likely impact of amending Article 41. Turns out they had some pretty strong views.
I did try and get these documents before the referendum and was refused.
EXCLUSIVE: Gript can reveal internal Department of Justice documents warned that amending the constitutional definition of family, as proposed in the recent referendum, would "massively restrict the State’s ability to regulate its immigration system."
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You would have to be legitimately dense, and not lightly so, to have thought that making that application, for that reason, would help 'the current climate in the country.'
A male- who cannot be named due to a Garda application because of “the current climate in the country” - has appeared before the courts accused of attempting to abduct a 5-year-old child from a party “under his arm”.
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At about 25 seconds in RTE falsely claim that Marine Le Pen's father was in the Waffen SS. Jean-Marie Le Pen was many things, but a Nazi collaborator he was not.
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Not to be unkind but perhaps the fact they lack the basic competency to work out who signed off on this project explains, in and of itself, how they managed to spend over a quarter of a million euro on a bike shed.
A week after the €336k Leinster House bike shed story emerged, Tánaiste Micheál Martin still doesn't know who approved the project.
Asked by
@Ben_Scallan
if it wasn't as simple as making a phonecall, he replied "No it's not...It might seem relatively straightforward to you."
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Some people seem rather unhappy with this particular piece of Europol data. And yet it remains accurate.
According to Europol data, the vast majority of terror arrests in Ireland over the last decade involved far-left Socialist dissidents and Jihadists - yet the media can't stop talking about 'the far-right', who statistically pose a much smaller threat.
@Ben_Scallan
comments.
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As I've said before 'consultation' with this Government is pointless given that they never seem to care what the responses actually say.
92% of responses to the consultation were negative and yet the fact they had held a consultation was used to push for the referendums.
EXCLUSIVE: A year before the Family and Care referendums, the government held a "public consultation" asking for the public's thoughts.
The vast majority of responses were overwhelmingly negative, with most saying they didn't want a referendum at all:
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The really interesting figure, and the one we've never been able to get, is how much public money flows into the Irish media when you include ad buys from publicly funded NGOs, semi-states, entities like the HSE, etc.
Government Departments have spent over €20 million euro taking out advertisements in Irish newspapers and magazines over the last five years, figures released to Independent TD Carol Nolan show.
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I pulled the last year of data on emergency accommodation in Dublin and the number one reason for becoming homeless, in 7 of the 8 months we have data for, was having left direct provision.
PODCAST: A cursory review of the data shows Simon Harris is absolutely correct that asylum seekers are driving up homelessness rates; Varadkar transforms into a media pundit; and neoliberalism remains a vaguely bad sort of thing.
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An unkind man might point out that that is a standard Google ads unit and the content displayed is unique to each site visitor based upon the user's past online activity and visited sites.
Gript's website pushes absolute bunk science as medical advice to readers.
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As an interesting note on the DoJ FOI story - I have been refused access to somewhere between 200 - 300 documents on the referendum between various Departments. And that's not counting ones I got that were redacted to hell and back.
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Enforced deportations went from 52 in 2023 to 65 this year, up to July 17th. The raw figures give a somewhat different tone to this story.
Enforced deportations are now up 128 per cent and voluntary returns are up 157 per cent to mid-July, when compared to the same period last year
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Polling indicates the current immigration and asylum policies are incredibly unpopular, & immigration has, through sheer political ineptitude, become one of the issues voters care most about.
And yet they claim it's race baiting to point out public opposition to those policies.
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I would remind people, as the Guards have come out with new data on hate, that the definition of hate crime, and 'non-crime hate related Incidents', they use is entirely perception based and the only thing they're measuring is the amount of people who bother to complain to them.
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For all the talk of the danger of the far-right in Ireland I can't recall the last time a terrorist offensive killed hundreds of people and the far-right responded by saying that the terrorists "resistance is beautiful," and holding solidarity rallies to support the terrorists.
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This video, at about 9 seconds in, seems to show the man who is already on his knees being fairly heavily struck on the back with a baton.
Gript Media reporter
@fatima_gunning
was pepper-sprayed this evening by a member of An Garda Siochána in Newtown Mount Kennedy, despite having repeatedly and audibly identified herself as a working journalist.
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If I was facing an €8 billion euro fine under an agreement I voluntarily entered into I would give some strong consideration as to how I could either withdraw from, amend, or outright kill the agreement before paying the fine.
Ireland faces an €8 billion fine if it doesn't meet its climate targets for 2030
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@FinnBrady22
@Maritas_EUEnvir
@Ben_Scallan
Those videos are shot in our studio in Dublin. You have chosen an extremely weird hill to die on.
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Personally I would prefer if the state wasn't 100% funding a teacher training course which is, and I sat through hours of recordings of the lectures, openly coming from a critical pedagogy position.
PHOTOS: Inside the DCU course for SPHE school teachers. Teachers confirm exercise which included "fisting" and "rimming" - and an activity asked students to write a sex scene including "line by line dialogue", and "notes on actions".
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Gript's survey on immigration, which has been completed about 25k times, asked if people agreed with a statement saying the Government was legitimately and honestly engaging with local communities before moving asylum seekers into their areas - 93% disagreed.
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I had asked the Department of Justice to confirm for me the methodology used to get the figure of 80%, and the period which it refers to, but they missed the deadline and I've yet to recieve any response.
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I wasn't going to let a simple thing like becoming a father stop me from fulfilling my contractual obligations, but it did push me back a day.
PODCAST: The hate speech bill and a temporary celebration; FG’s relationship with EPP continues to disintegrate; the NEXT ruling is an assault on the idea of entrepreneurship; and the Children’s Hospital fiasco remains entirely the Government’s fault.
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One of the interesting things about Renew, which Independent Ireland are joining, is that it supports the introduction of hate speech laws at the European level, including on the grounds of gender and gender identity.
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My own view, based on talking to lads on the ground, is that they focus on SF because many of them were SF voters, and sometimes were actively involved in the party, and now feel SF has betrayed them.
Sinn Fein not in government in the south, so why specifically call them out. I’ll tell you why. Because the Irish far right are run & controlled by British fascists who will do anything to stop SF taking power. The only traitors are those protesting today
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It's almost as if, political posturing aside, there are few people in the country who would not be legitimately concerned if tents full of unknown men suddenly popped up near their home.
This is unsustainable - a small group of dedicated local volunteers cannot provide the necessary supports for those seeking refuge here.
The Gov urgently needs to produce a coherent
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plan.
@IrishRefugeeCo
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The Council found the article "contained significant inaccuracies and misleading statements" that "Village Magazine did not sufficiently strive for truth and accuracy in its reporting," and that "there was a failure to take reasonable care in checking facts before
publication."
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He said that negative responses were orchestrated, that many came from outside the country, & that the far-right prompted responses.
RTE broadcast no evidence for these claims, & so I have written to Dr Taylor asking him to provide Gript with the evidence he based his claims on
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