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3 days ago | 
gript.ie | Jason Osborne
The European Union’s law enforcement agency, Europol, has officially recorded Ireland’s first confirmed jihadist attack – the attempted murder of Defence Forces chaplain Fr Paul Murphy at Renmore Barracks in Co. Galway last August. The attack is listed in the EU’s annual Terrorism Situation and Trend Report as one of the 58 terrorist attacks reported by 14 EU Member States in 2024. Of these, 34 were completed, 5 were failed and 19 were foiled.
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1 week ago | 
gript.ie | Jason Osborne |Jason Osborne
Dear Reader, It is a simple statement of fact that if you are looking for diversity of thought in the Irish media, you will struggle to find it. That is why we founded Gript – to serve the gap in the market left by so many of our colleagues, when they decided that the job of journalists was not to challenge consensus thought, but to herd around it, and defend it fiercely.
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1 week ago | 
gript.ie | Jason Osborne
Despite Irish audiences continuing to trust news more compared to those in other countries, the news sector needs “ongoing access to sustainable support measures including funding schemes,” and development initiatives to remain afloat, according to State media regulator, Coimisiún na Meán.
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3 weeks ago | 
gript.ie | Jason Osborne
I can’t overstate how much I’m growing to despise the tech bro mindset, the core tenet of which seems to be we should do everything that we’re able to do, and to hell with the consequences. If we do end up living in that most accurate of dystopias – Brave New World – it will be because of these people. My hackles are up in relation to this because of this week’s announcement from American company, Nucleus Genomics, which is launching its new service, Nucleus Embryo.
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3 weeks ago | 
gript.ie | Jason Osborne
There was a bit of discussion on the interweb last night about the practice of ‘Islamic Financing’ in Ireland, and how it might be screwing over the rest of the population who get less favourable terms than those who avail of Sharia-compliant financial arrangements. To cut to the end, at the beginning: that isn’t the case.
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1 month ago | 
gript.ie | Jason Osborne
I am growing increasingly concerned about our apparent lack of strategy from our current Government when it comes to reconciling our current climate commitments – which would see us slash emissions by 51 percent by 2030 (which we’re nowhere near achieving) – with reality. I am concerned about this because it’s something of a damned if you do, damned if you don’t situation, and the only way we’ll be less damned is if we make pains to head off the situation now.
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1 month ago | 
gript.ie | Jason Osborne
Dear Reader, It is a simple statement of fact that if you are looking for diversity of thought in the Irish media, you will struggle to find it. That is why we founded Gript – to serve the gap in the market left by so many of our colleagues, when they decided that the job of journalists was not to challenge consensus thought, but to herd around it, and defend it fiercely.
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1 month ago | 
gript.ie | Jason Osborne
A new poll has shown that almost half of Irish respondents feel that their views aren’t represented at the level of the European Union, while 34 percent feel the EU is not upholding its core values and 26 percent are dissatisfied with its direction. Despite this, support for Ireland’s membership of the EU remains high at 82 percent. However, that figure represents the lowest level of support in over a decade (since 2013).
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1 month ago | 
gript.ie | Jason Osborne
Dear Reader, It is a simple statement of fact that if you are looking for diversity of thought in the Irish media, you will struggle to find it. That is why we founded Gript – to serve the gap in the market left by so many of our colleagues, when they decided that the job of journalists was not to challenge consensus thought, but to herd around it, and defend it fiercely.
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1 month ago | 
gript.ie | Jason Osborne
Dear Reader, It is a simple statement of fact that if you are looking for diversity of thought in the Irish media, you will struggle to find it. That is why we founded Gript – to serve the gap in the market left by so many of our colleagues, when they decided that the job of journalists was not to challenge consensus thought, but to herd around it, and defend it fiercely.
