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3 days ago |
gript.ie | John McGuirk
Last night, as some readers may know, I was on Virgin Media’s Tonight Show to discuss, amongst other things, immigration policy in Ireland. I have always enjoyed appearing on that programme, from its earliest days under Vincent Browne, and the team there are always very professional and kind. Judging by the feedback I received, many people seemed to think I performed reasonably creditably.
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3 days ago |
gript.ie | John McGuirk
As regular readers will know, my wife is a teacher. Before I met her, and came to know as many teachers as I now do, I confess to having held to a lot of stereotypes about her profession: Long holidays, short hours, timing-the-babies-for-September-to-max-out-maternity-leave, that sort of thing.
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4 days ago |
thecritic.co.uk | John McGuirk
This article is taken from the June 2025 issue of The Critic. To get the full magazine why not subscribe? Right now we’re offering five issues for just £25. At the very heart of the populist right — its thrumming, animating core — is anti-elitism.
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5 days ago |
gript.ie | John McGuirk
This year marks the 250th anniversary of the birth of Daniel O’Connell, which is why I was delighted on Sunday to publish Eoghan Harris’s lecture – “O’Connell at Clontarf” – delivered to the Listowel Writer’s Week festival recently. I was struck by some of the reaction to that piece, and the negative tone of it towards O’Connell. Some of the criticism was fair. For example, Gerard Hanney noted that:“Daniel O’Connell may have damaged the Irish language.
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gript.ie | John McGuirk
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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