Matt Treacy

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Broadcast Journalist at BBC

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MATT TREACY: The Irish left are determined to import America’s race problems - Gript

1 day ago | gript.ie | Matt Treacy

LOOKBACK: This article was first published on 5th June 2020_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _It would seem that some of those involved in last weekend’s protest opposing American racism would rather like to transform this “movement” comprising the rag tag and bobtail of the ultra-left into one focusing on alleged racism in Ireland.
Irish Mongrels? Evidence contradicts ridiculous claim

2 days ago | gript.ie | Matt Treacy

Imagine, if you will, the reaction had somebody in Gript or perhaps a TD in Leinster House described Americans or English people or Palestinians or people from Zambia or Portugal as “mongrels.”Yet it seems perfectly acceptable now to describe the Irish people in this way.
IPAS centres, Bluebell, and tangled webs

3 days ago | gript.ie | Matt Treacy

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.
Mystery around withdrawn Finglas IPAS centre

1 week ago | gript.ie | Matt Treacy

Last week, I reported on the withdrawal of an application from Courtyard Properties for an exemption to place an IPAS centre in the Little Sisters of the Assumption former convent building at Patrickswell Place, Finglas. A letter sent to the local National Party representative Stephen Redmond appeared to contain a notice of the withdrawal. Up until this afternoon there was no notification of a withdrawal.
Almost 30% of births in 2024 were to non-Irish mothers

1 week ago | gript.ie | Matt Treacy

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.
Second Desmond Fennell Seminar will see book launched

1 week ago | gript.ie | Matt Treacy

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.
The IPAS entrepreneurs of Castleblayney

2 weeks ago | gript.ie | Matt Treacy

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.
Drop in asylum doesn’t address huge demographic change

2 weeks ago | gript.ie | Matt Treacy

The latest statistics from the European Union on the number of asylum seekers who have applied for International Protection in member states show that numbers have continued to drop and are now at their lowest since April 2022. The number of first-time applicants for asylum was 59,085 which was down from 66,800. It is further evidence of a longer-term trend as there were 77,170 new applicants in February 2024. That represents a 23% fall since the same month in 2024.
Aodhán Ó Ríordáin is right

2 weeks ago | gript.ie | Matt Treacy

Amid the reactions to the announcement last Friday of the State having decided not to proceed with the development of an IPAS centre on the former Crown Paints site in Coolock, one stood out for me. That was from Labour MEP Aodhán Ó Ríordáin. Now, he is a chap of whom it is fair to say that he would not expect praise from this quarter, nor the other way around. It is important, however, to recognise consistency and standing by one’s guns.
No Good Deed Goes Unpunished

2 weeks ago | gript.ie | Matt Treacy

Today, 19th May, is the anniversary of the death of Fay Stender in 1980 at age 48 There is a little known but brilliant book, The Death of Uncle Joe, by Alison Macleod who worked for the British Communist Daily Worker in the 1940s and 1950s until eventually seeing sense and leaving. The book is well worth reading for its human insight into how many people doggedly stuck to their illusions despite all.