Matt Treacy

1 week ago | gript.ie | Matt Treacy

LOOKBACK: This article was first published this day last year_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ The Sandymount Hotel in Dublin played host to an event on Friday morning to remember the late Desmond Fennell who died in 2021 and to hear a number of presentations on his life and work. One of the organisers of the seminar – entitled Desmond Fennell and Ireland: Past, Present and Future – Dr. Finbarr Bradley spoke to Gript about the day.

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.

1 week ago | gript.ie | Matt Treacy

LOOKBACK: This article was first published on the 16th June 2021_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _Given that today is Bloomsday, perhaps it is timely to point out that there has been as much arm chancery about interpreting his politics as there is about many other things Joycean. The only real clue from his written work is that his family were Parnellites who stood by the Chief after his downfall.

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.

2 weeks ago | gript.ie | Matt Treacy

LOOKBACK: This article was first published on 8 June 2021_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _The claim that all improvements in living conditions are illusionary distractions was pioneered first by Lenin in What is to be Done? and updated as part of new left ideology in the 1960s by Marcuse and the Frankfurt School of Marxism. It still forms the basis of current identity politics in which the traditional working class is just one of many oppressed groups, and by far from being the coolest.