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Survey: insurance premiums rose despite reforms

2 days ago | gript.ie | Niamh Ui Bhriain

A survey of insurance customers has found that almost three quarters of respondents have seen their premium rise in the last two years, although campaigners say the volume of claims is reducing, awards are coming down and insurance companies are making record profits.
Last night was Ireland's real bonfire night

3 days ago | gript.ie | Niamh Ui Bhriain

In some parts of the country, bonfires – and bonefires, perhaps – were blazing last night for St John’s Eve or Oíche Shin Seáin: a tradition that has endured from pre-Christian times though it was named and celebrated for generations in honour of St John the Baptist. This lovely thread from Wexford archaeologist Colm Moriarty, explains that “June 23rd, is St. John’s Eve, or as it is known in many parts of Ireland, Bonfire Night.
Senator: Foster Parents need Back to School Allowances

4 days ago | gript.ie | Niamh Ui Bhriain

Senator Sarah O’Reilly has described means testing for foster parents for the back-to-School Clothing and Footwear Allowance as “mean and retrograde” and has urged the Government “to immediately ensure that it is paid to for all children in foster care, irrespective of their foster family’s income or financial circumstances”. That’s according to Aontú’s Sarah O’Reilly who raised the issue in the Seanad and is meeting with representatives of foster families this week.
Asylum appeals to jump to 25,000 this year, IPAT says

1 week ago | gript.ie | Niamh Ui Bhriain

The national asylum appeals tribunal has said that applications for asylum continued at a “unprecedented level” in 2024 with 22,548 pending applications at the end of the year – while they expect an overall caseload of 25,000 appeals of refusals for asylum applications for 2025.
Gaza: how can shooting at starving people be justified?

1 week ago | gript.ie | Niamh Ui Bhriain

There is nothing, it seems, that most of us can say at this juncture that will change the terrible course of the war in Gaza, though it is not so much a war as an endless, one-sided bombardment seemingly aimed at erasing Palestinians from most of the strip and, it increasingly also seems, from the West Bank.
IPAS fail: Dundrum locals "vindicated and delighted"

1 week ago | gript.ie | Niamh Ui Bhriain

Residents of the tiny village of Dundrum say they feel “vindicated and delighted” after Tipperary County Council conceded that an asylum centre in Dundrum House Hotel should not have been given a planning exemption to allow it to accommodate migrants.
Male victims of sexual offences up 54% 2023-4

1 week ago | gript.ie | Niamh Ui Bhriain

The number of recorded male victims of crime incidents of Sexual offences rose by 54% to 869 victims between 2023 and 2024, the CSO has reported, saying this increase related mainly to a near doubling of such crime incidents that were reported by males more than a year after the occurrence. 50% of all recorded victims of crime incidents of sexual offences in 2024 were under 18 years of age at the time of occurrence, the data showed.
No let up: €415 MILLION on asylum in first QTR 2025

1 week ago | gript.ie | Niamh Ui Bhriain

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.
Flying the national flag indicates a 'racist' house?

1 week ago | gript.ie | Niamh Ui Bhriain

On Easter Monday in 1916, two flags were hoisted above the GPO as the Rising began: Eamon Bulfin, born in Argentina to Irish parents and a former pupil of St Enda’s, raised the Green flag of the Republic, while a cousin of Michael Collins, Gearóid O’Sullivan, hoisted the Tri-Colour.
BREAKING: Dundrum House Hotel IPAS exemption to fall

1 week ago | gript.ie | Niamh Ui Bhriain

A meeting held by Tipperary County Council with local and national representatives has heard that local people seeking a judicial review of the decision to grant a planning exemption for the use of Dundrum House Hotel as an asylum centre are likely to succeed. The CEO of Tipperary County Council said that she would be informing the Dundrum Heritage Group that the Section 5 exemption granted for the Dundrum House Hotel in order to bypass planning should not have been granted.