BEN SCALLAN: “Labour’s messaging suggests student-union radicalism, but its instincts remain those of an old parliamentary party - moderate, managerial, and willing to govern with whoever will take them. This appeals to nobody”: gript.ie/labour-is-lite…

BEN SCALLAN: “Either the public are capable of choosing wisely most of the time - which is the whole basis for having democracy in the first place - or they aren’t, in which case the democratic process is as reckless as giving toddlers firearms”: gript.ie/misinfo-laws-u…

Ireland’s Minister for European Affairs is travelling to two countries to promote their membership of the EU: gript.ie/minister-to-pr…

Ministers Sean Canney and Noel Grealish say that the Government should have checks at the border to ensure that individuals who are given deportation orders do, in fact, leave the State: gript.ie/call-for-exit-…

“If we’re to manage the immigration system, we need to have knowledge of who’s here”: Ministers Sean Canney and Noel Grealish say that the Government should have checks at the border to ensure that individuals who are given deportation orders do, in fact, leave the State.

Taoiseach Micheál Martin has said it is not "feasible" for Ireland to have exit checks at the border for people given deportation orders: gript.ie/martin-deporta…

‘Not feasible’: Taoiseach Micheál Martin explains why Ireland doesn’t check to verify whether people served deportation orders have left the State: “We don’t have exit checks between Northern Ireland and the Republic, nor is it feasible to do so.”

Kinda a funny list when you realize the years listed for all of them are based on the life of the supposed #3 most influential person.

BEN SCALLAN: “Pretending that numbers don’t matter, or that every trade-off of immigration can be hand-waved away by vague economic optimism and platitudes, is not compassionate or responsible - it’s an immature cop out”: gript.ie/paschal-donoho…

Ex-US President Barack Obama should receive “no welcome” in Ireland, People Before Profit have said, claiming that “his failures lead to the rise of Donald Trump and the American far-right”: gript.ie/obama-not-welc…

"Attacks on our Gardaí are unacceptable and will never be tolerated" - Capel street Garda attack condemned: gript.ie/unprovoked-ass…

The Department of Justice is responsible for family re-unification of refugees from Afghanistan, Tánaiste Simon Harris has said: gript.ie/harris-doj-in-…

US President Donald Trump has warned it will be “very hard” for the United States to make a trade deal with Canada if it recognises a Palestinian state: gript.ie/trump-canada-r…

Palestinian nationals seeking refuge in Ireland must enter the State to apply for protection, Justice Minister Colm Brophy has confirmed: gript.ie/brophy-no-spec…

A US official on a trip to Dublin has said that when it comes to Big Tech regulation in Ireland, it’s often hard to tell who’s actually “in charge” - the Irish Government, or Brussels - and that “it seems like just two layers of bureaucracy”: gript.ie/us-official-as…

“A cultural renaissance…it’s about our national identity, our heritage”: Students should be taught to associate Gaeilge with “pride” and "identity", a Fianna Fáil TD has said, as he proposed a mandatory Gaeltacht stay as part of the Leaving Cert: gript.ie/td-gaeltacht-s…

An assault at a Waterford house has left a man in his 70s dead: gript.ie/assault-at-wat…

A TD has called for tree cutting to prevent power outages in rural Ireland, saying "People who were left without power for 15 or 16 days during the last storm are now suffering again after a mere blow of wind - it's disgusting": gript.ie/td-tree-cuttin…