3+ day, 21+ hour ago   (133+ words) TREACY: Will ‘multi generational Irish’ become a minority? Gript Having written about population projections and demographics for the past six years, one of the most striking features is the extent to which official estimates have been consistently wrong – sometimes proven…...

6+ day, 2+ hour ago   (261+ words) Gardaí are investigating whether Clare teen Bryan Lowe, 16, was deliberately targeted before being struck by a van, leading to his death. His mother says she believes her son was “murdered”. Bryan, from Cloonlara and Westbury, Co Clare, was killed in…...

6+ day, 18+ hour ago   (84+ words) gript.ie In a statement issued today, a Sinn Féin TD said that the process of acquiring citizenship must recognise those who have permanently “integrated into Irish society.” Cavan-Monaghan TD Matt Carthy, who is Sinn Féin’s spokesperson on Justice, Home…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (111+ words) Crack surge sparks daily disorder on Dublin’s Merchant’s Quay gript.ie A sharp rise in crack cocaine use is transforming the streets around Merchant’s Quay, with frontline staff warning that the drug’s volatility is spilling into the public realm. Crack…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (231+ words) Four people have been arrested after a knife attack at a Spar shop in Ranelagh, south Dublin, shortly before 1.30 pm on Wednesday. The attack, images of which have circulated on social media, left one man injured. The images appear to…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (85+ words) Aontú drafts Bill to withdraw Ireland from EU Migration Pact Gript Aontú will introduce and table its Bill to withdraw Ireland from the EU Migration Pact by the end of September, party leader Peadar Tóibín has confirmed. More than 65,000 people…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (115+ words) Gardaí say ‘mosque’ images show “replica” weapons Gript An Garda Síochána has said that images appearing to show “an exchange of weapons” in Dublin did not involve real firearms. Over a number of days, a video appearing to show three…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (91+ words) Gript A 24-year-old man, Siminic Rostas, who sustained “catastrophic injuries” in a large-scale violent confrontation in south Co Dublin at the weekend, has succumbed to his injuries and died, a court has heard. Kevin Rostas (21), a father of one, of…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (73+ words) The media ‘misinformation’ about a molesting “Irish” doctor Gript This is how the Irish Daily Mirror (who, in fairness, are generally much better in regard to crime reporting) conveyed the sentencing of Pakistani doctor, Muhammad Iqbal, who had been found…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (91+ words) Gript Two critical landmark-moments last week passed almost without comment, apart from by Matt Treacy in these pages. One was the official news: yes, Ireland’s population had reached 5.5 million. The other was the utter non-debate within Fingal County Council over…...