Gript-A source of misinformation. **Read OP before posting**

I see a load of snowflakes are losing their minds and demanding censorship over a few words and pcitures in a book. I assume grift will have an article in support of the book company exercising their freedom of speech.

I actually find the Gript take on child sexual abuse to be far more concerning than a SPHE book storm in a teacup. McGuirk seems to think it's better to just sweep it under the carpet. Maybe if the abuse allegations made it to the actual authorities at the time, victims could have gotten some justice.

He only cares about the unborn as per the right wing playbook\funding.

Rigged referendum where did anyone here that line before?

https://www.save8.ie/rigged/

That blog site should be never taken serious as any source of information.

Anyone using it as a source and especially complaining about "MSM" should be dismissed in seconds.

I don't know any "pure Irish" families like the one portrayed in the SPHE book, but in a book published two decades ago, Hugo Hamilton produced a portrait of a family somewhat similar to the "pure Irish family", aran sweaters, prohibitions, strict parents etc.

Unfortunately, his portrayal of his family differed from the SPHE Irish family in a number of regards: the first is that they were not hillbillies, but a South County Dublin professional family, the father being an engineer working in one of the semi-states, while a "traitorous" grandfather had been in the British navy in WW I.
Another even more major difference is that they weren't pure Irish either: the mother was German, and in tolerant S Co Dublin of the day they were bullied by other local kids and hounded as "Nazis" (remember that this area has always been full of a certain type, having been developed as a salubrious series of suburbs for the better-off members of the Colonial administration and allied classes such as finance & law).

On the other hand, I did briefly know a family who used to spend their holidays touring the museums of Europe with their children (under the age of 10 at the time) who - the father once proudly told me - were able to recognise the works of the major artists from the impressionist period onwards and correctly attribute them to their authors. Whether they ate pizza or curries I couldn't say, but in this case both parents were of pure Irish descent.

So much for stereotypes then, eh?

Absolutely scummy take on it from McGurk but what would you expect from a pig only a grunt.

Sequel to The Quiet Man - The Not So Quiet Man:

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/crime-and-law/courts/district-court/man-bribed-with-bacon-and-cabbage-court-hears-1.2276791

You are free to but everyone is in agreement, the book shouldn't have portrayed Irish people as it did. People weren't agreeing that it was equivalent to Reich propaganda to destroy Irish culture. The book will be amended and it's really not a national scandal.

Given the topic is about Gript, the fact that their editor is attempting to downplay a far more serious decades long sexual abuse scandal, I'd say it's a far bigger question about the site's motivation. This is the site that posters claim that is challenging both the MSM and government. But if anything it seems to be running a propaganda line for their owner and other Christian fundamentalists who want to effectively cover up child sex abuse.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niamh_U%C3%AD_Bhriain

That is an incomplete conclusion. Gript very selectively 'side with' (to some extent) a handful of trad institutions like the RCC but not with FF, FG etc. which are also Establishment - and also traditional, for that matter - Irish institutions.

Obviously they would not be for siding with e.g. the South Yorkshire police over the scandal of Rotherham rape gangs.

But people who do 'side with' powerful institutions that shield child abusers - such as the South Yorkshire police, and the local branch of the Labour Party in Rotherham at that time - are to be condemned.

For placing abstract concerns about hypothetical 'racism' above the welfare of actual rape victims.

Right?

What's a lie?

A 2015 UK Government report concluded that members of Rotherham Council were silencing whistleblowers, and South Yorkshire police were deliberately failing to investigate these crimes. And that concerns over 'racism' were the reason for the cover-up.

Diversity and inclusion is the worst, right?

It's funny how unions are democratic organisations, controlled by their members, who submit motions at local level, then branch level, then national level - but apparently they've been 'hijacked'

Or maybe the fact that your buddy hasn't gone to a meeting in ten years could be the relevant factor here?

So what you are saying is that if racists teach horrible attitudes to their kids there should be nothing at all at the school to counteract or question that. OK.

Just a point of information, the book in question was intended for use by Year 2 second level students.

And I suppose you would be the arbiter of what is a horrible attitude?

I've seen a lot of people, on here even, being described as racist when they are not.

I've seen people on here being described as trans"phobic" for believing that gender doesn't supercede biological reality, when they are not.

I wouldn't be comfortable for a school to counteract or overrule a parent.

If the teacher has any concerns about the parent, they should speak with the parent, not the child.