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

Credibility is in the eye of the beholder it would seem.

I don't really get the idea that if you disagree with the premise that gript is cutting edge, brave media then you're a moron that another poster put forward above. It's always been a glorified hate blog to me and those who keep desperately pushing it here are guilty of the same nonsense they accuse others of perpetrating. For instance, any criticism of this Ben guy is automatically racist.

Sarah Ryan is a thick as **** nepo baby.

McGuirk has clearly been banished by Niamh Thick Mhathuna because he's not Nazi enough.

Hopefully Grift shrivels dies now without its "intellectual driver" (spews and laughs equally). If ever there was a media entity that deserved to die it's Grift.

I don't see grift dying, unfortunately. What I think more likely is them going further down the InfoWars route with heavy advertising for stuff like supplements and cryptocurrencies.

In fairness, they had the odd decent article a year or two ago but it’s been going down the toilet for a while now. The recent reliance on the barely literate Laura Perrins shows that they’re scraping the bottom of the barrel completely.

And whatever about the articles themselves, the comments underneath showed that their subscribers were almost exclusively far right, racist scum.

I know there's a thing where nobody ever lost money overestimating the stupidity of right wingers and all that but I'm not sure Ireland has a market for such nonsense.

But I am open to the possibility that I could be wrong on that.

The thing about McGuirk is that he clearly is very intelligent, if amoral, and he's an exceptionally good troll who knows how to play the media game.

I don't think that's true of anybody else involved with Grift. The rest of them seem thick as two short planks to me.

I'd imagine McGuirk will get a gig with The Spectator or Spiked or some other UK shltrag now before the Indo inevitably takes him on as a controversialist columnist.

Ian O'Doherty will probably be worried because McGuirk has the ability to do his job as a right wing "anti-establishment" establishment troll, except more effectively.

Parts of the mainstream right are shifting that way though. Look at the UK for one example. It's clearly shifted in favour of Farage's Reform UK such that it's now mostly ex-Tory MPs.

As for grift, it's the spider in the bath. If their fortunes deteriorate, they'll be under pressure to move further to the right by which I mean open racism and conspiracy nonsense. If they move to the centre, they enter a crowded market in which their toxic brand means they have no chance.

McGurk peaked with his tweet of that fella wearing a a eff FFG t shirt a few years ago and calling him a dose. In fairness, yer man looked to be right dose

It’s been downhill ever since for him. I wonder what ever became of the dose? Probably living in Berlin now….

Good to see the gript rag get taken on. I still find it funny how they are facing a case and possible big payout to an Algerian migrant. The thought of subscriber money potentially going into the pocket of an Algerian migrant is quite funny. I hope the lad enjoys every penny :)

I see Trump sycophant and McGuirk sidekick Sarah Ryan has found a new temporary home in like minded company with Paul Treyvaud, Elaine Mullalley and Nick Delahunty on Treyvauds podcast 'The Irish Question'.

They spent 10 minutes on this weeks podcast complaining about how Catholicism is being demonised. Complained about the notion of taking the sacraments out of schools and doing them outside school hours on parents own time. Delahunty stated that Christianity is vital, without it there is no moral compass.

At no point did any of them even mention Trumps recent unprovoked and unjustified attacks on The Pope, his presumably blasphemous image of him as Jesus Christ or JD Vance lecturing The Pope on understanding of the Bible.

These guys are literal caricatures without an ounce of credibility, critical thought or self awareness.

Shouldn't that be 'former Gript editor'? Speaking of which, i wonder how he's going to cover this…