Varadkar, Martin & Ryan walking off a stage together to avoid a journalist. Is this acceptable?

How was he in grave danger when everyone in Ireland knew that the attacker was under armed guard in hospital?? It was reported every hour on the news.

You could have easily have ended up with an idiot who thought he was on the streets or released and the press weren't reporting on it. The Gardai deemed it as serious enough to put him under protection. On top of that, you open any family members up to being targeted.

Anyway, I'd say it's pretty likely that the courts will find against gript. They behaved irresponsibly and put a random member of the public in danger.

There was nothing wrong with the question it was perfectly reasonable.You may not agree with Gript as a news source but the question is absolutely fine.

Varadkars response is proof of the contempt he hs for the average Irish person as the questioned posed was one a lot of people would like an answer to.

With Dev and Collins portraits on either side.

How do you know what their ' resources" are?

They haven' t made them public.

If you do know maybe you could do the rest of us a service here and publish??

Exactly this. Gript are lying, spinning and proving The Village right each and every day.

My mistake.

To paraphrase a sitcom "they don't like it put to 'em"

It is getting quite enjoyable to see how uncomfortable our betters are beginning to feel.

If you think it is uncomfortable now, just wait until election time.

This is getting silly now.

Gript resources and influence are TINY, MINISCULE compared to RTÉ for example.

Still though, Gript really seems to drive the blue haired, gender fluid, skimmed soya latte brigade, absolutely seething with anger.

How dare a conservative media outlet resist the Woke Consensus!!

*stamps foot*

Yes, it is amazing how a small entity like Gript has fired up certain people and commentators to disparage them with a vengeance.

When I see that kind of vitriol against a news source I think Whoa, why are they so vocally against Free Speech, or is it that Free Speech must only come from certain quarters? Censorship by another name maybe.

You and I don't have to like or admire Gript, but I for one stand firmly in the camp of No censorship, No muzzling, No derision. And the reality is, that Gript has had more publicity over this attempt to get the Triumvirate on the podium to answer a reasonable question, than any advertising could ever do.

Let them be sued for the issue mentioned above, let them be mocked and derided, but let them have their say. I'd imagine that deep down a fairly substantial number of people in a certain demographic are only dying for someone to speak up for them. Hard Left ultra liberals they are not. But maybe just the ordinary Joes and Josephines happy to get both sides of the story instead of the group speak that's happening in our media at the moment.

the Left is raging, that's a sign that Gript are doing something right (oops), for those with no voice now.

I don' t think anybody is ' my better '.. But I suppose if you don't believe in equality you might!

Thats a bit of a stretch..

No. Disagree with it saying anything about the rest of the media.

If anything it shows that many do not hold Scallan or Gript in any regard that noone else is championing this... Or that it may not have happened at all?

If it did happen, the responsibility is solely on those facilitating and the three politicians, not anyone else.

Again a very large stretch!

But what is the agenda of the mainstream media? They could hardly be accused of strongly favouring one party in the Dáil and doing their best to discredit all the others - the likes of SF, Labour, the Soc Dems, PBP and Aontú get a fair crack of the whip alongside the three government parties.

Gript is interesting in that it hates all of the above (!)

Gript appeals to the likes of Ben Scallan/Ben Gilroy et al and the fringe Irexit/Freedom Party, which is that miniscule it doesn't attract much more than miniscule attention.

The Gript/Irexit folk see this miniscule attention as a hardline conspiracy to discredit the silent majority that they are definitely a part of.

Activists? That is stretching it. In reality.

It's a racist God bothering blog designed to fleece the terminally stupid.

It was setup by a guy who is an unemployable preputial loser.

Who has been reduced to this.

The Sean Gallagher thing was a fiasco alright, but it was more down to total incompetence on the part of RTE than an attempt to nobble his chances.

I'm not buying for a moment that the MSM are in league with the Government. For starters, it's a three party coalition...which one of the three parties are they supposed to prefer? And will they be accused by Gript of being pro-government if SF and Mary Lou come to power? Given their attacks on SF recently, the answer to that one would appear to be 'yes'.

Not horrified.. But certainly balance is needed.

Now whether balance is achieved with a publication funded by god knows who, which doesn't adhere to any of the usual journalistic checks or balances remains to be seen.

Surely we need more than these guys who can be batted off so easily because they are not taken seriously because of their questionable style and substance?

But it is best to hear differing voices in a democracy, you are right.