Gary Kavanagh
@GL_Kavanagh
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All tweets are a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing. Director of the Edmund Burke Institute. Deputy Editor of Gript.
Joined September 2014
RT @griptmedia: We’ve launched something new:.The Cost of Politics tracks exactly how much TDs, Senators, and political parties are costing….
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This has now gone live, you can access it, assuming you're a subscriber, on
My new project for Gript will launch this week. An overview of all public money spent supporting Irish political entities from 2015/19 to date. It shows the spending at party level and individual TD's expenses. Subscribe if you'd like access
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RT @karldeeter: Our shopping bill rose, but at the same time, so have taxes on shopping like the Re-Turn scheme (total nonsense scheme), m….
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The scoliosis scandal is one which I think perfectly highlights the fall in state, and political, capability in the last 15 or so years. Difficult to see this getting anywhere near this stage under Ahern or Haughey.
"Children are becoming inoperable”: Gary Farrell of Scoliosis Ireland says it is a national crisis that children are languishing up to four years on HSE waiting lists for vital scoliosis surgeries. He tells Gript that repeated Government promises have not resulted in action:
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He is right that Fox News took that from that article though, and that is easy to prove as 114% is rather obviously incorrect, it should be 131%. I had a typo when drafting, and saved the correction, but apparently never actually pushed the update through. It's fixed now.
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Anyway that article contains, I thought, some really interesting points on crime trends, data collection, trust in police, and the impact of policing prioritisation on crime stats.
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On the CSO point the issues with AGS data is well known, but if you refuse to engage with it at all, as opposed to using the CSO's Recorded Crime Database whilst understanding the issues, you're saying that no analysis of crime trends can be undertaken.
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I also noted that Dublin remains, by international standards, an exceptionally safe city, but that, whilst overall crime rates have fallen, that is concentrated in a number of categories and other categories have increased very substantially.
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I take issue with the claim I "stupidly claimed" anything as the article itself includes considerable discussion of the limitation of the available data, and it quotes extensively from AGS commentary on changing trends.
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Less crime? That really depends on what crimes you care about.
Fox News claimed "city of Dublin where murder and assault attempts are surging 114%.". The actual statistic Fox News is butchering appears stolen from Gript, who stupidly claimed:. "Attempts or Threats to Murder, Assaults, Harassments & Related offences up 114% since *2003*"
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It's well known a lot of the most madly progressive people fled to BlueSky after Musk bought Twitter, but the extent to which the mad migrated to LinkedIn remains understudied.
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We had hoped to keep this matter entirely private, but the Press Council were unwilling to do so - their decision to push ahead with publication, knowing that a JR was coming, clearly damaged Gript's reputation, and now necessitates an explanation of what is happening and why.
Gript Media has issued a statement on our decision to seek a judicial review of the Press Council. You can read the full explanation and context here.
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As an amusing aside - initially they refused to give me the information under GDPR. When I listed the GDPR provisions which allowed release they edited the website, to remove the GDPR claim, & said I couldn't have it as there was no legal requirement for them to give it to me.
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Anyway this all takes an incredible amount of time, although it's a fair point that it shouldn't, and we couldn't do it without our subscribers. Please do consider taking out a subscription if you want to see more of this sort of work -
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Dear Reader, It is a simple statement of fact that if you are looking for diversity of thought in the Irish media, you will struggle to find it. That is why we founded Gript – to serve the gap in the...
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Legally a statement of qualification, basically a 2/3 paragraph CV, must be laid before the Houses of the Oireachtas upon the appointment of a special advisor. I was refused access to them on the basis they were private information.
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I should note here that I had hoped to add the details of every government special advisor, since 2015, to the list but the Oireachtas is refusing to turn over the information, despite it being statutorily required, & so Gript are now going through the OIC to force its release.
My new project for Gript will launch this week. An overview of all public money spent supporting Irish political entities from 2015/19 to date. It shows the spending at party level and individual TD's expenses. Subscribe if you'd like access
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If there is sufficient support for this sort of thing we'll expand it to cover lobbying returns, special advisors, and greater oversight of the expenses of both parties and the individual politicians. A lot of the information is being slowly drawn out through FOI and OIC cases.
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My new project for Gript will launch this week. An overview of all public money spent supporting Irish political entities from 2015/19 to date. It shows the spending at party level and individual TD's expenses. Subscribe if you'd like access
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It's interesting that no media outlet, bar Gript, thought releasing the full footage was in the public interest.
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In mid 2022 foreigners accounted for 36% of those accessing emergency accommodation; in June of this year it was 49%. The number of non-EEA/UK users of emergency services has tripled over that period, from 1,036 to 3,098.
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Last week we showed leaving direct provision was the number one reason for single people to access emergency accommodation in Dublin, now we find that the proportion of foreigners accessing emergency accommodation nationwide is trending towards, and nearly already, a majority.
The latest figures show that almost half of those accessing emergency accommodation in Ireland are not Irish, while the number of non-EEA service users has tripled since 2022.
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