I don’t know, but, as usual with McGuirk, the fallout will be best followed with a huge bucket of popcorn.
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I’ll save you the read – McGuirk put on leave of absence 3 weeks ago, lawyers engaged on both sides but no information in this article about what is actually happening over at gript.
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Can’t read the article but as usual, anything that loser John McGuirk touches will eventually turn to shit.
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Nothing involving John Mcguirk should surprise anyone. I was in college with him and he was exactly the same. Always managing to trip himself up with some nonsense
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Looks like a spat between management over editorial direction. Interesting just seeing where the money that funds it comes from no?
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I’m out of the loop lads, who’s McGuirk and what is Gript?
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From the Irish Times:
“The editor of the conservative Irish news website Gript has been relieved of his duties and placed on a leave of absence for the last three weeks.
Staff and contributors to Gript have been told the website’s editor, John McGuirk, was put on leave by Niamh Uí Bhrian, who is a director and shareholder in Gript Media Ltd.
The reasons for McGuirk’s leave are said to be hotly disputed.
Lawyers have been engaged by both sides and sources in the organisation said they could not see how McGuirk could return to his position, given the nature of the falling out[](https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2026/04/13/live-fuel-protests-traffic-updates-ireland-dublin/)It is understood there have been long-running tensions and disputes in Gript about its editorial direction and management reporting lines.
McGuirk is the editor, while Uí Bhrian is the assistant editor. Uí Bhrian also has a leadership role as company director and holds 50 per cent of the company’s shares.
Uí Bhrian ran as an Independent candidate in Dublin Central in the 1992 general election on an anti-abortion platform. She is also a director of The Pro-Life Institute, a company called Cashkoin FX Ltd and Irish Cultural, Preservation & Promotion Association, a company incorporated last year.
The Pro-Life Institute has provided financial backing to Gript.
The other director in Gript Media and holder of 50 per cent of its shares is Evelyn Porter, with an address in Dublin 15. Her occupation is listed as “homemaker”.
Contacted this week, McGuirk said: “I remain an employee of Gript Media and I have no further comment.”
A Gript spokesman said: “John is still an employee of Gript and I am afraid I can’t comment beyond that at this time.”
Contacted by email, Uí Bhrian said: “I’ve no comment to make.”
As well as editing the website, McGuirk wrote regular opinion pieces and issued a weekly podcast with barrister Sarah Ryan.
McGuirk’s last authored piece with Gript was published on March 26th and his last podcast with Ryan was released on March 20th.
Last week, McGuirk published an opinion article criticising the Government’s reaction to the fuel protests as an article on the X social media site. It was not published on Gript.
McGuirk’s X article was reposted on X by Laura Perrins, a writer with Gript, who described it as “exceptional”. The article was also reposted on X by Sarah Ryan.
McGuirk, an economics and political science graduate from Trinity College Dublin, is a former Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael member who worked for businessman Declan Ganley’s Libertas group when it campaigned against the Lisbon Treaty in 2008 and 2009.
He was a spokesman for the Save the 8th campaign that unsuccessfully campaigned for a No vote in the 2018 referendum that paved the way for reform of Ireland’s abortion laws.
In 2023, Gript Media made an €18,000 donation to the European Conservatives and Reformists Party (ECR) to help it host a conference in Kilkenny.
On its website, Gript said it is “a platform for views which challenge establishment thinking”. It warns about the “headlong rush to the most extreme forms of liberalism”, which it claims are being “facilitated by the stifling of any real debate”. ”
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I don’t know but I’m sure McGuirk will say it’s an anti-semitic conspiracy.
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I don’t know, but, as usual with McGuirk, the fallout will be best followed with a huge bucket of popcorn.
I’ll save you the read – McGuirk put on leave of absence 3 weeks ago, lawyers engaged on both sides but no information in this article about what is actually happening over at gript.
Can’t read the article but as usual, anything that loser John McGuirk touches will eventually turn to shit.
Nothing involving John Mcguirk should surprise anyone. I was in college with him and he was exactly the same. Always managing to trip himself up with some nonsense
Looks like a spat between management over editorial direction. Interesting just seeing where the money that funds it comes from no?
I’m out of the loop lads, who’s McGuirk and what is Gript?
From the Irish Times:
“The editor of the conservative Irish news website Gript has been relieved of his duties and placed on a leave of absence for the last three weeks.
Staff and contributors to Gript have been told the website’s editor, John McGuirk, was put on leave by Niamh Uí Bhrian, who is a director and shareholder in Gript Media Ltd.
The reasons for McGuirk’s leave are said to be hotly disputed.
Lawyers have been engaged by both sides and sources in the organisation said they could not see how McGuirk could return to his position, given the nature of the falling out[](https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2026/04/13/live-fuel-protests-traffic-updates-ireland-dublin/)It is understood there have been long-running tensions and disputes in Gript about its editorial direction and management reporting lines.
McGuirk is the editor, while Uí Bhrian is the assistant editor. Uí Bhrian also has a leadership role as company director and holds 50 per cent of the company’s shares.
Uí Bhrian ran as an Independent candidate in Dublin Central in the 1992 general election on an anti-abortion platform. She is also a director of The Pro-Life Institute, a company called Cashkoin FX Ltd and Irish Cultural, Preservation & Promotion Association, a company incorporated last year.
The Pro-Life Institute has provided financial backing to Gript.
The other director in Gript Media and holder of 50 per cent of its shares is Evelyn Porter, with an address in Dublin 15. Her occupation is listed as “homemaker”.
Contacted this week, McGuirk said: “I remain an employee of Gript Media and I have no further comment.”
A Gript spokesman said: “John is still an employee of Gript and I am afraid I can’t comment beyond that at this time.”
Contacted by email, Uí Bhrian said: “I’ve no comment to make.”
As well as editing the website, McGuirk wrote regular opinion pieces and issued a weekly podcast with barrister Sarah Ryan.
McGuirk’s last authored piece with Gript was published on March 26th and his last podcast with Ryan was released on March 20th.
Last week, McGuirk published an opinion article criticising the Government’s reaction to the fuel protests as an article on the X social media site. It was not published on Gript.
McGuirk’s X article was reposted on X by Laura Perrins, a writer with Gript, who described it as “exceptional”. The article was also reposted on X by Sarah Ryan.
McGuirk, an economics and political science graduate from Trinity College Dublin, is a former Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael member who worked for businessman Declan Ganley’s Libertas group when it campaigned against the Lisbon Treaty in 2008 and 2009.
He was a spokesman for the Save the 8th campaign that unsuccessfully campaigned for a No vote in the 2018 referendum that paved the way for reform of Ireland’s abortion laws.
In 2023, Gript Media made an €18,000 donation to the European Conservatives and Reformists Party (ECR) to help it host a conference in Kilkenny.
On its website, Gript said it is “a platform for views which challenge establishment thinking”. It warns about the “headlong rush to the most extreme forms of liberalism”, which it claims are being “facilitated by the stifling of any real debate”. ”
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I don’t know but I’m sure McGuirk will say it’s an anti-semitic conspiracy.
Serial loser gets sacked again.
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