{"id":508025,"date":"2026-05-29T03:17:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T03:17:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/508025\/"},"modified":"2026-05-29T03:17:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T03:17:10","slug":"john-mcguirk-resigns-from-gript-amid-deepening-acrimony-with-former-colleague-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/508025\/","title":{"rendered":"John McGuirk resigns from Gript amid deepening acrimony with former colleague \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"

Gript editor John McGuirk<\/a> has quit the conservative news website with a resignation letter that criticised its co-owner and accused her of making him the \u201cfall guy\u201d for controversial editorial decisions.<\/p>\n

McGuirk has been suspended since late<\/a> March. Gript sources say he faced allegations of a conflict of interest, the leaking of company financial information and a governance issue. He denies the allegations.<\/p>\n

In his letter of resignation sent on Thursday to Niamh U\u00ed Bhriain, Gript\u2019s assistant editor and 50 per cent shareholder, McGuirk accused her of making him the \u201cfall guy\u201d while she \u201ccalled the shots\u201d in private.<\/p>\n

The letter criticises U\u00ed Bhriain, a former anti-abortion general election candidate and a director of the Pro-Life Institute, for ignoring his editorial advice on a number of Gript\u2019s controversial stories.<\/p>\n

\u201cI have decided to resign because life is too short to continue to tolerate a situation where I have been placed on leave of absence for nine weeks,\u201d the letter states. \u201cIn that time, there has been no progress or sign of progress, and I have heard not a single word from you in that time.\u201d<\/p>\n

During his suspension, McGuirk alleged that Gript published articles that reflected poorly on him as editor and, in his view, breached Gript\u2019s obligations under the Press Council code.<\/p>\n

The Irish Times asked U\u00ed Bhriain to comment on a series of allegations made in McGuirk\u2019s letter. She asked for time to consult her solicitor \u201cregarding defamation and other matters\u201d.<\/p>\n

Gript released a statement late on Thursday night making counter-allegations against McGuirk, which he has denied.<\/p>\n

Referring to a public statement that Gript made denying that editorial differences were behind his suspension, McGuirk said that was untrue.<\/p>\n

\u201cI have persistently raised issues with you about both the content of the site and your attempts to use me as a \u2018fall guy\u2019 for content that you insist, over my objections, be published,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

By example, McGuirk said he had objected to a report on DCU\u2019s sexual education modules for teachers. The Press Council later found the report breached codes of journalistic practice. Gript is challenging that finding in the High Court.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gript editor John McGuirk has quit the conservative news website with a resignation letter that criticised its co-owner…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":508026,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3],"tags":[9,10,18,13,14,6,19,17,46092,11,12,15,16,5,7,8],"class_list":["post-508025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-eire","tag-featured-news","tag-featurednews","tag-headlines","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-john-mcguirk","tag-latest-news","tag-latestnews","tag-main-news","tag-mainnews","tag-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=508025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508025\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/508026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=508025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=508025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=508025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}