The Gardaí seized thousands of knives last year, with the number of confiscations increasing dramatically over the past decade.

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https://gript.ie/gardai-seized-thousands-of-knives-last-year-as-violent-crime-rises/

“I never said I witnessed it”: Kitty Holland has told Gript that she stands by her migrant camp report, and says she never saw the attack, despite multiple media outlets, including the Irish Times, claiming that she did.

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https://gript.ie/i-never-said-i-witnessed-it-holland-contradicts-camp-story-coverage/

Researchers have published a scientific article in the prestigious journal NPJ Digital Medicine today on the conflict of interest of app store operators Google and Apple, who are both legal distributors and importers of health apps into the European market and developers of those same apps.

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https://gript.ie/googles-and-apples-tightrope-walk-between-enforcement-and-oversight-as-distributors-and-developers-for-health-apps/

WATCH: “Everything [the far-right] said has been proved right…it’s the government’s fault” - RTÉ audience member slams Minister on asylum chaos.

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https://gript.ie/far-right-has-been-proved-right-by-asylum-policy-rte-questioner/

The Gardaí seized thousands of knives last year, with the number of confiscations increasing dramatically over the past decade.

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https://gript.ie/gardai-seized-thousands-of-knives-last-year-as-violent-crime-rises/

Protests swept across France today as public opposition against the Macron government’s proposed raising of the pension age gains momentum

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https://gript.ie/watch-huge-protests-sweep-france-in-response-to-pension-law-reform/

“What’s Irish about this?” Twitter users left confused about the lack of Irish culture visible in the preview of this year’s St. Patrick’s Day festival

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https://gript.ie/twitter-users-unimpressed-by-inclusive-2023-st-patricks-festival-lineup

With excess deaths up an alarming 20%, why is the Government is acting like it has something to hide, asks NIAMH UÍ BHRIAIN

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https://gript.ie/why-is-the-government-is-acting-like-it-has-something-to-hide-on-excess-deaths/

Rugadh Bríd in 452 ag Fochaird, gar do Dhún Dealgan, Contae Lú. Creidtear gur sclábhaí ab ea a máthair ar Chríostaí í as an bPortaingéil.

PÓL Ó MEADHRA

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https://gript.ie/naomh-brid-na-heireann/

JOHN MCGUIRK on Leo Varadkar and the nursing home payments scandal:
"Like almost every Irish politician since time began, he sees his job as to defend the state against you, not you, against the state."
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https://gript.ie/leos-echoes-of-michael-noonan-and-brigid-mccole/

“Doesn’t Australia owe Djokovic an apology? His transformation from villain to victor, all while remaining unvaccinated, makes it clear he was never really a ‘threat to public health’. This wasn’t about public health. It was about control.”

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https://gript.ie/wheres-australias-apology-to-novak-djokovic/

ON THIS DAY: 1 FEBRUARY 1878: Birth of Thomas MacDonagh, Leader in the 1916 Rising

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https://gript.ie/on-this-day-1-february-1878-birth-of-thomas-macdonagh-leader-in-the-1916-rising-3/

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar and other cabinet ministers, have been accused of "allegedly conniving in a disgusting legal strategy to reduce refunds of illegal nursing home charges" by Rural Independent TDs.

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https://gript.ie/cork-td-calls-on-taoiseach-to-come-clean-on-cruel-and-deceitful-nursing-home-fees-scandal/

“Limerick city’s schools are at capacity”: Dozens of Limerick secondary students have reportedly been left without a school place for next September due to “unprecedented demand.”

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https://gript.ie/dozens-of-limerick-students-left-without-secondary-school-places/

There has been no reduction in the price of Irish newspapers since the Government cut the VAT rate on newspapers from 9% to 0%. It's estimated that the cut will cost the Irish state €33 million a year.
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https://gript.ie/no-reduction-in-newspaper-prices-after-vat-cut/

A schoolgirl was "violently knocked to the ground twice" after a group of young men caused "mayhem" in Blanchardstown Library on Monday evening.

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https://gript.ie/watch-schoolgirl-targeted-in-violent-chaos-in-blanchardstown-library/

The Department said that these people, were “initially refused [permission] to disembark but then went on to claim asylum. Almost 70% of the total were male – amounting to 3,506 applicants, while 1,568 or some 30% were female.
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https://gript.ie/5000-people-with-false-or-no-documents-applied-for-asylum-here-in-2022/

Academics at the University of Greenwich have attached a trigger warning to an 1871 novel by Jane Austen.

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https://gript.ie/jane-austen-novel-receives-trigger-warning-for-gender-stereotyping-and-sexism/

"These are real people with loved ones”: The Irish Cancer Society says that thousands of expected cancers were missed in 2020 alone.

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https://gript.ie/irish-cancer-society-thousands-of-expected-cancers-missed-in-2020/

“We have a right to expect high standards from our media”: Senator Ronan Mullen has told the Seanad that there are “many unanswered questions” regarding Kitty Holland and the Irish Times’ Ashtown migrant camp story.

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https://gript.ie/senator-many-unanswered-questions-about-migrant-camp-story/