“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/

Fine Gael is a shambles on everything from housing to health and welfare tourism, says DONAL HORGAN. What happened?

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https://gript.ie/the-fine-gael-blues/

WATCH: Video footage from demonstrations across Dublin City last night suggest that numbers attending protests against the government's handling of the migrant crisis have now swelled considerably.

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https://gript.ie/watch-numbers-swell-as-protests-against-migration-policy-continue

JOHN MCGUIRK on the St. Patrick's Day festival launch:
"You have to hand it to the Irish establishment: They are the only people on earth who can make the rainbow boring."
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https://gript.ie/st-patricks-day-and-the-curse-of-irelands-dreary-diversity/

The oil and gas giant Shell, has recorded enormous profits for 2022 on the back of a surge in energy prices after the Ukraine war, with annual adjusted profit jumping to almost $40 Billion for the year - a 115 year high.

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https://gript.ie/shell-rakes-in-biggest-profits-in-115-year-history/

As new figures show 5,000 people were granted entry with no documents last year, JOHN MCGUIRK notes that "the law against destroying your travel documents is the only law which the Irish state actually rewards people for breaking":
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https://gript.ie/the-passport-shredding-disgrace-of-irelands-asylum-system/

The crackdown on Catholics in Nicaragua is worsening under the dictatorship of President Daniel Ortega, pushing the central American country into the top 50 of the World Watch List for the first time — with multiple priests facing arrest and exile.

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https://gript.ie/persecution-of-catholics-in-nicaragua-escalates/

According to a new study released by British international medical research organisation Cochrane, wearing a face mask may make “little to no difference” in preventing the spread of respiratory viruses, including COVID.

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https://gript.ie/new-study-face-masks-may-make-little-to-no-difference-in-stopping-covid-spread/

Popular children’s video game series The Sims has provoked backlash from some parents after a new update allowed children to add trans ‘top surgery scars’ which result from breast removal, along with chest binders, to their characters.

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https://gript.ie/utter-madness-sims-video-game-adds-trans-top-surgery-scars-and-chest-binders-to-characters/

Newly released emails show the state's preparations for Ukrainian refugees in 2022 warned of "grim predictions", and that "numbers of incoming refugees is almost overwhelming” with a "serious risk of not being able to find somewhere for everyone". MATT TREACY WRITES

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https://gript.ie/departmental-emails-reveal-state-crisis-over-exponentially-increasing-numbers-of-refugees/

A woman is set to receive a payout of €10,000 from her former employer after it imposed an “absolutist” face mask policy during the Covid-19 pandemic, and did not accept she was medically exempt from wearing a mask.

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https://gript.ie/irish-employer-must-pay-e10000-to-woman-in-face-mask-discrimination-case/

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has said he believes that Ireland’s excess deaths are due to “a number of factors,” including weakened immunity due to social distancing.

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https://gript.ie/varadkar-excess-deaths-probably-due-to-a-number-of-factors/

Anger as migrant centre proposed around site of Stardust tragedy

Relatives of some families who died so tragically in the Stardust fire, and other locals, tell Gript why they oppose a migrant centre being built around the site.

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https://youtu.be/E3DfMaydQT4

Senior civil servants predict that 180,000 asylum seekers may be present in Ireland by the year’s end, according to a new report.

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https://gript.ie/senior-civil-servants-predict-180k-asylum-seekers-by-years-end-report/

US champion swimmer, Riley Gaines, says she and fellow athletes were offered ‘counselling’ and ‘education on trans oppression’ after voicing concerns over seeing naked males in female locker rooms


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https://gript.ie/female-swimmers-concerned-over-males-in-locker-room-offered-education-on-oppression/

A former British soldier who was found guilty of the manslaughter of Aidan McAnespie has avoided jail after receiving a fully suspended sentence.

Mr McAnespie was shot in the back by Derek Holden while on his way to a Gaelic Football match.

https://gript.ie/no-jail-time-for-british-soldier-who-killed-aidan-mcenespie/

ON THIS DAY: 2 FEBRUARY 1972: Protests in Dublin and other cities after Bloody Sunday killings

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https://gript.ie/on-this-day-2-february-1972-protests-in-dublin-and-other-cities-after-bloody-sunday-killings-2/

Senior civil servants predict that 180,000 asylum seekers may be present in Ireland by the year’s end, according to a new report.

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https://gript.ie/senior-civil-servants-predict-180k-asylum-seekers-by-years-end-report/

WATCH: Protests against the government’s handling of the migrant and refugee crisis continue to grow in number and size, with significantly larger numbers turning out in Mullingar and Ballymun last night.

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https://gript.ie/ballymun-to-mullingar-immigration-protests-growing-in-number-and-size/

JOHN MCGUIRK finds the arguments in favour of decriminalising drugs deeply unconvincing, and argues that of all people, Mr. Martin is ill-suited to make them:
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https://gript.ie/micheal-martin-and-drugs-bad-nanny/

Michael Fitzmaurice TD on legalising pepper spray, tasers

"It's the elderly I'm worried about": Michael Fitzmaurice TD on legalising self-defence tools like pepper spray. #gript

https://youtu.be/I_Q3uIkkfE4