BEN SCALLAN: “Almost every route you get on, there’s some pig ignorant solipsist letting Dua Lipa rip like there’s no tomorrow. They think they’re Will Smith in “I Am Legend” or something - like they’re the only person on earth.”

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https://gript.ie/the-people-who-play-music-loudly-on-buses-must-be-stopped/

Deputy Mattie Mc Grath said that the collection of €2.16 billion in energy taxes, including €760 million in carbon taxes, in 2022 meant that a full extension of all cost-of-living supports for a minimum of six more months starting March 1st should be backed by the government.

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https://gript.ie/rural-tds-say-government-s-energy-tax-grab-of-e2-billion-must-be-returned-in-cost-of-living-supports/

"This is the type of gaslighting that the government engages in, not just in this issue, but on all. It places itself against a large portion of its citizenry. It refuses to acknowledge that their issues are even held in good faith."

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https://gript.ie/simon-harris-and-the-ireland-is-full-hashtag/

JOHN MCGUIRK: Whatever else one might say about the death penalty, it does at least send the message that crime is not tolerated. Can we say the same about the Irish justice system?
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https://gript.ie/senior-uk-mp-what-about-if-we-bring-back-hanging/

“An existential threat to our economy and social fabric”: South Africa has declared a state of “national disaster” amid an energy crisis and rolling blackouts, partially caused by delays to the construction of new coal-fired power plants.

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https://gript.ie/south-africa-declares-state-of-disaster-due-to-energy-crisis/

Ukrainian President Volodimir Zelensky has asked Ireland to send more non-lethal military aid, including body armour, oil and engineering equipment.

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https://gript.ie/zelensky-asks-ireland-to-send-more-non-lethal-military-aid/

Locals plead for return of beloved statue of Our Lady of Lourdes, stolen from grotto of Wicklow church


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https://gript.ie/beloved-statue-of-the-virgin-mary-statue-disappears-from-wicklow-church-grotto/

Fatima Gunning: The Taoiseach’s statement yesterday about “deporting asylum seekers here under false pretences” is exactly the kind of thing the “far right” have been saying for months. So why can he get away with it?


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https://gript.ie/is-varadkars-call-for-deportations-far-right/

Micheál Martin says he supports Bertie Ahern’s return to Fianna Fáil because of his contributions to the Good Friday Agreement. But previously, Martin said this “could not absolve” Ahern of the Mahon Tribunal’s findings:

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https://gript.ie/martin-in-2012-good-friday-agreement-cant-absolve-ahern/

ON THIS DAY: 10 FEBRUARY 1917: Explosion at Naas Carpet Factory

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https://gript.ie/on-this-day-10-february-1917-explosion-at-naas-carpet-factory-3/

A protest against the government's handling of the immigration crisis was prevented from proceeding to a busy traffic junction in Coolock by what one woman described as a "wall of Gardai" who refused to allow the protesters to pass.

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https://gript.ie/coolock-immigration-protest-prevented-by-wall-of-gardai

Tipperary TD, Mattie Mc Grath, has slammed the Fanning Report on Irish Nursing Home Overcharging as a “political ploy” which he said was being used to “to shield Government from responsibility” and had a “deliberate focus on providing political cover for Cabinet Ministers rather than finding justice for those who were wronged.”

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https://gript.ie/watch-mcgrath-slams-political-ploys-as-a-cover-for-exploitation-of-vulnerable-nursing-home-patients/

Brendan Behan, or Ó Beacháin as he wrote his name as Gaeilge, would have been 100 on February 9 had he lived. His life was much shorter, he having died in March 1964 at the age of 41.

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https://gript.ie/brendan-behan-an-jackeen-gaeilgoir/

Rescue teams working in Turkey have pulled 5 members of one family alive from the rubble of the earthquake which has devastated parts of the country and neighbouring Syria.

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https://gript.ie/god-is-great-rescuers-cry-as-family-of-5-pulled-from-earthquake-rubble-in-turkey/

TRSI 346: In which Gary argues that we should bring back public caning/whipping because it's more humane and more just than putting people in prison.
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https://gript.ie/podcasts/https-griptmedia-podbean-com-e-trsi-346-venice-is-a-city-build-for-murder/

An assistant professor at one of the most prestigious universities in the U.S. has said that the "clear solution" to Japan's aging society is for "mass suicide and mass ‘seppuku’ (ritual disembowelment) of the elderly".

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https://gript.ie/old-people-in-japan-should-commit-mass-suicide-says-yale-professor/

In Gary Gannon's recent conversion to the cause of reducing the burden of immigration on working class communities, there are lessons to be learned from history, writes JOHN MCGUIRK:
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https://gript.ie/the-dante-alighieri-of-dublin-central/

"A lot of this shifting and backtracking is happening because it's now impossible to ignore the fact that public opinion - outside of the NGO bubble - is increasingly critical of the mess the government has made of immigration and the asylum process."

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https://gript.ie/did-aodhan-o-riordain-get-the-fro-memo/

ON THIS DAY: 13 FEBRUARY 1847: Illustrated London News describes the scenes Clonakilty during Black '47

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https://gript.ie/on-this-day-13-february-1847-illustrated-london-news-describes-the-scenes-clonakilty-2/