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/

POLL: Do you think the Irish media is giving fair coverage to the ongoing immigration protests?

VOTE in the online poll and leave your comments below

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https://gript.ie/poll-do-you-think-the-irish-media-is-giving-fair-coverage-to-the-ongoing-immigration-protests/

Judge Nolan's decision to "take a chance" on two burglars with 172 previous convictions, writes JOHN MCGUIRK, "is not just being a poor Judge of character. This is recklessness to the point of dereliction of duty."

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https://gript.ie/martin-nolan-is-making-a-joke-of-justice/

Gardai are urgently appealing for information after a stabbing incident on Parnell St in the early hours of this morning left a 20 year old man fighting for his life in Beaumont Hospital

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https://gript.ie/gardai-investigating-serious-assault-in-dublin

Rural Independent TDs have condemned what they describe as a "secret report" which calls for a 30% cull of the National Cattle Herd - and they are demanding an Taoiseach and the Minister for Agriculture "publicly denounce" the recommendation.

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https://gript.ie/rural-tds-demand-immediate-rejection-of-30-cattle-cull/

Teacher Enoch Burke, who is at the centre of a long-running row over the use of transgender pronouns in a secondary school, was 'pulled out of the High Court by his arms' today as he sought to raise an unscheduled application with a judge.

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Protests continue to take place across the country as local groups react to what they see as the government's mishandling of the immigration crisis.

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https://gript.ie/watch-protests-across-the-country-on-immigration-policy-at-weekend/

“Cranks and faddists”: What would James Connolly have thought of modern Irish socialists?

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https://gript.ie/what-would-james-connolly-have-thought-of-modern-socialists/