One of the foremost experts working with people who want to change gender has warned Education Minister, Norma Foley, of the danger of ignoring medical evidence when it comes allowing 16-year olds to change their sex without parental consent.

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https://gript.ie/norma-foley-ignoring-medical-experts-on-danger-of-teens-changing-sex-says-top-doctor/

ON THIS DAY: 18 FEBRUARY 1982: Investigation into Kincora Boys Home announced

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https://gript.ie/on-this-day-18-february-1982-investigation-into-kincora-boys-home-announced-3/

Finally, Japan’s political elite is talking demography. Will they convince anyone?

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https://gript.ie/finally-japans-political-elite-is-talking-demography-will-they-convince-anyone/

Independent TD, Carol Nolan, has said that energy companies have been left with nowhere to hide when it comes to justifying the prices they are demanding from their customers.

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https://gript.ie/td-says-pinergy-price-reduction-shows-energy-companies-cannot-justify-what-they-are-charging-customers/

JOHN MCGUIRK: "I think that for all their pretensions, and their dress-up, and their odes to communist resistance, and the pitiful cultural appropriation of belittled minority status, this was a march of the powerful, raging against the uppity powerless".

https://gript.ie/saturdays-protest-viva-la-quinta-brigada-my-arse/

“This drug is so, so expensive, and we still hear from many women that it is extremely difficult to get the consultant to sign them off for this scheme”.

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https://gript.ie/pregnancy-support-group-reiterates-call-for-cariban-to-be-free-for-women-struggling-from-hyperemesis/

A Catholic priest who was arrested by police for silent prayer within an abortion clinic 'censorship zone' says he was told during interrogation that his cassock could be perceived as 'intimidating'.

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https://gript.ie/priest-arrested-by-police-in-birmingham-told-cassock-intimidating/

JOHN MCGUIRK: "The impulse to re-write books is the same impulse that wants to re-name the Berkely Library in Trinity. The same impulse that pulls down statues and throws them in rivers. The same impulse that cancels not only works of art, but people."

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https://gript.ie/it-is-our-duty-to-give-our-children-the-uncensored-roald-dahl/?fbclid=IwAR0JVgPuGwITtlMBRr__bEe-j9mxlSo-Cgb7DBvZ50vLLPG3MorQn7O_AMI

Players, referees, and parents have reacted with fury and concern at the Ladies Gaelic Football Association’s decision to include biological males in ladies football.

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https://gript.ie/players-referees-and-parents-furious-at-lgfa-decision-to-include-biological-males-in-ladies-football/

The cost to the state of providing free legal aid for asylum seekers has risen sharply - surging by 274% over 5 years between 2017 and 2022, with more than €2 million in case expenditure last year.

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https://gript.ie/274-increase-in-free-legal-aid-for-refugees-over-5-years/

"The battles fought by the Campbell-Fitzpatrick family, by the Ó Scolaí family, and by many others, are a public service. They should not have to risk bankruptcy to carry out that service against an adversarial State"


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https://gript.ie/why-are-families-like-the-campbell-fitzpatricks-forced-to-fight-so-hard-for-accountability/

“Up the Flats” he told journalists at the press meet at the awards, in praise of the inner-city community where he grew up.
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https://gript.ie/up-the-flats-says-barry-keoghan-as-he-keeps-winning-awards

JOHN MCGUIRK: As US politics begins to divide on partisan lines over the war in Ukraine, Joe Biden is increasingly invested in ensuring Ukraine looks like a winner.
"Because if the war starts looking like a loser, well then…. so will he."
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https://gript.ie/understanding-biden-bet-kiev/

JOHN MCGUIRK on Catherine Martin's "misinformation commission":
"The consensus is so strong that disagreement must mean that you have been misinformed. There is literally no other reason that they can imagine for why you might disagree with them"

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https://gript.ie/catherine-martins-new-plan-the-ministry-of-truth/

"This problem is not going to just go away”: Ireland is still experiencing shortages of hundreds of medicines, including inhalers, penicillin, and more.

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https://gript.ie/hundreds-of-medicines-out-of-stock-in-ireland-some-critical/

The Court of Appeal has extended the sentences of two Nigerian nationals who forced their human trafficking victims into prostitution in Ireland after carrying out a “voodoo ceremony”in the first conviction of its kind in Ireland.

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https://gript.ie/sentences-extended-for-nigerian-traffickers-who-forced-victims-into-prostitution-after-voodoo-ceremony/

A €200 lump sum social welfare payment for those in long-term unemployment, along with a once off child benefit payment of €100 will be paid out as part of cost-of-living measures announced this lunchtime.

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https://gript.ie/e200-social-welfare-payment-and-e100-child-benefit-bonus-announced-under-cost-of-living-measures/

A man has been arrested in connection with the fatal shooting of ‘peacemaker’ Irish Bishop David O’Connell. The accused, Carlos Medina (65), is the husband of the Cork-born bishop’s housekeeper, according to police, and had previously done work at the bishop’s residence. #gript. https://gript.ie/housekeepers-husband-arrested-in-murder-of-cork-born-bishop-david-oconnell-in-la/

Local people in Listowel say they will protest weekly against plans to turn the old Presentation Convent in the town into a centre for migrants and asylum seekers, citing concerns over safety, lack of services, and an existing homelessness crisis.

#gript https://gript.ie/listowel-locals-protest-plans-for-migrant-centre/

"Will this apply to fake news by the mainstream media as well?" Green Party Media Minister Catherine Martin is asked if her strategy to fight "misinformation" will target newspapers and broadcasters, or just ordinary citizens.


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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iy3zQ_yAy2I