Chinese leader Xi Jinping is planning a visit to the Russian capital of Moscow amid the ongoing Ukraine war to push for peace, a report has claimed.

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https://gript.ie/chinas-xi-to-visit-moscow-amid-ukraine-war-report-indicates/

Sentencing for assaults against the Gardaí may be increased as attacks on officers continue to rise, Simon Harris has said.

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https://gript.ie/sentencing-for-assaults-on-gardai-may-be-increased-says-harris/

JOHN MCGUIRK: "The objective here is plain: It is to reinforce liberal sensibilities, and lock those who speak a little too plainly out of civilised society."

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https://gript.ie/the-covert-classism-of-the-hate-speech-bill/

Australia announces plans to hugely expand marine reserve located in its Southern Ocean

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https://gript.ie/australia-to-expand-marine-nature-reserve-to-area-the-size-of-germany/

A pregnant mother from the UK has said her unborn baby “saved her life” after her first scan at 6 weeks uncovered that she had early stage bladder cancer.

#gript https://gript.ie/first-time-mum-says-unborn-baby-saved-her-life-after-tumour-spotted-during-baby-scan/

BEN SCALLAN: “Parents would be horrified to know this, but many aren’t aware of it. And you can hardly take your child out of a class to avoid them being exposed to harmful material, if you don’t even know that said material is on the agenda.”

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https://gript.ie/foleys-answer-on-school-gender-ideology-raises-more-questions/

JOHN MCGUIRK on the frontrunner for the SocDem leadership:
"If she becomes leader, then Paul Murphy and Richard Boyd Barrett will have stiff competition for the “record number of appearances on RTE in a week” award."
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https://gript.ie/why-the-socdems-should-and-likely-will-bet-on-holly-cairns/

A prominent pro-life doctor has told Gript that the medical director of abortion provider Marie Stopes may have given “misleading” advice on abortion pill reversal treatment in order to forward the “political agenda” of abortion providers.

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https://gript.ie/doctors-say-women-seeking-abortion-pill-reversal-being-misled-by-abortion-providers/

Poor political and departmental leadership is contributing significantly to the ongoing crisis being experienced within the private forestry sector, according to Independent TD for Cork South-West Michael Collins.


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https://gript.ie/td-says-forestry-sector-plagued-by-inertia-and-bureaucratic-paralysis/

Deputy Nolan called on Micheal Martin to direct the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications, Eamon Ryan, to demand from energy companies their rationale for “continuing to fleece ordinary households, farming families and businesses.”

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https://gript.ie/its-time-to-confront-the-energy-companies-and-for-once-the-taoiseach-agrees-with-me-carol-nolan/

A migrant centre in East Wall which has been the subject of much controversy was still without a fire cert last week, more than a month after the issue was first raised.

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https://gript.ie/fire-cert-still-not-in-place-for-east-wall-migrant-centre/

As thousands enter Ireland without identifying documents, the Minister was asked why Garda checks at Dublin Airport for travel documents were discontinued. This was his answer.

MATT TREACY writes...

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https://gript.ie/no-one-knows-why-they-stopped-asking-for-mad-stuff-like-passports-at-the-airport/

The North Face shop on Grafton Street has been attacked for the fourth time in three months, as the trend of smash and grab thefts on Dublin’s main tourist street continues.

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https://gript.ie/grafton-street-north-face-shop-attacked-for-fourth-time-in-months/

“You know, it’s not popular in my industry, but, you know, I cannot deny my faith. It’s important for me to share that with people,” the Catholic actor said in a widely shared interview on Ash Wednesday.

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https://gript.ie/watch-mark-wahlberg-says-denying-his-faith-would-be-a-sin/

Irish troops training the Ukrainian army "does not threaten our neutrality in any shape or form,” Micheál Martin has said.

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https://gript.ie/irish-troops-training-ukrainians-does-not-threaten-neutrality/

JOHN MCGUIRK: "I could be wrong, but I suspect most people in Ireland regard the idea of listening to Katharine Zappone reading a poem as the kind of thing that might await them in purgatory, if purgatory is slightly worse than advertised."
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https://gript.ie/the-cabinets-poetry-corner-with-katharine-zappone/

A Fianna Fáil Senator has said that he believes the existence of the 'far-right' has been blown "totally out of proportion", largely for "political reasons".

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https://gript.ie/ff-senator-far-right-fears-blown-out-of-proportion/

China is considering selling combat drones to Russia to aid Vladimir Putin’s war effort, a report has claimed, as the US sends drones of its own to Ukraine.

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https://gript.ie/china-discussing-sending-combat-drones-to-russia-report-claims/

JOHN MCGUIRK on the growing belief - articulated in the Dáil this week - that the Irish Government has a new ally in the never-ending fight against far right fascism:
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https://gript.ie/govts-new-ally-in-the-fight-against-the-far-right-the-tidy-towns/

A motorist in the UK has used a letter written entirely by an AI chat bot to have a fine greatly reduced.

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https://gript.ie/uk-driver-used-ai-written-letter-to-have-his-fine-reduced/