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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“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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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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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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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/

24 new judges are to be appointed in the coming weeks in order to speed up court cases, ease covid related backlog, and streamline access to justice - a need for a more ‘diverse’ judiciary was also highlighted

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https://gript.ie/24-new-judges-to-be-appointed-in-order-to-speed-up-access-to-justice-in-irish-courts/

"The message of the Upfront programme was equally confused. If Dawson is right, and pornography is mostly good, then what's the problem? Why are we having the conversation at all? Why do our children need to have teachers advise them of preferred porn use?"

NIAMH UÍ BHRIAIN writes

https://gript.ie/upfront-bias-rtes-heavily-slanted-debate-on-porn-in-schools/

Lidl Ireland is now selling “insect burgers” made of mealworm larvae - though customers shouldn’t try it if they’re allergic to dust mites or molluscs.

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https://gript.ie/lidl-ireland-selling-insect-burgers-made-of-mealworm-larvae/

Rural TDs said today that they were “standing firmly” with sheep farmers in their campaign for increased government support, as they brought an “urgent message to the doorstep of the Department of Agriculture”.

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https://gript.ie/rural-tds-demand-urgent-government-aid-for-financially-crippled-sheep-farmers/

Ceistiúchán, is the work of Breslin’s daughter Máiréad about her father’s arrest and interrogation under Stalin’s Great Terror.

“You have most likely never heard of the Irish victims of the Purge: Christy Moore has never sung about them, nor have any soggy-eyed bunch of leftie sentimentalists ever proposed that
they be memorialised.”

MATT TREACY writes

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https://gript.ie/an-irish-victim-of-stalin-remembered-despite-the-amnesia-of-the-left/

An Independent Senator has said that Ireland does not have the same obligations to economic migrants as to refugees, saying the country does not have the same duty in terms of provision and protection to those who are not asylum seekers.

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"Lurching from one short-term crisis response to the next": Homelessness figures hit new record high.

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'He says the use of the phrase “follow the science”, was “both misleading and amoral” – and that fear was used persuade the public to accept policies. Dr Cormican says the decision to deprive those who were dying from seeing their loved ones was wrong.'

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https://gript.ie/devastating-critique-of-covid-lockdown-by-nphet-scientist-cannot-be-ignored/

The northern lights lit up the sky over parts of Ireland last night with projections that the hauntingly beautiful solar illuminations will be visible again tonight!

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