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.

#gript https://gript.ie/watch-sharon-keogan-explains-difference-between-a-refugee-and-an-economic-migrant

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

#gript. https://gript.ie/homeless-figures-reach-new-record-high/

'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!

#gript https://gript.ie/a-highlight-reel-of-the-northern-lights-seen-from-ireland-last-night/

The new leader of the Social Democrats took the last seat in her constituency last time with the help of Sinn Fein transfers - here are some reasons she might have a tough time holding it next time out

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https://gript.ie/might-new-socdem-leader-holly-cairns-lose-her-seat/

JOHN MCGUIRK on the Government's welcome retreat from having schools teach gender theory as fact:
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https://gript.ie/the-governments-gender-is-a-spectrum-curriculum-retreat/

Children as young as six are being recruited by drug dealers into a life of crime as "runners", communities have told Gardaí.

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https://gript.ie/6-year-olds-being-groomed-into-life-of-crime-gardai-hear/

A documentary on the master guitarist from Chicago, Dennis Cahill – Litir ó do Chara will be screened on TG4 at 9.30pm on Sunday 5th March 2023 and will be available on the TG4 player for catch up.

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https://gript.ie/dennis-cahill-litir-o-do-chara/

Europeans are consuming antidepressants at increasingly higher rates according to data compiled by the OECD over 20 years. The Czech Republic saw an increase of 577% in consumption

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https://gript.ie/steady-rise-in-consumption-of-antidepressants-across-europe-according-to-oecd/

PODCAST: El Salvador brutalises criminals and sees crime fall dramatically; tidy towns are Ireland's shield against fascism; and NPHET's decisions may not have been entirely scientific.

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https://gript.ie/podcasts/trsi-348-let-me-contextualise-that-for-you/

The Wall Street Journal reports that the US Department of Energy now believes the COVID-19 pandemic began after the virus leaked from a Chinese laboratory in Wuhan. #gript

https://gript.ie/covid-19-likely-came-from-chinese-lab-us-energy-department-says/

“Remember when Noel Grealish was vilified for highlighting huge transfers of money from Ireland to Nigeria? New figures shine some light of the amounts involved,” writes Dr MATT TREACY

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https://gript.ie/e1-3-billion-transferred-from-ireland-to-countries-outside-eu-in-2021/

Transgender inmates who retain male genitalia, or have been convicted of violence or sexual assault will be banned from female prisons in England and Wales under new rules introduced today.

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https://gript.ie/transgender-prisoners-who-pose-risk-to-inmates-banned-from-womens-prisons-in-uk/