The UK has banned dangerous biologically-male criminals from female prisons after a transgender serial rapist was put into an all-female jail. But will Ireland enact the same policy? Ben Scallan reports.

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The numbers raise considerable questions with regard to how the crisis was managed, and whether those most likely to be severely impacted by Covid-19 were best protected.

MATT TREACY writes...


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https://gript.ie/40-of-covid-deaths-took-place-in-nursing-homes-and-hospitals/

“Your compliance…played a significant role in Ireland’s success”: The Chief Medical Officer has said that many old people are still isolating from Covid a year after the restrictions ended, experiencing “loneliness” and “isolation.”

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https://gript.ie/cmo-old-people-still-isolating-from-covid-in-a-state-of-loneliness/

Veteran Women’s Rights campaigner and journalist Mary Kenny stripped of invitation to speak at University of Limerick Women’s Day conference amid dubious allegations of “transphobia”

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https://gript.ie/university-of-limerick-cancels-speaker-mary-kenny-over-accusations-of-transphobia/

“Old friend”: Top Putin ally and self-described “dictator” of Belarus, Alexander Lukashenko, has met with Chinese leader Xi Jinping in Beijing to discuss peace in Ukraine.

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https://gript.ie/belarus-president-top-putin-ally-meets-xi-jinping-in-beijing/

JOHN MCGUIRK: "The one certainty is that any enquiry will not target those most at fault for any failings: The opposition political parties, and the media.
Their job is to question and scrutinise. Instead, they offered unquestioning endorsement."

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https://gript.ie/if-we-need-a-covid-enquiry-blame-irelands-failed-opposition/

JOHN MCGUIRK: For some reason, media outlets kept referring to yesterday's increase in inflation as a "surprise" - but it shouldn't be.
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https://gript.ie/the-delayed-but-inevitable-recession/

A leading euthanasia campaigner has voiced his support for allowing euthanasia and assisted suicide for the “healthy” partners of sick people who want to end their own lives in Ireland.

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https://gript.ie/euthanasia-for-healthy-partners-of-the-sick-says-top-irish-campaigner/

An elderly Meath man has vowed to not to pay his electricity bill of over €1,678 saying he’s ready to ‘fight for Ireland’ as issue of massive energy bills raised in Dail

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https://gript.ie/pensioner-shocked-by-electricity-bill-of-e1678-65-says-he-wont-pay/

"The government, at the behest of the EU and others, are in effect 'longhousing' working-class Dublin and rural towns - imposing migrant centres on unwilling communities while they enjoy privacy and safety in Ballsbridge and Castleknock.

The people who push these policies get to keep their private spaces and get to put exclusivity zones around themselves. They also get to run the programs that "deal" with all the social problems that flourish as a result of social engineering."


THADE ANDY writes

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https://gript.ie/immigration-and-longhousing-dublins-working-class/

"The Gold Star for pushing out the referendum envelope this week must be awarded to Green TD Patrick Costello who wants to amend the Constitution to ensure a future President can be “non-binary”. "

MATT TREACY writes...

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https://gript.ie/and-now-for-the-latest-crazy-proposal-to-amend-the-constitution/

TikTok has announced a new default screen time limit for users under the age of 18 to help them “manage their time.”

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https://gript.ie/tiktok-announces-default-screen-time-limit-for-underage-users/

BEN SCALLAN: “You can’t flip fear on and off like a lightswitch. It stays with people on a deep level, sometimes for a lifetime.”

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ON THIS DAY 44 years ago, famed Cork hurler Christy Ring passed away, aged just 58. The eight-time All Ireland winner is regarded as one of the greatest hurlers of all time.

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https://gript.ie/on-this-day-2-march-1979-death-of-legendary-hurler-christy-ring/

Tithe Wars nó as Gaeilge Cogadh na nDeachúna. People were obliged by law to pay Tithes for the upkeep of the Church of Ireland, which was the official state sanctioned Church. What was ‘owed’ could be taken in the form of money, land, rent, produce or livestock.

ON THIS DAY: 3 MARCH 1831: First Clash of the Tithe War in Kilkenny

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Parents in the Isle of Man say school children were shown a video on how an artificial penis was made for a transgender man.

One child was forced to leave the class because they had been “offensive” to the Drag Queen by saying there were two genders.

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JOHN MCGUIRK: "It would be nice if the Irish media could focus a little less on so-called “online conspiracy theories” when we have a publicly funded political party which claims that there are powerful and shady interests in the Gardai, plotting a coup."
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https://gript.ie/people-before-profit-warns-the-gardai-might-be-planning-a-coup/

THE EDITORS: "To call UL's treatment of Mary Kenny a disgrace would be to gravely understate the matter. It amounts to a university – a place of learning – rejecting biological fact as too offensive and repellent to be mentioned, let alone taught"
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https://gript.ie/the-editors-uls-disgrace/

New crime statistics released by an Garda Síochána show significant increases in reports of rape, sexual assault, child sexual abuse material, and human trafficking since 2019.

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https://gript.ie/new-figures-show-significant-spike-i

Fine Gael Junior Minister Jennifer Carroll MacNeill says that Ireland is "very lucky & privileged" to be a net contributor to the EU & able to "support our European friends" through the billions of euros invested into refugee accommodation.

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