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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https://gript.ie/those-that-spent-years-terrifying-the-elderly-now-want-them-to-relax/

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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https://gript.ie/on-this-day-3-march-1831-first-clash-of-the-tithe-war-in-kilkenny-4/

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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The Cabinet has today agreed to €20 million of funding for 400 beds on two sites to provide accommodation to refugees from Ukraine and those from other countries seeking international protection in Ireland.

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https://gript.ie/cabinet-agrees-e20-million-funding-for-refugee-accommodation/

HUMAN TRAFFICKING shoots up again: "Perhaps more focus ought to be on how so many people manage to enter the country, either illegally or legally, and then enter into a world of which the authorities appear to have little intelligence."

MATT TREACY writes

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https://gript.ie/massive-increase-in-human-trafficking-into-ireland-due-to-lack-of-counter-measures/

BEN SCALLAN: “Ireland changing our corporate tax rate to appease our competitors is as absurd as Pepsi changing a successful business strategy to appease Coke.”

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https://gript.ie/johnson-uk-should-cut-corporation-tax-to-irish-levels-or-lower/

Ex-UK Health Secretary Matt Hancock urged UK police to “get heavy” on Covid rule breakers, while top British civil servants mocked people in hotel quarantine, leaked WhatsApp messages reveal.

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https://gript.ie/hancock-urged-uk-police-to-get-heavy-on-covid-lockdown-breakers/

Journalist Mary Kenny says those behind the dubious accusations of ‘transphobia’ which led to her being deplatformed by the University of Limerick are “closing down democracy”

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https://gript.ie/feminism-must-be-a-broad-church-says-mary-kenny-following-university-of-limerick-cancellation/

People in the Westmeath village of Castletown Geoghegan are highlighting their concerns around the tiny village’s capacity to house refugees and asylum seekers – as the village now faces the prospect of doubling in size.

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https://gript.ie/westmeath-has-done-its-fair-share-village-group-concerned-about-huge-influx-of-refugees/

Michael O’Leary calls on Eamon Ryan to act or resign saying that six drone shut downs in six weeks is an indictment of the minister’s ‘incompetence’

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https://gript.ie/ryanair-ceo-says-eamon-ryan-sitting-on-his-hands-over-anti-drone-technology-for-dublin-airport/

The case study found that a patient with Parkinson’s Disease who died after receiving his 3rd Covid-19 vaccination had developed necrotizing encephalitis in the brain, and spike proteins from the vaccine were present in the location of the inflammation.

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https://gript.ie/autopsy-suggests-link-between-covid-19-vaccine-and-encephalitis-in-brain/

THADE ANDY: David McWlliams argues that immigrants make the country richer. But what does the data tell us? Who gets richer, and who gets poorer?

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https://gript.ie/does-immigration-bring-down-wages-what-do-the-facts-say/

ON THIS DAY: 4TH MARCH is shared by 3 famous people connected with Irish freedom, whose birthdays occurred on this day.

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https://gript.ie/on-this-day-4-march-birth-of-robert-emmett-daniel-patrick-mannix-grace-gifford-3/

A heart-breaking letter from an Irish mother who had to travel to Barcelona for life-saving surgery because of a rare and painful condition which has left her bed-ridden and in distress, has underlined the kindness of Irish people in supporting those in dire need.

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https://gript.ie/im-having-life-saving-surgery-in-barcelona-because-i-couldnt-get-it-in-ireland/