"I think it had something to do with Wednesday being International Women’s Day - which is to official Ireland in 2023 as a full moon is to a werewolf - but this was certainly a week when establishment Ireland just let all the insanity hang out."
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https://gript.ie/freak-week/

JOHN MCGUIRK writes that FF's new "opportunity to buy" policy for renters "is so bad we might struggle to get 800 words out of it".
Here's what he did manage:
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https://gript.ie/fianna-fails-mortifyingly-bad-opportunity-to-buy-policy/

As Italy continues to see high numbers of illegal migrants arrive on its shores the Meloni government has announced tougher penalties for human traffickers after an illegal migrant ship sank last month

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https://gript.ie/italian-pm-giorgia-meloni-has-vowed-to-break-the-global-human-trafficking-trade/

Illegal IPTV service providers a “significant problem” in Ireland says CEO of copyright protection agency Fact as multi county dodgy box crackdown announced

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https://gript.ie/bad-news-for-dodgy-boxes-as-multi-county-crackdown-announced/

“I don’t know what else can explain it at this point except incompetence or complete indifference to the fate of the fisheries sector.”

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https://gript.ie/incompetence-td-slams-lack-of-fuel-subsidies-for-fishermen/

Figures released under FOI show that 1 in 3 people on the Laois County Council housing list are not Irish citizens, while a majority of those in receipt of housing assistance payments in the county are also citizens of other counties.

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https://gript.ie/non-irish-citizens-make-up-1-in-3-on-housing-list-in-laois/

TD Carol Nolan has expressed "deep disappointment" as Bord na Móna to cease production of briquettes in Co. Offaly amid plans to replace current operations with new green energy.


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https://gript.ie/disappointment-at-lack-of-engagement-as-bord-na-mona-to-close-briquette-factory-in-offaly/

WATCH: a clash of reactions after BBC tells Gary Linekar to take a step back from presenting its flagship Match of the Day programme until an agreement was reached on his use of social media to support political campaigns.

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https://gript.ie/clash-of-reactions-as-bbc-tells-gary-linekar-to-step-back-after-political-tweets/

ON THIS DAY: 11 MARCH 1858 – Birth of Thomas Clarke, leader in the 1916 Rising

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https://gript.ie/on-this-day-11-march-1858-birth-of-thomas-clarke-leader-in-the-1916-rising-3/

Figures from the Housing Assistance Payment (HAP) Shared Services Centre (SSC) have shown that more than 3,000 households availing of the scheme in Ireland have fallen into rent arrears.

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https://gript.ie/more-than-3000-households-receiving-housing-assistance-payment-hap-in-rent-arrears/

A major pro-life Rally which will take place in Belfast at the weekend, will hear that 25 years after the Good Friday agreement, communities must “call for peace” in order to “end the violence of abortion”.

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https://gript.ie/belfast-rally-for-life-a-call-for-peace-against-violence-of-abortion-on-25th-anniversary-of-good-friday-agreement/

What happens when both when both technical progress and ethical progress stagnate?

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https://gript.ie/obesity-iq-and-democracy-at-risk/

The Rally for Life Belfast gathered in Customs House Quay under the banner Stop Abortion Violence, saying that Peace begins in the womb.


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Three years after the Taoiseach Leo Varadkar introduced the Covid-19 lockdown, advocacy group, Care Champions, are sharing heart-breaking memories of vulnerable and elderly people dying afraid and alone because of what the group describes as “excessive” restrictions.

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https://gript.ie/do-you-not-love-me-anymore-heart-breaking-memories-of-elderly-dying-alone-in-the-covid-lockdown-shared/

Controversial activist Peter Tatchell has been slammed online for cheering ‘Bravo’ to the UK’s acceptance of abortion, assisted dying and prostitution.

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https://gript.ie/peter-tatchell-slammed-for-bravo-tweet-supporting-abortion-assisted-suicide-prostitution/

PODCAST: TRSI 350 - Respectable extremists

We’ve seen the President, the Taoiseach, and the Tánaiste all speak out against a letter which highlighted concerns about the teaching of gender theory to young children, but it’s well past time we started to question the motives of the organisations pushing for children to be indoctrinated into these theories.

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https://gript.ie/podcasts/trsi-350-respectable-extremists/

It was a magic moment: the entire Oscars audience singing ‘Happy Birthday’ to actor James Martin, who has Down Syndrome, and who is star of ‘An Irish Goodbye’ which won the Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film.

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https://gript.ie/watch-james-martins-oscars-happy-birthday-whole-audience-sings-to-actor-with-down-syndrome/

"Senators have no business commenting on the employability of private citizens."
Was FG Senator Barry Ward wrong to suggest that Enoch Burke's younger brother is an "inappropriate" person to become a Barrister? JOHN MCGUIRK discusses:
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https://gript.ie/senator-wards-inappropriate-attack-on-simeon-burke/

Gary Lineker is wrong on the facts of illegal channel crossings, and his defenders are complete hypocrites about free speech

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https://gript.ie/why-the-lineker-row-is-about-cultural-power-not-free-speech/