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News website TheJournal is to close its business website and cut back staff pay as the recession starts to bite in the media:

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Journal.ie to slash pay as recession bites | Gript

Pain

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An infectious disease expert has called on the Irish Government to seal the country's border to fight the virus. But the problem nobody is talking about is this: When can you re-open them again? It could be years, not months:

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Infectious disease expert: Close the borders | Gript

Build the Wall.

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UK church sues city council after event cancelled due to speaker’s views on homosexuality

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UK church sues city council after event cancelled due to speaker's views on homosexuality | Gript

A Scottish church is to sue the City of Edinburgh Council after it cancelled the congregation's three-day conference because of a keynote speaker's views on homosexuality and abortion.

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Access to churches ‘at least as important as off-licences’ says Bishop

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Access to churches 'at least as important as off-licences' says Bishop | Gript

Families who lose a loved one during the Coronavirus crisis should be offered the opportunity of a church funeral under strict conditions, a senior church figure has said. Bishop of Derry, Dónal McKeown, also told the Irish News that churches should be allowed…

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Royal College of Midwives confirms abortion up to birth now legal in Northern Ireland

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Royal College of Midwives confirms abortion up to birth now legal in Northern Ireland | Gript

Director of the RCM Karen Murray said she was "broadly welcoming" of the regulations, saying the numbers of abortions after 24 weeks is "miniscule."

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DR DECLAN HAYES writes on the Coronavirus winners and losers

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Corona Virus: Winners & Losers | Gript

Although the corona virus will run for months yet, its social, economic and political ramifications over the longer term are already apparent. Wall St's winners will be those fit bucks who gobble up their debt-hobbled opponents in the recession that awaits…

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BREAKING: 283,000 people have lost their jobs as a result of the Coronavirus Crisis, more than doubling the unemployment rate in a single month. And the bad news is that it's likely to get worse:

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BREAKING: 283,000 people lose jobs over Coronavirus | Gript

Awful.

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Good news? The American FDA has approved a drug for use as a treatment against Coronavirus after a properly conducted study showed promising results. But it's not a cure:

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Good News? American FDA approves experimental virus treatment | Gript

Hope

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Nurses write to Taoiseach: TDs push for abortion is “opportunistic” at time of crisis

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Nurses write to Taoiseach: TDs push for abortion is "opportunistic" at time of crisis | Gript

A group of nurses and midwives have written to the Taoiseach, Leo Varadkar, to sharply criticise efforts by some TDs to use the coronavirus crisis to further liberalise Ireland’s abortion laws. They say the push was made even as medical professionals are…

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In the midst of terrible job numbers and rising deaths, Irish politicians are managing to have an immensely stupid row about whether the Dáil should meet today.

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Politicians are having their stupidest Coronavirus row yet | Gript

Spare us.

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If doctors can’t care for all the coronavirus victims, what happens then?

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If doctors can’t care for all the coronavirus victims, what happens then? | Gript

Twenty years ago, the Catholic bioethicists of Australia came together to write the first ever Code of Ethical Standards for Catholic Health and Aged Care Services in Australia. Two years of robust discussion, informed by wide consultation, followed by even…

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1918 Flu Pandemic originated in China, National Geographic reports

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1918 Flu Pandemic originated in China, National Geographic reports - Gript

The deadly flu pandemic in 1918 is estimated to have taken 50 million lives – more than were lost in World War I, and National Geographic says it is believed to have originated in China. This 2014 article on the origins of the so-called Spanish Flu of 1918 …

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“Don’t nag your husband during lockdown” – Malaysian government defends ill-treated men everywhere

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"Don't nag your husband during lockdown" - Malaysian government defends ill-treated men everywhere | Gript

Thank God for Malaysia.

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Taro Aso, Japan’s Deputy Prime Minister, has said that the World Health Organisation (WHO) should start calling itself the “Chinese Health Organisation”.

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Japan says that WHO should start calling itself the Chinese Health Organisation. - Gript

Taro Aso, Japan’s Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Finance, last week said that the World Health Organisation (WHO) should start calling itself the “Chinese Health Organisation”. Japan's Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Taro Aso said on Thursday…

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China “harvesting” lungs from political prisoners for COVID-19 transplants

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China "harvesting" lungs from political prisoners for COVID-19 transplants | Gript

Nadine Maenza, vice chair of the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom, a non-partisan organisation which works to protect religious freedom across the globe, has said that China is harvesting the organs of political and religious prisoners…

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"Autism isn’t a tragedy to be hidden from the world. It’s a challenge that can bring great rewards"

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Autism isn't a tragedy to be hidden from the world. It's a challenge that can bring great rewards | Gript

Our family were at a wedding a few months ago and a friend pointed out how loving and inclusive our children were with each other, and how they were so protective of their brother, Fiach. Although I brushed off the compliment it made me brim up with pride.…

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ON THIS DAY: 2ND APRIL 1878: Lord Leitrim murdered on the way to Milford

When William Sydney Clements, the 3rd Earl of Leitrim inherited a vast estate from his father in 1854 he became a controlling landlord and bullying tyrant. The estate was massive and included lands in Leitrim, Donegal, Kildare and Galway.

Lord Leitrim was obsessed with improving land productivity. He evicted families or sometimes paid them to emigrate. If they refused to leave, he would then raise the rent giving them no option but to leave. He monitored and controlled everything; his tenants had no rights and he would destroy homes or crops that were sown or built without his permission. He would move farmers livestock to different grounds; he created havoc, chaos and resentment. He regularly evicted families, young and old to the side of the road, with the heartless violence of a crow-bar brigade; this phrase so well remembered in ballads and songs of the time and afterwards. He seemed to possess no ordinary kindness; a blacksmith w

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Test kits headed for UK found to be contaminated with Coronavirus

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Test kits headed for UK found to be contaminated with Coronavirus | Gript

Mass Coronavirus testing has hit a temporary roadblock in the UK after important components for testing ordered from abroad were discovered to be contaminated with Covid-19. The Telegraph has reported that laboratories across the UK were warned earlier this…

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Danny Healy-Rae: “I would have thanked the Chinese if they’d have kept their virus”.

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Danny Healy-Rae: "I would have thanked the Chinese if they'd have kept their virus". | Gript

A Kerry politician has told the Dáil that he “would have thanked the Chinese [government] as well if they’d have kept their virus”. At a special sitting of the Dáil during the coronavirus pandemic, Danny Healy-Rae TD seemed to take issue with the actions…