Minister Norma Foley has pressed ahead with including gender ideology in the Junior Cert curriculum, despite widespread opposition from educators & parents who say they made up the 'vast majority' of public submissions on the issue, and claim their views, and their concerns that harm that may be done to children, are being ignored.

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https://gript.ie/foley-presses-ahead-with-transgender-ideology-for-junior-cert-despite-huge-concerns/

MATT TREACY on the staggering findings of the Durham report that shows the plot to derail Trump’s campaign by claiming Russian collusion was a lie from the beginning.

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https://gript.ie/irish-media-curiously-disinterested-in-report-showing-trump-russia-collusion-claim-was-a-lie-from-beginning/

A new study from Denmark has found that heavy use of cannabis is linked to as much as a fifth of schizophrenia cases among young men.

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https://gript.ie/strong-link-between-heavy-marijuana-use-and-mental-illness-danish-study-finds/

Fight week for the much-anticipated unification bout on Saturday between Katie Taylor and unbeaten champion Chantelle Cameron took place at Dundrum Town Centre on Wednesday.
We spoke to Eddie Hearn and Andy Lee about what this event means to boxing in Ireland as the excitement mounts ahead of Saturday.
ALSO: a young fan from Stepaside got the surprise of her life when Katie invited her to workout in front of a packed crowd and the world's media.
The first bell of the undercard is at 5pm on Saturday with Katie expected in the ring some time after 10pm. #gript https://youtu.be/5V7rpg7lFnU

53-year-old Andrew Miller, also known as Amy George, admitted to luring the primary school child into his car while dressed as a woman offering her a lift home, before repeatedly sexually assaulting her at his home in the Scottish Borders.

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https://gript.ie/man-admits-to-abducting-and-sexually-assaulting-primary-school-girl-while-dressed-as-woman/

Residents of Inch, Co Clare have said they feel “disappointed and letdown” by Minister Roderic O’Gorman who declined to meet them in person to hear their concerns. They say the protest will continue until the decision is overturned.

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https://gript.ie/inch-locals-disappointed-and-letdown-by-minister-tds-anger-at-lack-of-consultation/

BEN SCALLAN: “Every policy is argued on the basis that it's already happened, so you may as well just tolerate it and shut up. They take a policy people hate, ram it through, and then when you complain, well too bad - it’s already in place.”

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https://gript.ie/government-just-rams-stuff-through-expects-you-to-accept-it/

Last weekend, Zimbabwean media outlets reported that a man wanted for the murder of three people was allegedly living in Ireland as an asylum seeker.

Gardai have said they are investigating, but they have not found the fugitive in Ireland.

https://gript.ie/garda-investigate-whether-zimbabwean-wanted-for-3-murders-is-ireland-as-an-asylum-seeker/

Minister Catherine Martin has been informed that persons who participated in the basic income for artists scheme are now being pursued with debt letters for thousands of euro in social protection overpayments.

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https://gript.ie/artists-on-basic-income-scheme-being-chased-for-thousands-in-overpayments/

BEN SCALLAN: “When Martin told the Dáil that “no country in Europe wants” a European Army, that is objectively false…he’s either misleading the public, or is grossly unaware of what other European leaders have said on this issue.”

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https://gript.ie/martin-says-no-country-wants-an-eu-army-thats-just-false/

The trial of 32 year old Slovakian national Jozef Puska which was scheduled to commence next month has been postponed to October

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https://gript.ie/aisling-murphy-murder-trial-postponed-was-due-to-start-next-month/

Independent TD,  Michael Collins, has called for a national and Dáil debate on what he has described as ‘the imposition of a radical, scientifically incoherent and extreme sexual education agenda being foisted upon schools and children.’

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https://gript.ie/collins-calls-for-national-debate-on-childrens-sex-education-as-parental-alarm-grows/

"Criticised at home for being authoritarian and bloating a centralised bureaucracy it will be interesting to see if these world-first policies inspire other liberal beacons."

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https://gript.ie/new-zealand-is-a-battleground-between-decolonisation-and-re-colonisation/

Michael McDowell has criticised civil defence and Garda reserve strategy documents saying that more actual recruitment needs to be done to ensure Ireland is able to cope with security threats.

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https://gript.ie/senator-michael-mcdowell-alarmed-at-collapse-in-civil-defence-volunteer-numbers/

The former Police Ombudsman of Northern Ireland, Nuala O’Loan, has said that proposed hate-speech legislation “has the capacity to do immense damage to free speech and democracy in Ireland”.
#gript https://gript.ie/former-police-ombudswoman-hate-speech-bill-may-do-immense-damage-to-democracy-in-ireland/

“This situation is a scandal […] It’s a very slippery slope”: Tánaiste Micheál Martin has announced the opening of a consultative forum on Irish neutrality, prompting criticism from a number of opposition politicians.

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https://gript.ie/its-a-very-slippery-slope-concern-as-tanaiste-launches-consultative-forum-on-irish-neutrality/

NIAMH UÍ BHRIAIN: "To the shame of the liberal left and their allies in the media, they have tried to frame the objections of local people in Inch as 'racism'.

It's not. It's realism."

https://gript.ie/the-people-of-inch-have-every-right-to-protest-and-we-urgently-need-a-cap-on-asylum-seekers/

WATCH: ‘Billboard Chris,’ a Canadian man who travels worldwide to advocate against puberty blockers being used on children who may have gender confusion, has claimed Gardaí in Dublin City Centre threatened to arrest him earlier today.

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https://gript.ie/watch-garda-interaction-with-billboard-chris-goes-massively-viral/

Dr. John F. Clauser, joint recipient of the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics, has criticized the climate emergency narrative calling it “a dangerous corruption of science that threatens the world’s economy and the well-being of billions of people.”

THADE ANDY writes...

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https://gript.ie/nobel-laureate-climate-science-has-metastasized-into-massive-shock-journalistic-pseudoscience/