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”.
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“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/

ANN FARMER writes : "It appears that the more childcare we have, the fewer children we can afford."

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https://gript.ie/more-childcare-fewer-children/

A former Garda inspector who helped found the National Diversity Bureau in the force has told the Irish Times that the “aggravated sentencing” in the Hate Speech Bill may worsen things for minorities.

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“They get paid - and well paid too - for supporting migrants, while disparaging the people who actually live in Inch,” says DR MATT TREACY of the Clare Immigrant Support Centre.

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https://gript.ie/those-with-refugees-welcome-signs-are-often-paid-to-be-there/

Ireland is set to introduce the world’s first mandatory health labelling on alcohol products. The new legislation is set to come into force on 22 May 2026, having been signed into law on Monday by Health Minister Stephen Donnelly.

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https://gript.ie/ireland-to-become-first-country-to-introduce-mandatory-health-warnings-on-alcohol/