The Financial Services Union says it has “real concerns” about continued job losses in the tech sector after 490 redundancies were announced by Meta yesterday, in addition to around 320 jobs that were lost at the company’s Irish operation in November.
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https://gript.ie/real-concerns-about-additional-tech-job-losses-after-meta-announcement/

An analysis of Ireland’s asylum system by The Times newspaper has asserted that many migrants “lie about their nationality” in order to claim to be refugees fleeing persecution.

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https://gript.ie/some-migrants-lying-about-nationality-to-claim-asylum-journalist-claims/

The Governor of South Carolina has today signed a bill into law that will ban most abortions at six weeks into a pregnancy — the point at which a developing baby’s heartbeat can be detected in the womb.

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https://gript.ie/south-carolina-governor-signs-6-week-abortion-ban-into-law/

Does Irish politics suffer from a major deficit of…. ability? That’s the question John and Sarah take on this week in the wake of a farcical health proposal, an aborted tax cut, and the entry of a new contender to replace Joe Biden.

PODCAST: https://gript.ie/podcasts/the-competence-deficit/

Former ISIS member and ex Irish soldier, Lisa Smith, has walked free from prison after serving just a year of a 15-month sentence for joining one of the world’s most notorious terrorist organisations.

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https://gript.ie/former-isis-member-lisa-smith-walks-free-from-prison-after-serving-year-of-sentence/

LOOKBACK: We published this piece this time two years ago...

"HEADS NEED TO ROLL" - Independent Cork TD Michael Collins rips government failures in the fishing industry ahead of a major Cork harbour fishing protest this week.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nhvac_J0w-4

British Cycling has announced that its new policy will prevent riders who were born male from racing in elite female events after it undertook a review of medial science and a consultation with cycling communities.
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https://gript.ie/breaking-british-cycling-to-ban-cyclists-born-males-from-female-events/

' “Crime don’t climb” not up to Howth and Dalkey or the pleasant foothills of the Dublin mountains, or even to the postcodes where the average house tips 700K. Anarcho-tyranny is the pleasure theory of the elite and it is visited on the law-abiding poor.'

THADE ANDY writes

https://gript.ie/pearse-street-migrant-camp-a-reminder-of-the-disaterous-chaz-chop-chaos-experiment/

Carol Nolan has condemned the lack of prior notice given to families in the Clonminch Lane area regarding the construction of 62 modular homes for Ukrainian refugees as ‘the latest manifestation of Government and ministerial arrogance towards communities.’

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https://gript.ie/tokenistic-engagement-on-offaly-modular-homes-plan-is-arrogant-and-disrespectful-says-td/

“The collateral damage of the pandemic response was substantial, wide-ranging and will leave behind a legacy of harm for hundreds of millions of people in the years ahead,” the damning new study detailed.

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https://gript.ie/legacy-of-harm-covid-lockdowns-caused-wide-ranging-damage-that-will-last-for-years-to-come-study-finds/

A group of British MPs have warned that they believe a draft WHO Pandemic Treaty could have "powers of compulsion" obliging states to follow the agency’s instructions in relation to lockdowns, vaccine passports, and other measures in the future.

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https://gript.ie/mps-warn-who-pandemic-treaty-will-have-powers-of-compulsion-for-lockdowns-and-more/

The Irish Franciscan Friary in Athlone, which announced its closure in October after serving the local community for 800 years, will be used to house Ukrainian refugees, it has been confirmed.

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https://gript.ie/former-franciscan-friary-in-athlone-to-be-used-to-house-ukrainian-refugees/

"When the conflation of biological sex and gender identity occurs conversationally, confusion may arise," writes Dr JANE HOLLAND, noting that the Hate Speech bill has the circular definition of gender as gender.

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https://gript.ie/an-anatomist-examines-sex-and-gender/

“Five years on, I’m convinced the raucous Repeal celebrations at Dublin Castle remain a low point for Ireland. We lost so much of ourselves that day and we continue to lose so much of our future. Life, not death, is worth dancing for,” writes MARIA MAYNES

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https://gript.ie/five-years-on-the-raucous-repeal-celebrations-at-dublin-castle-remain-a-low-point-for-ireland/

Germany’s economy has slipped into recession in the first three months of the 2023, new statistics show – while fears of economic contraction in the UK grow as interest rate look set to be hiked again.

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https://gript.ie/germany-in-recession-plus-jeremy-hunt-backs-rate-hikes-even-if-growth-constricts/

EirGrid officials are expected to tell Meath county councillors that construction will start on the controversial North South interconnector next year, despite long-standing local opposition.

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https://gript.ie/eirgrid-pledge-to-begin-pylon-construction-despite-objection-from-meath-community/

WATCH: Local people who mounted a blockade at the gates of a proposed migrant centre in Santry say they are “distraught” and “fearful” after Gardai swooped on the protest last night, forcing three busloads of arrivals through into the commercial unit.

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https://gript.ie/watch-local-women-in-tears-as-gardai-break-up-santry-immigration-protest/

A new poll shows the government & Sinn Féin are seriously at odds with the public on immigration, with a huge majority believing Ireland is taking in too many refugees, and saying they “appreciate” local anger when asylum seekers are moved into areas.

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https://gript.ie/poll-shows-govt-and-sf-seriously-at-odds-with-public-on-immigration/

ON THIS DAY : 28 MAY 1993 CÉIDE FIELDS centre was opened

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https://gript.ie/on-this-day-28-may-1993-ceide-fields-centre-was-opened-2/

"Kneeling in orange jump suits on the shores of the Mediterranean near the Libyan city of Sirte were 21 men – 20 Egyptian Copts and one Ghanian. Behind each of them was an ISIS militant with a knife. They were all beheaded. All this was captured on a video which ISIS posted on social media."

MAMELA FIALLO FLOR writes

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https://gript.ie/21-men-chose-a-savage-death-rather-than-renounce-their-christian-faith-why/

Activist Stephen Bedford this week asked to be allowed stand trial before a jury on the charges he faces after he live streamed his vehicle driving at group of people protesting against the government’s immigration policy on North Strand in Dublin in February of this year.

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https://gript.ie/left-wing-activist-charged-with-driving-car-into-east-wall-immigration-protest-was-at-sandwith-street-camp/