The pope’s message offers hope to a fearful world

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https://gript.ie/pope-hope-fearful-world/

Florence Nightingale: a pioneer of hand washing and hygiene for health

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https://gript.ie/florence-nightingale-a-pioneer-of-hand-washing-and-hygiene-for-health/

Father Luuk Jansen, from St Mary’s Church in Cork, brings us his Sunday Reflection. This week he talks about Palm Sunday, the Gospel of Jesus entering into Jerusalem, and taking up the cross as we make our way to Calvary.

https://gript.ie/podcasts/sunday-meditation-18-to-die-with-christ-on-the-cross/

TRSI 74 – Expert Advice in the Age of COVID-19

China increases its influence over the UNHRC; harvesting organs in China for fun and profit; new research from Yale argues for universal wearing of cloth masks; and it turns out the HSE telling nursing homes to remove their restrictions on visitors was a terrible idea as we now have 40 outbreaks of COVID-19 in nursing homes.

https://gript.ie/podcasts/trsi-74-expert-advice-in-the-age-of-covid-19/

FEATURED CD for Easter 2020 is the chart-topping album from Celi Dé, starting with this gorgeous piece written and performed for Palm Sunday by Trian Ó Riordan and Colm Mannion.

https://gript.ie/easter-music-celi-de-collective-piece-for-palm-sunday/

The failure to protect healthcare workers is a national scandal – and the media are largely silent

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https://gript.ie/the-failure-to-protect-healthcare-workers-is-a-national-scandal-and-the-media-are-largely-silent/

Phew: Government steps in to prevent billionaire tax exiles in Ireland from having to pay any tax to fund the crisis

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https://gript.ie/good-news-billionaire-tax-exiles-finally-getting-a-break/

Spooky: In a 2005 speech, Former US President George W. Bush warned that a global pandemic was coming:

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https://gript.ie/george-w-bush-2005-virus-warning/

mportant: Here's a 30 second video on how to make your own facemask, at home. You should be wearing one if you are, or are likely to come into contact with, at-risk people.


https://gript.ie/important-how-to-make-your-own-facemask-at-home/

"We want PPE not Ireland’s call", say healthcare workers

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https://gript.ie/we-want-ppe-not-irelands-call-say-healthcare-workers/

Sam Bowman, former Director of the Adam Smith Institute, talks about the economic consequences of COVID-19; if a lockdown was the best option for countries to take; the price of saving 230,000 lives; and if the State should pay the wage bill of companies that agree to keep their employees employed through this crisis.

https://gript.ie/podcasts/trsi-75-sam-bowman/

Cardinal says China’s Communist Party should apologise and compensate for Coronavirus

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https://gript.ie/cardinal-says-chinas-communist-party-should-apologise-and-compensate-for-coronavirus/

MARGARET HICKEY: "In this crisis, we find ourselves at the mercy of the ideologically alien country who visited the calamity on us to begin with"

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https://gript.ie/crisis-mercy-ideologically-alien-country/

We need the full truth from the media and government with regard to protective clothing, testing, the WHO China and more.

Open closed factories in Donegal to make PPE says Aontú rep

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https://gript.ie/open-closed-factories-in-donegal-to-make-ppe-says-aontu-rep/

Australian Cardinal George Pell has been released after his 2018 conviction was quashed in a 7-0 decision by the High Court. The Cardinal had spent over 400 days in prison after being convicted in 2018 of the sexual assault of two 13 year old boys.

https://gript.ie/cardinal-pell-conviction-quashed/

TIM JACKSON: "Cardinal Pell’s acquittal will never satisfy those rabidly anti-Catholic voices"

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https://gript.ie/cardinal-pells-acquittal-never-satisfy-rabidly-anti-catholic-voices/

In recent years, there has been a sustained campaign to chip away at the presumption of innocence in respect of criminal sexual allegations. The verdict in the Pell case shows that those behind that campaign must never be allowed win, argues our editor:

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https://gript.ie/the-presumption-of-innocence-denied/

CAROL NOLAN: Even in the crisis, we need to ask what’s going on with the Just Transition strategy?

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https://gript.ie/carol-nolan-even-in-the-crisis-we-need-to-ask-whats-going-on-with-the-just-transition-strategy/

Hope: Statistician David Higgins has observed that the number of new hospitalisations in Ireland has been falling for the past few days. Delays in testing aside, is that a sign that the peak of the virus might be past us already?

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https://gript.ie/coronavirus-has-the-irish-peak-already-passed/