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/

NIAMH UÍ BHRIAIN: :The Government is to blame for the Covid Crisis in nursing homes"

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https://gript.ie/the-government-is-to-blame-for-the-covid-crisis-in-nursing-homes/

Ireland's dependence on China for goods like PPE is another sign of how vulnerable we are when international markets fail. Tim Jackson says indigenous industries should be rebuilt where possible.

https://youtu.be/cqGCzAN-mz4

In the first of a new series looking at computer games you should consider getting into during the absolute boredom of confinement, John McGuirk recommends Tropico 6:

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https://gript.ie/games-to-pass-the-boredom-tropico-6/

Tim Jackson says the media are guilty of a witch-hunt as Cardinal Pell is found not guilty and released from prison after 400 days.

https://youtu.be/uKQjkR5b_Vg

What’s extraordinary about this, of course, is that the state has actually been letting people out of prisons wholesale during the crisis. Presumably to make room in the cells for rogue cyclists"

Let's face it: The new Garda powers are absurd.

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https://gript.ie/lets-face-it-these-new-garda-powers-are-absurd/

As Pell gives first interview, Pope Francis prays for those unjustly sentenced

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https://gript.ie/pell-interview-pope-francis-prays-unjustly-sentenced/

Aontú leadar criticises government’s ‘tax break for billionaires’ during pandemic

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https://gript.ie/aontu-criticises-governments-tax-break-billionaires-pandemic/