Ireland’s official anti-disinformation body failed to provide a single example of disinformation when asked, despite its CEO claiming that electoral disinformation is spreading at an “enormous” scale. Ben Scallan reports:

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https://gript.ie/anti-disinformation-force-provides-no-examples-of-disinformation/

Watch: Controversy has erupted after a video showing participants of a drag march in NY chanting “we’re coming for your children’ went viral amassing tens of millions of views.

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https://gript.ie/coming-for-your-children-chant-used-for-years-at-pride-events/

“Biden is losing his marbles”: Social media users have reacted with both ridicule and concern after Joe Biden claimed that Vladimir Putin “is clearly losing the war in Iraq.”

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https://gript.ie/putin-is-clearly-losing-the-war-in-iraq-says-joe-biden/

Independent TD, Carol Nolan has described the findings of the recent report on the sexual exploitation of children by “predatory gangs” in Ireland as “terrifying, deeply disturbing and sickening.”

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https://gript.ie/watch-terrifying-and-sickening-nolan-says-grooming-gangs-must-be-tackled/

The board of RTÉ is to be reconstituted as Taoiseach Leo Varadkar calls on Dee Forbes, Ryan Tubridy, and management agent Noel Kelly to give evidence about their role in the hidden payment scandal.

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https://gript.ie/rte-board-payment-scandal-was-act-designed-to-deceive/

Information released to the Freedom of Information advocacy group, Right to Know, has found that in total, over the past five years, 2,613 fines have been issued to airlines for allowing non-nationals to travel to Ireland without documentation, generating €4.075 million in revenue for the state.

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https://gript.ie/airlines-fined-e4million-for-allowing-undocumented-to-travel-to-ireland/

BEN SCALLAN: A new study commissioned by the government found that the vast majority of Irish people are “very comfortable” living near other nationalities, genders, and sexual orientations. So why, then, do we need hate speech laws?

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https://gript.ie/new-study-shows-ireland-isnt-hateful-so-why-the-hate-speech-bill/

The Seanad is set to debate legislation on restricting salaries at RTÉ. The Bill, introduced today by Senator Rónán Mullen, would see the remuneration of those working at RTÉ and TG4, capped at the equivalent of a government Minister’s salary.

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https://gript.ie/major-public-concern-bill-launched-to-address-overpayment-of-rte-staff/

The World Health Organisation is set to issue new guidance that Aspartame, a common artificial sweetener used in Diet Coke, Lucozade, and other popular products, is ‘possibly carcinogenic to humans’.

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https://gript.ie/sweetener-used-in-diet-coke-possible-cancer-cause-who-set-to-announce/

A horrified witness to a violent attack on a woman who was going for a run by the Liffey this week has called for steps to be taken to ensure women’s safety.

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https://gript.ie/attack-on-woman-going-for-a-run-by-the-liffey-witnessed-by-horrified-onlookers-on-opposite-side/

There were tears of emotion at the High Court today as a 16-year-old settled his case against a Cork Hospital for €14 million. Calum McCarthy sued the HSE over the circumstances of his birth, claiming that delivery was not properly managed.

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https://gript.ie/teenager-awarded-e14-million-settlement-against-cork-hospital-over-circumstances-of-his-birth/

“What crushing heartbreak you have caused.” Disappointment as Arts Council mistakenly tells over 100 artists they had been awarded grants of €25,000 as part of Next Generation Artists scheme

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https://gript.ie/arts-council-accidentally-tells-artists-theyve-been-awarded-e25000/

FLASHBACK: Simon Harris previously said that long wait times for scoliosis procedures were due to “the recession,” and that by 2017 “no child” would wait more than 4 months.

Teens are still waiting 5 years for surgery. @Ben_Scallan reports:

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https://gript.ie/harris-in-2017-soon-child-scoliosis-treatment-will-take-4-months/

A Consultant Obstetrician and Gynaecologist has slammed the abortion review process as an attempt to bully pro-life healthcare professionals - and he added that he believed many medics would leave medicine rather than perform abortions.

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https://gript.ie/obgyn-many-medics-would-leave-medicine-rather-than-provide-abortions/

"The best that can be said for Minister McEntee, and her Government at large, is that they do occasionally get interested in crime – but only if the victim of the crime is a member of some politically trendy minority class."
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https://gript.ie/mcentees-ideological-tolerance-for-crime/

PREMIUM: Scheduled for a year from now, the European Elections provide the most obvious opportunity for an electoral breakthrough by the dreaded "far right" writes JOHN MCGUIRK. But there's no sign anyone is even thinking about how to take that chance. https://gript.ie/premium-is-the-irish-right-missing-an-eu-election-opportunity/

“Must be an early April's fool's day”: Irish social media users have reacted with mockery and ridicule after a leading US travel magazine ranked Dublin the “Best Weekend Destination in the World,” with one saying it is “for criminals.”

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https://gript.ie/us-travel-magazine-ranks-dublin-best-weekend-destination-in-the-world/

Top marketing execs behind Bud Light’s partnership with trans influencer Dylan Mulvaney appear to have been fired after the ad campaign cost the beer giant millions in lost revenue

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https://gript.ie/did-bud-light-fire-marketers-behind-disastrous-trans-ad-partnership/

“These are traumatic and highly distressing events for all concerned, including staff, management and families.”

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https://gript.ie/td-government-inaction-on-nursing-home-crisis-approaching-elder-abuse-proportions/

An alliance of parents and educators who say they wish to highlight “the inherent risk” in upcoming inclusion of gender ideology and porn in the sex education curriculum in schools, have distributed 150,000 leaflets on the issue to parents.

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https://gript.ie/150000-leaflets-distributed-to-parents-re-sphe-course-concerns/