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/
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https://gript.ie/teenager-awarded-e14-million-settlement-against-cork-hospital-over-circumstances-of-his-birth/
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Teenager awarded €14 million settlement against Cork Hospital over circumstances of his birth - Gript
Case claimed ‘delivery not properly managed’
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“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/
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https://gript.ie/arts-council-accidentally-tells-artists-theyve-been-awarded-e25000/
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Arts Council accidentally tells artists they’ve been awarded €25,000 - Gript
Artists were told they had been awarded grants
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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/
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/
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Harris in 2017: Soon child scoliosis treatment will take 4 months - Gript
Flashback.
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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/
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https://gript.ie/obgyn-many-medics-would-leave-medicine-rather-than-provide-abortions/
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OBGYN: Many medics would leave medicine rather than provide abortions - Gript
A Consultant Obstetrician/Gynaecologist will tell the Rally for Life he believes many medics would leave medicine rather than perform abortions.
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"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/
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https://gript.ie/mcentees-ideological-tolerance-for-crime/
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McEntee's ideological tolerance for crime - Gript
First, find the right kind of victim
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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/
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Premium: Is the Irish "Right" missing an EU election opportunity? - Gript
A chance to challenge the narrative.
“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/
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https://gript.ie/us-travel-magazine-ranks-dublin-best-weekend-destination-in-the-world/
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US travel magazine ranks Dublin “best weekend destination in the world” - Gript
“A must-see destination.”
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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/
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https://gript.ie/did-bud-light-fire-marketers-behind-disastrous-trans-ad-partnership/
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Did Bud Light fire marketers behind ‘disastrous’ trans ad partnership? - Gript
CEO says decision is his 'responsibility'
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“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/
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https://gript.ie/td-government-inaction-on-nursing-home-crisis-approaching-elder-abuse-proportions/
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TD: “Government inaction on nursing home crisis approaching elder abuse proportions.” - Gript
“These are traumatic and highly distressing events for all concerned, including staff, management and families.”
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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/
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https://gript.ie/150000-leaflets-distributed-to-parents-re-sphe-course-concerns/
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150,000 leaflets distributed by parents re SPHE course concerns - Gript
An alliance of parents and educators who oppose gender ideology and porn being taught in school have distributed 150,000 leaflets on the issue to parents.
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Organisers estimated over 10,000 people thronged Dublin city centre today in the Rally for Life, calling on the government to retain the 3 day wait before abortion and to take action to address the spiralling abortion rate.
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Over 10,000 Rally for Life in Dublin City Centre
Organisers estimated over 10,000 people thronged Dublin city centre today in the Rally for Life, calling on the government to retain the 3 day wait before abortion and to take action to address the spiralling abortion rate.
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Collapse: It is becoming increasingly clear that Ivana Bacik is a brutally ineffective leader of her party, and may be leading them to extinction, writes
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https://gript.ie/bacik-bounce-update-labour-soars-to-2/
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https://gript.ie/bacik-bounce-update-labour-soars-to-2/
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“Bacik Bounce” update: Labour soars to….. 2% - Gript
Ooof
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With almost €6bn a year pouring from the state coffers into thousands of lightly regulated charities and NGOs it is a certainty that there are hundreds more RTE-type pay scandals just waiting to be uncovered, writes JOHN MCGUIRK:
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https://gript.ie/irelands-ngo-sector-is-100-rte-scandals-waiting-to-be-uncovered/
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https://gript.ie/irelands-ngo-sector-is-100-rte-scandals-waiting-to-be-uncovered/
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Ireland’s NGO sector is 100 RTE scandals waiting to be uncovered - Gript
Occlusion
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“Across the country, suicide is now the biggest killer of young men under the age of 25.” JOHN MAC GHLIONN writes that it’s time to get serious about the crisis in young men’s mental health.
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https://gript.ie/psychology-is-failing-the-men-of-ireland/
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https://gript.ie/psychology-is-failing-the-men-of-ireland/
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Psychology is Failing The Men of Ireland - Gript
“Across the country, suicide is now the biggest killer of young men under the age of 25.” JOHN MCGHLIONN writes that it’s time to get serious about the crisis in young men’s mental health.
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“I do see ongoing cyberattacks as a feature of modern living”: Senator Gerard Craughwell has hit out at Ireland’s cybersecurity regime following a hack that compromised the data of almost 2000 Dublin Airport staff & around 5000 Aer Lingus staff.
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https://gript.ie/we-take-neither-security-or-defence-seriously-senator-on-daa-data-breach/
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https://gript.ie/we-take-neither-security-or-defence-seriously-senator-on-daa-data-breach/
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“We take neither security or defence seriously”: Senator on DAA data breach - Gript
“It really is time we all upped our game.”
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“We are heartbroken”: A Dublin school has spoken of its “immense sadness” following the deaths of two ‘fantastic’ and ‘bright’ past pupils, both 18, who died in separate incidents on the Greek island of Ios.
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https://gript.ie/we-are-heartbroken-dublin-school-mourns-deaths-of-fantastic-and-bright-past-pupils-in-greece/
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https://gript.ie/we-are-heartbroken-dublin-school-mourns-deaths-of-fantastic-and-bright-past-pupils-in-greece/
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“We are heartbroken”: Dublin school mourns deaths of ‘fantastic’ and ‘bright' past pupils in Greece - Gript
'Immense sadness'
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Mr Murphy was speaking from Brussels, where he is this week attending meetings of the North Western Waters Advisory Council in Ghent.
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https://gript.ie/full-review-of-common-fishery-policy-needed-aontu/
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https://gript.ie/full-review-of-common-fishery-policy-needed-aontu/
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"Full Review of Common Fishery Policy Needed" - Aontú - Gript
"These stocks are continuously being revised downwards. I've requested that future advice must include the other mitigating factors attributed to the negative effects from climate change and other man made contributions such as increased pollution from our…
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A man has been charged on hate crime related offences after trans-identified double rapist Isla Bryson accused him of ‘transphobic abuse’ at a prison in Scotland. Bryson says his human rights are being breached.
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https://gript.ie/trans-rapist-accuses-fellow-inmates-
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https://gript.ie/trans-rapist-accuses-fellow-inmates-
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Trans rapist accuses fellow inmates of transphobic hate crimes - Gript
“This jail is full of transphobic people”
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The hate speech bill sailed through the Dáil, says NIAMH UÍ BHRIAIN, because it was difficult at first for the public to believe the government would take such a cudgel to free speech. But the persistent efforts of the few have changed that perception.
https://gript.ie/ffs-jim-ocallaghan-latest-to-raise-hate-speech-bill-concerns/
https://gript.ie/ffs-jim-ocallaghan-latest-to-raise-hate-speech-bill-concerns/
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FF's Jim O'Callaghan latest to raise hate speech bill concerns - Gript
The hate-speech bill – or the anti-free speech bill as its critics would describe it – has become hugely controversial. Fine Gael senator, Regina Doherty, says she has “never received as many emails about a particular piece of legislation as I have in respect…
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BEN SCALLAN: Fine Gael of 2011 accurately diagnosed one major problem facing Ireland - but whether they’ve done anything about it is another matter entirely:
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https://gript.ie/the-2011-fine-gael-manifesto-quote-that-should-mortify-leo-varadkar/
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https://gript.ie/the-2011-fine-gael-manifesto-quote-that-should-mortify-leo-varadkar/
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The 2011 Fine Gael manifesto quote that should mortify Leo Varadkar - Gript
Pushing “the interests of citizens behind those of powerful elites.”
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