“The government should not continue this gimmickry” according to a new report by the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council, who added: “These deliberate attempts to game fiscal assessments are deeply concerning.”

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https://gript.ie/ifac-government-employed-fiscal-gimmickry-to-flatter-its-numbers/

The assistant of a Swedish MEP is one of four people injured in a shooting in Brussels yesterday evening on a busy shopping street. Two Swedish tourists were shot dead and a third seriously injured in Brussels last November

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https://gript.ie/swedish-meps-assistant-injured-in-brussels-shooting/

A new report shows that a combined income of €127,000 per annum is now required to buy a home in the Greater Dublin Area – and that, nationally, both the hard and softs costs of delivering homes has increased.

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https://gript.ie/e127k-combined-salary-required-to-purchase-new-dublin-3-bed-semi/

JOHN MCGUIRK: The liberal left parties waiting to pounce on the Government for moral impurity, if they give as much as an inch on immigration.
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https://gript.ie/is-the-government-vulnerable-on-immigration-from-the-left/

“Do the math, or the compound interest perhaps”. New statistics on deportations and arrivals do not indicate crackdown on illegal migration, despite claims to the contrary, writes MATT TREACY

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https://gript.ie/new-statistics-on-deportations-and-arrivals-do-not-indicate-crackdown-on-illegal-migration/

“Despite having some of the richest fishing grounds in Europe, Irish boats have consistently been given lower quotas of fish than those from other European countries in Irish waters," Aontú candidate Patrick Murphy said. 

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https://gript.ie/irish-fishing-boats-are-on-verge-of-extinction-in-irish-waters/

"The general question to be considered is whether it is ever justifiable to compel performance by a doctor in violation of his or her conscience. Or, to put the question another way: what scope – if any at all — should be given to conscientious judgment in healthcare?"

BERNADETTE TOBIN writes

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https://gript.ie/is-a-doctors-conscience-mere-personal-preference/

In answer to a question from Senator Sharon Keogan, Minister for Justice Helen McEntee has said she is “not sure there is a definition” of what ‘far-right’ means at a sitting of the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Justice

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https://gript.ie/minister-for-justice-not-sure-there-is-a-definition-of-what-far-right-means/

A boutique in Buncrana has an Instagram hit on its hands after it posted a fashion show with a difference featuring sparkly dresses galore and fabulous models from the county’s inclusion hub, Cashel na Cor.

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https://gript.ie/this-marvellous-christmassy-fashion-show-celebrates-real-superstars/

The family of missing man, Ger Lowe, have appealed for the public to contact them if they see the Bray resident who has been missing since yesterday. #gript https://gript.ie/missing-appeal-to-find-missing-bray-man-ger-lowe/

Newly released figures show that State spending on "daily allowances" for people in the IPAS system, living in direct provision, will more than triple between 2020 and 2024, reflecting the massive increase in asylum applicants:
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https://gript.ie/state-spending-on-daily-allowance-for-migrants-has-more-than-doubled/

"I was born from surrogacy and I am now fighting against surrogacy"

Olivia Maurel shared her story in the Czech parliament recently

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https://gript.ie/a-child-of-a-surrogate-mother-now-a-fighter-against-the-industry/

A survivor of the Rotherham grooming gangs scandal, who was 14 at the time she was abused, has been given a Charging Order from the UK High Court allowing her to force the sale of her rapist's home.

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https://gript.ie/rotherham-child-rape-survivor-given-order-to-sell-abusers-home/

JOHN MCGUIRK: Arguments for making the Judiciary "more diverse" are explicitly premised on the idea that Judges should make rulings based on factors other than the law.

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https://gript.ie/a-dangerous-and-under-the-radar-attack-on-the-judiciary/

Psychotherapist Stella O'Malley has criticised the CDC's removal of the word "women" from health guidance, in favour of "pregnant people" — describing it as "an appalling example of how politics is increasingly interfering with medicine.”

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https://gript.ie/irish-psychotherapist-criticises-cdcs-dangerous-removal-of-word-women-from-health-guidance/

The Ombudsman’s report noted claims by a Traveller advocacy group that children at the site had a high rate of childhood illness. It also said that children and residents have had to endure years of serious and ongoing rodent infestation problems as well as life-endangering threats from electrical fault and fires

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https://gript.ie/cork-county-council-seeks-e20-million-funding-for-redevelopment-of-traveller-halting-site/

A man dressed as Santa placed a Four Provinces flag itself on the Christmas tree in the Market Square in Ennis. What does it all mean, asks MATT TREACY

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https://gript.ie/is-the-four-provinces-of-ireland-flag-for-roysh-and-is-santa/

Garda Detective Superintendent Ian Lackey discusses Irish authorities' experience of female genital mutilation (FGM) - the practice of injuring a woman or girl's genitals for "non-medical reasons" with "no health benefit." He says it is "deeply engrained" in many cultures.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2zojO4ze04

An Oireachtas Committee has heard that Meta reduced the distribution of stories marked false by third-party fact-checker, the Journal. In June, The Journal "debunked" a story about the controverisal inclusion of a trans athlete in a bike race, disputing it was a race:

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https://gript.ie/meta-reduced-distribution-of-stories-marked-false-by-thejournal-ie-committee-told/

Scottish man who had video of eight year old child being bound and raped who took thousands of inapproproate photos of women and girls ‘throughout Dublin’ over a year and a half has had his sentence almost halved by the court of appeal

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https://gript.ie/man-who-took-photos-up-females-skirts-on-luas-has-sentence-reduced/