The NGO, Common Purpose, had a free office from the state for 17 years and members were appointed to the Human Rights Commission. In Britain, it was described as the “Left’s Old Boys’ network”.  MATT TREACY looks at its directors here. 

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https://gript.ie/common-purpose-who-are-the-small-elite-ngo-with-serious-clout/

PÓL Ó MUIRÍ on Socrates and free speech: “I am not sure how many questions you would have to ask to end up in jail these days but we might find out with the newly proposed legislation”.

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https://gript.ie/socrates-and-people-who-appear-to-be-wise/

A survey of staff at the European Central Bank found that a majority rated Christine Lagarde’s overall performance as President as “very poor” or “poor” – with some believing her implementation of diversity efforts to be “adversarial and discriminatory”.
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https://gript.ie/woke-christine-lagardes-performance-rated-poor-by-majority-of-ecb-staff/

"To put the referendum on International Women’s Day is a worthless, cheap gimmick," Senator Michael McDowell has told the Seanad, with the House hearing claims that the legislation was being "rushed through" the Dáil and the Seanad.

https://gript.ie/holding-referendum-on-international-womens-day-worthless-cheap-gimmick-seanad-hears/

JOHN MCGUIRK: Rather than seeking UN protection for the Irish pub, as an overly excitable Irish Times columnist suggested yesterday, sometimes we should recognise that not everything is the Government's fault, or can be fixed by politicians.
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https://gript.ie/blame-the-internet-not-the-government-for-the-decline-of-the-irish-pub/

PREMIUM: JOHN MCGUIRK walks through the main points of Chief Justice Donal O'Donnell's landmark opinion granting a widower's pension to an unmarried man, and explores its significance ahead of the referendum on the family:
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https://gript.ie/understanding-yesterdays-big-supreme-court-ruling-on-the-family/

“We need to continue to raise what is happening to those who disagree with the Chinese Communist Party.”

Fianna Fáil Senator Malcolm Byrne has said he intends to raise the issue of rights abuses by the Chinese State in the Seanad later today.

https://gript.ie/ff-senator-to-raise-chinas-rights-abuses-in-seanad-today/

Using drones to deliver defibrillators to people having heart attacks could “save lives,” a Fine Gael Senator has said, claiming that in one Swedish study, drones arrived on average in “just over 3 minutes.”

https://gript.ie/using-drones-to-deliver-defibrillators-could-save-lives-says-senator/

MATT TREACY: Atlantic Philanthropies provided seed capital for advocacy NGO, the Irish Refugee Council, that is increasingly funded by taxpayer to lobby for unpopular migration policies


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https://gript.ie/how-the-irish-refugee-council-became-a-powerful-lobby/

PREMIUM: Nepali man who went door-to-door “to find an intoxicated female to rape” denies he did anything wrong. “We can wake up to the reality of different cultural attitudes towards women and girls, or we can be woken up by them.” writes FATIMA GUNNING

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https://gript.ie/its-time-to-talk-frankly-about-the-dangers-posed-by-cultural-differences/

Bishop Kevin Doran expressed concern regarding the removal of the ban on “deliberate killing” from the ethical guidelines of the Irish Medical Council, and questioned whether the Council had decided if it was acceptable to take part in such an act.

https://gript.ie/bishop-removal-of-ban-on-deliberate-killing-from-medical-council-guidelines-concerning/

Grace O’Malley Kumar - the daughter of an Irish woman - lost her life trying to save her friend from a “brutal” knife attack in Nottingham last year, a UK court has heard.

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https://gript.ie/daughter-of-irish-woman-killed-in-nottingham-knife-attack-died-trying-to-save-her-friend/

In an interview with Gript, Elon Musk warned that Ireland's hate speech proposals would put people at "the mercy" of those who would define speech they don't like as 'hate speech' - and pledged to fund Irish legal challenges to the legislation.

https://gript.ie/elon-musk-will-fund-legal-challenges-to-irish-hate-speech-legislation/

Former President Donald Trump has won the New Hampshire Republican Party primary by an "insurmountable margin," putting him on course to be the Republican party’s presidential nominee to face off against Joe Biden in November’s general election.

https://gript.ie/trump-wins-new-hampshire-primary-by-insurmountable-margin/

The Medical Council of Ireland has told a Joint Oireachtas Committee that the removal of its ban on “deliberate killing” from guidelines was not the regulatory body “taking a stance or paving the way for any possible future change" on assisted suicide.

https://gript.ie/medical-council-denies-removal-of-deliberate-killing-is-paving-the-way-for-future-change/

JOHN MCGUIRK: "If “fullness” were measured simply in terms of space, as Fintan O'Toole suggests, then we would not be full until such time as the country could not physically accommodate more people without some others falling off the edges and drowning." #gript https://gript.ie/fintan-otooles-convenient-definition-of-full/

An asylum seeker with eight previous convictions has been jailed after he masturbated at the foot of a female patient’s bed at UHL

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https://gript.ie/asylum-seeker-who-masturbated-in-front-of-bedridden-woman-in-limerick-hospital-jailed/

Asylum seeker Kadima Mbuye has been in the news since 2019 in relation to indecent exposure, knife threats, and public masturbation. As he finally faces deportation on release from prison, Fatima Gunning recaps his crimes.

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https://gript.ie/the-masturbating-menace-how-the-justice-system-tolerated-kadima-mbuye/

The UK is engulfed in a perfectly modern culture war bunfight over whether to stop singing "Rule Britannia" at the BBC's last night of the proms - but a lot of people don't seem to understand what the song is about, writes JOHN MCGUIRK.
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https://gript.ie/the-uks-very-dumb-rule-britannia-row/

A report from Grant Thornton will say that there is no written record of the RTÉ Board formally signing off on the decision to host ‘Toy Show The Musical’ which ended up amassing losses of €2.2 million.

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https://gript.ie/rte-board-never-signed-off-on-e2-million-loss-making-toy-show-the-musical/