A Vatican document that targeted gender theory and sex-change interventions among other things generated headlines and controversy this week. But are these modern practices compatible with western notions of human dignity, asks JASON OSBORNE?

https://t.co/ePO8qBTpQA

"Vexatious complaints, political point scoring": Police in Scotland "cannot cope" with a deluge of "politicised" hate crime reports, confirming today that over 7,000 online hate reports were received in the first week of the Hate Crime Act becoming law.

https://gript.ie/scottish-police-cannot-cope-with-deluge-of-hate-crime-reports-confirm-over-7000/

McDowell says Minister for Health, HSE and Irish Medical Council must halt discredited puberty blocker treatment for Irish children  - says Cass Review findings on transgender services to children must be heeded in Ireland.

https://gript.ie/mcdowell-says-minister-for-health-hse-and-irish-medical-council-must-halt-discredited-puberty-blocker-treatment-for-irish-children/

A victory for a group of Swiss women who claimed that the Swiss government violated their human rights by its climate inaction will have ramifications for other nations.

https://t.co/6qQEEwn15s

A study has suggested that damage done by puberty blockers is permanent, casting doubt on claims that the hormone drugs simply “pause” puberty.

Scientists at the Mayo Clinic reported "mild-to-severe sex gland atrophy" in puberty blocker-treated children.

https://gript.ie/new-mayo-clinic-study-suggests-puberty-blocker-damage-may-be-permanent/

“The last thing I want to do is foist yet another election on the people of Ireland”: According to Fianna Fáil TD Willie O’Dea, “it wouldn’t be fair to the people” to hold a general election too close to the European and local elections in June.

https://gript.ie/not-good-politics-for-government-to-run-until-last-second-td/

Dr Ciara Smyth from NUI’s Human Rights Centre spoke on RTÉ’s Upfront this week on immigration. MATT TREACY looks at how ‘woke’ dollars from Atlantic Philanthropies made the Centre possible, and continues to influence public discourse in Ireland. 

https://gript.ie/atlantics-woke-dollars-continue-to-influence-public-discourse-in-ireland/

After the UK's Cass Review called into question the wisdom of "socially transitioning" children from one gender to another, the INTO union tells JOHN MCGUIRK it is "not in a position to comment" on its own video advising teachers on how to do just that:

https://gript.ie/the-media-and-intos-shameful-silence-on-the-cass-review/

There’s more than a hint of “arguing with your fiancé over the cost of an engagement ring” about nationalists downplaying the costs of a United Ireland, writes JOHN MCGUIRK: Leo Varadkar is right - money doesn't matter, and we should be prepared to pay.

https://gript.ie/varadkar-was-right-to-say-cost-is-irrelevant-to-a-united-ireland/

TD Michael McNamara says the government is “taking the p*iss out of the Irish taxpayer” after spending "€1 million per month" on accommodation for the pets of Ukrainians
https://gript.ie/td-blasts-e1m-per-month-accommodation-bill-for-ukrainian-cats-and-dogs/

"Anyone who doesn't follow the rules has to leave,” says German government as country experiences ‘highest crime rate since 2016’ where “above-average number of foreigners become criminals”

https://gript.ie/germany-to-speed-up-deportations-among-rise-in-crime-rates/

MATT TREACY looks into EU data and finds the number of Ukrainians seeking refuge seems to be increasing - and that the ratio per population for Ireland is twice as high at 19.63 per 1000 as the EU average. 

https://gript.ie/numbers-of-ukrainians-appears-to-be-increasing-despite-ministers-figures-on-people-returning-home/

"I can do it from the church": Fr Des Doyle, the priest who is chaplain of Dublin Airport, has insisted he will continue the annual tradition of blessing the planes, after it emerged that Dublin Airport Authority had axed the 75-year-tradition.

https://gript.ie/chaplain-says-he-will-continue-christmas-blessing-of-planes-despite-daa-decision/

The climate will surely thank TikTok for identifying Mary Robinson as the woman likely to capture young hearts and minds on its behalf, writes Jason Osborne

https://t.co/szaZzAx0pB

The government may postpone the upcoming patent referendum which was originally set for June 7th, the same day as the European and local elections.

https://gript.ie/patent-referendum-originally-planned-for-june-may-be-postponed/

The European Parliament on Thursday voted to make abortion a fundamental right, just weeks after French MPs voted to enshrine the right to abortion in the country's constitution.

12 out of 13 Irish MEPs voted for the non-binding proposal.

https://gript.ie/irish-meps-join-eu-lawmakers-in-voting-to-enshrine-abortion-as-a-fundamental-right/

Chair of the EU Parliament’s Budgetary Control committee Monika Hohlmeier, who is also a member of the EPP group to which Fine Gael is aligned, has accused the EU’s Green Party group of hypocrisy by failing to combat instances of historical and ongoing harassment of its own membership within the parliament.

https://gript.ie/european-parliament-greens-accused-of-hiding-harassment-cases-in-their-own-ranks/

As the Cass Report warns puberty blockers must not be given to u-18s, a LOOKBACK at the Gript investigation which caused the ICGP to remove advise, which repeatedly referenced TENI, and said that said puberty blockers were “reversible interventions”. https://gript.ie/irish-college-of-gps-removes-newly-published-transgender-guidelines-from-website/

John and Sarah discuss Simon Harris's cowardly reshuffle, the desired return of Kate O'Connell to frontline politics, the Cass Review, and the state of abortion politics, stateside.
PODCAST: https://gript.ie/podcasts/satan-lives/

MATT TREACY: A review of the voting records showed Chris McManus, the Sinn Féin MEP, abstained on specific proposals in the EU Migration Pact - but voted against the composite measure.

https://gript.ie/more-evidence-of-sinn-fein-desperation-in-vote-on-migration-pact/