Lockdown extended to March, hotel quarantine for travellers without negative test

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https://gript.ie/lockdown-hotel-quarantine-negative-test/

"There is now one Italian child for every five Italians over the age of 65. As sociologist Giorgia Serughetti argues the other problem is that the country gets old, as fewer young people mean less energy and ideas"

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https://gript.ie/italian-birth-rates-set-to-fall-further/

"And we are right to be ashamed when we fail to do the right thing, calculating like fiends that we will live to fight another day that never comes"

TIM JACKSON on why dissenting voices must persist amid dangerous group think

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https://gript.ie/dissent-voice-group-think/

The spectacle of the Gardai bragging about intercepting a lone ban on a beach, as they did yesterday, underlines the absurdity of the 5km exercise law, and the inconsistent and oppressive way with which the lockdown has been policed, says John McGuirk
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https://gript.ie/gardai-we-caught-a-hardened-criminal-walking-on-the-beach/

Dr MATT TREACY: 100 cases in two meat factories – are we importing Covid along with cheap labour?

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https://gript.ie/100-cases-in-two-meat-factories-are-we-importing-covid-along-with-cheap-labour/

Astrazenica has fiercely denied reports from Germany that its much vaunted vaccine is only 8% effective in the critical over-65 demographic. But is there more to the story than meets the eye?

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https://gript.ie/report-from-germany-astrazenica-vaccine-only-8-effective-in-over-65s/

TRSI 187 – The great race

Vaccination numbers; the UK has decided to stop pretending the EU is a country; a legitimately Kafkaesque story involving a dead women who won’t stop saying she’s alive; the Tavistock Clinic’s appeal; and the Government wants to avoid ‘disproportionate’ restrictions on travelers.

https://gript.ie/podcasts/trsi-187-the-great-race/

Prioritise Safety for Teachers to Break Impasse in Special Education says Tóibín

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https://gript.ie/prioritise-safety-for-teachers-to-break-impasse-in-special-education-says-toibin/

CAROL NOLAN: Beef prices may be rising but don’t be fooled; long-term problems for rural farmers remain

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https://gript.ie/beef-prices-may-be-rising-but-dont-be-fooled-long-term-problems-for-rural-farmers-remain/

Last year we first highlighted in a video report the absurd salaries paid to RTE presenters - almost a year into a pandemic very little has changed.

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https://youtu.be/xwhDU2y-ELk

Last year we first highlighted in a video report the absurd salaries paid to RTE presenters - almost a year into a pandemic very little has changed.

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All peat harvesting and production has been stopped AHEAD of schedule, leaving Ireland importing peat for power AND for horticulture. All to appease the radical green lobby, while hanging Irish workers out to dry. #gript

https://gript.ie/zero-carbon-zero-brains/

How Ireland’s leaders invited covid in through open borders

New Zealand shut its borders straight away when covid emerged. Ireland’s leaders refused to do the same out of love for the EU. 3 lockdowns and almost 3,000 covid deaths later, who made the right choice? Ben Scallan reacts. #gript

https://youtu.be/jrqGR6qAh4k

The researchers claim approximately 3.2% more US citizens will die in the next two decades than would have without the sudden increase in unemployment.

https://gript.ie/us-study-covid-lockdowns-excess-deaths/

UN experts condemn trend legalising Assisted Suicide for disabled

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https://gript.ie/un-experts-condemn-trend-legalising-assisted-suicide-for-disabled/

"The average Dublin couple cannot afford to buy even a low-spec apartment any more, and pension funds from abroad are fast buying up properties all over Dublin and renting them out to transient high-flyers working in Big Tech companies".

NIAMH UÍ BHRIAIN on why ordinary people are being squeezed out of the buyers and rental market.

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https://gript.ie/ordinary-people-cant-afford-even-cheapest-apartment-in-dublin/

Covid-19: Depression in children at “frightening levels”, UK doctors warn

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https://gript.ie/covid-19-depression-in-children-at-frightening-levels-uk-doctors-warn/

Cheap drug could cut deaths from Covid-19 by up to 75%

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https://gript.ie/cheap-drug-could-cut-deaths-from-covid-19-by-up-to-75/

Biden stabs union members in the back

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https://gript.ie/biden-stabs-union-members-in-the-back/

A prominent doctor - who is also a candidate for the chairmanship of the Irish Labour Party - yesterday accused people close to the health minister of trying to silence his criticism of the Covid strategy. Is that really what happened?

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https://gript.ie/did-someone-close-to-stephen-donnelly-try-to-silence-a-doctor/

Zero Covid is an absolutely terrible idea, which would devastate the economy, divide families indefinitely, and have no clear endpoint in sight, argues John McGuirk:

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https://gript.ie/come-on-zero-covid-is-a-terrible-idea/