A Barrister looks at the assisted suicide bill

#gript

https://gript.ie/a-barrister-looks-at-the-assisted-suicide-bill/

A GP located on the Aran Islands, Co. Glaway, has said that the island’s population – particularly the elderly – should not be expected to travel to the Irish mainland to be vaccinated against covid-19.

#gript

https://gript.ie/gps-slam-expectation-of-elderly-island-residents-to-travel-to-mainland-for-vaccine/

Insurers must compensate pubs for Covid losses High Court rules

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https://gript.ie/insurers-must-compensate-pubs-for-covid-losses-high-court-rules/

Government to ban oil & gas exploration during energy supply crisis

At Eamon Ryan’s direction, the Irish government has moved to ban all oil and gas exploration, even as the country faces a potential energy supply crisis.

Ben Scallan reacts. #gript

https://youtu.be/o5iGKhQ0HQ4

Paris Hilton is shopping for the ultimate fashion accessory

#gript

https://gript.ie/paris-hilton-is-shopping-for-the-ultimate-fashion-accessory/

POLL: Should Micheál Martin go to the White House for St Patrick’s Day?

VOTE in our online poll and leave your comments below and on the site

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gript.ie/poll-should-micheal-martin-go-to-the-white-house-for-st-patricks-day/

Medics say potassium chloride used in late term abortion causes excruciating pain for foetus

Painful Death: A group of nurses and doctors have said the use of potassium chloride in late-term abortions is causing excruciating pain to babies before they die.

#gript

https://youtu.be/YF8njLpGImE

Gardai have made a number of arrests in relation to an investigation into animal cruelty at Ashton Dog Pound.

#Gript

https://gript.ie/arrests-made-in-ashton-animal-cruelty-case/

Dr MATT TREACY: PSNI’s disorderly harassment of commemoration is unacceptable

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https://gript.ie/psnis-disorderly-harassment-of-commemoration-is-unacceptable/

MICHAEL COOK: Should politicians be held to account for mishandling the pandemic?

#gript

https://gript.ie/should-politicians-be-held-to-account-for-mishandling-the-pandemic/

“Government ineptitude” cause of severe shortage of hospital staff when 73,300 signed up to “Be On Call For Ireland”

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https://gript.ie/government-ineptitude-cause-of-severe-shortage-of-hospital-staff-when-73300-signed-up-to-be-on-call-for-ireland/

TRSI 193 - Taking the soup

The Irish Times finally takes the soup; the Green Party votes on Ireland using nuclear power, so long as it comes from France; and rumours about how the Commission decided to activate Article 16.

https://gript.ie/podcasts/trsi-193-taking-the-soup/

Newly released government figures indicate that almost 111,000 air passengers entered Ireland through Dublin airport last month, with as many as 61% of these journeys being classed as “non-essential”. #gript

https://gript.ie/110k-passengers-entered-ireland-in-january-over-half-were-non-essential/

He took particular aim at EU Commission President Ursula Von Der Leyen, saying that he did not want "this shit" to be repeated.

#gript

https://gript.ie/german-minister-eus-vaccine-rollout-was-shit/

Green Party Senator Pippa Hackett has claimed that the weather in January was "more evidence of Climate Change". She's completely, and totally, wrong

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https://gript.ie/green-senator-this-weather-recently-climate-change-of-course/

KILLIAN FOLEY WALSH writes: "Eventually, we will have to wake up to the sheer unsustainability of trying to regulate every aspect of life this way"

#gript

https://gript.ie/killian-foley-walsh-lockdowns-were-sold-with-a-false-promise/

A double murderer currently serving life in prison claims that his "human rights" were violated when prison authorities confiscated his porn.

#gript

https://gript.ie/european-court-to-decide-if-pornography-is-a-human-right/

TRSI 194 – Enjoy the drum solo

A member of a political people which supports the legalization of euthanasia has some strong words for those who believe in “political ideologies opposed to the saving of lives”; the New York Times has decided it believes in magic words and will sack anyone who utters them without performing the appropriate rituals; and a reminder that more than half of Irish MEPs, when asked to vote on it, were unwilling to say that Ireland should not be designated as a tax haven.

https://gript.ie/podcasts/trsi-194-enjoy-the-drum-solo/

A Cork mother and her 31-year-old son were forced to barricade themselves inside their own home against a drug-fueled intruder wielding a hatchet, a court has heard. #gript

https://gript.ie/cork-mother-son-barricade-door-against-drug-fueled-axeman-court-told/

A founding member of the Social Democrats has just gone to work as a €65k per annum advisor to a Green Party minister - which provides more evidence that the Greens, Labour, and the Social Democrats are basically identical parties

#gript

https://gript.ie/green-partys-latest-e65k-advisor-a-soc-dem-founder/

Customs checks were temporarily stopped last week amid safety concerns, when threatening graffiti was discovered describing customs officials as "targets."

#gript

https://gript.ie/2-arrested-after-no-to-irish-sea-border-graffiti-found-in-larne-co-antrim/