AGATA DZBENSKA-BERNEY: What if “non-essential” travel is actually essential?
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AGATA DZBENSKA-BERNEY: What if "non-essential" travel is actually essential? | Gript
‘It’s not the end of the world… It’s only three hours on the plane’ I remember myself telling my parents when I started thinking of moving to Ireland.
DAVID THUNDER: Lockdowns: One of the Most Catastrophic Policy Errors of Modern times
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Lockdowns: One of the Most Catastrophic Policy Errors of Modern times | Gript
When respected scientific experts sitting on prestigious governmental advisory committees warned citizens early last year that the only way to protect themselves against Covid-19 was to shut down their businesses and stay at home until public health officials…
Daily vaccination figures have improved slightly after having hit their lowest level since the HSE began reporting daily vaccination data. The number of vaccines administered per day has decreased by 35% over the last week of available data.
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Vaccine update: 35% decrease in numbers vaccinated per day over past week | Gript
The seven-day average of total vaccine doses administered has increased slightly to 25,956, after having fallen to an all-time low of 24,796 yesterday. The average number of doses administered per day has fallen by roughly 35% since the 9th of February. Between…
THADE ANDY: Have tech giants made strategic blunder leaving them open to massive libel costs?
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Have tech giants made strategic blunder leaving them open to massive libel costs? | Gript
Facebook through their subsidiary, Instagram, may have made a major strategic blunder in pursuing their policy of being the ‘truth czars’ of world thought, says top civil rights lawyer, Robert Barnes. Instagram recently de-platformed Robert F Kennedy Jr,…
MAIRÍN DE BARRA: Mary Robinson slammed after BBC shows shocking footage of Princess Latifa as ‘hostage’
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Mary Robinson slammed after BBC shows shocking footage of Princess Latifa as 'hostage' | Gript
“I’m a hostage, and this villa has been converted into a jail, all the windows are barred shut.” “I was told I would never see the sun again”. Last night, BBC’s Panorama aired a disturbing programme featuring the secretly-recorded video messages from Princess…
ON THIS DAY: 17 February 1846: Daniel O’Connell speaks in House of Commons re poverty and starvation in Ireland
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ON THIS DAY: 17 February 1846: Daniel O'Connell speaks in House of Commons re poverty and starvation in Ireland | Gript
The level of poverty in Ireland was evidenced by further comments from O’Connell:
It is understood that students will be able to request a calculated grade whilst also sitting an exam if they wish, with the higher result being recorded as their official grade.
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Leaving Cert students will choose calculated grade or exam | Gript
The Junior Cert has been cancelled.
Independent TD Noel Grealish and former Fianna Fáil TD Donie Cassidy are to appear before a Co. Galway district court for their part in the infamous Oireachtas Golf Society dinner last August.
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Noel Grealish TD to be prosecuted for Golfgate dinner | Gript
Independent TD Noel Grealish and former Fianna Fáil TD Donie Cassidy are to appear before a Co. Galway district court.
Irish peat workers being thrown under the bus by green policies | Gript
Bord na Móna has moved to end all peat harvesting from Irish bogs - now Irish workers watch as briquettes and energy are being imported from Germany and elsewhere. Gript speaks to some of the people affected.
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Bord na Móna has moved to end all peat harvesting from Irish bogs - now Irish workers watch as briquettes and energy are being imported from Germany and elsewhere. Gript speaks to some of the people affected.
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Irish peat workers being thrown under the bus by green policies | Gript
Bord na Móna has moved to end all peat harvesting from Irish bogs - now Irish workers watch as briquettes and energy are being imported from Germany and elsewhere. Gript speaks to some of the people affected.
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"It should never be a crime to seek to comfort somebody else in their moment of distress – but that’s exactly what it is, in Ireland, in 2021." The Gardai are facing criticism for their latest tweet, warning people about funerals
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Gardai to public: Stop sympathising with the bereaved, or else | Gript
Hearts and Minds.
Joe Biden will set up a commission to look at whether reparation payments should be made to the descendants of enslaved African Americans. It's an odd idea, but it raises an interesting question: Is Ireland owed reparations from Britain for the famine?
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Biden: Maybe it’s time to pay compensation to black people for slavery | Gript
Reparations.
3 people were injured after a mail bomb exploded at Lidl’s Germany HQ. The day before, there was another mail bomb attack at a Capri Sun plant.
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Mail bomb detonates at Lidl HQ in Germany, 3 injured | Gript
As many as 3 people were injured after a bomb concealed in a letter or a parcel exploded at Lidl’s headquarters in Neckarsulm, Germany on Wednesday. Roughly 100 people were evacuated as the police cleared the building and used a sniffer dog to search for…
There has been outrage in rural Ireland after it has come to light that Irish peat moss is being replaced by an Estonian product in the wake of Bord Na Móna’s sudden decision to shut down native peat harvesting early.
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“A DISGRACE” - outrage as Estonian peat moss being imported to replace Irish products | Gript
There has been outrage in rural Ireland after it has come to light that Irish peat moss is being replaced by an Estonian product in the wake of Bord Na Móna’s sudden decision to shut down native peat harvesting early. In a shock announcement last month, Bord…
MICHAEL COOK: Australians spending A$1 billion on cosmetic surgery
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Australians spending A$1 billion on cosmetic surgery | Gript
Australia’s spending on cosmetic procedures topped A$1 billion in 2020 for the first time, according to the Cosmetic Physicians College of Australasia. And a clinical psychologist has warned of the dangers of normalising cosmetic procedures. Dr Ben Buchanan…
Dr MATT TREACY: The new housing bill would let the Government seize your home
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The new housing bill would let the Government seize your home - Gript
In other words, to protect the right to housing, we must give the state the power to take away people’s homes, “for the common good”.
ON THIS DAY: 18 FEBRUARY 1366: Statute of Killkenny was passed
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ON THIS DAY: 18 FEBRUARY 1366: Statute of Killkenny was passed | Gript
The Statute of Kilkenny were a set of laws made by the English Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, Lionel of Antwerp. They were passed at a meeting of the Irish parliament held at Kilkenny.
NASA’s Perseverance rover is set to land on Mars tonight around 9pm Irish time, which, if successful, will be the 5th man-made rover to land on the red planet. But there’s still lots that could go wrong.
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“7 Minutes Of Terror”: Perseverance rover to land on Mars today | Gript
NASA’s Perseverance rover is set to land on Mars today around 9pm Irish time, which, if successful, will be the 5th man-made rover to land on the red planet. But there’s still lots that could go wrong. Now, as the rover’s 7 month-long journey through space…
Mark McGowan, the premier of Western Australia went even further, accusing Facebook of “behaving like a North Korean dictator”.
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Australian PM 'not intimidated' as Facebook blocks news | Gript
"I am in regular contact with the leaders of other nations on these issues. We simply won't be intimidated."
Microsoft founder Bill Gates has called for “zero greenhouse gas emissions” only weeks after increasing his shareholding in a private-jet base company.
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Gates calls for "zero emissions" but invests more in private jet company | Gript
“The case for zero was, and is, rock solid,” Gates writes in his new book.
POLL: GAA star Aidan O’Rourke says the GAA needs to urge government to open up kids’ sports, as children are suffering.
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CAROL NOLAN: €45 million in drug seizures reveals the scale of the challenge we are facing
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CAROL NOLAN: €45 million in drug seizures reveals the scale of the challenge we are facing | Gript
Illegal drug use is the scourge of cities, towns and rural villages right across the state.