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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https://gript.ie/gardai-to-public-stop-sympathising-with-the-bereaved-or-else

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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https://gript.ie/biden-maybe-its-time-to-pay-compensation-to-black-people-for-slavery

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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https://gript.ie/mail-bomb-detonates-at-lidl-hq-in-germany-3-injured/

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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https://gript.ie/a-disgrace-outrage-as-estonian-peat-moss-being-imported-to-replace-irish-products/

MICHAEL COOK: Australians spending A$1 billion on cosmetic surgery

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https://gript.ie/australians-spending-a1-billion-on-cosmetic-surgery/

Dr MATT TREACY: The new housing bill would let the Government seize your home

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https://gript.ie/the-new-housing-bill-would-let-the-government-seize-your-home/

ON THIS DAY: 18 FEBRUARY 1366: Statute of Killkenny was passed

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https://gript.ie/on-this-day-18-february-1366-statute-of-killkenny-was-passed/

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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https://gript.ie/7-minutes-of-terror-perseverance-rover-to-land-on-mars-today/

Mark McGowan, the premier of Western Australia went even further, accusing Facebook of “behaving like a North Korean dictator”.

https://gript.ie/australian-pm-facebook-news/

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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https://gript.ie/gates-zero-emissions-jet-company/

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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https://gript.ie/carol-nolan-e45-million-in-drug-seizures-reveals-the-scale-of-the-challenge-we-are-facing/

COLM MEANEY: With lockdown, We have unleashed an age of petty tyranny

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https://gript.ie/with-lockdown-we-have-unleashed-an-age-of-petty-tyranny/

A survivor of serial Paedophile James McClean - who was sentenced to 8 years in prison yesterday - has credited Gemma O'Doherty for his conviction. But why did it fall to O'Doherty, and why did it take so long to act?

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https://gript.ie/terenure-abuse-survivor-we-wouldnt-have-got-justice-without-gemma-odoherty/

As the Taoiseach announces nine more weeks - minimum - of lockdown, the Government should consider renaming the "living with covid" strategy to the "hiding from covid" strategy, writes John McGuirk:
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https://gript.ie/taoiseach-to-mirror-what-we-need-now-is-more-lockdown/

Vatican reverses ‘no jab, no job’ policy after widespread criticism

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https://gript.ie/vatican-reverses-no-jab-no-job-policy-after-widespread-criticism/

Ireland imported a little over €3.5 million euros worth of peat and peat products in 2020, while exporting almost a million tonnes abroad, according to new figures revealed to Gript.

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https://gript.ie/revealed-ireland-imported-millions-of-euros-of-peat-in-2020-while-sending-1m-tonnes-abroad/

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MIXED MESSAGING: Táinaiste Leo Varadkar has denied that Michéal Martin said the Level 5 restrictions would last until May, in an apparent contradiction of the Taoiseach’s Irish Mirror interview last night.
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https://gript.ie/confusion-reigns-varadkar-claims-says-martin-did-not-say-level-5-will-last-until-may/

#ZeroLeaks: Gript has been supplied with an extensive tranche of internal communications from the so-called "Zero Covid" campaign. In this first part, we reveal that their public confidence about their policy is not quite matched by private rhetoric

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https://gript.ie/uncertainty-and-doubt-behind-the-scenes-of-the-zero-covid-campaign/