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.
COLM MEANEY: With lockdown, We have unleashed an age of petty tyranny
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With lockdown, We have unleashed an age of petty tyranny | Gript
It’s really awe-inspiring how so many of Ireland’s most beautiful churches and religious houses were built so soon after the devastation of The Great Famine in the 1840s. St Mel’s in Longford was completed in 1856, St Patrick’s cathedral in Dublin underwent…
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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Terenure abuse survivor: We wouldn’t have got justice without… Gemma O’Doherty? - Gript
Regrets.
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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Taoiseach to Mirror: What we need now is…. more lockdown | Gript
Despair.
Vatican reverses ‘no jab, no job’ policy after widespread criticism
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Vatican reverses 'no jab, no job' policy after widespread criticism | Gript
After a chorus of criticism on social media.
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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REVEALED: Ireland imported millions of euros of peat in 2020 while sending 1m tonnes abroad | Gript
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. The figures, which came from the Department of the Taoiseach, revealed that…
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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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Confusion reigns: Varadkar claims says Martin did NOT say Level 5 will last until May | Gript
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. Tánaiste Leo Varadkar has claimed that Taoiseach Micheál Martin “did…
#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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Uncertainty and doubt: Behind the scenes of the Zero-Covid campaign | Gript
Internal WhatsApp and Signal messages seen by Gript show that prominent members of the increasingly influential “Zero Covid” campaign group – officially known as the Independent Scientific Advisory Group (ISAG) – privately believe that the group cannot stand…
Normally at this time of the year the roads around where I live would have children in their Erin’s Isle and Finglas Celtic tops carrying footballs and hurleys to and from training as the games begin again. Now it is as though all the children have disappeared. "
Dr Matt Treacy on why he agrees with All-star Aidan O'Rourke that the GAA should be taking a stand to open up children's sports. #gript
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Aidan O’Rourke is right: GAA’s compliance in closing children’s sports is a disgrace | Gript
He told the Irish Times he’s speaking out “because these kids needed a voice”
Bill Gates says we should only be eating ‘fake’ beef
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Bill Gates says we should only be eating 'fake' beef | Gript
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One of Crystal Palace’s top strikers, Wilfried Zaha, has said he won’t be taking the knee anymore, despite all Premier League players so far complying with the Black Lives Matter protest.
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Premier League striker won't 'take the knee' again | Gript
Wifried Zaha said taking the knee before matches was "degrading".
Does being a ‘cultural icon’ entitle you to a ‘paedophile pass’?
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Does being a ‘cultural icon’ entitle you to a ‘paedophile pass’? | Gript
Writing on the (belated) conviction of John McClean, the Terenure rugby coach, John McGuirk raised important questions around how and why McClean managed to avoid sanction or prosecution despite the basic facts of the matter being known to all and sundry…
TRSI 198 - An accidental discharge of policy
9 more weeks of lockdown; the unemployment rates hits numbers that don't even look real; and the wonderful revelation that there's nothing stopping you from privately buying vaccines.
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9 more weeks of lockdown; the unemployment rates hits numbers that don't even look real; and the wonderful revelation that there's nothing stopping you from privately buying vaccines.
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TRSI 198 - An accidental discharge of policy | Gript
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“It will be slow, we’ll be cautious, because we have to monitor the effect on the virus,” he said.
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"It will be slow, we’ll be cautious, because we have to monitor the effect on the virus," he said.