Internal documents show that members of the zero-covid group ISAG repeatedly mocked and insulted journalists, politicians, medical professionals, and academics who they felt were not supportive of zero-covid. #gript

https://gript.ie/frankly-id-prefer-to-sort-this-out-with-a-good-hurley-and-no-witnesses-zero-covid-group/

"Sinn Féin must stop playing politics with people's pain. Time to be honest about what can and cannot be achieved."

DAVID MULLINS writes on the birth cert debate currently going through the Dáil

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https://gript.ie/are-sinn-fein-toying-with-the-hopes-of-adopted-people-on-the-birth-cert-debate/

Dr MATT TREACY: Foreign work permits still being issued as Leo says Deliveroo is “essential”

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https://gript.ie/foreign-work-permits-still-being-issued-as-leo-says-deliveroo-is-essential/

“I knelt down…begging them not to shoot and torture the children, but to shoot me and kill me instead,” she said. #gript

https://gript.ie/nun-begs-police-stop-firing/

Whitty also warned that Covid-19, like the flu which sometimes causes 20,000 winter deaths in the UK, will likely be a seasonal virus most felt during autumn and winter each year.
https://gript.ie/uk-cmo-covid-surge-autumn/

"I’m hopeful that over the coming weeks we will start to be able to tell people what the bonus from vaccination is and what it means you can or can’t do,” Dr Glynn said. #gript

https://gript.ie/nphet-freedoms-vaccinated-people/

Mr. Paul Reid began his post in May 2019 on a salary of €229,194 per annum and is now in the second year of a five year contract.

https://gript.ie/salary-hse-boss-raised/

A motion to be debated at the TUI annual congress calls for the Union to support making the covid vaccination mandatory in schools. Even were it adopted by the Union and the Government, however, it would likely be unconstitutional:
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https://gript.ie/teachers-union-wonders-should-vaccines-be-mandatory-in-schools/

An FOI request has revealed that Irish hospitals in general operated well below capacity for most of last year as a result of lockdown. Most concerningly, however, the figures appear to show that activity fell dramatically in specialist cancer hospitals
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https://gript.ie/were-irish-hospitals-never-under-that-much-covid-pressure/

THE GOOD SHIP COVID

Cartoon by Brian Doyle

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The Taoiseach says that lockdown will have to be extended by two months because of a shortage of vaccines, and has claimed that "his hands are tied":

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https://gript.ie/my-hands-are-tied-says-martin-as-he-plans-to-extend-lockdown-again/

COMMENT: Is science or spite behind the Government’s refusal to allow public worship?

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https://gript.ie/is-science-or-spite-behind-the-governments-refusal-to-allow-public-worship/

JENNIFER MOONEY: The Little Stories of Coronavirus

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https://gript.ie/jennifer-mooney-the-little-stories-of-coronavirus/

Why is RTÉ partnered with climate change activists? | Gript

The State broadcaster is supposed to be impartial - so why is RTÉ partnered with a climate change activist group? Ben Scallan reacts.

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https://youtu.be/Gp1KqsAajqo

Boyd-Barrett’s claim that the Sisters of Charity are evicting elderly blind women is dangerous nonsense

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https://gript.ie/boyd-barretts-claim-that-the-sisters-of-charity-are-evicting-elderly-blind-women-is-dangerous-nonsense/

MARGARET HICKEY: Meghan, Harry and the power of victimhood

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https://gript.ie/meghan-harry-and-the-power-of-victimhood/

ON THIS DAY: 11 MARCH 1858 – Birth of Thomas Clarke, leader in the 1916 Rising

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https://gript.ie/on-this-day-11-march-1858-birth-of-thomas-clarke-leader-in-the-1916-rising-2/

TRSI 204 - Oh the places you'll go!

More on Moonshot's recent study of the far-right in Ireland, particularly the Irish Time's coverage of it; fact-checking the Journal; and Dr Seuss is out, but Mein Kampf is still in.

https://gript.ie/podcasts/trsi-204-oh-the-places-youll-go/

“{T}he strategy often appears to be to set the legal restrictions at a certain level, imply a higher level of restriction through misleading public pronouncements, and then allow legally ungrounded threats of prosecution to bring people in line with that higher level of restriction,” Professor Doyle said.

https://gript.ie/tcd-law-lecturer-illegal/

"We will be counting the catastrophic health and psychological harms, imposed on nearly every poor person on the face of the earth, for a generation,” the professor said.

https://gript.ie/stanford-lockdowns-public-health/

"When you look at the rest of the world, and then look back at Ireland, what you see is a country that is now a total outlier in terms of the length and severity of our restrictions. This fact never makes the RTE news, but that doesn’t make it untrue."

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https://gript.ie/bad-news-from-nphet-we-are-at-a-dangerous-point/