CULTURE: The Shining City on the hill: Eniskilllen, Massachusetts, and Rome

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https://gript.ie/the-shining-city-on-the-hill-eniskilllen-massachusetts-and-rome/

MARGARET HICKEY: REVIEW: To Change the Church by Ross Douthat

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https://gript.ie/review-to-change-the-church-by-ross-douthat/

“The Brendan Option” podcast is his “loud-mouth” attempt to propose a way forward for the Catholic Church in Ireland, and to offer something a little more substantial in terms of learning than what one encounters in at least some of the schools, parishes and call-in shows of Ireland. #gript

https://gript.ie/podcasting-priest-irish-catholicism/

Ireland suspends AstraZeneca vaccine as Norway investigates blood clots

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https://gript.ie/ireland-suspends-astrazeneca-vaccine-as-norway-investigates-blood-clots/

Some Cork People have suggested that the Walrus be named Sam, because it is many years since one was seen in Kerry


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https://gript.ie/kerrys-new-tourist-attraction-a-walrus/

Former TD, and far-left activist, Ruth Coppinger, has proposed that the law be changed to allow for "essential" protests. What does she mean by "essential"? Here's a handy explanation #gript

https://gript.ie/ruth-coppinger-what-we-need-is-a-derogation-for-essential-protests

Even if you think Leo Varadkar is the victim of a bit of a witch hunt, as John McGuirk does, he's objectively in more trouble with the law than Dara Calleary was, or Barry Cowen was, or Phil Hogan was. So why, he asks, is Varadkar keeping his job, when they lost theirs?

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https://gript.ie/seriously-why-isnt-varadkar-resigning/

KILLIAN FOLEY-WALSH has had about enough of nerdy politicians playing the hard-man act on television over students in Limerick trying to live a normal life, and people in Dublin protesting for their jobs

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https://gript.ie/politicians-hard-man-act-over-lockdown-is-hard-to-take-seriously/

Seo Seachtain na Gaeilge agus táímid ag roinnt altanna as Gaeilge don seachtain libh. #GráimidanGaeilge

PÓL Ó MEADHRA ar Gleann Dá Loch

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https://gript.ie/gleann-da-loch/

Anthony Staines, one of the founders of the zero-covid group ISAG, has confirmed that he wrote a note to the other members of ISAG which said to “look for ways to increase insecurity, anxiety, and uncertainty."
https://gript.ie/isag-breaks-silence/

“I guess it typifies what is going on, this hugely cautious approach, but remember there are 30,000 people who won’t get the vaccine this week.

“These are high-risk vulnerable people so they better make their minds up on this one I think.”

https://gript.ie/luke-oneill-astrazeneca-vaccine/

“I have got clients that are post-chemotherapy, their hair is completely out of control and, for their mental health, after everything they have been through – with illness, lockdown, and not being able to see people and so on – they really, really want to have their hair cut."

https://gript.ie/hairdresser-opening-essential-cuts/

Seo Seachtain na Gaeilge agus táímid ag roinnt altanna as Gaeilge don seachtain libh. #GráimidanGaeilge


PÓL Ó MEADHRA ar Éamonn an Chnoic: Cérbh é?


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https://gript.ie/eamon-an-chnoic-cerbh-e/

TRSI 206 – And not a drop to drink


A rumour regarding Simon Coveney and the British vaccine surplus ; apologetics for the EU ruined by discovery of vaccine mountains; and how a 6% reduction in alcohol consumption becomes an “ocean of alcohol.”

https://gript.ie/podcasts/trsi-206-and-not-a-drop-to-drink/

MATT TREACY: Polish MEP to EU: “The Polish nation has rejected your ideas”

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https://gript.ie/polish-mep-to-eu-the-polish-nation-has-rejected-your-ideas/

CAROL NOLAN: We cannot let disadvantaged students fail by insisting on unrealistic earning limits

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https://gript.ie/carol-nolan-we-cannot-let-disadvantaged-students-fail-by-insisting-on-unrealistic-earning-limits/

PODCAST: Simon Coveney keeps making friends; ISAG founder confirms he shared material; the actual law behind lockdowns; and a leak from the European Medicines Agency.
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https://gript.ie/podcasts/trsi-207-coveneys-charm-offensive/

Two weeks ago, the Governor of Texas lifted all Covid restrictions, including the mandatory use of facemasks. So far, cases in the state have not exploded. In fact, they're falling:
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https://gript.ie/two-weeks-after-texas-ended-its-facemask-mandate-cases-are-falling/

Earlier this year, the Irish Examiner named Victims Alliance founder Linda Hayden one of the 100 women of the year for her work campaigning against "image based sexual abuse". But Hayden herself sent dick pics, unsolicited, to a victim, Gript can reveal

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https://gript.ie/linda-hayden-dick-pics/

Portugal’s top court rejects euthanasia bill: says “inviolability of life” threatened

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https://gript.ie/portugals-top-court-rejects-euthanasia-bill-says-inviolability-of-life-threatened/

“700 abortions not enough for Sinn Féin”: Aontú slam bid to ‘ramp up’ access

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https://gript.ie/700-abortions-not-enough-for-sinn-fein-aontu-slam-bid-to-ramp-up-access/