There is mounting evidence - including the bizarre attempt to fine a Cavan Priest €500 even though he broke no law - that Gardai are directionless in the lockdown and that local members are being allowed make the law up themselves, writes John McGuirk:
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https://gript.ie/are-the-gardai-just-making-the-laws-up/

In the first of Gript's #MyLockdown series, "Tom", who owns a pub in the midlands, tells us how he's been left with less than €200 a week, no car, feels isolated, and watched a customer catch Covid, and die, after going to hospital for a broken hip

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https://gript.ie/mylockdown-i-feel-like-a-broken-man-to-be-honest/

Broadcaster slams RTÉ for publishing anti-lockdown protesters addresses after arrest

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https://gript.ie/broadcaster-slams-rte-for-publishing-anti-lockdown-protesters-addresses-after-arrest/

German politician dies in Irish hospital after falling ill on flight

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https://gript.ie/german-politician-dies-in-irish-hospital-after-falling-ill-on-flight/

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Covid-19: Ireland Should Not Rely On China; globalisation has made our economy vulnerable. Ireland's dependence on China for goods like PPE is another sign of how vulnerable we are when international markets fail.

TIM JACKSON says indigenous industries should be rebuilt where possible. #gript

https://youtu.be/cqGCzAN-mz4

MARGARET HICKEY: Josepha Madigan has her work cut out for her with linguistic crusade

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https://gript.ie/josepha-madigan-has-her-work-cut-out-for-her/

€352 MILLION CUT IN IRELAND’S SHARE OF EU RECOVERY FUND: Government failed again says Tóibín

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https://gript.ie/e352-million-cut-in-irelands-share-of-eu-recovery-fund-government-failed-again-says-toibin/

China has today issued sanctions against 10 EU citizens, including five MEPs. The move came shortly after the EU issued sanctions against CCP officials involved with human rights abuses in China's Xinjiang province.

https://gript.ie/china-issues-sanctions-against-five-members-of-the-european-parliament/

PHOTOS: Anti-lockdown Assembly Phoneix Park
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https://gript.ie/photos-anti-lockdown-assembly-phoneix-park/
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COMMENT: The HSE must also provide ethical Covid vaccines – and Bishops should lead the way in seeking them

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https://gript.ie/the-hse-must-also-provide-ethical-covid-vaccines-and-bishops-should-lead-the-way-in-seeking-them/

Breaking: Dolores Cahill resigns as Irish Freedom Party Chairwoman

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https://gript.ie/breaking-dolores-cahill-resigns-as-irish-freedom-party-chairwoman/

Children that do not comply will be refused entry onto the company’s buses by drivers operating a “strict policy of NO MASK NO TRAVEL.”

https://gript.ie/bus-schoolchildren-masks/

CULTURE: The most dangerous man in America

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https://gript.ie/culture-the-most-dangerous-man-in-america/

Lord Mayor of Dublin, Hazel Chu, has launched a long-shot bid to win a seat in the Seanad. She's unlikely to win - but is winning her real goal, or is this about getting a leg up in internal Green Party politics?

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https://gript.ie/good-news-beloved-mayor-of-dublin-to-seek-seat-in-seanad/

Cases of, and deaths from, Covid-19 continue to fall in the State of Texas three weeks after the Governor announced the complete removal of all lockdown measures, including mandatory facemasks, and two weeks after that order took effect:
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https://gript.ie/three-weeks-on-cases-still-falling-in-mask-free-texas/

Fianna Fáil TD Jim O'Callaghan has called for better regulations to prevent children accessing pornography online.

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https://gript.ie/ff-td-calls-for-regulation-to-stop-children-accessing-pornography/

BREAKING: A Judge has given the State two weeks to clarify whether there is, in fact, a ban on the saying of mass in public, after it was unable to confirm in court today - in response to Declan Ganley's lawyers - that such a ban actually exists.
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https://gript.ie/breaking-state-given-two-weeks-to-clarify-law-about-mass/

A survey of the participants at a recent anti-lockdown protest shows protestors are driven by a lack of trust in the ability of the Government to manage Covid, & a belief the Irish media isn't interested in holding government to account for its failures.

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https://gript.ie/polling-shows-anti-lockdown-protesters-not-far-right/

Fine Gael Seanad Leader Regine Doherty has bemoaned an alleged surge in online abuse of politicians, saying that “The discourse appears on a daily basis on all of our social media channels and it is now in our inboxes. It has to stop."

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https://gript.ie/regina-doherty-online-abuse-of-politicians-needs-to-stop/

Footage emerges of “vicious brawl” in Dublin, after teen hospitalised with knife wounds

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https://gript.ie/footage-emerges-of-vicious-brawl-in-dublin-after-teen-hospitalised-with-knife-wounds/

Dr MATT TREACY: Your 2004 vote in the citizenship referendum is being shafted by Cabinet

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https://gript.ie/your-2004-vote-in-the-citizenship-referendum-is-being-shafted-by-cabinet/