DAVID MULLINS: Government set to radically revise laws on mandatory minimum sentences
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Government set to radically revise laws on mandatory minimum sentences | Gript
The governments amendment will remove that mandatory minimum sentence
MATT TREACY: State’s own Covid watchdog shows outdoor activities safe
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State's own Covid watchdog shows outdoor activities safe | Gript
Official figures confirm common sense: Outdoor activity is safe
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The head of vaccines at the European Medicines Agency (EMA) has said there is a “clear” link between the AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccination and reports of blood clots in certain people who have received the jab.
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Regulator chief claims "clear" link between clots and AstraZeneca jab | Gript
Marco Cavaleri told Italian newspaper Il Messaggero that a brain blockage called CVST was occuring at a higher rate than expected in younger people who have been vaccinated.
An international LGBT NGO, which lists Labour LGBT as a member, signed a “Feminist Declaration” calling for the elimination of laws which limit the ability of children as young as 10 to consent to sex.
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Allow children as young as 10 to consent to sex - LGBT NGO - Gript
An organisation which lists Labour LGBT as a member called for the elimination of laws which limit the right of children as young as 10 to consent to sex.
Varadkar said a “digital green certificate vaccine pass” being developed by the Irish government will give “fully vaccinated” people “more freedoms”.
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Varadkar: Vaccinated will be given "green pass" for extra freedoms - Gript
“We are developing a digital green certificate vaccine pass, so you’ll be able to prove that you’re fully vaccinated,” he confirmed.
The job of restoring the six entrance gates (pictured) into Dublin's Phoenix Park has taken three years, and cost a staggering eight hundred thousand euros. John McGuirk has one question: How??
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Are Dublin’s new €800,000 gates the world’s most expensive? | Gript
Classy entrance.
"You’d have to wonder, too, how much nonsense like this is contributing to the atmosphere of fear and trepidation around the virus...
Very few scientists – at least, not any likely to get air time on RTE – seem interested in calming fears."
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Very few scientists – at least, not any likely to get air time on RTE – seem interested in calming fears."
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Absurd new Covid warning: Stay out of the “slipstream” of joggers | Gript
Danger.
DAVID MULLINS : Are politicians prepared to criminalise the religious orders to enable seizure of assets?
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The rhetoric from some members of the Oireachtas should seriously worry us, writes David Mullins
Ireland is the only EU member state which has failed to submit excess mortality figures from 2020 to the EU’s official statistic body, Eurostat.
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Ireland only EU country to not submit excess death figures from covid period - Gript
Ireland is the only EU member state which has failed to submit excess mortality figures from 2020 to the EU’s official statistic body, Eurostat. In place of any monthly data, the row for Ireland simply includes a series of colons, which stands for “not available”…
Independent media is an essential part of any free society, and is vital for keeping the political establishment in check. But how can journalists hold government politicians to account, when they’re all in bed together - sometimes literally?
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Independent media is an essential part of any free society, and is vital for keeping the political establishment in check. But how can journalists hold government politicians to account, when they’re all in bed together – sometimes literally? In a recent…
MATT TREACY: Covid-19 and the Lonesome Friends of Science
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Covid-19 and the Lonesome Friends of Science | Gript
Listening to Health Service Executive Paul Reid dismiss the report by the Health Protection Surveillance Centre regarding the infinitesimal risk of Covid 19 transmission through outdoor activities reminded me of John Prine’s paean to doom. Prine sang that…
Rising tide’ of child abuse content on social media, report finds
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The scale of the problem was highlighted in the sheer number of content flagged
The European Medical Agency (EMA) has confirmed today that blood clots can be a “very rare side effect” of the AstraZeneca vaccine against Covid-19.
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EMA: Blood clots can be "rare" side effect of AstraZ jab | Gript
The EMA found 169 blood clots known as CVST in the brain and a further 53 splanchnic vein thrombosis clots following 34 million vaccine doses, giving a rate of 1 clot per 150,000 doses.
A group of student nurses say that they are exploring legal action over the HSE's insistence that they must take the Covid 19 vaccine. They say that the HSE's own policy against "coerced consent" is being ignored in their case:
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Discontent.
Monaghan native John McGuirk defends his county: "Monaghan didn't do anything unsafe, or dangerous. They simply breached one of the world's worst, and most nonsensical, laws":
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Bad News: Ireland’s greatest sports team under Garda investigation | Gript
Ludicrous.
TIM JACKSON: The best hope of Irish unity campaigners could be that a generation intent on violence will be met with a generation determined to teach them a lesson in justice.
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Irish Unity campaign faces major obstacle in loyalist violence | Gript
The best hope of Irish unity campaigners could be that a generation intent on violence will be met with a generation determined to teach them a lesson in justice.
THADE ANDY: Black researcher under attack for finding white children underprivileged
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Black researcher under attack for finding white children underprivileged | Gript
There is nothing that infuriates social constructivists more than a member of a minority stepping out of their allotted lane to point out fallacies in the progressive narrative. So when Mercy Muroki co-authored a report for the UK government – one based…
DAVID MULLINS: Law Society blasts Ireland’s family law courts as "third world"
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Law Society blasts Ireland’s family law courts as "third world" | Gript
The chair of the Law Society’s Family and Child Law Committee, Helen Coughlan, has said that Ireland has been left with “third world infrastructure” in the family courts and that urgent investment is needed to prevent children and vulnerable people from paying…
MÁIRÍN DE BARRA: All about the money? When Assisted Suicide is seen as a way to cut the cost of healthcare.
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All about the money? When Assisted Suicide is seen as a way to cut the cost of healthcare. | Gript
Media reporting around the issue of Assisted Suicide tends to focus almost exclusively on personal stories – and often gives the misleading impression that helping a person to end their life is the only alternative to a painful death. As palliative care experts…
Donnelly said such freedoms could be part of a “vaccine bonus” arrangement that is being discussed by government officials, and claimed that the reduction in cases following the roll-out has been “nothing short of astonishing”.
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Donnelly: Fully vaccinated people might attend concerts soon | Gript
Minister Stephen Donnely has said he would support allowing fully vaccinated people to attend concerts in Ireland.