Alluding to a feminist kickback against her rejection, O’Connell claims “it will weigh heavy on the conscience of people in the constituency” that “women have borne the burden of the last year in terms of the pandemic”.

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https://gript.ie/kate-oconnell-election-fg/

One of the world's best known Science Journalists has published a detailed investigation into the origins of Covid-19, and concludes that the overwhelming evidence points to it having been developed in, and accidentally released from, a laboratory

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https://gript.ie/leading-us-expert-yeah-covid-was-developed-in-a-lab/

The Defence Forces have agreed to recall and re-print their annual review after the original edition included a "far right" slur against Gript Media

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https://gript.ie/defence-forces-recall-and-re-print-annual-review-after-far-right-slur/

Lisa Smith has won her legal battle to cross the border into Northern Ireland after challenging a ban handed down by the UK’s Home Office.

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https://gript.ie/isis-lisa-smith-northern-ireland/

376 Irish work permits issued to Indian workers in month that Covid pandemic spiked there

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https://gript.ie/376-irish-work-permits-issued-to-indian-workers-in-month-that-covid-pandemic-spiked-there/

A newly-discovered ant species in Ecuador has been given the gender-neutral suffix “-they” rather than a traditional Latin scientific suffix, and has been named after a gay activist and protégé of Andy Warhol, despite the ant not being non-binary and having only the normal genders of male and female.

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https://gript.ie/newly-discovered-ant-species-given-non-binary-name-after-gay-political-activist/

TRSI 227 - And then the locusts came

FF have some thoughts on housing policy; the Government has pumped millions into Irish media; April vaccine target missed by 160,000; and Mick Wallace says China is a normal country.

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https://gript.ie/podcasts/trsi-227-and-then-the-locusts-came/

⁣On the Streets of Dublin: People react to the late term abortion happening in Ireland


https://youtu.be/VPLUgrzKXeM

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ON THIS DAY: 8 May 1916: The last words of Éamonn Ceannt, 1916 leader 

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https://gript.ie/on-this-day-the-last-words-of-eamonn-ceannt-1916-leader/

RON STEIN: America Pursues Expensive Electricity While Much of the World Lives in Energy Poverty

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https://gript.ie/america-pursues-expensive-electricity-while-much-of-the-world-lives-in-energy-poverty/

Email reveals extent of enormous UN salaries – funded by your taxes

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https://gript.ie/email-reveals-extent-of-enormous-un-salaries-funded-by-your-taxes/

"What he sees is that Russia’s fertility rate, at 1.5, has collapsed. And Russia is not alone. America’s fertility rate is at 1.71. Both are well below the replacement level of 2.1. These figures do not bode well for the future of either country, as they are clear signs of an unfolding vanishing act — i.e., extinction."

LOUIS T MARCH on Russia and America’s shared crisis

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https://gript.ie/russia-and-americas-shared-crisis/

CULTÚR: Earlier this week we published this piece on the poem that according to an Oxford Don, is the greatest poem written on these islands in the 18th century. According to great Seán Ó Tuama, Caoineadh Airt Uí Laoghaire is the one of the greatest affirmations, in literature, of a woman’s love for a man.

ON THIS DAY: 4 MAY 1773 : Eibhlín Dubh Ní Chonaill wrote the beautiful lament for her murdered husband Airt Uí Laoghaire

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https://gript.ie/4-may-1773-eibhlin-dubh-ni-chonaill-lament-for-airt-ui-laoghaire/

The RSE controversy is about more than an argument between the Catholic hierarchy and the Government

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https://gript.ie/the-rse-controversy-is-about-more-than-an-argument-between-the-catholic-hierarchy-and-the-government/

BEN SCALLAN: One of the biggest myths in Ireland is that politics is a conflict between the leftwing parties, like Sinn Féin, and “rightwing conservative” parties, like FFG. In reality, Ireland has no political rightwing at all.

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https://gript.ie/alcohol-pricing-exposes-the-absurd-myth-of-conservative-ireland/

A Harvard epidemiologist has told Philip Nolan, President of NUI Maynooth and Chair of NPHET’s modelling group, that he does not “appear to know what you are talking about.” #gript

https://gript.ie/harvard-academic-says-comment-by-nphets-philip-nolan-sows-confusion/

The European Cancer Organisation estimates that 100 million cancer screenings were not performed during the outbreak and will lead to decreased survival rates for those whose cancer is found at a later stage than normal.

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https://gript.ie/cancer-epidemic-europe-covid/

Sturgeon told Boris Johnson that a second vote on Scottish independence is a matter of “when, not if” in the wake of her party’s election victory.

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https://gript.ie/sturgeon-boris-second-independence-vote/

THADE ANDY: Covid and more: A thinking society should not be engaged in fakery

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https://gript.ie/covid-and-more-a-thinking-society-should-not-be-engaged-in-fakery/

Taoiseach Micheál Martin has expressed support for lowering the age limit for the Johnson and Johnson covid-19 vaccine, to ensure that there are no excess vaccines left over after the rollout is done.

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https://gript.ie/government-may-lower-vaccine-age-limit-to-avoid-waste-some-excess-jabs-unavoidable/

Trinity study: people homeless in their 20s to 40s have physical mobility of 70 and 80 year olds

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https://gript.ie/trinity-study-people-homeless-in-their-20s-to-40s-have-physical-mobility-of-70-and-80-year-olds/