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/

A UK Labour Party councillor who lost his seat in the recent local elections has said that the voters “let down” his party.

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https://gript.ie/uk-labour-councillor-who-lost-his-seat-the-voters-have-let-us-down/

A Fine Gael councillor's embarrassing call for more "wheelchair friendly" benches in Galway over the weekend only serves to reinforce the notion that the party simply can't relate to the struggles of others, writes John McGuirk:
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https://gript.ie/fg-councillor-we-need-more-of-these-wheelchair-friendly-park-benches/

The EU has not renewed its order for AstraZeneca covid-19 jabs, according to a bloc commissioner.

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https://gript.ie/the-eu-has-not-renewed-its-order-for-astrazeneca-vaccines/

"In Ireland, our public health experts are behaving with the arrogance and authoritarianism of Gods. Because that is how the media treats them" - John McGuirk, on Philip Nolan's embarrassing, and shameful, attack on Antigen testing

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https://gript.ie/philip-nolans-arrogance-reveals-the-true-face-of-nphet/

WATCH: Anger as ‘feral’ gangs trip woman under train, brawl in Malahide


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https://gript.ie/watch-anger-as-feral-gangs-trip-woman-under-train-brawl-in-malahide/

Anglican Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby, who insists his church is institutionally racist, has previously apologised for coming “from privilege and a place of power as a white person in this country.”

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https://gript.ie/church-england-monuments-slavery-colonialism/

The Irish government proposes minimum alcohol pricing - possibly their worst idea yet - while Sinn Féin cheer them on.

Ben Scallan reacts.

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https://youtu.be/JMwiXUvlyUA

Well-known Irish far-left activist Leah Doherty has been convicted and fined €300 total for two counts of assault after a 2019 “milkshaking” incident in which she attacked two men.

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https://gript.ie/far-left-activist-leah-doherty-convicted-and-fined-on-two-charges-of-assault/

ON THIS DAY: 10 MAY 1650: Battle of Macroom

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https://gript.ie/on-this-day-10-may-1650-battle-of-macroom/

MATT TREACY: Richard Behal rescued H-Block history from Sinn Féin's refuse bags

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https://gript.ie/richard-behal-rescued-h-block-history-from-sinn-feins-refuse-bags/