Kellie Harrington does Ireland and Portland Row proud!


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https://gript.ie/kellie-harrington-does-ireland-and-portland-row-proud/

David Quinn says that extreme caution is impractical when it comes to covid, and that a reasonable risk assessment is needed.

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https://youtu.be/4tqpcPjgJcE

The first dose of the mRNA covid vaccine will be offered to children in Ireland aged 12 to 15 starting this weekend, an HSE spokesperson has declared.

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https://gript.ie/mrna-vaccine-to-be-given-to-12-to-15-age-cohort-this-week/

As the Government takes a battering from liberal campaigners over the abandonment of "safe access zones", John McGuirk outlines why the idea was dead on arrival from day one:
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https://gript.ie/the-governments-surrender-on-safe-access-zones-was-always-inevitable/

Big tech overreach, or long overdue intervention? Apple have announced that they will remotely scan people's photos for images of Child Abuse, and report users to police if such images are on their apple device.
Big tech overreach, says John McGuirk:
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https://gript.ie/apple-were-going-to-scan-your-phone-for-child-porn/

"Operation Demetrius was a military and propaganda disaster for the British. Rather than ensuring that the Fenians were put back in their box, as had happened on all previous occasions since 1920 when there had been a threat to Unionist domination of the north east, internment led to mass insurgency."

ON THIS DAY: 9 August 1971 : MATT TREACY writes


https://gript.ie/on-this-day-9-august-1971-internment-begins-in-the-north-proves-disastrous-for-british-authorities/

DEBATE: TIM JACKSON: The inherently evil nature of child pornography, where images of children being raped, molested and tortured are routinely shared online among the most depraved, means individuals and corporations like Apple who can report it, should report it.

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https://gript.ie/right-privacy-child-pornography/

The priest is thought to have housed the Rwandan in his church up until the murder today.

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https://gript.ie/france-priest-murdered-arsonist/

MÁIRÍN DE BARRA: Does abortion review only want to hear from abortion supporters?

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https://gript.ie/does-abortion-review-only-want-to-hear-from-abortion-supporters/

New HSE figures show the number of new covid cases in vaccinated people rising: They are now 20% of all cases. This should not be a surprise, though, says John McGuirk:
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https://gript.ie/hse-figures-20-of-new-covid-cases-are-in-the-fully-vaccinated/

Minister Donnelly did a full 180 degree U-Turn yesterday, as the complete circus over "Safe Access Zones" continues. But the facts have not changed: The proposal remains just as unworkable as it was last week:
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https://gript.ie/donnelly-actually-im-still-committed-to-safe-access-zones/

Zero Covid supporter, Prof. Anthony Staines, has said that teachers and other professions should be forced to reveal their vaccination status.

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https://gript.ie/anthony-staines-teachers-should-have-to-reveal-vaccination-status/

The suspect, who police say frequented cannibalism forums online, was eventually apprehended by police when internet searches revealed that the men had met in person.

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https://gript.ie/german-teacher-sado-cannibalism/

The Anti Conversion Therapy Coalition (ACTC) has accused the Irish Times of defending torture after the paper published an article in which two psychotherapists and a GP expressed concerns about a Bill which the ACTC supports.

https://gript.ie/youth-ngo-says-irish-times-defends-torture-in-trans-row/

While a report on alleged planning corruption was completed 4 years ago now, the Department of Housing has said they have “no timeline” for when the report may be published.

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https://gript.ie/no-immediate-plans-to-publish-corruption-report-finished-4-years-ago/

Rural TDs have spoken out strongly yet again at An Taisce’s latest decision to appeal a Supreme Court decision granting planning permission for a cheese plant in Co. Kilkenny.

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https://gript.ie/ngo-opposes-rural-cheese-plant-again-citing-climate-concerns/

GRIPTOON: Hyacinth Zappone's candlelight supper. Reverend Martin not invited, as usual.

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https://gript.ie/hyacinth-zappones-candlelight-supper-reverend-martin-not-invited-as-usual/

“The best way I can help now is if I step aside,” Cuomo said this afternoon, announcing his resignation.

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https://gript.ie/watch-cuomo-resigns-sexual-harassment/

New figures show that Television ratings for the Tokyo Olympics collapsed - down 42% compared to the Rio games in 2016. Here's a quick run-through of some of the reasons why people might have switched off:
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https://gript.ie/collapse-olympics-tv-ratings-down-42-on-2016/

Governments might not be making vaccines mandatory, writes SIMON GRIFFIN, but we should all be concerned at how the Private Sector, globally, is increasingly doing just that

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https://gript.ie/how-vaccines-are-unleashing-a-new-era-of-private-sector-discrimination/

In 2007, the Green Party's Ciarán Cuffe said that Climate Change would bring droughts and potato blight to Ireland. Thirteen years on, the evidence - and the new IPCC report - completely contradicts him, writes John Hamill:
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https://gript.ie/irish-rainfall-and-the-changing-face-of-climate-change/