After 20 years of American quagmire in Afghanistan, support for interventionism has rarely been lower in the west. But maybe quagmire is still much better than letting the Taliban win:
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Has Biden handed Afghanistan back to the Taliban? | Gript
Failure.
A former Garda detective has said that “stop & search” policies may be needed to deal with a surge of knife crime in Dublin, giving police the right to stop, question and search citizens at any time.
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https://gript.ie/ex-garda-stop-search-needed-to-deal-with-knife-crime/
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https://gript.ie/ex-garda-stop-search-needed-to-deal-with-knife-crime/
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Ex-Garda: “Stop & search” needed to deal with knife crime | Gript
It would give police the right to stop, question and search citizens at any time.
DAVID MULLINS: New Report: Ireland is a great place to be an immigrant, actually
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New Report: Ireland is a great place to be an immigrant, actually | Gript
We have to move beyond the insulting caricatures that exist on ‘both sides’ of the debate
'Ease restrictions; we have to live with Covid' says Prof Jack Lambert
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'Ease restrictions; we have to live with Covid' says Prof Jack Lambert | Gript
Collateral damage 'huge'
The two male complainants allege that they were attacked by the politician whilst in a car.
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https://gript.ie/dublin-politician-sexual-abuse/
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https://gript.ie/dublin-politician-sexual-abuse/
JONATHON VAN MAREN: Malcolm Muggeridge on Christ and the Media
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Giebler had told police she “never had any bother” from neighbours, but was fined £400 for singing and playing the UVF song, having pleaded “guilty” to behaving in a threatening manner.
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Scottish woman fined for singing UVF song at home | Gript
An inglorious 12th.
Inner City Helping Homeless (ICHH) have suspended a senior employee at the charity after “serious matters” came “to the attention of the board”. #gript
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Homeless charity suspends employee over "serious matters" | Gript
Garda investigation is ongoing.
ON THIS DAY: BIRTH OF Mícheál Ó Flannagáin on 13 August 1876: Priest, Gaelic Scholar, inventor and historian
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ON THIS DAY: BIRTH OF Mícheál Ó Flannagáin on 13 August 1876: Priest, Gaelic Scholar, inventor and historian | Gript
“We are bound to love our own people with a special and peculiar love, a love that is not founded upon the common characteristics of the human race, but which is founded upon the special and distinctive character of our own nationality.” – Father Mícheál…
Ireland’s national debt is exploding and our taxes are set to rise exponentially.
And yet the government still can’t stop burning taxpayer money. Ben Scallan reacts
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https://youtu.be/hercC8I0frg
And yet the government still can’t stop burning taxpayer money. Ben Scallan reacts
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https://youtu.be/hercC8I0frg
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10 times the Irish State wasted taxpayer money
Ireland’s national debt is exploding and our taxes are set to rise exponentially. And yet the government still can’t stop burning taxpayer money. Ben Scallan reacts
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PODCAST: Nature is healing in Libya and Afghanistan; rent caps are having exactly the impact the Government were warned they would have; and even the ERSI agrees that the Government’s carbon tax plans will hit the poorest.
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https://gript.ie/podcasts/trsi-260-a-very-aggressive-application-of-statistical-analysis/
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https://gript.ie/podcasts/trsi-260-a-very-aggressive-application-of-statistical-analysis/
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TRSI 260 - A very aggressive application of statistical analysis | Gript
Nature is healing in Libya and Afghanistan; rent caps are having exactly the impact the Government were warned they would have; and even the ERSI agrees that the Government’s carbon tax plans will hit the poorest. https://www.france24.com/en/africa/20210730…
MATT TREACY: The Department of Education’s strange arrangement with China
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https://gript.ie/the-department-of-educations-strange-arrangement-with-china/
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The Department of Education’s strange arrangement with China - Gript
The Memorandum allows for the selection of teachers from China to teach in Irish schools along with a “language advisor if required
New EU law “compels” government to purchase electric vehicles
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New EU law “compels” government to purchase electric vehicles | Gript
The Directive also establishes legally binding targets “that will become more stringent from 2026"
DAVID REYNOLDS: Neil Francis is the latest Irish journalist to put his foot in it, and lose his job. But the idea that he somehow a closet racist is nonsense:
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https://gript.ie/st-francis-lived-with-the-wolves-neil-francis-has-just-been-eaten-by-them/
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https://gript.ie/st-francis-lived-with-the-wolves-neil-francis-has-just-been-eaten-by-them/
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St. Francis lived with the wolves. Neil Francis has just been eaten by them | Gript
Neil Francis recently lost his job as a rugby columnist with the Irish Independent following comments he made about British and Irish Lions out-half Marcus Smith on a podcast in July. Francis described Smith as “a Harlequins out-half with a David Beckham…
In 2001, then-president of the US George Bush declared that “the Taliban regime is coming to an end.” Now, 20 years later, they control the entire country of Afghanistan.
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George Bush in 2001: “Taliban regime is coming to an end” | Gript
20 years later, they control the entire country of Afghanistan.
The pharma industry paid over €9 million in travel expenses, donations, and consultancy fees to Irish health care professionals and organizations in 2020.
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Pharma industry paid €9.5 million in fees and expenses to Irish doctors in 2020 - Gript
The figure includes nearly €1.5 million in consultancy fees.
TDs enjoy ink cartridges, pre-paid envelopes, new mobile phones, shredders, laptops, iPads, the full payment of staff wages and salaries, ‘entertainment’ and research costs.
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https://gript.ie/free-pens-tds-back-to-school-costs/
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Free pens for TD’s on €100k while back-to-school costs spiral | Gript
Annual cost of child attending secondary school is €1,500, on average.
What most don’t realize is that the disaster predictions of the IPCC report have been downgraded from “most likely future” in the 2013 IPCC report, to “low likelihood” in the recent one.
- Thade Andy
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https://gript.ie/ippc-report-climate-change/
- Thade Andy
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https://gript.ie/ippc-report-climate-change/
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No, the IPPC report didn't say we're done for - Gript
How can you be wrong this many times and still have credibility?
“We are seeing a country collapsing and I think you can only describe this as probably the most significant foreign policy catastrophe in the last 20 years, globally,” Coveney said.
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https://gript.ie/irish-kabul-coveney-condemns-us/
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23 Irish left in Kabul as Coveney slams foreign policy "catastrophe" | Gript
100-150 more Afghani refugees coming to Ireland.