JOHN MCGUIRK: On Budget Day, we hear incessantly from Ireland's taxpayer funded lobby groups. It seems there is a taxpayer funded lobby group to represent every interest, all clamouring for more money. Every interest, that is, except the taxpayer

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https://gript.ie/why-is-there-a-taxpayer-funded-group-for-everyone-except-the-taxpayer

Budget 2022 has been described as “deeply anti-Rural” and a measure which “will do nothing to support the rural economy or the family farm”.

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https://gript.ie/farmers-deserted-in-flop-budget-rural-independents-say/

Mateusz Morawiecki, the Prime Minister of Poland, writes on the need for European countries to reject neoliberalism and build strong national economies capable of providing security for their citizens.

https://gript.ie/mateusz-morawiecki-a-strong-economy-is-important-for-security/

Danish toy company Lego has said it will remove ‘gender bias’ from its toys after commissioning a worldwide survey that found boys feared they would be “made fun of” if they played with products geared towards girls.

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https://gript.ie/so-ridiculous-lego-to-remove-gender-bias-from-its-toys-in-a-bid-to-make-brand-more-inclusive/

A majority of Stormont parties have voted to criminalise pro-life prayer and outreach outside abortion centres in Northern Ireland. The ‘Abortion Services (Safe Access Zones)’ was brought by former abortion ‘escort’ worker Claire Bailey MLA, and passed its second stage in the NI Assembly yesterday, 12 October.

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https://gript.ie/oppressive-and-discriminatory-ni-politicians-vote-to-criminalise-pro-life-outreaches-at-abortion-centres/

“The standard in politics today is pathetic”: Bassett on his run for the Seanad

“The standard in politics today is pathetic...I want to make a difference” - Ray Bassett on why he’s running for the Seanad.

https://youtu.be/BL6mdi42TjQ

ON THIS DAY: 13 OCTOBER 1889: Birth of Pádraig De Brún, priest, mathematician, poet, professor, Gaelic revivalist

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https://gript.ie/on-this-day-13-october-1889-birth-of-padraig-de-brun-priest-mathematician-poet-classical-scholar-professor-gaelic-revivalist/

MATT TREACY: SDLP Bill on period poverty never mentions women once

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https://gript.ie/sdlp-bill-on-period-poverty-never-mentions-women-once/

WATCH: Why London College is telling women to watch their fertility

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https://gript.ie/watch-why-london-college-is-telling-women-to-watch-their-fertility/

“EU solidarity is a total fiction”: Carol Nolan TD has accused the government of “selling out” Ireland to our “EU masters” by raising the country’s corporation tax rate, which she said was a disgrace to the leaders of 1916.

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https://gript.ie/td-government-sold-out-to-eu-masters-on-corporation-tax/

The easing of Covid-19 restrictions originally planned for October 22nd may be delayed, the government has hinted, after members of NPHET expressed concern over recent virus trends.

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https://gript.ie/easing-of-covid-restrictions-may-be-delayed-govt-hints/

MATT TREACY: Why are Ireland’s case numbers relatively high?

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https://gript.ie/why-are-irelands-case-numbers-relatively-high/

"Extending Vaccine Passes for Indoor Hospitality would be kick in the Teeth for Sector" - Tóibín

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https://gript.ie/extending-vaccine-passes-for-indoor-hospitality-would-be-kick-in-the-teeth-for-sector-toibin/

Independent TDs have described the government budget as “very anti-rural”, slamming the fact that fuel and heating costs “have gone through the roof.”

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https://gript.ie/td-govt-will-get-it-in-the-neck-from-rural-voters-next-election/

JOHN MCGUIRK: The case for Callum Robinson not being allowed to play for Ireland is as strong today as it was a week ago. But he is popular now, so the bullies who litter official Ireland have gone very quiet:
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https://gript.ie/callum-robinson-reveals-the-cowardice-of-official-ireland/

OPINION: Irish Government Healthcare spending has increased by over 20% in a decade, and remains some of the highest in Europe as a percentage of what Government spends. The problem is not a lack of money, it is what we spend the money on:
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https://gript.ie/money-is-not-the-issue-in-irish-healthcare/

Ryan says carbon taxes are good and progressive but polling shows even Green Party voters are opposed to the current Government's energy policies; and the SlainteCare contract looks like the best argument to privatize the health service an Irish government has ever made.

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https://gript.ie/podcasts/trsi-280-apparently-we-do-food-reviews-now/

LEONARD SAX: Boys are falling farther and farther behind their sisters: should we care?

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https://gript.ie/boys-are-falling-farther-and-farther-behind-their-sisters-should-we-care/

The government has raised the country’s 12.5% corporate tax rate after crumpling under foreign pressure, in what will go down as one of the most humiliating and shameful defeats in modern Irish history.
Ben Scallan reacts.

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https://youtu.be/RzTv8kfL_M0

The HSE is no longer working with the anti-disinformation company Kinzen. The partnership ended four days after Gript published a story showing that the HSE misinformation programme, which used data provided by Kinzen, had grossly overstepped its bounds. #gript

https://gript.ie/kinzen-no-longer-working-with-the-department-of-health/

Independent TD for Laois-Offaly Carol Nolan has said that the scale of the imminent threat facing the horticulture sector is a direct consequence of policy incoherence at the heart of government.

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https://gript.ie/the-only-thing-government-is-planting-is-p45s-carol-nolan/