Revealed: The silent suffering of North Korea’s persecuted Christians

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https://gript.ie/revealed-silent-suffering-north-koreas-persecuted-christians/

ON THIS DAY: 13TH FEBRUARY 1847: A writer from the Illustrated London News describes what he sees in Clonakilty

"“I started from Cork, by the mail (says our informant), for Skibbereen and saw little until we came to Clonakilty, where the coach stopped for breakfast; and here, for the first time, the horrors of the poverty became visible, in the vast number of famished poor, who flocked around the coach to beg alms: amongst them was a woman carrying in her arms the corpse of a fine child, and making the most distressing appeal to the passengers for aid to enable her to purchase a coffin and bury her dear little baby. This horrible spectacle induced me to make some inquiry about her, when I learned from the people of the hotel that each day brings dozens of such applicants into the town."

They included this illustration (below) of the woman and her child and more harrowing details of the starving people they met. While massive amount of food and resources left our shores from our ports.

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When Sinn Fein TDs met for their post election strategy meeting this morning, it was not Mary-Lou McDonald who led them inside. It was somebody who the Irish electorate didn't cast a single vote for last Saturday

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https://gript.ie/gerry-adams-sinn-fein-meeting/

Mattie McGrath TD of the Rural Independent group has said that a "national government" should be formed as a result of the election results, comprising all parties. But could that idea actually work? Probably not

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https://gript.ie/mattie-mcgrath-national-government/

Rapid surge in Coronavirus carriers as China reports 15,000 new cases overnight

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https://gript.ie/rapid-surge-coronavirus-carriers-china-reports-15000-overnight/

Only the right kind of woman gets support from the feminist quangos

NIAMH UÍ BHRIAIN writes

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https://gript.ie/only-the-right-kind-of-woman-gets-support-from-the-feminist-quangos/

Megan Youngren will become the first transgender athlete to compete at the US Olympic marathon trials on February 29th, after qualifying for the trials at the California International Marathon in December.

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https://gript.ie/making-history-male-runner-compete-womens-olympic-trials/

In Ireland we like to name our Governments. We had the rainbow government. This week we were going to get the "left coalition". But the media and the establishment have come up with an entirely different coalition:

The suicide pact.

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https://gript.ie/suicide-pact-coaliton/

"The demographic news from Italy remains bad. It has in fact got worse; so bad that the President, Sergio Mattarella, has recently described it as a “problem that concerns the existence of our country”. When the head of state of your country comes out and says that the lack of babies in your country is an existential threat, then perhaps you should worry… "

MARCUS ROBERTS on the Italian demographic crisis

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https://gript.ie/italys-existential-crisis/

In the wake of reports of the rapid spread of novel coronavirus in Wuhan, China, the US Center for Disease Control (CDC) has said it is in “aggressive containment mode”, and fear the illness isn’t going away any time soon.

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https://gript.ie/cdc-director-coronavirus-is-probably-with-us-beyond-this-year/

Lord of the Rings star claims Christianity has “made the world a better place”

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https://gript.ie/lord-of-rings-star-claims-christianity-made-world-better-place/

Judge compares UK police to Gestapo for investigating “transphobic” tweets

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https://gript.ie/judge-uk-police-gestapo-transphobic-comments/

REVIEW: Why an Old Dub Fenian thought Arthur Griffith was a hero. MATT TREACY reviews Colum Kenny’s The Enigma of Arthur Griffith

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https://gript.ie/why-an-old-dub-fenian-thought-arthur-griffith-was-a-hero-matt-treacy-reviews-colum-kennys-the-enigma-of-arthur-griffith/

"Caroline Flack has died. She is the latest victim of a culture that has become relentlessly, and viciously cruel"

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https://gript.ie/caroline-flack-pecked-to-death-by-fellow-humans/

THIS WEEK: UK: Dad facing jail for removing son from school teaching LGBT lessons

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https://gript.ie/dad-facing-jail-son-removing-school-teaching-lgbt-lessons/

THIS WEEK: CDC Director: “Coronavirus is probably with us beyond this year”

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https://gript.ie/cdc-director-coronavirus-is-probably-with-us-beyond-this-year/

How a new organisation is helping to stop elder abuse in Kenya

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https://gript.ie/karika-empowering-grandparents-in-an-african-megacity/

THIS WEEK: Jane Fonda: My expensive jewellrey at the Oscars is “sustainable”, you know

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https://gript.ie/jane-fonda-diamonds/

It will be interesting to see if any new government keeps up with the mandatory screen tax that was being proposed by the last government

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https://youtu.be/7Uxghn6z9SQ

HEATHER ALBERRO writes that we should be wary of blaming 'overpopulation' for the climate crisis

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https://gript.ie/why-we-should-be-wary-of-blaming-overpopulation-for-the-climate-crisis/

Ireland has politicians who want to avoid Government at all costs and voters who seem to hate everybody to roughly a similar extent. The one thing we love is the electoral system, but what if it's actually the system itself that's to blame?

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https://gript.ie/ireland-the-country-nobody-wants-to-run/