"What can you get for US$313 billion? Fifty million Chinese children. So says Chinese economist Ren Zeping. Where will they get the money? Mr Ren answers that in his paper, “The solution to China’s low birth rates has been found”. "

LOUIS T MARCH writes

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https://gript.ie/will-printing-money-mean-more-people-in-the-peoples-republic/

COMMENT: "The cultish adherence to the public health message, the need to protect the Australian border – as reiterated by Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison upon the rejection of Djokovic’s appeal – carries the same inferences as many religious narratives, only under a secular, positivistic creed."

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https://gript.ie/novak-djokovics-anti-vaccination-stance-the-new-heresy-for-a-new-morality/

JOHN MCGUIRK: The remarkable story of how Green Party Minister Pippa Hackett recently replaced her special advisor, Caroline Murphy, with a new special advisor:
Ms Murphy's son.
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https://gript.ie/the-minister-the-advisor-and-the-advisors-son/

Last summer, the Irish (and world) media was full of the horrifying story that a mass grave containing 215 children had been found at a former residential home in Kamloops, Canada.
But as yet, not one body has been found at the site.
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https://gript.ie/fake-news-and-the-canadian-mass-grave-story/

The government is being accused of demolishing the site of the “final stand of the 1916 volunteers” as Dublin City Council give developers the go-ahead for a shopping mall in a long-controversial project.

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https://gript.ie/save-moore-street-protest-to-take-place-saturday/

The country has welcomed what some described as "overdue" lifting of Covid restrictions, with the government now expected to follow NPHET advice to end most measures including the use of vaccine certs.

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https://gript.ie/reaction-the-country-welcomes-overdue-of-covid-restrictions/

French President Emmanuel Macron was met with mixed boos and cheers after calling for abortion to be added to the European Charter of Human Rights.

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https://gript.ie/macron-wants-abortion-added-to-european-charter-of-human-rights/

A premature baby girl, born at just 22 weeks, has defied the odds, arriving home after four months in NICU, in what has been described as a “miracle”. Leilani was born before the 25-week cut off point for abortions in her home state of Virginia, and 2 weeks before the UK’s abortion limit of 24 weeks. Irish abortion provider the IFPA is currently pushing for an increase to Ireland’s time limit of 12 weeks.

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https://gript.ie/miracle-baby-girl-born-2-weeks-before-uk-abortion-limit-arrives-home/

Pro-abortion advocacy group Catholics for Choice last night projected campaign images supporting abortion onto the Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington DC ahead of today’s March for Life. “The attempted desecration is enormous. Diabolical,” said Francisco Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone.

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https://gript.ie/desecration-abortion-supporters-project-message-on-dc-basilica-during-march-for-life-vigil/

MÁIRÍN DE BARRA: Ireland has one of lowest murder rates in world for women

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https://gript.ie/ireland-has-one-of-lowest-murder-rates-in-world-for-women/

"An encounter between eight young volunteers from the 1st Battallion IRA and a large body of the Black and Tans took place at Tolka Bridge in Drumcondra on 21 January 1921 during the War of Independence."

ON THIS DAY: 21 January 1921: The Drumcondra Ambush

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https://gript.ie/on-this-day-21-january-1921-the-drumcondra-ambush-2/

The Government has tonight confirmed that almost all COVID restrictions in Ireland will lapse from 6am tomorrow. It means the long-awaited end to almost all restrictive measures, including the use of vaccine certs, social distancing, and an 8pm curfew for pubs and restaurants. The news had been welcomed as ‘wonderful’.

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https://gript.ie/finally-ireland-welcomes-end-of-almost-all-covid-restrictions-including-controversial-vaccine-pass/

ON THIS DAY: 22 January 1925: Birth of Raymond Crotty, Economist, writer, academic, political activist and farmer who advocated against Ireland’s membership of the EU

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https://gript.ie/on-this-day-22-january-1925-birth-of-raymond-crotty/

MATT TREACY: Who will pay the costs of the amnesty for undocumented migrants?

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https://gript.ie/who-will-pay-the-costs-of-the-amnesty-for-undocumented-migrants/

Kirk Durston speaks about sexual morality & what could be the impending collapse of western civilisation.

Canadian Kirk Durston is a biophysicist, philosopher, speaker, and writer. He speaks with Ben Scallan in this latest issue of Big Talk.

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https://youtu.be/vCLk0pSEukg

"The past two years have seen too much fear and loathing – and apprehension ramped up by the elites who just don’t share the concerns of the “little people”. And it looks as if the children will be the most badly affected."

THADE ANDY on why covid anxiety has caused crippling damage to children

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https://gript.ie/covid-anxiety-has-caused-crippling-damage-to-children/

Today, the Cork Fenian Society will host a commemoration to mark the 200th anniversary of Cath Chéim an Fhia (Battle of Keimaneigh), a battle between Irish tenant farmers – organized in secret mainly agrarian reform societies, known chiefly as The Whiteboys and The Rockites – against the British militia in 1822.

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https://gript.ie/otd-cath-ceim-an-fhia-1822-battle-of-keimaneigh/

JOHN MCGUIRK: The official history books will not record it, but those of us who lived through it now know - For much of the last two years, the most prominent voices in Ireland were people who got it disastrously wrong:
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https://gript.ie/let-irish-history-record-the-zero-coviders-were-disastrously-wrong/

JOHN MCGUIRK: The Richard O'Halloran case is a shameful failure of the state, but not the state alone. Do a search of Amnesty Ireland's site for "Ibrahim Halawa" and you will find endless results. Search for Richard O'Halloran, and you'll find nothing:
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https://gript.ie/irelands-shameful-abandonment-of-richard-ohalloran/

The decision of the University of Northampton to slap a trigger warning on George Orwell's classic novel, 1984, has been met with widespread derision.

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https://gript.ie/now-orwells-1984-gets-a-trigger-warning-in-british-university/

The Clinical Lead of The National Gender Service (NGS) located at St Columcille’s Hospital in Loughlinstown has called for the immediate provision of all major ‘gender affirming surgical options’ including chest surgery, mastectomy or breast removal and mammoplasty or breast enhancement, as well as genital surgery including reconstructive surgery of the genitals to form a vagina or phallus.

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https://gript.ie/national-gender-service-calls-for-affirming-surgical-breast-removal-facilities/