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/

PODCAST: Gary and Michael are back this week to discuss violence against women, the stats, if self-defence classes work, and why you shouldn’t listen to the NGOs like the National Women’s Council when they say there’s nothing women can do to feel safer.

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An identity crisis rives the EU – an impasse between, on the one hand, the EU Commission and, on the other hand, Poland and Hungary.

PROF RAY KINSELLA writes

https://gript.ie/the-eu-is-blind-to-the-crisis-it-is-making-for-itself/

Rural Independent TD Michael Collins has said that farmers are on the cusp of losing farms due to financially crippling fertiliser costs, which are burying local farmers in debt, which the Cork TD says is “mainly to crazy green policies”.

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https://gript.ie/high-fertilizer-prices-crippling-farmers-and-driving-up-costs-of-food-says-collins/

Huge protests took place in the UK at the weekend against plans to make vaccines mandatory for NHS staff in England. Central London was ‘flooded’ with health workers who face being sacked for refusing to be jabbed.

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https://gript.ie/uk-sees-huge-protests-against-vaccine-mandates-for-nhs-staff/

LOOKBACK... We published this piece this time two years ago

"Farmers scapegoated for carbon emissions while multinational business gets a free pass"

Is rural Ireland the carbon scapegoat? Anger from farmers as tech giants given a 'free pass' huge data centres with massive carbon emissions while farmers are being 'crucified'

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mt1-3AkxmbI

For all the talk about Sinn Fein's very real polling surge, the party is in a surprisingly weak position - compared to other oppositions the world over - to form the next Government:
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https://gript.ie/sinn-feins-position-is-weaker-than-it-appears/