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MARY ELLEN SYNON: The differing ways that the Irish establishment treated Kevin Myers and Reada Cronin amounts to a case study in Irish double standards. It won't serve Mary Lou McDonald well if she ends up leading a Government

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https://gript.ie/kevin-myers-and-reada-cronin-a-case-study-in-double-standards/
Two Harley Street doctors have been suspended ‘after mistakenly removing the vagina of a transgender patient without consent’; in what is thought to be a legal first in Britain, the case involved a ‘man, who was transitioning from a woman’, who was left “distraught” after the irreversible gender reassignment procedure’; the anonymous patient ‘had agreed to a hysterectomy and metoidioplasty, which would have given him a penis, but refused a third procedure’ to remove ‘his’ womb

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https://gript.ie/trans-confusion-botched-operation-leaves-female-as-a-female/
Aquila Bioscience at NUIG has developed a technology, called Abwipe, which they say could prove a useful countermeasure to the Wuhan coronavirus, Corvid-19. The technology was originally designed in consultation with the European Defence Agency to protect military and emergency personnel from biological agents such as anthrax.

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https://gript.ie/an-emerging-irish-technology-may-be-key-to-containing-the-wuhan-coronavirus/
Hardly anybody has an incentive to form a Government. And at least two of the larger parties stand to gain from another election. John McGuirk writes that a second trip to the polls is starting to look like the most likely outcome:


https://gript.ie/a-second-election-is-starting-to-look-very-likely-indeed/
With the Labour Leadership contest underway, and the country slowly coming apart without a government, it’s time to bring back what is undoubtedly one of the greatest achievements of Irish politics – the Alan Kelly election rap.

In the upcoming election the starkest difference between Kelly and O’Riordain may be that O’Riordain has never produced an election rap, and may in fact have never produced an election song of any type.

https://gript.ie/the-alan-kelly-rap-is-the-anthem-for-unity-we-need-to-heal-the-country/