With their cable car closed for maintenance, a Cork TD has told Gript that the residents of Dursey island are going to be isolated from the mainland.

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https://youtu.be/jVCV5qXUtH8

"Her photo of that message has attracted huge attention online with many applauding the brave mum for calling out politicians on the issue. "Do not rap on my door for a vote if you are one of the following MLA or parties who voted against making it illegal to have an abortion at 40 weeks if your child has a disability including Down Syndrome," she wrote."

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https://gript.ie/praise-for-mums-gate-poster-blasting-politicians-who-voted-for-disability-abortion/

BEN SCALLAN: As Sinn Féin calls to expel the Russian ambassador, it’s worth remembering that in 2018 they said expelling Russian diplomats showed “a flagrant disregard for Irish neutrality.”

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https://gript.ie/sinn-feins-confused-approach-to-irish-neutrality/

“I fear for other families that are opening their homes”: As Irish households begin to take in Ukrainian refugees, claims are emerging of alleged tension and disputes between hosts and guests.

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https://gript.ie/meeting-men-for-money-claims-of-tension-with-refugees-hosts/

Anxious electricity consumers had more bad news today as Electric Ireland announced it was increasing not just its unit prices but also its standing charges.


#gript

https://gript.ie/another-energy-hike-now-electric-ireland-up-25/

Ciarán Cuffe's call for a ban on cheap flights is consistent with the class war trend of modern Green politics, writes JOHN MCGUIRK: That the things we enjoy today must become the preserve of rich people only.

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https://gript.ie/cheap-flights-the-new-front-in-the-green-class-war/

Independent TD Carol Nolan has called on Taoiseach Micheál Martin to clarify if Government has conducted any assessment around the potential impact on adult and child disability respite services here following a commitment to provide services and disability specific accommodation to citizens fleeing war-torn Ukraine.

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https://gript.ie/nolan-what-is-possible-impact-of-ukrainian-crisis-on-disability-respite-services/

Hungary goes to the polls on Sunday, and it appears that the sitting Prime Minister Viktor Orbán will benefit from driving a strong message to the electorate about the war in Ukraine - that he'll keep his country out of it.

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https://gript.ie/orban-leads-the-field-after-vowing-to-keep-hungary-out-of-ukrainian-war/

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Admissions has announced that it will reinstate its requirement that applicants submit scores from an SAT or ACT exam – rejecting the claim that such tests negatively effect diversity.

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https://gript.ie/mit-brings-back-standardised-testing-requirement/

According to one member of the Seanad, Irish citizens are currently trapped in Canada over Justin Trudeau’s Covid rules.

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https://gript.ie/senator-irish-citizens-locked-up-in-canada-under-covid-rules/

The BBC has been accused of treating “woman” as a dirty word” after they published an article describing women as “people assigned female at birth.”

#gript

https://gript.ie/bbc-slammed-for-referring-to-woman-as-assigned-female-at-birth/

"We're the best boys in Europe": Mattie McGrath says Ireland's pig industry is being "abandoned."

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https://youtu.be/qDRovQWabXM

More than 15,000 Ukrainian refugees have arrived in Ireland to date, and emergency accommodation is reportedly soon set to be exhausted at the current rate of arrival.

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https://gript.ie/emergency-refugee-accommodation-soon-to-be-exhausted/

The Life Institute has said that the process by which the public can make submissions to the three-year abortion review seems designed to limit access to the public, especially in regard to minorities, those who were disadvantaged and those who were older.

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https://gript.ie/abortion-review-submission-process-seems-deliberately-difficult-says-life-institute/

The Helsinki District Court has cleared a Finnish Christian Democrat lawmaker of charges of hate speech for using quotes from the Bible to affirm her questioning of support for Finland’s Gay Pride week in 2019.

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https://gript.ie/finnish-christian-mp-wins-on-all-charges-in-major-free-speech-trial/

NIAMH UÍ BHRIAIN: Our housing policy is very messed up when the Minister plans to build 35,000 homes for refugees (on top of recent promises to give any asylum seekers, from anywhere in the world, own-door accommodation) while our own people are being forced to emigrate.

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https://gript.ie/35000-more-homes-now-needed-for-refugees-says-minister/

According to Eurostat, the EU imports almost 60% of its energy needs from abroad, and nearly a quarter of its energy from Russia alone, highlighting the bloc’s lack of energy independence.

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https://gript.ie/eurostat-eu-imports-over-half-of-its-energy-from-abroad/

The Government's newly announced sponsorship deal with Google - which includes naming rights to Leinster House and enhanced access to Ministers for the company - is understood to be due to run for at least six years. Read more:
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https://gript.ie/leinster-house-to-be-re-named-google-chromehouse-in-new-state-sponsorship-deal/

Sanity Check: Even though RTE's Claire Byrne was very annoyed with Micheál Martin yesterday, berating him for not re-introducing masks, the evidence from Scotland - which still has mandatory masking - suggests that the Taoiseach is right.
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https://gript.ie/sorry-claire-scotland-proves-that-micheal-martin-right-about-masks/

JOHN MCGUIRK: Once again, a reform package from this Government addresses the concerns of NGOs about "diversity", and not the concerns of the public, about cost, access to justice, and so on:
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https://gript.ie/the-very-silly-more-diverse-judges-plan/

A convicted sex offender was caught with a child he had previously sexually assaulted in a car just four days after getting a suspended sentence for abusing another child, a Dublin court has heard.

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https://gript.ie/serial-sex-offender-caught-with-child-in-car-days-after-receiving-suspended-sentence-for-abuse/