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.”

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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/

Russia has been hitting back at sanctions imposed by the West after the invasion of Ukraine by demanding that payments for oil, gas and perhaps other essentials are made in roubles.

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https://gript.ie/russia-offering-alternative-to-india-for-rouble-payments-bypassing-swift/

Pro-life group Precious Life has announced it will launch a legal challenge to the “safe access zones” legislation passed at Stormont on Thursday 24 March. The legislation makes it a criminal offence to hold vigils outside abortion centres.

#gript https://gript.ie/pro-life-group-in-legal-challenge-to-ni-abortion-exclusion-zones-law/

Facebook and Twitter have been accused of “irresponsible conduct” for moving to bury references to the Hunter Biden laptop scandal during the election – and an investigation seems likely, if Republicans regain control of the House in November

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https://gript.ie/hunter-bidens-laptop-facebook-and-twitter-may-be-targeted-for-role-in-suppression-of-story/

The Minister for Children; Equality; Disability; Integration and Youth, Roderick O’Gorman has confirmed that the costs in relation to transporting asylum applicants to reception centres, accommodation centres and emergency accommodation located throughout the State from 2011 to 2021 currently stands at €2.4 million.

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https://gript.ie/revealed-state-has-paid-millions-on-taxis-and-private-transport-for-asylum-applicants/

COMMENT: Labour Women on Twitter has been locked after the account began ranting about allowing transgender athletes in female sport, blocking female critics and accusing them of “bigotry.”

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https://gript.ie/labour-women-twitter-account-locked-after-trans-row/

A number of sports clubs and businesses who currently occupy a Leisure Centre attached to The Coral Gym in Arklow were given less than 24 hours’ notice to remove themselves from the Centre after it was designated as an accommodation site for incoming Ukrainian refugees by Wicklow County Council.

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https://gript.ie/arklow-leisure-centre-given-less-than-24-hours-notice-to-vacate-to-make-way-for-ukrainian-refugees/

"When William Sydney Clements, the 3rd Earl of Leitrim inherited a vast estate from his father in 1854 he became a controlling landlord and bullying tyrant."

ON THIS DAY: 2 APRIL 1878: LORD LEITRIM MURDERED ON THE WAY TO MILFORD

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https://gript.ie/on-this-day-2-april-1878-lord-leitrim-murdered-on-the-way-to-milford-2/