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/

A new study exploring the educational consequences of parental death and divorce has found that divorce is worse than parental death for children.

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https://gript.ie/study-divorce-more-harmful-to-childrens-educational-development-than-a-parents-death/

"One of my favorite things about being a dad is getting to introduce the books I read as a boy to my own children."

JONATHON VAN MAREN on how the children's classics can change your life.

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https://gript.ie/how-the-childrens-classics-can-change-your-life/

Celebrations are taking place to mark the 50th anniversary of RTÉ Raidió na Gaeltachta. Tá céiliúradh ar súil agus tá fáilte roimh cách!

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https://gript.ie/50-bliain-ag-fas-raidio-na-gaeltachta/

The World Health Organisation has endorsed abortion up to birth without limits, and said that children should not require parental consent before having an abortion.

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https://gript.ie/who-wants-unlimited-abortion-up-to-birth-on-request/

Ireland’s energy regulator has urged the government to invest in LNG infrastructure, arguing that the country has “insufficient safeguards” regarding energy security.
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https://gript.ie/energy-regulator-ireland-must-invest-in-lng-for-energy-security/

Leaked footage shows Disney officials admitting to using their shows, and theme parks, to push a political agenda. #gript

https://youtu.be/js9wK4Gw900

WATCH: Amid the ongoing energy crisis, after being told that the war in Ukraine “isn’t an excuse for everything,” Minister Eamon Ryan replied “But it is.”
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https://gript.ie/watch-ryan-says-ukraine-war-is-behind-energy-crisis/

Senator Sharon Keogan has hit out at the CSO for its advice about gender “non-binary” answers on the Census, saying the statistics body is afraid of being “cancelled.”


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https://gript.ie/keogan-cso-appeasing-gender-theorists-fear-being-cancelled/

The HSE has withdrawn hundreds of thousands of euros in annual funding from the Transgender Equality Network of Ireland, after the group failed to file annual accounts in time.

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https://gript.ie/hse-halts-trans-groups-funding-after-failure-to-file-accounts/

JOHN MCGUIRK: Costs up, Emissions up, Supply down. Across all three measurements - even the one that matters to the Greens - Irish energy and electricity policy had a disastrous 2021, as new figures show.
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https://gript.ie/complete-policy-failure-irish-energy-costs-and-emissions-up-in-2021/

As the costs of living crisis intensifies, it’s being reported that the Green party leader, Eamon Ryan, will suggest to the Cabinet that people need to take shorter showers, and cut down on car journeys to deal with rising energy costs.

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https://gript.ie/ryan-short-showers-and-less-car-journeys-to-deal-with-cost-of-living-crisis/