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/

Hungary’s general election result represents a huge victory for Viktor Orban’s Fidesz which won over 53% of the popular vote and will now hold a two thirds majority of seats.

DR MATT TREACY writes...

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https://gript.ie/hungarys-decisive-rebuff-to-the-liberal-left/

Kevin Myers says "everyone knows" the idea of pregnant males is "rubbish." #gript

https://youtu.be/B3sh88XouXE

German supermarket giant Aldi is set to raise its prices by 20-50% from today, with similar hikes expected for other chains like Lidl.

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https://gript.ie/german-aldi-set-to-raise-prices-by-up-to-50-from-today/

TRSI 312 - We are what we repeatedly do

Fine Gael are said to be trying to move to the economic right to bolster their polling numbers, but given their previous promises regarding the USC why would anyone trust them to tell the truth now?

https://gript.ie/podcasts/trsi-312-we-are-what-we-repeatedly-do/

Britain's Equality and Human Rights Commission has asked for a 'fresh start' after trans activists sought to have the EHRC's UN accreditation revoked. The EHRC was targeted by Stonewall after it was deemed to be 'anti-trans.'

https://gript.ie/rights-group-calls-for-fresh-start-after-being-targeted-by-trans-activists/

An Irish grandmother will not be able to see her five-month-old grandchild on her 80th birthday this week due to delays from the Irish passport office, her son has told Gript.

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https://gript.ie/irish-grandmother-wont-get-to-see-family-on-80th-birthday-due-to-passport-office-delay/

GRIPT EXCLUSIVE: A sex offender who was ordered to leave Ireland by the 27th of January is still in the country 2 months later, Gript can reveal.

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https://gript.ie/sex-offender-spotted-in-ireland-2-months-after-deportation/

An Independent TD for Laois Offaly says there is mounting anger among farmers, families and landowners who invested in Micro-generation solar panels in the expectation that they would be able to receive a payment for any residual or excess electricity they exported to the national grid, but who have found that the scheme is still not operational.

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https://gript.ie/nolan-farms-and-families-losing-out-as-micro-generation-support-scheme-still-not-operational/