"Official figures from January show that large numbers of those claiming asylum in Ireland continue to come from countries without war."

MATT TREACY writes

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https://gript.ie/asylum-seekers-from-safe-countries-typically-dominate-irish-applications/

A family-run Monaghan business has been ordered to stop extracting peat by the courts - a move which the EPA has celebrated.

#gript

https://gript.ie/family-business-told-to-stop-extracting-peat-epa-celebrates/

According to a UK government report, babies and young children are experiencing “particularly worrying” developmental issues due to years of masking, struggling to speak and understand facial expressions.

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https://gript.ie/babies-development-stunted-due-to-adult-masking-report/

Radical environmentalist group Extinction Rebellion has been disrupting and blocking fuel depots in the UK this week - all during the ongoing energy crisis.

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https://gript.ie/climate-radicals-blockade-oil-depots-during-energy-crisis/

The Belfast Health Trust has apologised to MLAs, after it admitted boosting the number of alleged incidents at pro-life protests retrospectively from 11 to 41 over six months. Precious Life says the Trust manipulated the figures to push for the criminalisation of peaceful pro-life protest.

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https://gript.ie/belfast-health-hugely-inflated-alleged-incidents-at-pro-life-protests-apologises-for-misleading-mlas/

Food delivery companies in France have signed a pledge not to hire illegal immigrants after the French government raised the issue.

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https://gript.ie/french-uber-eats-deliveroo-vow-not-to-hire-illegal-migrants/

A German ethics council has sharply criticised the country’s media for its reporting on the Covid-19 pandemic, dubbing the coverage “one-sided.”

#gript

https://gript.ie/german-ethics-council-slams-media-over-covid-reporting/

TD: New EU green directive will be an “utter disaster” for farming

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https://gript.ie/td-new-eu-green-directive-will-be-an-utter-disaster-for-farming/

JOHN MCGUIRK: In Shanghai, China, the horrifying consequences of a zero covid policy taken to its logical conclusion are on full display.
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https://gript.ie/why-arent-we-talking-about-the-zero-covid-disaster-in-shanghai/

JOHN MCGUIRK: We'll never have a properly functioning democracy until people in the public sector can be sacked, by Ministers, for incompetence. It's the single biggest roadblock to change.
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https://gript.ie/the-holohan-mess-shows-it-is-time-to-make-civil-servants-sackable/

DR MATT TREACY: "The outcome of the French presidential election will ultimately come down to how many left-wing voters can stomach voting for Macron."

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https://gript.ie/french-election-still-in-play/

COMMENT: The story of human suffering is a complex history. It is heartbreaking to see the iterative cycle of history tear open unhealed wounds again. Yet from Patrick to Solzhenitsyn, we are shown another way.

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https://gript.ie/ukraine-the-prodigal-son-and-choosing-grace-or-the-wasteland/

As Professor Luke O’Neill ventures into discussing climate change, it’s worth asking how an immunologist who studies diseases for a living can be considered an authority on the weather. @Ben_Scallan comments.

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https://gript.ie/luke-oneill-climate-change-the-cult-of-science-worship/

A TD has told Gript that the energy and food crisis have been coming “for years” before the war in Ukraine, urging the resumption of peat harvesting and turf cutting. #gript

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BAMQGPe8XQ8

CRISIS: €1700 now average annual electric bill, Gas €1,400.

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https://gript.ie/crisis-e1700-now-average-annual-electric-bill-gas-e1400/

Irish patients wait almost four months longer for new cancer drugs than the average EU wait time, a new survey has revealed.

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https://gript.ie/ireland-among-the-slowest-eu-countries-for-providing-cancer-drugs/

Speaking on the trucker protest in Dublin today, Aontú Leader Peadar Tóibín has stated the third protest in months is a damning indictment of the government’s complete lack of leadership on the fuel crisis.

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https://gript.ie/toibin-says-government-awol-on-fuel-crisis-as-truckers-protest/

It’s been a tradition in Ireland for centuries, and many rural families rely on their own turf-cutting efforts to heat their homes, but now Minister Eamon Ryan looks set to outlaw the sale of turf to others.

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https://gript.ie/treating-turf-cutters-like-drug-dealers-anger-as-eamon-ryan-to-outlaw-sale-of-turf/

DAVID THUNDER asks What is Elon Musk's endgame with Twitter?

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https://gript.ie/what-is-elon-musks-endgame-with-twitter/

"Taoiseach Micheál Martin has advised that the carbon tax increase, which kicks in from May 1, will not be pulled back despite spiralling costs and pressure on the pocket of Joe Public."

DAVID REYNOLDS on how you are being taxed far more than you might imagine

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https://gript.ie/you-are-being-taxed-far-more-than-you-might-imagine/

The climate of the planet Neptune has been changing dramatically over the past few decades, to many scientists’ surprise.

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https://gript.ie/scientists-baffled-to-find-neptunes-climate-is-changing/