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/

JOHN MCGUIRK: "The good news is that the Taoiseach says lessons have been learned about the Tony Holohan fiasco. The bad news, as usual, is that they seem to be the wrong lessons."
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https://gript.ie/no-taoiseach-lessons-have-not-been-learned/

JOHN MCGUIRK: The French election results on Sunday are the natural reaction to an "inclusive" western political ideology that consciously excludes more people than it ever includes.
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https://gript.ie/a-vote-against-false-inclusivity/

Dozens of families are suing the HSE after their loved ones contracted Covid-19 and died in various healthcare settings.

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https://gript.ie/39-families-suing-the-hse-over-loved-ones-who-died-of-covid/

The Irish Blood Transfusion Service (IBTS) has corrected what is described as an “error” in its form for prospective blood donors, after a journalist asked them to clarify what was being asked.

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https://gript.ie/blood-transfusion-service-corrects-trangender-males-and-pregnancy-question/

With fuel prices already at all-time record highs, a Green Party Dublin Cllr. has said fuel prices are still “far too low" and that he would like to see costs go significantly higher. @Ben_Scallan reacts.

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https://gript.ie/amid-fuel-crisis-green-cllr-thinks-prices-are-still-far-too-low/

Foilsíodh plean cúig bliana le déanaí chun úsáid na Gàidhlig a mhéadú agus an teanga a chur chun cinn i nGlaschú.


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https://gript.ie/glaschu-le-bheith-ar-an-gcathair-is-gaelai-ar-domhan/

Several people have been shot on a Brooklyn subway platform during the Tuesday morning commuter rush.

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https://gript.ie/breaking-5-shot-in-brooklyn-train-station/

Number of STIs almost doubles since restrictions lifted

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https://gript.ie/number-of-stis-almost-doubles-since-restrictions-lifted/

Britain’s counter-terrorism initiative is failing and is in need of reform say terror experts. It comes as Islamic extremist Ali Harbi Ali was jailed for the murder of MP Sir David Amess, with the jury returning its verdict after only 18 minutes.

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https://gript.ie/britains-counter-terror-programme-in-need-of-overhaul-as-david-amess-murderer-found-guilty/

COMMENT: “Much of the media reporting is deliberately skirting the primary issue – that these late-term abortions may be illegal, and that these are undeniably viable babies who died in in the most cruel and appalling circumstances”.

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https://gript.ie/justice-for-the-five-media-silent-on-horror-discovery-of-5-late-term-aborted-babies-in-washington-dc/?fbclid=IwAR14WEGLTlU_c2Ndsb6uGmRxYLV6PCFIC4tU1-AYV_ONANkriBKdUIyhfUs