COLM MEANEY writes on Holy Week in the Philippines

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https://gript.ie/an-unusual-holy-week/

Russia threatens to deploy nukes if Sweden & Finland join NATO

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https://gript.ie/russia-threatens-to-deploy-nukes-if-sweden-finland-join-nato/

BEN SCALLAN: In an unlikely turn of events, Neale Richmond has proposed a policy which does not involve EU integration, and which may actually help to enforce law and order in our country.
#gript https://gript.ie/neale-richmond-is-right-about-increasing-assault-sentencing/

Independent TD for Laois Offaly Carol Nolan has said there needs to be absolute clarity on the status of the proposed ban on the sale, marketing, and distribution of sod turf.

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https://gript.ie/lanigans-ball-approach-to-turf-ban-is-turning-a-fiasco-into-a-farce-carol-nolan/

The solicitor of a 22-year-old man who has been charged with murdering two men in Sligo town earlier this week has told the Judge in the case that he was seeking an immediate psychiatric assessment.
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https://gript.ie/sligo-murder-suspects-solicitor-seeks-psychiatric-assessment/

COMMENT: "My generation is not voting for (let alone joining) FG not because we will need specific state pensions to pay our exorbitant rents until the day we die, or because of the violence plaguing the length and breath of our country, or the astronomical taxes that we have to pay for the privilege."

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https://gript.ie/why-lower-our-taxes-build-homes-fg-carbon-neutral/

JOHN MCGUIRK: "If the Irish media want to have a national conversation after each high profile murder about homophobia or misogyny, then it is fair and correct to ask whether we are, in fact, importing homophobia and misogyny via the immigration system"
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https://gript.ie/addressing-the-migrant-elephant-in-the-room/

As Joe Biden's Presidency remains beleaguered by rotten economic news and struggles overseas, his fellow Democrats are battening down hatches and preparing for a storm in this Autumn's midterm elections.
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https://gript.ie/biden-advisors-warn-biblical-disaster-coming-our-way-in-midterms/

Elon Musk has offered to buy 100% of Twitter outright to restore free speech on the platform - though one Saudi prince has already rejected his bid.

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https://gript.ie/saudi-prince-rejects-musks-offer-to-buy-twitter-outright/

ON THIS DAY: Joseph Mary Plunkett reflects on Good Friday

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https://gript.ie/on-this-day-good-friday-joseph-mary-plunkett-reflects-on-good-friday-2/

DAVID REYNOLDS: "It’s hard not to get the impression that Dr. Holohan’s secondment was based on little more than a desire to give Dr. Tony the golden handshake some thought he deserved."

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https://gript.ie/the-loreal-secondment/

Fauci: “You use lockdowns to get people vaccinated”

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https://gript.ie/fauci-you-use-lockdowns-to-get-people-vaccinated/

If Ireland had “hate speech” laws in place today, would Mary McAleese’s recent comments about Christianity meet the criteria? @Ben_Scallan investigates.

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https://gript.ie/would-mcaleese-be-guilty-of-hate-speech-for-church-remarks/

“So are the SDLP and Sinn Féin feeling heat because of the abortion issue? At my door, the SDLP canvasser produced a special leaflet from his folder when I raised the issue.”

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https://gript.ie/are-sinn-fein-and-the-sdlp-feeling-heat-on-the-abortion-issue/

Shocking allegations about Chinese organ donation have been made in a leading medical journal, the American Journal of Transplantation. An Australian researcher and an Israeli transplant surgeon claim that “physicians in the People’s Republic of China have participated in executions by organ removal”.

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https://gript.ie/report-chinese-doctors-executed-prisoners-for-their-organs/

A Social Democrats councillor has slammed Christians praying publicly on Good Friday, saying the display causes “hurt and distress” to LGBT individuals following the Sligo murders, and that it would “not be tolerated.”

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https://gript.ie/cllr-christians-praying-on-good-friday-causes-hurt-distress/

The World Health Organisation has expressed desire to sanction countries which break the rules of the global “Pandemic Treaty.”

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https://gript.ie/who-wants-to-sanction-countries-that-breach-pandemic-treaty/

A gender studies professor at University College Dublin has suggested the murders which took place in Sligo were rooted in a ‘never ending transphobia’ from people she described as Gender Criticals — usually women who believe sex is biological.

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https://gript.ie/anger-as-ucd-prof-says-sligo-murders-caused-by-feminists-who-believe-in-biology-over-trans-identity/?fbclid=IwAR2gsAbGm_ROtjJxpcLH-eLVICGYR0lj_vQ9H1vY9ciMRTBW8GzoqUYrJFw

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.

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https://gript.ie/beautiful-boy-with-down-syndrome-comforts-jesus-in-good-friday-procession/

POLL: Do you feel Ireland is less safe in recent times?

VOTE in our online poll and leave your comments

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https://gript.ie/poll-do-you-feel-ireland-is-less-safe-in-recent-times/

Cumann na mBan: remembering my mother, Marion Steenson

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https://gript.ie/cumann-na-mban-remembering-my-mother-marion-steenson-2/