A professor at Shawnee State University in Ohio has won a substantial damages and legal fees payout after a three-year legal battle arising from his reluctance to use preferred pronouns when addressing a transgender student.

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https://gript.ie/professor-wins-400000-payout-after-refusing-to-use-transgender-pronouns/

A SDLP representative who complained that voters were 'never-ending' in quizzing her about support for abortion, and fumed that they needed to 'get a life' has now

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https://gript.ie/sdlp-candidate-telling-pro-life-voters-to-get-a-life-leads-to-apology/

A baby boy died after his mother, who requested an abortion, was given abortion pills after the hospital failed to realise she was 30 weeks pregnant, an inquest has heard.

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https://gript.ie/30-week-preborn-baby-killed-when-mother-given-abortion-pill-without-scan-from-hospital/

Mere days before the second round of French voting, the EU has accused Marine Le Pen of misusing funds over a decade ago. Le Pen says this is electoral “manipulation.” @Ben_Scallan comments.

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https://gript.ie/le-pen-says-eu-is-trying-to-manipulate-the-french-election/

Social Democrat TD for Cork South-West, Holly Cairns, has called for work to begin immediately on extending general election voting rights to all non-citizen residents.

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https://gript.ie/social-democrats-call-to-extend-general-election-voting-rights-to-all-non-citizen-residents/

JOHN MCGUIRK on the FF woman's conference row:
"The political parties barely compete with each other at all on issues that matter to the voters, but compete with the utmost intensity on the issues that matter to an elitist group of NGOs and lobby groups"
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https://gript.ie/latest-outrage-ff-womens-conference-has-wrong-kind-of-women/

"Irish motorways are incredibly safe - and there is something a little vindictive about the introduction of yet another plan to nab people for doing a few kilometres per hour above the speed limit while ignoring road safety on many more dangerous roads"
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https://gript.ie/is-it-time-for-a-rebellion-against-foolish-speeding-laws/

ON THIS DAY: 21 APRIL 1916: Roger Casement captured at Banna Strand

The story of Roger Casement’s landing and capture at Banna Strand in Kerry as he attempted to bring arms ashore for the 1916 Rising, is commemorated in the famed ballad Banna Strand.

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https://gript.ie/on-this-day-21-april-1916-roger-casement-captured-at-banna-strand-landing-rifles-for-1916-rising-2/

"Will the level of immigration to Ireland be accurately reflected in the Census?," asks MATT TREACY.

What does data say and how many people might be unaccounted?

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https://gript.ie/will-the-level-of-immigration-to-ireland-be-accurately-reflected-in-the-census/

An international team of scientists led by Trinity College Dublin tagged and released a record-breaking 2.8 m porbeagle shark, Lamna nasus, off the coast of Donegal last week.

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https://gript.ie/irish-scientists-tag-giant-porbeagle-shark-off-donegal-coast/

The government is now scrambling to source accommodation for Ukrainian refugees as more than half of the 24,000 pledges of accommodation made to the Red Cross by people living in Ireland have now failed to materialise.

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https://gript.ie/more-than-half-of-housing-pledges-for-ukrainian-refugees-dont-materialise/

The HSE has admitted that Ireland’s ‘DIY’ abortion pill system makes it harder to identify when women are being coerced or abused by their partners.

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https://gript.ie/hse-admits-diy-abortion-pill-system-makes-it-harder-to-spot-coercion-and-abuse/

Elon Musk: “Woke mind virus” making Netflix “unwatchable”

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https://gript.ie/elon-musk-woke-mind-virus-making-netflix-unwatchable/

The European Commission and IEA have warned that rationing of motor fuel and fuel for home-heating may soon be a reality across Europe.

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https://gript.ie/international-energy-agency-warns-energy-rationing-looming/

An investigation by Maryanne Demasi for the British Medical Journal has found that “America’s system for covid vaccine injury claims is costly, opaque, and yet to issue a single payout”.

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https://gript.ie/bmj-finds-us-covid-vaccine-injury-claims-system-costly-and-opaque/

A well-known West Belfast priest has won praise for a 'Vote Pro-Life' message delivered on Easter Monday, as the campaign heats up in the north ahead of the May 5th elections.

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https://gript.ie/well-known-west-belfast-priest-praised-for-vote-pro-life-message/

Half of all Ben Dunne gyms around Ireland - six in total - closed due to the impact of Covid restrictions.

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https://gript.ie/half-of-ben-dunne-gyms-closed-due-to-covid-restrictions/

DAVID REYNOLDS asks if its really victim blaming to tell cyclists to be safe on the roads.

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https://gript.ie/the-cycling-lobbys-war-on-motorists-is-misguided/

Libs of TikTok, a wildly popular Twitter account came under fire from the establishment media this week. But what did the account actually do?

MATT TREACY writes

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https://gript.ie/the-real-story-about-the-medias-assault-on-libs-of-tiktok/

JOHN MCGUIRK: Minister McEntee's announcement yesterday that she will ban stalking, and non-fatal strangling - two already illegal activities - amounts to using Dáil time for virtue signalling.
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https://gript.ie/minister-mcentees-legislated-virtue-signal/

Government must give now serious consideration to extending receipt of the Child Benefit payment (Children’s Allowance) to parents and guardians of full-time students in second level education who are over 18 years of age. That is according to the Independent TD for Laois Offaly Carol Nolan.

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https://gript.ie/extend-childrens-allowance-to-all-secondary-school-students-to-ease-cost-of-living-crisis-carol-nolan/