A Catholic nun has been praised for her bravery after disarming a knifeman who attacked a priest in a church in Nice, southern France, before Mass was due to take place.

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https://gript.ie/extraordinary-courage-nun-injured-while-grabbing-knife-from-man-attacking-priest-in-france/

“Is money for Just Transition funding used to import peat?" asks NOLAN

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https://gript.ie/is-money-for-just-transition-funding-used-to-import-peat-asks-nolan/

BEN SCALLAN: Official Ireland is extremely unhappy about Elon Musk’s vow to return free speech to Twitter, & is already calling for new laws to regulate speech. But in doing so, they accidentally prove an important point about free expression.

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https://gript.ie/official-ireland-accidentally-proves-an-important-free-speech-point/

BREAKING: According to Polish media, Russia has suspended all natural gas to the country, possibly in retaliation for Poland’s donation of tanks to Ukraine.

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https://gript.ie/russia-suspends-gas-to-poland-following-tank-donation/

Matt Treacy asks what the GAA’s priorities are as championships are shunted aside for Ed Sheeran.

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https://gript.ie/is-the-purpose-of-the-gaa-to-host-ed-sheeran-rather-than-our-games/

"There has been a strongly negative reaction online to proposals of spending "up to €3 billion" on housing refugees coming to Ireland, even as the country struggles with its own housing and homelessness crisis."

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https://gript.ie/what-about-our-own-angry-reaction-to-another-e3-billion-on-refugee-accommodation/

A group representing parents from across the country have expressed surprise and “some unease” at proposals suggesting that young primary school children be given talks about contraception.

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https://gript.ie/why-would-primary-school-kids-need-to-learn-about-contraception-parents-ask/

The EU's "warnings" to Elon Musk about free speech policies in Europe are largely empty, writes JOHN MCGUIRK.
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https://gript.ie/the-eus-empty-threats-to-musk/

WATCH: An Irish senator was interrupted and spoken while asking about the WHO Pandemic Treaty.

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https://gript.ie/senator-interrupted-for-asking-about-who-pandemic-treaty/

Replying to a question about serial sex offender Chico Makamda, Helen McEntee says the deportation of serious criminals “is a complex matter.”

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https://gript.ie/mcentee-deportation-of-sex-offenders-is-a-complex-matter/

The University of New Mexico will pay $365,000 to settle a lawsuit from the family members of a young woman killed by an abortion in 2017.

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https://gript.ie/university-to-pay-365000-after-23-year-old-student-killed-by-septic-abortion/

KILLIAN FOLEY-WALSH: Our neutrality isn’t perfect— nothing is — but there is little to be said for sending our young people to die in foreign wars

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https://gript.ie/their-country-doesnt-need-you/

POLL: Do you think Elon Musk buying twitter is a Good thing or a Bad think?

VOTE in our online poll and leave your comments below

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https://gript.ie/poll-do-you-think-elon-musk-buying-twitter-is/

It has been claimed that four European gas buyers have already paid for supplies in rubles, as demanded by President Vladimir Putin. It comes as Europe scrambles to respond to Russia’s move to begin cutting off gas supplies.

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https://gript.ie/four-european-gas-buyers-have-already-paid-for-russian-supplies-in-rubles/

Schedule of legislation listed by the government for coming months seems curiously short of practical solutions for problems the country faces.

MATT TREACY writes

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https://gript.ie/more-woke-stuff-seems-priority-in-new-legislation/

A conference on the problems facing Irish manufacturing and supply chains has had to change locations after the proposed venue was earmarked for Ukrainian refugees.

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https://gript.ie/supply-chain-conference-venue-moved-to-house-ukraine-refugees/

JOHN MCGUIRK: "If you think turf cutting is fine, or that only men have penises, or that Irish people should be housed first, or that free speech should be the law, or that medical decisions are private, then this Government is just not for you."
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https://gript.ie/a-government-that-keeps-making-enemies-of-its-own-people/

Read in Full: Fine Gael Councillor Karen Coakley's resignation speech, as she walks out of a party she says is full of "Bullying, intimidation, skulduggery, and destruction"

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https://gript.ie/fg-councillors-extraordinary-i-quit-speech/

Senator Sharon Keogan has resigned from the Oireachtas Committee on Children, saying she did not feel safe or protected any longer as a member of the committee.

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https://gript.ie/i-no-longer-feel-safe-sharon-keogan-resigns-from-oireachtas-committee/

A TD has cited a Cambridge University professor who claimed that Ireland going “carbon neutral” will cost the State €375 billion.

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https://gript.ie/td-ireland-going-carbon-neutral-could-cost-e375-billion/

"If you were a reluctant ‘Yes’ voter in 2018, you may be shocked that your vote is now being used to push abortion on demand right up to 6 months of pregnancy."

NIAMH UÍ BHRIAIN on the new push heard by the Health Committee - within 3 years of Repeal.

https://gript.ie/your-yes-vote-is-being-used-to-demand-abortion-to-6-months/