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/

Despite what you may have read in the media a new report doesn't actually show that non-white and foreign criminals in Ireland get longer prison sentences than Irish nationals. #gript

https://gript.ie/no-a-new-study-did-not-show-that-non-white-offenders-get-longer-prison-sentences/

All of the main non-unionist parties in Northern Ireland, bar Aontú, have failed to respond to questions from women’s rights campaigners regarding whether biological men dressed as women should be allowed to use changing rooms with teenage girls.

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https://gript.ie/ni-aontu-only-nationalist-party-to-oppose-men-sharing-changing-rooms-with-teen-girls/

Richard O'Donoghue TD: "Sinn Féin didn't turn up to the truck protest...the Rural Independents have been consistent [on carbon tax] since day 1."

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https://youtu.be/vbFxNSGwGPk

DAVID MULLINS: Sinn Féin Bill on ESB and gas disconnections is cynical nonsense

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https://gript.ie/sinn-fein-bill-on-esb-and-gas-disconnections-is-cynical-nonsense/

ON THIS DAY: 28 APRIL 1916: 15 civilians were killed in houses and business premises on North King Street by British soldiers.

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https://gript.ie/irelands-forgotten-massacre-north-king-street-1916-2/

JOHN MCGUIRK: "The reason the turf debate has become such a problem for Government is that it is demonstrating to ordinary people, who may not have noticed before, just how fanatical the political class in Ireland has become."
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https://gript.ie/senator-delivers-bad-news-you-cant-burn-turf-if-you-are-underwater/

JOHN MCGUIRK: My grandparents loved snooker, the sport that never changes, even as the world shifts around it.
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https://gript.ie/in-a-changing-world-thank-god-for-the-constancy-of-snooker/

A Fianna Fáil Senator says that media should not have to give equal time to both sides on issues like climate change - even during a referendum campaign. @Ben_Scallan reacts.

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https://gript.ie/ff-senator-media-shouldnt-give-equal-time-to-both-sides/

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Kerry TD, Michael Healy-Rae has told the Dáil that he believes Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael have 'lost Rural Ireland" because of their stance on carbon taxes and related issues.

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https://gript.ie/watch-ye-have-lost-rural-ireland-healy-rae-tells-fg-and-ff/

"That might appear obvious but you never hear any serious discussion of inward migration in this context from those who support both even greater immigration for work and asylum; and simultaneously propose that the existing and future demand for housing can be met."

Dr MATT TREACY writes

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https://gript.ie/central-bank-identifies-immigration-as-key-driver-in-housing-market/

WATCH: A clip has gone viral of US President Joe Biden struggling to complete a sentence and repeating himself, which some have dubbed “alarming.”

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https://gript.ie/alarming-clip-of-biden-struggling-to-finish-sentence-goes-viral/

"The carbon tax which will cost the average household €521 this year, climbing to €1,225 a year by 2030. It is even more crippling for family farms as the average farm will also pay over €600 through the tax this year, meaning a combined €1,120 hit to the family farm. This will climb to a staggering €3,000 by 2030 as a result of the vote last night.”

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https://gript.ie/selfish-collins-slams-tds-for-voting-for-painful-rising-carbon-tax/