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/

Almost 1,500 children in Ireland are being referred to child protection services weekly, suspected of having suffered abuse or neglect. Aontú leader Peadar Tóibín, who received the figures via a PQ, said the numbers were ‘shocking’.

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https://gript.ie/shocking-nearly-1500-children-referred-to-child-protection-services-each-week-in-ireland/?fbclid=IwAR3PA52zxaZBD_sX9SRYo4UDHiYxJ3wZKO0SvDZJT-wtg8bc6zKBYUF6-2M

New statistics have revealed the ‘exorbitant’ cost of the average monthly rent in Dublin, which now reaches almost €2,000. There was a 9% increase in the average rent across Ireland last year, the highest surge since the fourth quarter of 2017.

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https://gript.ie/average-rent-now-almost-e2000-per-month-in-dublin/

British troops are preparing for one of their largest deployments in Europe since the Cold War, the Ministry of Defence has said, in a move that will “showcase the scale and significance of the British Army’s contribution to the defence of Europe.”

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https://gript.ie/britain-to-send-8000-troops-to-eastern-europe/

DANIEL COX: There’s a growing concern that young adults today are experiencing an epidemic of loneliness, social isolation, and disconnection.

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https://gript.ie/growing-up-lonely-generation-z/

The power of poetry has always been central to great Gaelic literature. LORCÁN MAC MATHÚNA looks at the three great ages where it flourished and then dimmed.

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https://gript.ie/the-three-ages-of-gaelic-literature/

"Maybe the NWCI’s next taxpayer funded project could be a toolkit for politicians – and for themselves – to respect diversity of opinion from women in politics. But I wouldn’t hold my breath. It’s way past time for this group of charlatans, who get huge amounts of cash to represent Irish women, to be defunded."

NIAMH UÍ BHRIAIN writes

https://gript.ie/is-abuse-of-women-in-politics-ok-if-its-sharon-keogan/

ON THIS DAY: 1 MAY 1916: Pádraig Mac Piarais writes to his mother

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https://gript.ie/on-this-day-1-may-1916-padraig-mac-piarais-writes-to-his-mother/

On 1st May 1980, 42 years ago today, Michael Webb, a businessman from Clonmel in County Tipperary, announced that he and his son had discovered what became known as the Derrynaflan Chalice on a small island of mineral soil in Littleton bog in Mid-February of that year while they were exploring the ancient monastic site of Derrynaflan with a metal detector.

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https://gript.ie/on-this-day-1-may-1980-derrynaflan-chalice-is-discovered-in-a-bog-on-1st-may-1980/