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/

"Yet again, Taylor emerged the Balboa-esque comeback victor from a boxing match so good and so enthralling that standing in one’s living room at 4am and cheering the television was the only rational response."
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https://gript.ie/katie-taylor-irelands-balboa/

JOHN MCGUIRK: The latest poll shows that a large chunk of the electorate fears Sinn Fein more than they are disappointed by the Government - this means the polls are stable, no matter what happens week to week. But is it good for democracy?
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https://gript.ie/latest-opinion-poll-is-irish-politics-stuck/

The Minister told the On The Record podcast on Newstalk that economic migrants were coming to Ireland from both the European Economic Area and outside that area and going straight to homeless facilities.

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https://gript.ie/housing-minister-housing-crisis-partly-driven-by-economic-migrants/

BREAKING: The Supreme Court of the United States has voted to overturn the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision which legalized abortion on demand, according to a leaked draft majority opinion written by Justice Samuel Alito.

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https://gript.ie/us-supreme-court-votes-to-overturn-roe-v-wade-leaked-draft-opinion-reveals/

In his homily on Sunday, the County Antrim priest addressed Sinn Féin and other parties, stating: “You don’t get to tell me that you care about people on one hand and tell me that you want to make it legal to abort unborn children on the other.”

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https://gript.ie/they-think-babies-with-down-syndrome-are-dispensable-priest-applauded-for-passionate-criticism-of-sinn-fein/

JOHN MCGUIRK: "That immigration impacts the level of demand for housing is not a controversial statement. It is, after all, just maths."

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https://gript.ie/darragh-obrien-and-irelands-immigration-blind-spot/

Russian state media shows graphic of Ireland destroyed by nukes

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https://gript.ie/russian-state-media-shows-graphic-of-ireland-destroyed-by-nukes/

The ICCL has lodged a complaint accusing GeoDirectory, a company owned by An Post and Ordnance Survey Ireland, of selling personal information to private companies.

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https://gript.ie/iccl-report-backs-census-scepticism-among-online-groups-branded-conspiracy-theorists/

TRSI 315 - Constant vigilance

Some days the media just picks a person and decides that person is either a hero or a villain, and how do you trust a media willing to consistently misrepresent certain issues and people?

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https://gript.ie/podcasts/trsi-315-constant-vigilance/

25% increase in acute cardiac emergency calls associated with Covid vaccine roll-out, study finds

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https://gript.ie/25-increase-in-acute-cardiac-emergency-calls-associated-with-covid-vaccine-roll-out-study-finds/

Five year olds being sent by HSE for controversial transgender treatment

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https://gript.ie/five-year-olds-being-sent-by-hse-for-transgender-treatment/

ON THIS DAY: 3 May 1916: Thomas MacDonagh, Leader in the 1916 Rising, was executed

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https://gript.ie/on-this-day-3-may-1916-thomas-macdonagh-leader-in-the-1916-rising-was-executed-2/

Gript talks to two people who have been waiting for social housing for over ten years: “I have a disability; I am living in pain. Because of this never-ending situation trying to be housed, I want to cry. I’m always stressed.”

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https://gript.ie/im-always-stressed-i-want-to-cry-over-govts-lies-and-broken-promises-those-on-housing-waiting-lists-in-ireland-speak-out/

"The extent to which Irish left liberalism is an adjunct – both ideologically and indeed to a large degree financially – of the Anglo liberal sphere is sharply illustrated by the reaction to the leaked United States Supreme Court judgement on the 1973 Roe v Wade decision that legalised abortion on demand"

MATT TREACY writes...

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https://gript.ie/reaction-of-irish-establishment-to-likely-roe-v-wade-overturn-is-telling/