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/

A taxpayer-funded charity has told an Oireachtas committee that they are providing abortion services for illegal migrants, and requested further financial assistance from the HSE.

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https://gript.ie/tax-funded-charity-providing-abortions-for-illegal-migrants/

A meeting of Kerry County Council has heard serious concerns that families and other tenants are being evicted by landlords who think it will be more profitable to let properties to Ukrainian refugees.

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https://gript.ie/kerry-councillors-fear-tenants-being-evicted-to-make-way-for-ukrainian-refugees/

DAVID THUNDER on how Elon Musk might go about converting Twitter into a genuine free speech platform?

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https://gript.ie/how-might-elon-musk-go-about-converting-twitter-into-a-genuine-free-speech-platform/

Dr Marci Bowers, a 'pioneering' trans surgeon who has performed thousands of sex change surgeries, has said that children who begin to take puberty blockers prior to puberty will never develop normal, adult sexual function or be able to orgasm.

https://gript.ie/adolescents-who-change-sex-will-never-be-able-to-achieve-sexual-satisfaction-leading-surgeon/

LORCÁN MAC MATHÚNA on the common theme in the poems of Pearse and Hopkins. “It is the blight man was born for, It is Margaret you mourn for.” "This is the tragedy, and paradoxically, the beauty of life."

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https://gript.ie/the-wayfarer-and-margaret-pearse-and-hopkins-ponder-life-and-the-eternal/

JOHN MCGUIRK: "The rule appears to be that when the US Supreme Court issues a ruling that the Irish Times agrees with, it is a venerable institution. When it does not, it is a partisan institution undermining democracy."
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https://gript.ie/the-irish-times-very-weak-view-on-roe-v-wade/