Douglas Murray's new book looks at the nonsense that prevails around us - and at the new religion of 'endlessly pulling apart' and tearing down Western values.

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https://gript.ie/the-war-on-the-west-how-to-prevail-in-the-age-of-unreason-by-douglas-murray/

"The problem arises when somebody at the end of the seminar perks up with the simplest of questions: What if you’re wrong?"

TOMÁS DE BURCA writes

https://gript.ie/what-if-youre-wrong/

The Australian state of New South Wales legalised euthanasia and assisted suicide last week. Members of the Upper House supported the Voluntary Assisted Dying Bill 2022 by a margin of 23 to 15.

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https://gript.ie/euthanasia-makes-clean-sweep-of-australian-states/

"Varadkar's line about Ireland and California having the same housing problems would be more convincing if it wasn't delivered at Davos, which seems to exist to ensure that Ireland and California adopt the same policies, and live with the same failures"
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https://gript.ie/varadkar-tells-world-economic-forum-theres-a-slowdown-coming/

"In the current climate it is perhaps unwise to write this piece" - JOHN MCGUIRK, who writes that ex RTE journalist Micheal O'Leighin, convicted this week of sexual assault, paid a very heavy price for a relatively minor infringement.
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https://gript.ie/michael-oleighin-and-the-perils-of-modern-dating/

As the shocking evidence from hacked files is made public, MATT TREACY asks: “Is turning a few bob in China or through China any more justifiable than when people were business partners and apologists for Stalin and Hitler?”

#gript

https://gript.ie/hacked-files-exposes-shoot-to-kill-policy-of-china-towards-uyghur-people/

Facial Recognition Technology Proposed to help Gardai track criminals and missing persons

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https://gript.ie/gardai-to-be-given-powers-to-use-facial-recognition-technology/

The Government has been warned that the influx of tens of thousands of refugees into towns and cities across Ireland poses a risk to social cohesion and integration, particularly among deprived communities.

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https://gript.ie/ukrainian-refugee-crisis-presents-threat-to-social-cohesion-cabinet-memo-warns/

Airbnb is shutting down its rentals in China, where the country’s “zero-Covid” policy has resulted in ongoing lockdowns. ‘Disastrous’ and ‘mishandled’ lockdowns have impacted on economic growth and have made travel to and from China problematic.

#gript

https://gript.ie/airbnb-to-quit-china-this-summer-as-zero-covid-lockdowns-destroy-tourism/

On the 4th anniversary of the removal of the 8th, the Life Institute has said there are now 21,000 reasons to Rethink Abortion.

“And 21,000 reasons to know we were right to Vote No," they said.

#gript

https://gript.ie/21000-reasons-to-rethink-abortion-event-marks-4-years-since-repeal-of-right-to-life/

Images have emerged online of the suspect in the mass-shooting which took place in Texas. The suspect, 18 year old Salvador Ramos, was shot dead by a Border Patrol agent who immediately responded when he became aware of the shooter’s presence.

#gript

https://gript.ie/texas-community-rocked-after-horrific-mass-shooting/?fbclid=IwAR2DfSUi6zTBFRk8KW11QaQhw9JtzGC9uHBInZGC07Dw0wNOV_0nX5VGST0&fs=e&s=cl

JOHN MCGUIRK: "Fine Gael TD Emer Higgins yesterday single-handedly dashed any hopes an aspiring writer might have of ever writing a convincing satirical comedy based on Irish politics. You can't satirise this"
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https://gript.ie/fg-td-passport-express-was-too-slow-so-i-got-them-to-change-the-name/

We look at the top 3 misleading claims of the campaign to repeal the 8th amendment.

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https://youtu.be/Ud29S08vQ7s

Independent TD for Cork South-West, Michael Collins, has slammed what he has described as “fanatical” Church bashing over the deal for the new national maternity hospital.

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https://gript.ie/td-nuns-reduced-to-the-role-of-villains-in-national-maternity-hospital-discussion/

Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt has signed a Bill into law that protects life from conception, in what has been described as the strongest piece of pro-life legislation in the US.

#gript

https://gript.ie/oklahoma-governor-signs-into-law-bill-protecting-life-from-conception/

Billionaire Bill Gates, who was a key figure in vaccine advocacy during the coronavirus crisis, has told the 2022 meeting of the World Economic Forum at Davos that the current COVID-19 vaccines "don't have much in the way of duration and they're not good at infection blocking."

#gript

https://gript.ie/watch-bill-gates-tells-davos-covid-19-vaccines-not-good-at-infection-blocking/

The sister and brother of George Nkencho, who was shot dead by armed gardai in Clonee in 2020, have lodged High Court personal injury actions believed to be related to the shootings.

#gript

https://gript.ie/george-nkenchos-siblings-lodge-personal-injury-actions-against-state-garda-commissioner-and-minister/

An analysis conducted by the Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI) has shown that 293,673 households received support via one of the Government’s three main rent support schemes in the year 2020.

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https://gript.ie/huge-number-of-renters-receiving-supplements/

An analysis conducted by the Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI) has shown that 293,673 households received support via one of the Government’s three main rent support schemes in the year 2020.

#gript

https://gript.ie/huge-number-of-renters-receiving-supplements/

A new study by the National Institutes of Health has found that those with a history of anxiety disorders are more likely to develop long COVID, and that long COVID resembles "mental health disorders such as depression and anxiety"


#gript

https://gript.ie/link-between-long-covid-and-history-of-anxiety-disorders-study/

Aontú leader Peadar Tóibín has called on the Tánaiste in the Dáil today to scrap or reduce The M50 toll.

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https://gript.ie/e1-2-billion-paid-in-m50-tolls-already-we-own-it-says-toibin/