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.

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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.

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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.

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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."

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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.

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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.

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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"


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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/

PÓL Ó MEADHRA: Ceist an Achta Gaeilge Ó Thuaidh

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https://gript.ie/ceist-an-achta-gaeilge-o-thuaidh/

Many of Ireland’s 270 pig farmers could face financial ruin within weeks, farmers have warned, as the cost of production soars.

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https://gript.ie/irish-pig-farmers-warn-that-sector-is-on-verge-of-total-collapse/

JOHN MCGUIRK: “It seems to me that focusing on guns alone – legitimate though much of that focus is – ignores the broader point which is that the US seems to be producing angry and alienated and murderous young men at a greater rate than other countries.”

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https://gript.ie/what-if-lecturing-americans-about-guns-doesnt-work/

“We either tolerate this kind of behaviour in Ireland, or we do not,” writes JOHN MCGUIRK in a recap of three violent attacks this week.

“This week has made clear that we very much do tolerate it. And because we are tolerating it, we are seeing more of it.”

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https://gript.ie/another-day-another-attack-of-the-gurriers-video/

Ousted Prime Minister Imran Kahn leads thousands strong convoy to capital Islamabad and gives government 6 day ultimatum

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https://gript.ie/pakistans-political-crisis/

"Of course, it does not help matters if those who are being attacked seem to lack the will or the capacity to defend themselves. Almost in the hope that if they continue to hand over their pocket money that the bullies will leave them alone. They will not. Not until they have broken you."

MATT TREACY writes

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https://gript.ie/the-canadian-mass-graves-and-the-search-for-truth/

Coroner Maria Dougan has said that the tragic death of Orlaith Quinn was “foreseeable and preventable”

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https://gript.ie/inquest-says-tragic-death-of-orlaith-quinn-was-preventable/

CNN poll: 86% of Americans ‘concerned’ or ‘scared’ for future of the U.S. under Joe Biden.

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https://gript.ie/cnn-poll-most-americans-concerned-or-scared-for-future-under-biden/

A mother who ended up jumping a fence and running inside the school building to save her children, says the police at first handcuffed her when she arrived on the scene at Robb Elementary school in Uvalde.

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https://gript.ie/cops-handcuffed-a-mother-in-uvalde-shooting-but-she-got-into-school-to-save-her-kids/