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Cassie Jaye, now 33, was a struggling actress in Hollywood in her late teens and early twenties. Her story sheds light on the Weinstein debacle. She describes how young beautiful actresses have contracts with publicists and now the publicists find them entry-level work with the rich and powerful of Los Angeles.

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https://gript.ie/another-actress-another-point-of-view-on-harvey-weinstein/
Finnish parlimentarian Päivi Räsänen, who is being investigated by police for posting a Bible quote in a tweet criticising a church’s sponsorship of an LGBT Pride event, is today facing another round of questioning by officers as they build their case against the Lutheran politician.

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https://gript.ie/politician-investigated-police-questioning-lgbt-event/
Trying to own your own home, but it seems more and more out of your reach? BEN SCALLAN looks at issues on the demand on homes and on the taxes and levies that make the price of a new house more expensive #gript

https://youtu.be/xAnwFIoIlys
ON THIS DAY: 3RD MARCH 1831: First Clash of the Tithe War in Kilkenny

People were obliged by law to pay Tithes for the upkeep of the Church of Ireland, which was the official state sanctioned Church. What was ‘owed’ could be taken in the form of money, land, rent, produce or livestock. Struggling farmers did not want to be forced to pay for the upkeep of a religion that was not theirs. They also felt obliged to pay for the upkeep of the clergy of their own religion. So began the Tithe Wars with organized resistance to the payment of tithes. The government responded by compiling lists of defaulters and issuing collection orders for the seizure of goods and chattels (mostly livestock).

The first clash of the war took place on 3rd March 1831 in Graiguenamanagh, County Kilkenny, when a force of 120 yeomanry tried to enforce seizure orders on cattle belonging to a Roman Catholic priest. Encouraged by his bishop, he had organised people to resist tithe collection by placing their stock under his ownership prior
The media has, by and large, been playing down the scale of the crisis in Greece - but with 3.7m migrants in Turkey, many headed for the EU's border, the situation could get out of control quickly. Is it time for the EU to consider radical solutions?

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https://gript.ie/migrant-crisis-greece/
NEW: Despite restricting Irish citizens from attending a citizenship ceremony yesterday, and cancelling the Rugby match, the department of health is inviting 1000 people from infected countries to attend an alcohol policy conference in Dublin next Monday.

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https://gript.ie/harris-gapc-covid-19/
ON THIS DAY: 4TH March 1918: First reported case of Spanish flu which starts a worldwide pandemic

The Spanish flu pandemic of 1918, the deadliest in history, infected an estimated 500 million people worldwide—about one-third of the planet’s population—and killed an estimated 20 million to 50 million victims, including some 675,000 Americans.

Though the original origin of the virus is disputed, the first known case was reported at a military base in Kansas on this day, 1918.

It quickly spread around the word as there there were no effective drugs or vaccines to treat this killer flu strain. Citizens were ordered to wear masks, schools, theatres and businesses were shuttered and bodies piled up in makeshift morgues before the virus ended its deadly global march.

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Photo shows Emergency military hospital during influenza epidemic, Camp Funston, Kansas, USA