There was some controversy during the week when Micheál Martin said that Ireland did not need a referendum to join NATO - but was he right?
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https://gript.ie/fact-check-does-ireland-need-a-referendum-to-join-nato/

Could an atheistic society have started the scientific revolution? | Ben Scallan

BEN SCALLAN: Anyone can do science - but could an atheistic society have started the scientific revolution?

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https://youtu.be/o25OMzZ4pgQ

‘Rip-off Ireland’: It’s clear from a quick online search comparison that the cost of hiring a car in Dublin far exceeds the cost of renting one in Belfast, Heathrow or Berlin.

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https://gript.ie/dublin-vs-heathrow-or-berlin-for-car-hire-we-pay-much-more/?fbclid=IwAR1-jOYD1u_FQG9phuGqeeTuF3Rdf6Ve2D8kgKJa0cRSfzVoirVc8qf03OE&fs=e&s=cl

New Zealand is set to introduce an emissions tax on livestock. A draft law was drawn up this week which the government says is to target methane emissions caused by livestock burping.

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https://gript.ie/new-zealand-plans-to-tax-farmers-for-livestock-burps/?fbclid=IwAR1M7TIqRp_anzFKtOa65pyhzT1mvO3EeGOmq-xfNgLlatQDzigUYEuyMZo&fs=e&s=cl

Gript Weekly Review | 10/06/2022

For those who missed it, here's a review of our top stories of the week...

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https://youtu.be/6R3Dv9hetqM

Senator Lynn Boylan has deleted her Twitter account after liking a ‘TERF-cutting’ post which stands accused of inciting violence against women.

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https://gript.ie/lynn-boylan-deletes-twitter-account-after-terf-cutting-row/

Keen said a member of Waitrose delivery staff who appeared to be a “man with long hair” said he would continue to use the same spaces as her teenage daughter.


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https://gript.ie/waitrose-threatens-to-stop-delivering-to-women-over-behavior-in-trans-row/

Máire Ní Mhaoine looks at the rumours that Pope Francis may be set to resign.

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https://gript.ie/why-the-rumours-that-pope-francis-may-be-set-to-resign/

A video of what happened next when a women was being attacked on a quiet road in Brazil has attracted global attention, with 14 million views already.

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https://gript.ie/watch-the-moment-when-a-woman-is-being-attacked-and-a-bus-stops/

REVIEW: ‘The Women Are Up to Something’ by Benjamin Lipscomb

MARGARET HICKEY writes...

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https://gript.ie/review-the-women-are-up-to-something-by-benjamin-lipscomb/

PODCAST: SF continue to rise in the polls; children with disabilities continue to be an afterthought; needle spiking comes to Europe; and minimum alcohol pricing goes down in flames.

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https://gript.ie/podcasts/trsi-320-no-one-wants-to-be-that-guy-but/

Crunch Meeting Over Potential Closure of Navan A&E Despite Record A&E Waiting Times

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https://gript.ie/crunch-meeting-over-potential-closure-of-navan-ae-despite-record-ae-waiting-times/

NIAMH UÍ BHRIAIN: "In some ways, the inflation crisis seems no more than the mouldy cherry on top of the bad news cake.

The country increasingly feels like it's falling apart at the seams."

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https://gript.ie/the-country-feels-like-its-falling-apart-at-the-seams/

There's a fair case to be made that Ireland is now the most left wing country in the EU and a strong case to be made that after the next election, it will have one of the most left wing Governments in the west, writes JOHN MCGUIRK of the latest poll:
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https://gript.ie/poll-irelands-inexorable-march-to-the-left-continues/

An existential crisis for the purple people: The party of zero covid is now the party of zero support, according to yesterday's opinion poll.
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https://gript.ie/bad-news-nobodys-voting-for-the-social-democrats/

More than 93% of housing offers pledged for Ukrainians coming to Ireland have not yet materialised, RTÉ News has reported.

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https://gript.ie/93-of-pledges-to-accommodate-ukrainians-not-yet-materialised/

The Catholic Bishop of the Ondo diocese, Jude Ayodeji Arogundade, has criticised a statement made by President Michael D Higgins where he claimed climate change played a role in the massacre of 40 mass goers at the church of St Francis in the Nigerian diocese on June 5th.

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https://gript.ie/rubbing-salt-into-the-injuries-nigerian-bishop-slams-higgins-statement-as-incorrect-and-far-fetched/

BEN SCALLAN: Sinn Féin can have “climate action” or a lower cost of living - not both.

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https://gript.ie/sf-can-have-climate-action-or-lower-cost-of-living-not-both/

A new study published in the Ethiopian Medical Journal has evidenced an increase in maternal death following the legalisation of abortion in Ethiopia in 2005.

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https://gript.ie/ethiopia-study-shows-maternal-deaths-increased-after-abortion-legalised/

Crosscare received €176,700 from the Asylum, Migration and Integration Fund in 2021. Did this fund the report which links support for the traditional family as ‘far right’?

MATT TREACY writes

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https://gript.ie/did-catholic-charity-use-state-funds-to-finance-left-wing-attack-on-family-structures/

It has been reported that bandits attacked a vehicle of wedding guests taking 50 captive while others ran away amid gunfire. Separately Head of Christian Association Fr. James Kantoma was kidnapped by gunmen.


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https://gript.ie/nigeria-wedding-guests-kidnapped-at-gunpoint/