In Tandem is a new short documentary by the Emmy-Nominated team 1 Girl Revolution and BEHOLD (“The Girl Inside”) featuring the inspiring story of Detroit-born, Milwaukee-based chef Caitlin Cullen and the innovative social project and restaurant she created – The Tandem.

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https://gript.ie/new-documentary-featuring-inspiring-and-innovative-chef-and-restaurant-that-fed-over-115000-people-in-need-during-covid/

The National Women's Council faces renewed calls to defund the organisation after the Liveline controversy - as some activists believe the group is failing to speak up for women.

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https://gript.ie/womens-rights-groups-should-reconsider-nwci-membership-say-activists/

Tributes have been paid to a ‘gentle’ and ‘caring’ wife and mother who died after giving birth at her home in County Limerick earlier this month. Home births in the midwest region have been temporarily suspended following the tragedy.

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https://gript.ie/home-birth-supports-suspended-after-limerick-woman-dies-giving-birth-to-first-baby/

DAVID REYNOLDS: "Is there a reason President Higgins seemed blind to persecution of Christians?"

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https://gript.ie/is-there-a-reason-president-higgins-seemed-blind-to-persecution-of-christians/

GABRIEL ANDRADE looks at MATT WALSH'S documentary "What is a woman?"

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https://gript.ie/what-is-a-woman-a-provocative-look-at-the-transgender-debate/

BOOK REVIEW: MARGARET HICKEY reviews Sally Rooney's "Beatiful World, where are you"

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https://gript.ie/review-beautiful-world-where-are-you-by-sally-rooney/

THE EDITORS: "What we saw, last week, was a masterclass in the gaslighting of the nation"
Our view on the trans rights debate, which sees one solitary grassroots group, The Countess, take on a massive, state funded NGO armada:
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https://gript.ie/the-editors-the-countess-fights-the-inquisition/

The relative lack of media enthusiasm for this weekend's calls for a return to mask wearing marks a stark contrast with 12 months ago and underlines how much Covid worry was driven by media hysteria, writes JOHN MCGUIRK:
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https://gript.ie/inmo-declares-its-time-to-bring-back-facemasks/

Three people have been killed and others have been kidnapped during an attack on a Baptist and a Catholic Church in Nigeria over the weekend — just two weeks after 22 Catholics were killed attending Mass in the southwest of the county.

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https://gript.ie/nigeria-sunday-worshippers-killed-during-fresh-attack-on-churches/?fbclid=IwAR0-oP_e6ISkXHZOCPab3kx_BckvwTMddozBngdS5KUepFigjPLL-D1_Ki0&fs=e&s=cl

"More proof that the Irish state has only a vague idea of how many people from overseas are here was provided by Minister for Justice Helen McEntee last week."

MATT TREACY writes

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https://gript.ie/we-dont-have-a-clue-if-people-leave-when-visas-expire-says-department/

Pro-abortion rights activists protested outside the home of Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett over the weekend, brandishing baby dolls and wearing fake-blood-stained clothes in a display which has been described as ‘sick’.

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https://gript.ie/abortion-protestors-brandish-baby-dolls-and-blood-stained-clothes-outside-home-of-amy-coney-barrett/?fbclid=IwAR1UVFIW5V6Fzjb7PBW2osL1Cbi6YaJUp8ptvA3cX6LIv_2F6oYzUND2ZBY&fs=e&s=cl

A mob of up to 2,000 youths descended on a picturesque Italian town causing damage to businesses, mugging locals, and clashing with riot police.


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https://gript.ie/investigation-launched-after-2000-migrants-descend-on-a-popular-italian-getaway-area/

The Lonely Planet – a tourist guide site and publication which is a first stop for many planning a holiday – has published an updated report on Dublin which doesn’t hold back on the ‘chaos’ facing tourists brave enough to come.

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https://gript.ie/lonely-planet-on-dublin-chaos-eye-watering-costs-and-notoriously-expensive/

WHO to decide if Monkeypox constitutes international emergency

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https://gript.ie/who-to-decide-if-monkeypox-constitutes-international-emergency/

ON THIS DAY: 20 JUNE 1631: A village in Ireland was taken into slavery by north African raiders

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https://gript.ie/on-this-day-20-june-1631-a-village-in-ireland-was-taken-into-slavery-by-north-african-raiders-2/

BEN SCALLAN: Make no mistake about it - Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael giving 16-year-olds the vote would be political suicide for both their parties.

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https://gript.ie/government-giving-vote-to-16s-is-like-turkeys-voting-for-christmas/

“Climate lockdown”? Parts of France have banned all outdoor and some indoor events amid a summer heatwave, and Germany is considering fuel rationing in preparation for winter.

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https://gript.ie/climate-lockdown-parts-of-france-ban-outdoor-events-due-to-heat/

Dublin Airport has been challenged on its poor service by Airlines for America.  The blistering letter to Ministers Eamon Ryan and Catherine Martin highlighted delayed flights and departure delays afflicting American travellers — as it urged Dublin Airport to get its act together fast.

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https://gript.ie/major-us-airlines-tell-dublin-airport-to-do-something-about-delays/

Dutch intelligence agency says Russian spy who studied at Trinity College Dublin has been taken into custody after successfully applying to Hague internship with false identity.

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https://gript.ie/russian-spy-who-studied-at-trinity-expelled-from-internship-at-hague-based-icc/

PODCAST: Michael D. Higgins shows his mastery of changing the subject; asylum claims are up 700% but it's definitely not our fault; and the NGO complex goes to war with Joe Duffy.


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https://gript.ie/podcasts/trsi-321-power/

Constant Markievicz returns? As Ireland's trans debate gets stranger by the day, the head of Amnesty Ireland, Colm O'Gorman, seemed to suggest over the weekend that the famous patriot might not have been the woman we thought she was:
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https://gript.ie/colm-ogorman-countess-markievicz/