2021 saw the highest ever number of abortions recorded for women resident in England and Wales, according to statistics released today. 214,256 babies were aborted in Britain last year — including 206 Irish babies, 59 of whom had Down syndrome.

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https://gript.ie/abortions-continue-to-rise-at-alarming-rate-in-britain-highest-on-record/

BEN SCALLAN: An elderly Tipperary couple has been found dead at home after apparently passing away a year prior, potentially during lockdown - which may tell us something about modern social isolation.

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https://gript.ie/new-ireland-old-couple-found-dead-after-a-year-died-during-lockdown/

A British woman has become the first person in the UK to receive compensation for vaccine injury or death through the Vaccine Damage Payment Scheme. The Scheme acknowledged the AstraZeneca vaccine was her 48-year-old fiancé’s cause of death.

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https://gript.ie/woman-first-in-uk-to-receive-vaccine-damage-payout/

TD Michael Collins reacts to plans by the French Military to conduct exercises off the south coast of Ireland while French Embassy downplays intrusion into Irish Waters

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The Life Institute has called for a review of how a diagnosis of a disability for an unborn child is shared with parents, after it was revealed that abortions for babies with Down Syndrome has tripled for women travelling from Ireland since 2018. 

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https://gript.ie/down-syndrome-main-reason-for-irish-disability-abortion-in-britain-not-fatal-conditions/

Senator Sharon Keogan has called on Irish politicians to take a "serious look" at restricting funding for NGOs, saying that they have become "the tail that wages the dog." The Irish State funds the NGO sector to the tune of €5.9 billion a year. #gript

https://gript.ie/irish-ngos-hot-air-balloons-puffed-up-with-public-money-senator/

Data from across the EU collated by Eurostat shows that prices for consumer goods and services are 40% higher in Ireland than the EU average.

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https://gript.ie/ireland-most-expensive-in-eu-for-day-to-day-costs-40-higher-than-average/

"Politicians can't tell the truth about the likely consequences and cure for inflation, but people like Lawrence Summers can", writes a gloomy JOHN MCGUIRK:
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https://gript.ie/us-expert-unemployment-will-have-to-increase-to-stop-inflation/

Minister Roderick O'Gorman has said that over 25,000 Ukrainians have asked the Irish state to provide them with accommodation, and that over 35,000 Ukrainians have come to Ireland since the outbreak of the war.

https://gript.ie/over-25000-ukrainians-have-asked-the-irish-state-for-accommodation/

Would young people find it easier to buy homes and start families if they were becoming Dublin Bus drivers at age 21, rather than entering graduate programmes at age 27? JOHN MCGUIRK on "elite overproduction":
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https://gript.ie/elite-overproduction-and-the-shortage-of-drivers-for-dublin-bus/

Talk of mandatory masks and restrictions is 'grossly disproportionate' says TÓIBÍN

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https://gript.ie/talk-of-mandatory-masks-and-restrictions-is-grossly-disproportionate-says-toibin/

Everyone is loving a video of famed actor Bill Murray having the craic in a Limerick pub.

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https://gript.ie/watch-actor-bill-murray-is-having-mighty-craic-singing-in-this-irish-pub/

One of the most finely illustrated medieval manuscripts, Matthew Paris’s Book of St Albans has been digitised by the Library of Trinity College Dublin for the first time.

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https://gript.ie/one-of-the-worlds-finest-medieval-manuscripts-the-book-of-st-albans-is-digitised-for-the-first-time/

A former Scottish MP has spoken out against proposals for an assisted suicide law in Scotland. Dennis Canavan, who has lost three of his children to terminal illness, says assisted suicide is not needed to ensure death with dignity.

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https://gript.ie/former-mp-who-lost-3-children-to-terminal-illness-speaks-out-against-assisted-suicide/

DAVID DAINTREE reviews GARY FURNELL's "The hardest path is the easiest: exploring the Wisdom Literature with Pascal, Burke, Kierkegaard and Chesterton"

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https://gript.ie/book-review-the-hardest-path-is-the-easiest/

BEN SCALLAN: While you worry about soaring inflation and energy prices, we can now all sleep a little bit easier at night knowing that top public servants on up to €150k a year have had their pay fully restored.

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https://gript.ie/good-news-top-public-servants-to-have-their-pay-restored/

Darragh O'Brien's suggestion this morning that an opposition TD was "undermining social cohesion" by asking if Government had conducted impact assessments on its own immigration policy was an foul attack on the democratic process, writes JOHN MCGUIRK:
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https://gript.ie/darragh-obriens-extraordinary-dail-performance-on-immigration/

"COURAGE IN FACE OF 'UNBEARABLE PAIN' "

Tributes have poured in for Patrick Kriegel, father of murdered 14-year-old Ana Kriegel, who has died peacefully at home.

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https://gript.ie/father-of-murder-victim-ana-kriegel-14-dies/

BEN SCALLAN: The EU says the energy crisis is no excuse to give up on our fossil fuel reductions - which is a bit like saying starving to death is no excuse to eat food.

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https://gript.ie/eu-energy-crisis-is-no-excuse-to-give-up-on-fossil-fuel-pledges/

"For years Mr and Mrs Prasad have been bankrolling their only child, Shrey Sagar Prasad. They arranged Sagar’s marriage and were ecstatic when he finally tied the knot at age 29. They paid for his extravagant wedding and high-dollar honeymoon to Thailand. That was six years ago."

Read LOUIS T MARCH on the family squabble over the lack of grandchildren is news in India

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https://gript.ie/a-most-interesting-family-squabble/

"Sometimes the hard, cold reality of numbers can just stop you in your tracks. The British abortion report shows that the number of abortions carried out on babies with Down Syndrome for women travelling from Ireland have more than tripled since 2018."

NIAMH UÍ BHRIAIN

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https://gript.ie/abortion-for-down-syndrome-babies-from-ireland-has-tripled-since-2018-referendum/