ON THIS DAY: BIRTH OF Mícheál Ó Flannagáin on 13 August 1876: Priest, Gaelic Scholar, inventor and historian

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The strongest argument for euthanasia and assisted suicide may be “autonomy”. In its crudest form, this means: “who are you to tell me what to do with my life?” Bioethicist XAVIER SYMONS argues that autonomy is completely inadequate as a key to assessing the “right to die”.

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https://gript.ie/nobody-can-tell-me-what-to-do-with-my-life-right/

TRSI 327 - MAGIC WORDS

Another bleak winter appears to be coming; and the people who tell you speech is violence are closer to the man who stabbed Salman Rushdie than they perhaps realize.


https://gript.ie/podcasts/trsi-327-magic-words/

"Progressives are not, truly, chasing “inclusivity”. They are chasing power. The thrill for them is in seeing the Rose of Tralee festival bend to their wishes and command," writes JOHN McGUIRK.

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https://gript.ie/the-rose-that-breaks-in-the-wind/

It is not, I think, healthy to run the country as if it is in a state of perma-crisis. This does not just apply to the weather, but the weather is a symptom of the wider problem.

Why does all weather need a warning, asks JOHN McGUIRK?

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https://gript.ie/why-does-all-weather-need-a-warning/

It has now been reported that Minister Stephen Donnelly will meet with leading medical experts who repeatedly warned that Irish children might be harmed by undergoing treatment at the Tavistock clinic in Britain.

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https://gript.ie/the-profoundly-shocking-audit-on-the-irish-children-sent-to-tavistock/

Hugh Dunne told Gript he has been mistreated all his life, but that he is determined to fight, not only for himself, but for the many homeless Irish people being failed by the government.

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https://gript.ie/71-year-old-man-sleeping-in-his-car-calls-for-the-government-to-act/

‘Justice for Noah’: Over 1,000 people took to the streets of Belfast city centre on Saturday to protest the PSNI’s investigation into the death of Belfast schoolboy Noah Donohoe.

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https://gript.ie/watch-calls-for-justice-for-noah-as-crowds-protest-psnis-investigation-into-teenagers-death/

Sexual assault reports up 75%. No attempt by Gardai or Minister for Justice to find out why.

For a decade, the state has insisted that rising rapes and sexual assaults are a result of more victims coming forward. However, as Gary Kavanagh discovered there is no evidence for this claim.

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https://youtu.be/0dVObNX_xBs

I probably wouldn’t have been interested in reading The Satanic Verses, but after what a crazed islamist did to poor Salman Rushdie, I’m going to buy myself a copy.

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https://gript.ie/salman-rushdie-jk-rowling-and-the-great-streisand-effect/

Quadruple vaccinated Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla has gone into isolation after testing positive for the virus.

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https://gript.ie/pfizer-ceo-albert-bourla-isolates-after-positive-covid-test/

The Ethnic Minority Hub, which is headed by a Green party rep, has written to the Minister for Education demanding two books be taken off the Junior Certificate syllabus as they affect the "well-being of children of colour in Irish schools.”

MATT TREACY writes

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https://gript.ie/green-party-rep-remove-these-books-from-school/

Daniel James did years in prison for illegal far-Left activities. Now he’s a father, a devout Christian, runs his own business, and he describes his old life as “warped, twisted and nihilistic”:

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https://gript.ie/i-spent-years-in-prison-ex-antifa-member-turned-christian-dad/

A missing man from County Tyrone whose body was found in a reservoir had been dismembered, it has emerged.

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https://gript.ie/missing-co-tyrone-man-found-in-reservoir-was-dismembered/

ON THIS DAY: 15 AUGUST 1924: Tailteann Games held in Phoenix Park

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An Irish senator says that increasing jobseeker’s allowance substantially will drive up inflation, and that if the dole is increased it should require community service work.

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https://gript.ie/dole-increase-is-an-incentive-not-to-work-says-senator/

Via the arts council, taxpayers are to fund a new Irish Magazine "giving a name and a collective public voice to fat people in Ireland":
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https://gript.ie/finally-new-taxpayer-funded-project-celebrating-fatness/

Simon Harris' announcement of €40m to make Irish Universities "more Green" is exhibit A in budgetary wastefulness - "spending money so that politicians can boast that money was spent" - writes JOHN MCGUIRK:
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https://gript.ie/good-news-e40m-to-be-spent-making-universities-more-green/

DR MATT TREACY looks at first-hand accounts of the bata scóir - used in national schools from 1831 to ensure children were beaten if they used Gaeilge - and its contribution to the decline of the language. There were also those, he explains, who resisted.

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https://gript.ie/an-bata-scoir-a-first-hand-account-of-beating-the-language-out-of-people/

WATCH: This clever experiment shows how rain on parched ground leads to floods

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https://gript.ie/watch-this-clever-experiment-shows-how-rain-on-parched-ground-leads-to-floods/

TD for Laois Offaly, Carol Nolan, has called on the Minister for Health, Stephen Donnelly, the HSE, and the National Ambulance Service (NAS) to place a renewed focus on supporting schemes that ensure greater numbers of people can act as community first responders.

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https://gript.ie/td-calls-for-focus-on-community-first-responders-as-ambulance-service-faces-staffing-crisis/