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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https://gript.ie/on-this-day-15-august-1924-tailteann-games-held-in-phoenix-park-2/

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/

“They thought I was a token cage fighter”: Paddy Holohan tells all in exclusive interview on his split from Sinn Féin, cancel culture and much more.

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https://gript.ie/they-thought-i-was-a-token-cage-fighter-holohan-tells-all/

It has been alleged that an Egyptian migrant residing at the City West DP centre was “badly beaten” by 7 members of the security staff at the hotel.

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gript.ie/gardai-have-no-record-of-alleged-abuse-of-migrant/

An unreleased consultative report from the National Council for Curriculum and Assessment, which Gript has acquired, shows the research conducted by the NCCA is of staggeringly poor quality.

https://gript.ie/upcoming-ncca-report-deeply-flawed/

The number of people euthanised increases ten-fold in Canada in just 5 years. Is there an unspoken understanding amongst policymakers that assisted suicide is cheaper than healthcare?

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https://gript.ie/number-of-people-euthanised-increases-ten-fold-in-canada-in-just-5-years/

Car “wasn’t self-driving” during fatal crash, manufacturer claims

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https://gript.ie/car-wasnt-self-driving-during-fatal-crash-manufacturer-claims/

Roseanna Ruane, the mother of Saoírse Ruane, the ten-year-old Co. Galway girl who has won the hearts of the nation as she battles childhood cancer, addressed crowds gathered at Knock Basilica.

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https://gript.ie/mother-of-saoirse-ruane-gives-moving-testimony-on-power-of-prayer-in-difficult-times/

"The people who assaulted Mr. Sheehan have no fear of getting caught. If they do get caught, they have no fear of prison. The practical consequences for behaving like a thug, as a young person in Ireland, are non-existent"


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https://gript.ie/dublin-has-a-policing-problem-not-a-homophobia-problem/

Though they might deny it, western leaders are borrowing more and more from the totalitarian communications methods of the esoteric North Korean state, writes DAVID REYNOLDS

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https://gript.ie/the-westward-march-of-juche/

President Higgins said politicians must “lead by example” & become “exemplars” on climate change if they want to have “any credibility” - shortly before flying from Dublin to Kerry by helicopter, in a trip that could have been taken by car.

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https://gript.ie/climate-obsessed-higgins-flew-to-kerry-on-official-helicopter/

Aontú leader Peadar Tóibín has called out government ministers for their spending on foreign trips, after revealing that more than half a million euros was spent on international travel in the last two and a half years, even with the Covid lockdown.

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https://gript.ie/ching-ching-aontu-leader-questions-500k-splurge-on-govt-travel/