She’s the conservative firebrand tipped to be crowned Italy’s first ever female Prime Minister in the country’s snap election later this month. But who exactly is Giorgia Meloni, and what is she offering to Italian voters?

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https://gript.ie/meet-giorgia-meloni-the-fiery-conservative-powerhouse-tipped-to-become-italys-first-female-pm/

"Why are we letting Eamon Ryan away with this madness? And by ‘we’, I mean the idiotic government who would rather leave us sitting shivering in the dark than stand up to the demands of a Swedish schoolgirl."

NIAMH UÍ BHRIAIN writes...

https://gript.ie/the-madness-of-greens-now-eamon-ryan-is-coming-for-our-boilers/

ON THIS DAY: 3 SEPTEMBER 1658: Oliver Cromwell dead, like all those people in Drogheda

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https://gript.ie/on-this-day-3-september-1658-oliver-cromwell-dead-like-all-those-people-in-drogheda-2/

The most dramatic indication of this is that the chances of a person aged 30 now owning their own home is half that of someone who reached that age in the 1990s when more than 60% of people aged 30 owned their own home.’

MATT TREACY writes

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https://gript.ie/young-people-leaving-home-later-mirrors-housing-crisis/

Ireland’s biggest teaching union has appeared to quietly remove a controversial video about transgender children from its Vimeo account.

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https://gript.ie/into-seems-to-remove-controversial-lucy-to-liam-trans-kids-clip/

The Ireland Thinks/Sunday Independent poll published today shows the Green Party trailing last at 2% as the energy crisis deepens and soaring inflation exacerbates cost-of-living difficulties.

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https://gript.ie/greens-lowest-party-in-poll-as-energy-crisis-deepens/

TRY NOT TO HURL CHALLENGE: As climate activists tell us to ditch meat to save the planet, Ben Scallan gives the top 5 grossest insect-based alternatives being proposed (number 3 is a doozie):

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https://gript.ie/5-most-disgusting-insect-foods-being-promoted-to-save-the-climate/

Secondary school teacher Enoch Burke is expected to be arrested by Gardai today, as the row over using transgender pronouns continues.

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https://gript.ie/teacher-in-they-pronoun-controversy-expected-to-be-arrested-today-enoch-burke/

“Something to be noted too is that the dog’s dinner that has been rejected was the product of an entity not dissimilar to our own Citizen’s Assembly,” writes MATT TREACY

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https://gript.ie/chile-rejects-constitution-that-included-abortion-on-demand/

"Despite all the evidence, the modern idea is that marriage is an obstacle to freedom. Influenced by this ideology, it is too easy for relationships to drift into cohabitation, which one party may believe is the precursor to marriage, while the other believes it is better than marriage because it is easier to exit."

ANN FARMER writes


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https://gript.ie/uk-childrens-commissioner-fails-british-children/

ON THIS DAY: Aodh Mór Ó Néill (Hugh O’Neill), Earl of Tír Eoghan and Rudhraighe Ó Domhnaill (Rory O’Donnell) Earl of Tír Conaill – modern day Donegal), fled Ireland for the continent with about ninety followers on this day, September 4th, 1607.

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https://gript.ie/on-this-day-4-september-1607-flight-of-the-earls/

Lisa Cash lost her life, along with her adorable twin siblings, little Christy and Chelsea, in a stabbing incident that can only be described as a hellish, heartbreaking, nightmare.

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https://gript.ie/nation-mourns-the-incalculable-loss-of-three-beautiful-young-people/

Tolkien fans had our worst fears confirmed as Amazon’s ‘The Rings of Power’ casually sticks its fingers in our collective eyes.

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https://gript.ie/amazon-blocks-comments-on-the-rings-of-power-abomination/

A Church of England chaplain was branded a ‘risk to children’ and reported to a counter-terrorism watchdog by his diocese after he defended the right to question school LBGT policies during a sermon, it has emerged.

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https://gript.ie/chaplain-reported-to-terrorism-watchdog-for-defending-students-right-to-question-lgbt-policies/

“There are people who want to change their gender, but they can't do it”: Nobel Prize-winning biologist slams transgender ideology as “nonsense” and “wishful thinking”

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https://gript.ie/nobel-prize-winning-biologist-slams-nonsense-gender-ideology/

As the energy crisis escalates, British manufacturers have warned that 6 in 10 of companies surveyed now say that “increased energy costs are business threatening”.

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https://gript.ie/energy-crisis-6-out-of-10-british-factories-risk-closure/

Addressing the court this afternoon, Mr. Burke, who is representing himself without legal assistance, described himself as a “prisoner of conscience”:
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Newly released national test scores in the U.S. showed that math and reading scores for nine-year olds fell dramatically in two years of the lockdowns, and some of the most disadvantaged children saw the steepest declines.

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https://gript.ie/dramatic-fall-in-maths-and-reading-scores-after-covid-lockdown-in-u-s/

ON THIS DAY: 4 September: Feast Day of Naomh Ultan

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https://gript.ie/on-this-day-4-september-feast-day-of-naomh-ultan-2/

"Kissinger's dictum was that if you controlled currency, you controlled the world. But the Ukraine conflict may be upending that order, as reality bites in the need for food and energy."

THADE ANDY writes

https://gript.ie/information-is-power-no-longer/

BEN SCALLAN: Some of the weapons being poured into Ukraine will inevitably end up on the European black market, meaning we can all look forward to a new breed of military-armed gangs and super terrorists.

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