This weekend, the life of the magnificent Gaelic prince Aodh Ruadh Ó Domhnaill will be remembered and celebrated in Spain where he died as he sought assistance for Ireland after the Battle of Kinsale.

DR MATT TREACY writes

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https://gript.ie/aodh-ruadh-a-magnificent-gaelic-leader-remembered-in-spain/

The funeral of twins Chelsea and Christy Cawley (8) and Lisa Cash (18) will be held this morning in Brookfield, Tallaght.

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https://gript.ie/forever-loved-funeral-of-tallaght-siblings-lisa-chelsea-and-christy-to-take-place-today/

Government immigration policy is teaching Irish students what the Universities apparently cannot, writes JOHN MCGUIRK: Maths.
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https://gript.ie/the-housing-crisis-bites-students-and-they-deserve-it/

The award-winning Cine4 film Róise & Frank will be released in cinemas nationwide on September 16th by Break Out Pictures.

Set and filmed in the Waterford Gaeltacht of Ring, Róise & Frank tells the story of the recently widowed Róise (Bríd Ní Neachtain) who is struggling in the aftermath of her husband Frank’s passing.

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https://gript.ie/new-irish-language-film-roise-frank-to-be-released-in-cinemas-nationwide-next-week/

BEN SCALLAN: Around a century after the War of Independence, Ireland now finds itself in the humiliating position of having to beg a European body to use our own generators and avoid freezing in the winter:

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https://gript.ie/cringe-overload-ireland-must-beg-eu-to-use-coal-oil-generators/

"High rents imposed by absentee landlords meant that most people could only afford to live on small tenant farms with inferior soil that only potatoes could grow on; but the potato crop was prone to disease and the farmers did not have extra land to rotate crops."

ON THIS DAY: 9 September 1845 : Newspapers report a potato blight has hit Ireland

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https://gript.ie/on-this-day-9-september-1845-newspapers-report-a-potato-blight-has-hit-ireland-4/

The new Prime Minister of Britain, Liz Truss, has announced a raft of measures that her government believes will ease the burden on hard-pressed citizens chafing under a cost-of-living crisis.

MÁIRÍN DE BARRA writes

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https://gript.ie/restarting-fracking-oil-gas-and-energy-price-caps/

Sources close to Eurovision legend Dana Rosemary Scallan have told Gript that RTÉ have yet to contact her directly, despite the national broadcaster’s repeated claim that it has done so.

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https://gript.ie/rte-hasnt-called-her-sources-close-to-dana-contradict-broadcasters-claims/

"Is social media harmful to kids? Some people are still sceptical about this: a few experts, the American Civil Liberties Union, and Big Tech itself, of course. Put a smart little device in the hands of teenagers, hook them up to platforms they find irresistible, and what could go wrong?"

CAROL MOYNIHAN writes

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https://gript.ie/they-threw-the-book-at-big-tobacco-and-it-worked-lets-try-it-with-big-tech-to-stop-harmful-social-media-use/

Aontú Councillor Emmet Doyle was the victim of an ‘unprovoked’ violent assault in Derry City centre on Friday morning. Doyle says he was attacked by an abortion campaigner for his stance on abortion and the right to life.

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https://gript.ie/aontu-councillor-violently-assaulted-by-abortion-campaigners-in-derry-city-centre/

Children under 12 years of age will no longer be eligible for a Covid-19 vaccine in the UK from this month onwards.

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https://gript.ie/children-aged-five-to-11-will-no-longer-be-offered-covid-vaccine-in-uk/

On the 10th of September, in 1649, Oliver Cromwell sat encamped outside the city of Drogheda with his 12,000-strong army and 11 siege cannons.

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https://gript.ie/on-this-day-11-of-september-cromwell-massacres-drogheda-2/

Is “trust the science” going to solve our demographic woes?

LOUIS T MARCH writes...

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https://gript.ie/is-trust-the-science-going-to-solve-our-demographic-woes/

ON THIS DAY: 11 SEPTEMBER 1297: Battle of Stirling

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https://gript.ie/on-this-day-11-september-1297-battle-of-stirling-2/

Tony Blair and Bertie Ahern have been working together in the negotiations to solve some of the problems associated with Brexit, it has been revealed.

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https://gript.ie/tony-blair-bertie-ahern-working-together-on-brexit-issues/

The media once again let Helen McEntee away with murder, writes JOHN MCGUIRK - this time allowing her, unchallenged, to call people opposed to her Government's policy "anti migrant":
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https://gript.ie/mcentees-nasty-little-rhetorical-trick/

BEN SCALLAN: “The piece seeks to declare a kind of woke jihad on more conservative-minded people who have fallen for spooky far-right ideas, like the dangerous view that your uncle can’t menstruate.”

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https://gript.ie/scallan-the-journal-ies-embarrassing-gender-science-article/

Research has concluded that religious people who are married or in committed relationships are more sexually satisfied than their secular peers, while author Louise Perry leads the charge against hookups and the sexual revolution.


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https://gript.ie/the-modern-case-for-chastity-and-marriage-research-says-it-makes-sex-better/

The parties of the European left – and that’s all the Leinster House parties with regard to immigration – risk losing their voters to the parties of the nationalist right who are prepared to address concerns impacting most strongly on working class constituents."

Dr MATT TREACY writes

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https://gript.ie/sweden-democrats-emerge-as-key-to-government-formation/

The statement said it would also include “the option of settling in Rwanda" for those who have come illegally to Denmark.


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https://gript.ie/denmark-follows-britain-in-transferring-asylum-seekers-to-rwanda/