Sod it: A Co Limerick businessman has got people talking after advertising his sods of turf as bags of “decorative hardened Irish mud” in joke protest at the Government’s proposed ban on the sale of peat and other fossil fuels.

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https://gript.ie/thats-one-way-of-getting-around-it-limerick-businessman-advertises-turf-as-hardened-irish-mud/

The strongest argument against introducing a Republican Civil honours system in Ireland, writes JOHN MCGUIRK defending the idea in principle, is that we all know the kind of people who'd end up bedecked in medals:
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https://gript.ie/does-ireland-need-a-civic-honours-system/

"One of these days, we may find a problem that Richard Boyd Barrett does not propose to solve by nationalising. But today, my friends, is sadly not that day"
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https://gript.ie/surprise-from-rbb-nationalise-the-energy-sector-i-say/

Jailed schoolteacher, Enoch Burke, has told the High Court that he believes he is a victim of a “gross injustice”.

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https://gript.ie/enoch-burke-says-a-gross-injustice-is-being-done-as-he-remains-in-jail/

Disappointingly for some, in relation primarily to her association with the feminist movement in Ireland, the author says she would do it all again.

BOOK REVIEW: Mary Kenny's "The Way We Were"

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https://gript.ie/review-the-way-we-were-catholic-ireland-since-1922-by-mary-kenny/

WATCH: Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald has said that “you can’t limit numbers” of Ukrainian refugees that Ireland accepts, even despite the accommodation crisis - effectively agreeing with the government’s “no cap” policy.

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https://gript.ie/sinn-fein-calls-for-no-limit-on-numbers-of-ukrainian-refugees/

Panda Power has told its customers that it has made "the difficult decision" to exit the electricity and gas market in Ireland.

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https://gript.ie/panda-confirms-it-is-leaving-energy-market/

A selection of 21 penal crosses, ranging from the early 18th to the middle of the 19th century, has been taken out of storage and put on temporary display until the end of October at the National Museum of Ireland – Country Life, Turlough Park, Castlebar, Co Mayo.

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https://gript.ie/selection-of-crosses-on-display-for-special-anniversary-programme-at-national-museum-of-ireland/

“One of the most despicable acts of political negligence and contempt I have ever witnessed towards ordinary people.”

WATCH as Carol Nolan rips the government on the energy crisis in a blistering first speech since the Dáil’s return.

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https://gript.ie/td-ireland-facing-a-drop-in-living-standards-not-seen-in-40-years/

Safe Ireland, the national development and co-ordination body working to eradicate domestic violence, have reported that throughout 2021 its refuge services remained ‘heavily reliant on public donations and the benevolence of free emergency hotel bed-nights from Airbnb which came to an end in July 2022.’

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https://gript.ie/domestic-violence-refuge-services-heavily-reliant-on-airbnb-support-which-is-now-at-an-end/

Women in Hungary considering having an abortion will now be required to listen to the heartbeat of their unborn baby under a decree which came into force today.

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https://gript.ie/hungary-women-now-to-hear-to-unborn-babys-heartbeat-when-asking-for-abortion/

MATT TREACY says that questions need to be answered over the murder of a man in a flat managed by the McVerry Trust – and the policy of placing what can turn into drug dens into already under-pressure communities.

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https://gript.ie/questions-to-be-answered-over-the-murder-in-kevin-barry-house/

JOHN MCGUIRK: "When Black Lives Matter protesters burned whole shops to the ground, the global progressive attitude was summed up in the phrase “mostly peaceful protests”.

Well, Paul Murphy was the victim of a mostly peaceful protest."

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https://gript.ie/honestly-who-cares-if-someone-kicked-paul-murphy/

How Green is a country that authorises the destruction of the nests, and the slaughter of adult birds, of a globally threatened species, just because the locals don't like Seagull poo?
Not very, writes JOHN MCGUIRK:
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https://gript.ie/the-great-balbriggan-seagull-massacre/

Kerry TD, Danny Healy Rae, says that Ireland is facing serious food security issues because of government policy encouraging farmers to cull cattle and leave land unfarmed.

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https://gript.ie/the-last-famine-was-not-that-long-ago-danny-healy-rae-says-food-security-threatened-by-govt-policy/

ON THIS DAY: 16 SEPTEMBER 1810: Mexican Independence Day

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https://gript.ie/on-this-day-16-september-1810-mexican-independence-day-3/

Forbes removed an article calling a young woman who had a double mastectomy at 15 a “poster child for far-right” after she testified to being autistic and not understanding the ramifications of the procedure.

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https://gript.ie/forbes-removes-article-criticizing-detransitioner-and-calling-biological-sex-terms-nonsence/

NewsTalk suggests Ireland becomes the land of 500,000 (more) welcomes by bringing in vast numbers of low skilled workers to fill the alleged deficit of toilet cleaners and coffee makers. Elsewhere the French Embassy has issued a warning on the severe lack of housing here #gript

https://gript.ie/newstalk-presenters-say-ireland-needs-half-a-million-more-immigrants/

Ireland is one of just two countries that failed to apply for European Commission funding to secure energy continuity, it has emerged, as the energy crisis continues to take hold.

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https://gript.ie/ireland-one-of-just-two-countries-that-failed-to-apply-for-european-funding-energy-initiative/

“Kill the Rich”: BEN SCALLAN asks why violent Leftwing rhetoric is so widely tolerated by the media in an Ireland that claims to have no place for extremism:

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https://gript.ie/kill-the-rich-how-irish-media-tolerates-violent-leftwing-rhetoric/