"Empires of the past suppressed local customs and languages and cultures and practices in favour of the idea that their own civilisation was inherently superior.
Is this not also the idea of the European Union, as expressed in its conflict with Hungary?"
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https://gript.ie/orban-and-the-cultural-imperialism-of-brussels/

Ramming Garda cars in Cherry Orchard: MATT TREACY says that factors causing social decay are “as plain as the nose on your face” but as long as they are ignored throwing money at schemes won’t work.

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https://gript.ie/falling-down-in-cherry-orchard-lots-of-amenities-but-few-intact-families/

The sack of the north Dublin town of Balbriggan by the British forces known as the Black and Tans took place 102 years ago today. The atrocity, and the rampant nature of the violence, killing, looting and burning, drew international condemnation.

ON THIS DAY: 20 SEPTEMBER 1920

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https://gript.ie/on-this-day-20-september-1920-burning-of-balbriggan-by-the-black-and-tans-took-place/

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"She's f***ing leaking". A woman is repeatedly stabbed and slashed in Dame Street while onlookers stand by, comment, and film the terrifying attack. How much more will we tolerate asks NIAMH UÍ BHRIAIN

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https://gript.ie/slashed-woman-is-latest-victim-of-our-lawless-republic/

Jerry and Kate McCann have lost their case in the European Court of Human Rights against comments made by a former detective accusing them of involvement in their daughter’s disappearance.

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https://gript.ie/parents-of-madeleine-mccann-lose-defamation-case-at-echr/

The IMF has warned that a harsh winter, combined with a recession due to runaway inflation, could lead to “social unrest” across Europe.

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https://gript.ie/imf-harsh-winter-may-lead-to-social-unrest-across-europe/

With the success of the newly released Edgerunners anime driving up interest in Cyberpunk you're missing out if you're still holding off playing Cyberpunk 2077.


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https://gript.ie/if-you-enjoyed-edgerunners-its-time-to-give-cyberpunk-2077-another-chance/

According to a new survey, binge drinking is on the rise in Ireland event despite minimum unit alcohol pricing.

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https://gript.ie/survey-binge-drinking-on-the-rise-despite-minimum-alcohol-pricing/

“Ordinary, law-abiding citizens in certain parts of this country are terrorised day in, day out, by lowlife criminal hooligans who have no respect for their communities, the people in them, or the law.”

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https://gript.ie/senator-joyriding-thugs-an-all-too-familiar-sight-in-dublin/

ON THIS DAY: On September 21st 1601 the Spanish landed in Kinsale Co Cork with some 4,000 men, took the town and awaited the arrival of the Gaelic chiefs from Ulster.

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https://gript.ie/on-this-day-21-september-1601-spanish-land-in-kinsale-4/

"This country is run by, and for, people who think that Brexit and misgendering and “everyday sexism” are bigger problems than drug crime, violence, and antisocial behaviour"

- JOHN MCGUIRK on the state's open tolerance of the crime-ridden capital city.

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https://gript.ie/it-is-time-to-stop-pretending-that-government-cares-about-crime/

"The first thing to say about the Government’s pension plan is that it absolutely shafts those who avail of it"

Is tricking people out of their pension the only politically saleable way of averting the pensions crisis?

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https://gript.ie/the-relatively-sensible-government-pensions-plan/

Independent TD for Laois Offaly, Carol Nolan, has told Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications, Eamon Ryan, that he and his Government colleagues are moving the country at speed toward an energy price precipice.

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https://gript.ie/government-response-is-steady-as-she-goes-as-country-moves-toward-an-energy-price-precipice-carol-nolan/

A new paper based on data from the National Bureau of Economic Research has documented a ‘crisis of midlife’ impacting those in affluent countries, with one’s forties and early fifties associated with a decline in basic measures of life satisfaction.

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https://gript.ie/new-study-the-midlife-crisis-is-real-for-those-in-affluent-countries-with-stress-peaking-at-45/

The Rural Independent Group have introduced a Dáil motion to deliver Irish Energy Security. Michael Collins TD said the motion outlines an alternative plan “aimed at ending the purely bogus and politically-induced ban on Irish oil and gas exploration”.

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https://gript.ie/rural-tds-introduce-dail-motion-to-end-purely-bogus-and-politically-induced-ban-on-irish-gas-and-oil-exploration/

Aontú’s Education Spokesperson and teacher, Gemma Brolly, has taken aim at a new Ulster University report funded by the Integrated Education Fund calling for ‘radical change’ to education in NI, including the scrapping of ‘Christian focused’ teaching.

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https://gript.ie/teacher-slams-report-says-christian-focused-education-has-a-valued-place-in-ni/

The Irish Times advice column openly encourages a woman who is also a wife and mother to pursue life as a gay man after she says she was encouraged by members of the trans community to do so.

#gript https://gript.ie/irish-times-encourages-mother-to-live-as-gay-man-is-this-the-worst-advice-ever/

“I’m not bluffing”: Putin threatens to use nuclear weapons, while Irish politicians insist “we are not neutral”:

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https://gript.ie/im-not-bluffing-putin-threatens-to-use-nuclear-weapons/

The criminal trial of 90-year-old Catholic cardinal Joseph Zen is set to begin next week in Hong Kong, as the region continues to be transformed from a state which enjoyed autonomy to a region crouching under the lash of China’s authoritarianism.

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https://gript.ie/abandoned-by-the-pope-90-year-old-cardinal-joseph-zen-to-stand-criminal-trial-under-china-in-hong-kong/