“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/

“I left because there were two petrol bombs thrown at my house, because my son wouldn’t do cocaine during the leaving [cert]”, Liveline caller Andrew told Joe Duffy, amid national discussion of the anti-social violence plaguing Cherry Orchard.

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https://gript.ie/dad-says-house-petrol-bombed-in-cherry-orchard-as-son-wouldnt-do-cocaine-during-leaving-cert/

"What it comes down to in the end is that the modern progressive global leader finds criticism unbearably traumatic" writes JOHN MCGUIRK:
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https://gript.ie/who-supremo-these-anti-lockdowners-have-given-me-ptsd/

A high school in Ontario Canada has defended a male teacher who has been photographed wearing large prosthetic breasts and a long blonde wig to work saying gender expression is protected under Canadian law.

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https://gript.ie/ontario-school-defends-male-teacher-wearing-giant-prosthetic-bust-to-school/

Despite Catholics now comprising some 46% of the population, it is the figures relating to identity that really matter, says MATT TREACY.

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https://gript.ie/northern-ireland-census-provides-no-support-for-border-poll/

The Minister for Children; Equality; Disability; Integration and Youth, Roderic O’Gorman, has confirmed that approximately 500 contracts are in operation providing accommodation to Beneficiaries of Temporary Protection (BOTPs) fleeing the war in Ukraine.

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https://gript.ie/minister-confirms-his-department-has-signed-500-contracts-providing-accommodation-to-ukrainians/

A Green Party Councillor is being accused of 'spying and reporting' after her complaint to Fingal County Council about the twitter account of the local library following feminists who have raised concerns about transgender extremism led to the account being suspended.

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https://gript.ie/spying-and-reporting-green-cllr-gets-fingal-library-twitter-account-suspended/

Smiling at carrots but crying at kale: A new study from Durham University has recorded evidence that unborn babies experience the flavour of their mother’s food, and react differently to various smells and tastes while in the womb.

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https://gript.ie/babies-in-the-womb-smile-and-cry-in-reaction-to-what-mum-eats-world-first-study-shows/

A popular crêpe restaurant in Co. Wicklow has won praise after its owners offered a discount to customers paying in cash as part of its support for the nationwide movement to reignite cash.

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https://gript.ie/cash-preferred-wicklow-crepe-restaurant-offers-customers-discount-when-paying-in-cash/