Minister for Justice, Helen McEntee, has confirmed that her Department can only give ‘annual totals’ for all deportation orders made and that consequently she is unable to provide a breakdown of the number of people subject to deportation under any of the 9 grounds set out in legislation governing this area.

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https://gript.ie/mcentee-confirms-her-department-does-not-hold-data-on-why-people-are-deported/

BEN SCALLAN: “Peace should be the number one priority of everyone involved in this situation. And the fact that we have so many people on all sides cheerleading for war like it’s some kind of sport is frankly disgraceful.”

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https://gript.ie/bombing-of-ukraine-shows-why-peace-is-needed-now-more-than-ever/

JOHN MCGUIRK writes that there is a "vaccine veil of silence" in the media as evidence mounts that the vaccines people were compelled to take did not work exactly as advertised, and a Florida report casts doubt on the wisdom of young men taking them:
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https://gript.ie/why-the-media-silence-over-the-florida-vaccine-statement/

While PayPal appears to have rolled back terms of service that would have allowed the company to impose fines on users for ‘misinformation’, the company still reserves the right to fine users who ‘promote hate’ $2,500 at its ‘sole discretion’.

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https://gript.ie/thousands-delete-paypal-accounts-after-2500-misinformation-threat/

"The IHREC sees where the wind is blowing. Such is the enthusiasm for abortion in the ‘establishment’ that it is not just the Government, advocacy groups and the media that want to silence any dissenting voices, it is the human rights and civil liberties’ bodies as well."


DAVID REYNOLDS writes...

https://gript.ie/what-kind-of-a-rights-commission-wants-to-jail-peaceful-protesters/

The Central Bank has said inflation at home and abroad is at a 40 year high, while also predicting a rise in business insolvency as covid financial supports are withdrawn in a time of rising costs.

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https://gript.ie/central-bank-warns-business-insolvency-will-rise/

The small town of Creeslough in Donegal today faces the agonising task of burying the victims of Friday’s gas explosion. The town of just 400 people will lay to rest 10 of their loved ones, with the first funerals taking place today.

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https://gript.ie/we-do-not-have-the-words-first-funerals-of-10-creeslough-victims-held/

One of Germany’s prominent business leaders has hit out at that country’s energy policies, saying that the current energy crisis and the emphasis on unreliable renewables means Germany is at risk of going from an industrial country to an “industrial museum”.

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https://gript.ie/germany-risks-becoming-industrial-museum-due-to-energy-crisis-says-business-leader/

BEN SCALLAN: “If you allow the government to seize power during a crisis, they will create a crisis so they can seize power.”

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https://gript.ie/scallan-the-governments-addiction-to-emergency-powers/

“Foot-dragging on restarting idle power plants must end immediately.," says Carol Nolan

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https://gript.ie/foot-dragging-and-reluctance-to-restart-idle-power-plants-must-end-immediately-carol-nolan/

A 24th man (Omar Taj) was charged with the rape of a teenage girl in Bradford between 2007-11, along with 23 other men who are predominantly British Pakistanis. Figureheads have stated some muslims see ‘white girls as worthless’.


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https://gript.ie/24th-man-charged-with-raping-teenage-girl-in-bradford-grooming-scandal/

BREAKING: Kim, the Jack Russell terrier whose destruction order caused an internet sensation, was granted a second chance at life today after a Judge laid down conditions under which the destruction order will be permanently stayed:

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https://gript.ie/breaking-kim-the-dog-saved-as-court-grants-reprieve/

Focus Ireland now says the exodus of private landlords from housing market is a problem, but for years the left supported policies that led to that exodus and left the path clear for vulture funds. Are these NGOs are actually effective and delivering?

MATT TREACY writes

https://gript.ie/do-the-ngos-have-the-solution-to-the-housing-crisis/

ON THIS DAY: 11 OCTOBER 1649: CROMWELL MASSACRES WEXFORD

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https://gript.ie/on-this-day-11-october-1649-cromwell-massacres-wexford-4/

Ireland’s financial support to assist Ukrainian soldiers stands at €55 million

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https://gript.ie/irelands-financial-support-to-assist-ukrainian-soldiers-stands-at-e55-million/

Kuno Meyer was a German scholar who as an expert in Celtic philogoy and literature and a pioneering scholar of old Irish.

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https://gript.ie/on-this-day-11-october-1919-death-of-kuno-meyer-celtic-scholar-2/

Northern Ireland Coroner Joe McCrisken has said that heroin-related deaths are now “the highest we have ever seen,” while cocaine deaths are up by a staggering 1,000 per cent in five years.

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https://gript.ie/cocaine-deaths-go-up-astronomically-in-northern-ireland-heroin-and-drug-mixing-deaths-also-soar/

Ireland will miss out in billions of funding for biomethane energy production, especially suited to agricultural countries, because we missed the deadline to apply. Eamon Ryan's goofiness isn't funny any more.

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https://gript.ie/ireland-misses-out-on-billions-or-why-eamon-ryans-goofiness-isnt-funny-any-more/

"Over the past decade, Government has persistently subsidised demand for housing and disincentivised its supply. It is difficult to think of one single policy that hasn't made things worse"
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https://gript.ie/focus-ireland-eh-perhaps-government-has-been-too-hard-on-landlords/

Is Stephen Donnelly raising the spectre of mandatory masking this winter so as to get credit when the Government doesn't do it?
JOHN MCGUIRK: Conspiracy theorist.
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https://gript.ie/donnellys-new-idea-what-about-a-bit-of-mandatory-facemasking/

ON THIS DAY: 12 OCTOBER 1645: Archbishop Rinuccini arrives in Ireland to offer assistance to O'Neill and the Irish Confederates

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https://gript.ie/on-this-day-12-october-1645-archbishop-rinuccini-arrives-in-ireland-to-offer-assistance-to-oneill-4/