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/

POLL: Is the proposed "ban on evictions" a good or bad idea?

Vote in our online poll and leave your comments on social media and on our site!

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https://gript.ie/poll-is-the-proposed-ban-on-evictions-a-good-or-bad-idea/

Winter of discontent on the horizon as energy prices will bring chaos to homes and businesses.” Michael Collins


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https://gript.ie/winter-of-discontent-on-the-horizon-as-energy-prices-will-bring-chaos-to-homes-and-businesses-michael-collins/

Russia adds Facebook & Instagram to list of “terrorist” groups, says report

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https://gript.ie/russia-adds-fb-ig-to-list-of-terrorist-groups-says-report/

Fine Gael councillor calls for seagulls to be fed contraceptive pills

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https://gript.ie/fine-gael-councillor-calls-for-seagulls-to-be-fed-contraceptive-pills/

“Confusing terminology being misrepresented to school children as fact”: A teaching group has called for gender ideology to be removed from the Irish school curriculum.

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https://gript.ie/irish-teaching-group-calls-to-remove-gender-ideology-from-schools/

Over 2,000 letters from nursing home staff across Ireland have been delivered to the Department of Health calling for the Covid-19 Special Recognition Payment to be processed as soon as possible. 40,000 staff are still waiting on the bonus.

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https://gript.ie/a-promise-broken-by-our-government-nursing-home-staff-protest-over-delay-in-covid-19-payment/

In the words of Fox, who initially struggled to accept his Parkinson’s diagnosis at the age of just 29, “Acceptance doesn’t mean resignation. It means that something is the way that it is, and there’s got to be a way through it”.

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https://gript.ie/michael-j-fox-at-comic-con-actor-shows-real-courage-in-face-of-illness/

The goal-scorer in Tuesday’s Republic of Ireland historic qualifier for the FIFA World Cup has won the nation’s admiration after her tribute to the ‘”10 beautiful souls” who lost their lives in the Creeslough tragedy.

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https://gript.ie/amber-barretts-heartfelt-tribute-to-creeslough-makes-victory-all-the-sweeter/

JOHN MCGUIRK: "The problem with maths is that it is irresistible, which is probably why Roderic O'Gorman is now considering a "pause" on migrant arrivals to Citywest, which we all know was a "far right" idea until five minutes ago"
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https://gript.ie/wait-is-roderick-ogorman-far-right-now/

ON THIS DAY: 13 OCTOBER 1881: Charles Stewart Parnell and other Land League activists arrested

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https://gript.ie/on-this-day-13-october-1881-charles-stewart-parnell-and-other-land-league-activists-arrested-2/

Taoiseach Micheál Martin has confirmed that questions related to ‘gender identity and sexual orientation’ will be included in a census pilot which will be undertaken in 2024.

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https://gript.ie/taoiseach-confirms-questions-on-gender-identity-and-sexual-orientation-in-census-2024-pilot/

"So now we have the appalling situation where women and children from Ukraine were to be forced out of temporary homes to make way for hundreds of men from safe countries like Georgia and Libya and elsewhere. But this is a mess of Roderic O'Gorman's making.'

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https://gript.ie/killarneys-ukrainians-are-latest-victims-of-the-madness-of-our-immigration-policy/