"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/

You can’t beat the game of hurling – and everyone is loving what football star Roy Keane told Sky Sports about his all-time favourite sporting event.

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https://gript.ie/watch-everyone-is-loving-roy-keane-on-sky-saying-the-hurling-final-is-better-than-the-superbowl/

Aontú leader, Peadar Tóibín has asked the Minister for Health, Stephen Donnelly, if his department had ever received data that the Pfizer Covid vaccine was ever tested for is ability to stop the transmission of the virus.


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https://gript.ie/toibin-asks-minister-if-pfizer-vaccine-was-tested-to-stop-covid-transmission/

No jail for standing on a woman’s neck, giving her two black eyes and damaging her teeth: @Ben_Scallan outlines 5 shocking legal decisions just from this week alone.

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https://gript.ie/suspended-sentence-5-shocking-legal-decisions-this-week/

Sinn Féin’s housing spokesman Eoin Ó Broin is caught between solving the housing crisis on one hand, and meeting climate targets on the other, potentially leaving the party hoisted on their own woke petard. @Ben_Scallan comments:

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https://gript.ie/house-of-cards-sinn-feins-climate-conundrum/

A Limerick prayer group has asked for First Saturday prayers as the world faces the escalation of war, with today marking the 105th Anniversary of the Church-approved Miracle of Fatima (Milagre do Sol).

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https://gript.ie/irish-prayer-group-asks-for-first-saturday-devotion-as-risk-of-escalation-of-war-looms/

The Irish Times’ agony aunt plays host to yet another tale of moral degeneracy as a woman says she is unhappy that her partner, who had a wife and kids when they met, now says he fancies someone else.

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https://gript.ie/the-irish-times-agony-column-open-relationships-and-a-general-feeling-of-nausea/

A prominent Hong Kong based pro democracy movement has said that PayPal Hong Kong has suspended services from the group citing ‘excessive risk’


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https://gript.ie/paypal-hong-kong-suspends-service-to-pro-democracy-group-lsd/

"He’s now been in prison for much longer than you’d ever get if, say, you stood on your wife’s neck and were in front of Martin Nolan. Or if you ran over a cyclist and were in front of Martin Nolan."
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https://gript.ie/seriously-why-is-enoch-burke-still-in-jail/

The billboards, which can be seen in Dublin, Cork, Limerick, Waterford, Kerry, Galway and elsewhere, reference the ongoing review of the abortion legislation, and say that retaining the 3-day wait period will ‘help women choose life’.

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https://gript.ie/billboard-campaign-urges-retention-of-3-day-wait-for-abortion/

The Dáil is set to debate a Bill that would see those who use minors to sell or supply illegal drugs face up to 10 years in prison.

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https://gript.ie/new-bill-seeks-10-years-jail-time-for-the-use-of-children-in-drug-distribution/

New US polling from YouGov and the Deseret News has found that liberals, especially liberal women, are ‘significantly less happy’ with their lives and less satisfied with their mental health than their conservative peers.

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https://gript.ie/liberals-especially-women-significantly-less-happy-with-lives-than-conservative-peers-study-finds/

ON THIS DAY: 13 OCTOBER 1889: Birth of Fr Pádraig de Brún, priest, gifted mathematician, poet, professor, and Gaelic revivalist.

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https://gript.ie/on-this-day-13-october-1889-birth-of-padraig-de-brun-priest-mathematician-poet-professor-gaelic-revivalist/

PROF RAY KINSELLA: “The takeaway is that neither the Government or its Budget  will protect Ireland from hard times or from war, and its consequences. Nor from arrears and repossessions. Only rekindling the values we have so casually ceded will do that”.

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https://gript.ie/budget-23-misses-the-bigger-picture/

ON THIS DAY: 15 OCTOBER 1842: THE NATION NEWSPAPER FIRST PUBLISHED

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https://gript.ie/on-this-day-15-october-1842-the-nation-newspaper-first-published-3/

“After such immense tragedy in his parish last Friday and beyond, he has managed to be there for everyone, a constant presence, and then topped it all with his personal, individual funeral for those who were lost in the disaster.”

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https://gript.ie/creeslough-parish-priest-praised-for-giving-such-dignity-to-those-affected-by-tragedy/

No, a song in a dressing room does not mean we need 're-education', writes Niamh Uí Bhriain.

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https://gript.ie/no-a-song-in-a-dressing-room-does-not-mean-we-need-re-education/