“It is time we got serious about those arriving here without documentation and bogus claims for asylum, particularly when our services are under such strain,” TD Mattie McGrath said in response to the figures obtained today.

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https://gript.ie/3254-undocumented-migrants-enter-state-in-first-8-months-of-2022/

Sinead Gibney of the IHREC says capping refugee numbers is “not a choice”, thinking it is is “problematic”, and we should be “progressive” and see the value of those seeking international protection.

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https://gript.ie/ireland-should-do-more-for-refugees-says-sinead-gibney-of-ihrec/

After much controversy, and allegations that children who felt they were transgender were rushed into treatment, the British National Health Service will warn doctors that these feelings often disappear for children as they get older, and that children should not be encouraged to change their names and pronouns.

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https://gript.ie/huge-change-nhs-says-trans-children-likely-going-through-a-phase/

Elon Musk has formally taken over the social media platform Twitter in a €44 Billion deal - and one of his first actions was to fire some of the company's top executives, according to reports.

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https://gript.ie/the-bird-is-freed-musk-fires-exec-who-banned-trump-as-he-takes-over-twitter/

Sharyar Ali (34) has been sentenced in realtion to the murder of baby Hunter Patrick McGleeson who died in his care in November 2019.


#gript https://gript.ie/man-sentenced-to-13-years-for-murder-of-baby-hunter-mcgleeson/

Government can’t protect people from interest rate hikes, says Donohoe

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https://gript.ie/government-cant-protect-people-from-interest-rate-hikes-donohoe/

DR DAVID ALBERT JONES : Conscience remains the soul of the medical profession

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https://gript.ie/conscience-remains-the-soul-of-the-medical-profession/

JOHN MCGUIRK: Why Micheál Martin should probably thank Boris Johnson for his 9 point bounce in public approval ratings.
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https://gript.ie/the-governments-budget-and-boris-bounce/

“It is a vice that so many people have, so many lay men and women.”

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https://gript.ie/pope-even-priests-and-nuns-struggle-with-pornography/

The inquest into the death of Belfast schoolboy Noah Donohoe will be held with a jury, a coroner has ruled.

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https://gript.ie/noah-donohoe-inquest-to-be-held-with-jury-coroner-rules/

From AUGUST "So using the data from the UNCHR we can calculate that Ireland has taken in almost six times per capita the number of Ukrainian refugees as Britain and France, both countries with significantly larger economies."

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https://gript.ie/varadkar-is-wrong-data-shows-we-have-taken-more-than-our-fair-share-of-refugees/

Yesterday, October 27, marked the 55th anniversary of the granting of Royal Assent to the British 1967 Medical Termination of Pregnancy Act. The provisions of that have subsequently been extended to Northern Ireland with the support and complicity of Sinn Féin and the SDLP.

MATT TREACY writes

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https://gript.ie/thatcher-supported-legalising-abortion-in-britain-while-many-on-the-left-were-opposed/

National Museum of Ireland and iCAN are documenting Irish Ghost Stories in efforts to record and preserve our traditional folklore - submit yours if you dare!

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https://gript.ie/ghost-stories-of-ireland-national-museum-of-ireland-seeks-spooky-submissions/

A Judge on the Cork Circuit Criminal Court hearing a case of a woman who fraudulently claimed €35,700 in social welfare payments, has said that the state’s actions in the case amounts to ‘an invitation to be scalped’.

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https://gript.ie/invitation-to-be-scalped-judges-view-in-migrant-fraud-case/

A backlash is growing against the decision of Green party Lord Mayor Caroline Conroy to ban live animals from the traditional life-size Nativity crib at Dublin’s Mansion House.

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https://gript.ie/banned-nativity-crib-described-as-hideous-display-from-dark-days-of-religion/

DAVID THUNDER: Big Brother is Watching You: The Chilling Effect of Big Tech Censorship

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https://gript.ie/big-brother-is-watching-you-the-chilling-effect-of-big-tech-censorship/

ON THIS DAY: 29 OCTOBER 2015: China announces the end of their one-child policy after 35 years

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https://gript.ie/on-this-day-29-october-2015-china-announces-the-end-of-their-one-child-policy-after-35-years-4/

A former governor of the Bank of England has said that the mistakes made by the Central Banks in the west during the Covid lockdown predictably led to inflation, after governments lost control of the public finances.

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https://gript.ie/central-banks-mistakes-led-to-inflation-says-former-governor-of-central-bank/

The indiscriminate and exploitative use of a dead woman's name, and her image, to push a controversial campaign that she was never part of continues.

NIAMH UÍ BHRIAIN writes

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https://gript.ie/the-same-media-who-exploit-savita-ignore-aisha-chiteria/

Sinn Féin councillor, Michael Mulligan, said there was a 'limit to what Ireland can take' in a Facebook post, according to the Sunday Independent.

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https://gript.ie/roscommon-cllr-town-is-dumping-ground-for-refugees/

A piece of legislation passed before recess seems to mean that a new political party cannot be registered unless it has a sitting TD or MEP. Why would such a change be made, asks MATT TREACY.

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https://gript.ie/has-a-new-law-quietly-made-it-harder-to-register-a-new-political-party/