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/

JOHN MCGUIRK: As the Taoiseach warns about a dramatic rise in cancer cases as a result of lockdown, he cannot say he was not warned. In fact, he openly dismissed the warnings when they were given to him on the floor of the Dáil:
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https://gript.ie/why-the-taoiseach-owes-the-country-and-peadar-toibin-an-apology/

A Brazilian who was convicted for the possession of thousands of “depraved” images of child abuse, as well as production and distribution of images of child abuse has walked free from the Midlands Prison despite assurances of his deportation.

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https://gript.ie/brazilian-transgender-paedophile-walks-free-from-midlands-prison/

JOHN MCGUIRK: Once again, the President seems to be acting as a spokesman for global socialism, rather than a spokesman for Ireland:
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https://gript.ie/president-higgins-writes-love-letter-to-new-brazilian-president/

A children’s indoor soft play centre in Dublin has reversed a decision to go cashless after customers responded to the move with backlash.

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https://gript.ie/we-will-not-be-going-cashless-dublin-soft-play-centre-backtracks-on-card-only-decision-after-backlash/

German energy giant RWE will dismantle wind farm turbines to allow it to ramp up coal extraction in a move approved by the government in efforts to ease the country’s reliance on Russian energy.

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https://gript.ie/germany-wind-turbines-to-be-removed-to-expand-coal-mining/

Eurostat, the EU's official statistics agency, said that the figures were yet to be confirmed this month, but it was expected that annual inflation reached 10.7% in October 2022, up from 9.9% in September.

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https://gript.ie/eurozone-inflation-climbs-to-10-7-worse-than-predicted/

Eileen Quinn was 24 years old, seven months pregnant, and nursing her nine-month old child outside her farmhouse at Kiltartan when she was shot dead as two lorry loads of an Auxiliary division of the Royal Irish Constabulary passed her home.

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https://gript.ie/on-this-day-1-november-1920-eileen-quinn-pregnant-and-holding-her-young-son-shot-dead-by-ric-auxiliaries-otd-2/

"Píosa claonta ó thús deireadh a bhí neamhbhalbh ar son an ghinmhillte a cheapfá a bhí déanta ag ceann de na heagrais ar son an ghinmhillte. Ní raibh oiread is duine amháin ó thaobh na beatha curtha faoi agallamh le linn an chláir."

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https://gript.ie/nuacht-tg4-agus-bolscaireacht-an-ghinmhillte/

BEN SCALLAN: “This Listowel priest is being persecuted for the unforgivable offence of being a Catholic in 2022. He was well within his rights to say what he said, & nobody's forcing you to go to church at gunpoint if you don’t like the message.”

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https://gript.ie/shocker-kerry-priest-found-guilty-of-being-catholic/

Explainer: Why the media hasn't named the politician being investigated by his party for allegedly "grooming" teenagers online.
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https://gript.ie/why-the-media-hasnt-named-the-grooming-politician/

An able bodied Norwegian man who has been living as a wheelchair bound woman since 2020 says he found out about Body Integrity Disorder ‘online’.


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https://gript.ie/able-bodied-norwegian-man-identifies-as-wheelchair-bound-woman/