JOHN MCGUIRK: Lockdown is the single thread running through almost every current Irish crisis; It was a disaster, and our governing class and half the public cannot ever bring themselves to admit it.
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https://gript.ie/ireland-will-never-admit-lockdown-was-wrong-even-as-the-costs-pile-up/

JOHN MCGUIRK: Enoch Burke is in jail for ignoring a court order - so why does Ireland allow thousands of people under court-ordered "self-deportation" orders to flout the courts, and the law, at will?
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https://gript.ie/the-absurdity-of-irelands-self-deportation-system/

Internet users had some words for Anne Hathaway after the actress made a statement comparing abortion to ‘another word for mercy’ - read in article

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https://gript.ie/anne-hathaway-says-abortion-can-be-another-word-for-mercy-the-internet-disagrees/

52-year-old Meath man given fully suspended sentence for sexual assault, avoids jail

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https://gript.ie/meath-man-given-fully-suspended-sentence-for-sexual-assault/

Almost 17% of the population of England and Wales were born abroad according to the latest Census – a trend also accelerating here writes MATT TREACY

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https://gript.ie/almost-17-of-england-wales-born-abroad-a-trend-also-accelerating-here/

PODCAST: In Episode 3 of The Week that Really was: Father Sheehy versus the world; Why “Reeling in the Years” isn’t so much beloved TV show as dangerous misinformation, and David Quinn’s shocking 1983 secret. Available now where you get your podcasts.

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Elon Musk starts laying off Irish Twitter staff via email.

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https://gript.ie/twitter-starts-laying-off-irish-staff-amid-musk-takeover/

Every year, a gathering of those who love Gaeilge, sean-nós singing, traditional dancing and the best of craic takes place at Oireachtas na Samhna where an abundance of treasures awaits newcomers to the festival.

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https://gript.ie/watch-glorious-sean-nos-and-gaeilge-at-oireachtas-na-samhna/

The Garda National Immigration Bureau (GNIB) have warned those seeking asylum here that some ‘customers’ of the Irish Naturalisation and Immigration Service (INIS) have been contacted by telephone by a person purporting to be from INIS.

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https://gript.ie/gardai-issue-deportation-scam-alert-to-asylum-seekers/

“The conditioning of footballers to come down on one side of most issues is in part thanks to governing bodies including FIFA. As a result, the expectation for players to suddenly remain apolitical is drenched in a special kind of pretence”.

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https://gript.ie/is-it-too-late-for-fifa-to-tell-players-to-focus-on-football/

A local councillor in a Kerry town which has seen its population increase by more than 30% as the state places huge numbers of migrants and asylum seekers in the town has said that local people are now "afraid to walk the streets".

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https://gript.ie/people-afraid-to-walk-the-streets-anger-as-migrants-appear-to-harass-women-in-killarney/

“Perhaps most significantly, however, hate speech crimes function to provide for the pre-emptive repression of criticism. Transphobia, as a hate speech crime, pre-empts criticism of transgenderist ideology,” writes PROF GER CASEY

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https://gript.ie/gerard-casey-this-is-a-law-designed-to-make-you-afraid/

An appeal has been issued to trace a boy and girl, both aged 13, who have been missing from Co Monaghan since yesterday.

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https://gript.ie/appeal-to-held-find-two-teens-missing-from-monaghan/

“Perhaps most significantly, however, hate speech crimes function to provide for the pre-emptive repression of criticism. Transphobia, as a hate speech crime, pre-empts criticism of transgenderist ideology,” writes PROF GER CASEY

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https://gript.ie/gerard-casey-this-is-a-law-designed-to-make-you-afraid/

PODCAST: A suggestion that taxes should have a purpose as opposed to simply being things the Government thinks they can get away with; the Hate Speech Bill; and the Twitter buyout and what it says about journalists. #gript https://gript.ie/podcasts/trsi-336-cast-out-into-the-outer-dark/

ON THIS DAY: 6 November 1649: Death of Eoghan Ruadh Ó Néill in Cavan

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https://gript.ie/on-this-day-6-november-1649-death-of-eoghan-ruadh-o-neill-in-cavan-3/

CIARAN O'REGAN on the new hate speech bill

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https://gript.ie/to-the-irish-justice-ministry/

"Parents often struggle with discipline, especially if they’re focusing on when, whether, and how to punish. Kids, for their part, don’t like getting punished. They’re more likely to feel sorry for themselves rather than sorry for what they did. Attitude and behaviour don’t improve."

THOMAS LICKONA writes...

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https://gript.ie/trouble-with-discipline-focus-on-character-not-punishment/

In recent weeks, Joe Biden and the US Democrats have explicitly declared that tomorrow's mid-term elections are a referendum on abortion, and the abolition of Roe v Wade. But it looks as if they may lose it:
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https://gript.ie/biden-is-set-to-lose-his-own-abortion-referendum/

The HSE is set to begin contacting the more than 100,000 people who had their personal data stolen during the cyber-attack on the health service in May 2021, The Irish Times today reports.

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https://gript.ie/more-than-100000-people-who-had-data-stolen-during-hse-cyber-attack-to-be-contacted/