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/

“I think all public transport should be regarded as quiet zones within reason. Many recent bus trips have left me feeling like I’ve had an encounter with the fictional Fr. Fintan Stack,” writes FATIMA GUNNING.

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https://gript.ie/the-quiet-carriage-why-cant-the-whole-train-just-have-manners/

JOHN MCGUIRK: "Musk is a threat to the whole progressive superstructure, because if you take away the power to threaten, and the power to silence, and the power to shut down, then your whole ideology and movement loses some of its appeal."
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https://gript.ie/is-elon-musk-the-new-jk-rowling/

Fr Séan Sheehy, the Kerry-based priest who found himself in the eye of a storm over the content of a homily he gave to parishioners in Listowel, led a Men’s Rosary event in Tralee over the weekend, receiving a “nice reception” from those present.

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https://gript.ie/support-for-fr-sean-sheehy-as-he-leads-public-prayer-gathering-in-tralee/

"Thus, on Friday, Dessie Ellis emerged to first of all state that all of those accommodated would be women and children, and when challenged resorted to claiming that one woman present was only there because of her “right wing attitude"."

MATT TREACY writes...

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https://gript.ie/still-no-clarity-regarding-proposed-finglas-refugee-accommodation-centre/

Dublin serial thief with 77 convictions caught shoplifting items worth hundreds of euros

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https://gript.ie/thief-with-77-convictions-stole-items-worth-hundreds-of-euros/

BEN SCALLAN: “One wonders if a person decided to hold a sign saying “Vaccine manufacturers deserve death,” or “Politicians deserve death” if the Indo would describe the person holding those signs as an ‘activist’?”
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TD Mattie Mc Grath has questioned the government’s ‘open door’ immigration policies, which he says has resulted in a “staggering” almost 700 percent increase in asylum seekers here in the first nine months of 2022, compared to the same period last year.

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https://gript.ie/100-migrants-a-week-arrive-without-papers-as-mcgrath-says-immigration-policy-like-runaway-train/

JOHN MCGUIRK: "A church that wants people to believe in hell and sin might start by teaching that Priests who abused children are already down there, being prodded with firey forks"
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https://gript.ie/the-disgrace-of-the-holy-ghost-fathers/

"The runways of Egypt are lined with private Jets. The dinners served up are fit for Kings. The whole thing is sponsored by – you couldn’t make this up – Coca Cola, one of the world’s worst plastic polluters."
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https://gript.ie/is-cop-27-now-entirely-self-defeating/

Japan has delayed carbon tax revision for a second time in an effort to ease the financial burden on households. The country had said it would cut emissions by 46% compared to 2013 levels.


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https://gript.ie/japan-delays-carbon-tax-to-offset-burden-of-inflation-on-households/