WATCH: “Absolutely disastrous and a disgrace” - At a Fine Gael event in Cork, Minister Simon Coveney was confronted on his support for the Climate Action Bill and its impact on rural Ireland.

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https://gript.ie/coveney-its-only-a-matter-of-time-before-we-have-carbon-labelling/

A family-run business in Co. Clare has received a painful €20,000 electricity bill amid the ongoing energy crisis, compared to their €6,500 bill last year.

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https://gript.ie/clare-supermarket-receives-eye-watering-e20k-electricity-bill/

HIGH COURT CASE: Two Dublin women are seeking damages from the Irish State after they were arrested during the Covid lockdown, and are calling for the courts to declare parts of the legislation unconstitutional. #GRIPT https://gript.ie/dublin-women-seek-damages-from-the-irish-state-over-covid-rules/

BEN SCALLAN: “It’s gotten to the point now where people are so fragile and sensitive, that the mildest of inconveniences causes them to melt away into a kind of human soup.”

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https://gript.ie/the-new-york-times-comically-embarrassing-election-stress-advice/

JOHN MCGUIRK: "The reason RTÉ bans opposing perspectives on Climate Change is not because they think the people making those arguments are stupid; but because RTÉ thinks their viewers might be too stupid to agree with RTÉ."

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https://gript.ie/on-climate-change-rte-doesnt-even-pretend-to-be-balanced/

Aontú’s Peadar Tóibín has told a Dáil debate on Home Care that the state is spending up to €170 million on providing hospital beds to clinically discharged patients who are being forced to remain in hospital due to a lack of step-down supports.

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https://gript.ie/toibin-clinically-discharged-patients-trapped-in-hospitals-due-to-lack-of-step-down-supports/

The biggest loser from the US Midterms? Well, it certainly wasn't Joe Biden, as many had expected:
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https://gript.ie/understanding-the-midterms/

GQ Magazine’s ‘men of the year’ list 2022 features various female ‘honorees’ including ‘non-binary’ actress and House of the Dragon star Emma D’arcy.

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https://gript.ie/gq-magazine-honouree-list-for-men-of-the-year-includes-7-women/

A man was arrested by police and taken away in handcuffs after he viciously attacked stewards at a pro-life event, organised by the group Precious Life in Belfast on Saturday. The group say the shocking incident left one steward with a serious bite to the neck.

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https://gript.ie/man-arrested-in-belfast-for-biting-pro-lifer-in-the-neck/

Free Speech Ireland has sent a list of concerns to members of the Oireachtas regarding Helen McEntee’s new ‘hate speech’ law citing the possibility that personal statements made could lead to prosecution.

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"The most recent statistics on 'undocumented' people arriving at Dublin airport show no sign of this slowing."

MATT TREACY writes...

https://gript.ie/numbers-of-undocumented-arrivals-in-dublin-continues-to-grow/

Government is failing to deliver imaginative and constructive solutions to the ongoing crisis in the Home Support Service, more commonly referred to as Home Help, according to Independent TD for West-Cork, Michael Collins.

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https://gript.ie/older-people-getting-false-hope-rather-than-home-help-td-says/

Deputy Garda Commissioner, Anne Marie McMahon, has told the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health, that no person has ever been arrested for protesting abortion centres in Ireland.

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https://gript.ie/garda-chief-confirms-no-arrests-made-for-pro-life-vigils/

“Although a booming surrogacy industry has given hope to many desperate would-be parents, is such immense yearning to have a child really grounds to justify such obvious exploitation?”

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https://gript.ie/rich-people-renting-wombs-is-the-real-handmaids-tale/

The Judge insisted that Mr Snelling, 72, is “anti-establishment”. He said the offence “strikes at the heart of justice”, adding: "[Snelling] is anti-establishment, especially to the police."

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https://gript.ie/elderly-man-who-served-mince-pies-during-lockdown-is-jailed-in-uk/

JOHN MCGUIRK: An incident in Martin Nolan's court this week raises a genuine and uncomfortable question about whether the Judge is doing the basic parts of his job.
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https://gript.ie/is-judge-nolan-even-doing-the-basic-parts-of-his-job/

"With a token navy of six patrol vessels, not a single submarine to cover its vast marine zone, and annual defence spending of barely more than 1 billion euros, Ireland stands out as the worst-prepared European country to meet any meaningful threat" according to Foreign Policy, the leading defence journal:
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https://gript.ie/leading-magazine-declares-ireland-is-europes-weak-link-on-defence/

Gender appropriation seems to be not only acceptable, but a cause to be celebrated as the Rose of Tralee and the Miss America Organisation now allow men to enter female beauty competitions



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https://gript.ie/why-did-a-man-named-brian-just-win-a-female-beauty-pageant/

A Sligo TD has told the Dáil that families in his constituency who have been on the housing list for decades are asking where Irish citizens are in the ‘pecking order’ after it was announced that modular homes were being built “exclusively for Ukrainians”.

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https://gript.ie/watch-sligo-td-says-families-asking-where-modular-homes-are-for-irish-people/

MATT TREACY: DeSantis may be the story of the US mid-terms

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https://gript.ie/desantis-may-be-the-story-of-the-us-mid-terms/

COMMENT: Would 'hate speech' censorship see Fr Sheehy locked up in jail for preaching Catholic teaching

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https://gript.ie/would-hate-speech-censorship-see-fr-sheehy-locked-up-in-jail-for-preaching-catholic-teaching/