Up to 3,000 Dutch farms near areas considered environmentally sensitive are set to be bought and shut down by the government in order to comply with EU rules.

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https://gript.ie/dutch-government-will-force-thousands-of-farms-to-shut-down-to-comply-with-eu-rules/

Australia’s Environment Minister has opposed UNESCO’s suggestion that the Great Barrier Reef is “endangered.”

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https://gript.ie/australia-opposed-to-labelling-great-barrier-reef-endangered/

Approximately half of covid fines issued in New South Wales invalidated in major Supreme Court ruling


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https://gript.ie/australia-nsw-supreme-court-cancels-over-33000-covid-fines/

A quarter of small landlords are likely to sell properties within 5 years, a new report has claimed.

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https://gript.ie/a-quarter-of-small-landlords-likely-to-sell-properties-within-5-years/

Figures to the end of October 2022, show that the number of migrants from Georgia who are claiming to be asylum seekers in Ireland has increased ten-fold in a year.


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https://gript.ie/migrants-from-georgia-claiming-asylum-in-ireland-increases-ten-fold-in-year/

After the initial ‘bondage teddy bag’ controversy, Balenciaga blames third parties for the placement of court documents relating to child pornography in a no- pulled upcoming ad campaign. But was it all really a big mistake? FATIMA GUNNING
　
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https://gript.ie/depravity-in-plain-sight-fashion-giant-balenciaga-and-the-sexualisation-of-children/

Census data released today has revealed that Christians are now a minority in England and Wales for the first time — while the number of people professing to have ‘no religion’ has increased by over 8 million in the last ten years.

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https://gript.ie/christians-a-minority-in-england-and-wales-for-first-time-uk-census-shows/

JOHN MCGUIRK: The man sentenced for child sex abuse in Kerry this week was caught, in 2016, texting underaged children asking them for naked photographs. Why was he still at liberty?

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https://gript.ie/why-was-the-kerry-paedophile-not-in-jail/

“That engagement has always thrown up very specific concerns around the fear that food producers have in terms of their capacity to be penalised for seeking a fair price for their goods.”

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https://gript.ie/new-agri-food-regulator-must-not-adopt-light-touch-approach-to-fines-and-penalties-carol-nolan/

"A new advert promoting suicide by the Canadian fashion brand, Simons, has to be seen to be believed. In an arty ocean-front set, filled with music, sanitized friends, and sunset light shows, the message of ending your life in the best fashion is hyped with a positive soundtrack and a death (sic life) affirming message."

THADE ANDY writes...

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https://gript.ie/in-canadas-dystopian-assisted-suicide-ad-death-imitates-art-imitates-death/

After initial denial US Federal Gov appointee admits to stealing woman’s luggage from an airport carousel despite not having check in luggage himself

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https://gript.ie/biden-appointee-admits-stealing-womans-luggage-from-airport/

A women’s group said a recommended reading list for school students on the national curriculum (NCCA) resources list included a book using ‘childish’ language and cartoon imagery to graphically describe how to engage in anal and oral sex. #gript

https://gript.ie/grooming-parents-in-shock-at-claim-by-womens-group-over-schools-recommended-reading-list/

JOHN MCGUIRK: "In practice this was not a "misinformation policy", but an "unapproved misinformation policy". Misinformation was fine, so long as it was the right kind."
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https://gript.ie/elon-musk-i-hereby-abolish-twitters-covid-misinformation-policy/

A special education school in Limerick is at risk of closure after it was found that the building was in such poor condition that it could not be granted a fire cert.

Minister Norma Foley was made aware of the risk of closure in January of this year.

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https://gript.ie/special-education-school-risks-closure-over-fire-safety-fears/

BEN SCALLAN: “Apparently if you object to any of these radical policies, you are causing division. Not the government turning society into a bizarro dystopia that most people find repugnant - it’s the people who complain that are the issue.”

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https://gript.ie/if-there-is-a-culture-war-in-ireland-its-being-waged-by-the-government/

"As many journalists produce reports using preferred pronouns, has not misgendering ‘female identified’ male criminals become more important than factual reporting? asks Fatima Gunning

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https://gript.ie/a-man-not-a-trans-woman-was-jailed-for-raping-and-impregnating-a-14yr-old-girl/

55 years on from his death, Kavanagh is still remembered and celebrated for various reasons, and his appeal endures to this day – with his writing particularly memorable for an ability to recount Irish life so vividly through the lens of the everyday.

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https://gript.ie/on-this-day-30-november-1967-death-of-beloved-irish-poet-and-novelist-patrick-kavanagh/?fbclid=IwAR14S3hzPz4lD3qcKmj1_RfW2iCzIhni88opNwsO_56IG2A2zxPdtpD42LQ

Cathal Crowe yesterday called for a cap on refugees coming to Ireland. RTÉ accused him of being “contrary to EU law”. But were they correct, asks Dr MATT TREACY.

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https://gript.ie/cathal-crowe-and-others-are-perfectly-entitled-to-question-irelands-migrant-and-refugee-capacity/

A radio presenter has compared Irish tricolours being flown at asylum protests to the “Nazi flag” and “the Swastika,” saying that the scenes of the national flag conjured up an “image of hate.”

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https://gript.ie/presenter-repulsed-at-tricolour-being-flown-at-asylum-protests/

WATCH: British MP Jacob Rees-Mogg tells the House of Commons that legal abortion is an “absolute tragedy” which should sadden us all — adding that 100,000 people are alive in Northern Ireland today because the Abortion Act was not extended.

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https://gript.ie/jacob-rees-mogg-highlights-absolute-tragedy-of-abortion-says-100000-alive-today-because-of-ni-law/