COLUMN: "‘Happy Holidays’. The greeting is ubiquitous in the run up to Christmas these days. From some, it is a well meaning, if misled, intention to be inclusive. It isn’t clear who is wished to be included in the Christmas season that is not already there. From others however, it is a deliberate snub of the Christian tradition hidden behind this false veil of inclusion."

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https://gript.ie/this-christmas-i-dont-want-to-have-happy-holidays-2/

"The IFA have offered a number of serious, credible and proportionate amendments to this Bill, but they have all been dismissed."

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https://gript.ie/an-unamended-water-abstraction-bill-will-give-the-minister-the-whip-hand-over-farmers-carol-nolan/

"My suggested solution: Instead of justifying or encouraging suicide in terms of saving health care dollars, Canadians should demand their government cut frivolous spending—and redirect it to people who actually need it to live."

HENDRIK VAN DER BREGGEN writes...

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https://gript.ie/canadas-government-should-help-canadians-live-not-help-kill-them/

Remembering Kilkennys Hurling and Camogie heros

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https://gript.ie/yulefest-kilkenny-kilkennys-christmas-festival-presents-a-special-photographic-exhibition-in-stathams-cafe-at-pembroke-kilkenny/

Women who were moved from a hotel in north Dublin to the controversial migrant centre in East Wall have said that they were being watched by men, who are also staying in the asylum centre, while they were showering in communal showers, and that they feel frightened and unsafe.

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https://gript.ie/women-brought-to-east-wall-migrant-centre-say-men-watching-them-in-communal-shower/

On this night, 11th December 1920, the Black and Tans burnt Cork City Centre with a devastating series of fires that swept through the city centre; looted businesses, assaulted firefighters and shot at the local population.

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https://gript.ie/on-this-day-11-december-1920-the-burning-of-cork-city-by-black-and-tans-3/

French pro-choice politicians try to bypass the people to amend the constitution

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https://gript.ie/french-pro-choice-politicians-try-to-bypass-the-people-to-amend-the-constitution/

“More hope of spotting a white whale than a fuel subsidy scheme for the fishing sector.” Michael Collins, Independent TD

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https://gript.ie/more-hope-of-spotting-a-white-whale-than-a-fuel-subsidy-scheme-for-the-fishing-sector-michael-collins/

PETER JACOBSEN : "The last few months, I’ve been reading through The Chronicles of Narnia with my daughters. It’s made bedtime reading a joy that I look forward to as much as they do."

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https://gript.ie/8-times-c-s-lewis-displayed-brilliant-political-commentary-in-the-chronicles-of-narnia/

"Why are we not looking into the consequences of the lockdown in Ireland? What is the government afraid of? Being made to acknowledge that they might have made mistakes? That would be an unacceptable prioritisation of their own political safety above the wellbeing of the citizens."

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https://gript.ie/where-is-the-inquiry-into-the-quite-incredible-rise-in-excess-deaths/

“What next?  How long before it is deemed unlawful to openly express the reasonable opinion that there are two lives in every pregnancy worth protecting – the life of a mother and the life of her unborn child?" the Archbishop asked.

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https://gript.ie/archbishop-martin-exclusion-zones-at-abortion-centres-further-silence-innocent-unborn/

JOHN MCGUIRK: "There's no point in having orange warnings at all if all those warnings mean is that it is cold and frosty in the middle of December" Have weather forecasters lost the run of themselves?
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https://gript.ie/catastrophising-the-weather/

JOHN MCGUIRK: "If it was an Oil company paying millions to influence public debate, there would be outrage. Yet we now know for a fact that twitter was putting its thumb on the scale, shutting down anti-lockdown arguments, and media looks the other way"
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https://gript.ie/the-media-silence-on-musks-twitter-revelations/

Author JK Rowling has launched a women only shelter for survivors of sexual violence saying there was am “unmet need” for the female only service


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https://gript.ie/jk-rowling-opens-up-women-only-shelter-for-survivors-of-sexual-violence/

Protests are being held at a number of the country’s most struggling A&E departments today, with locals encouraged to actively voice their frustration at the ‘worsening A&E crisis’ in Irish hospitals.

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https://gript.ie/ae-protests-to-take-place-over-unmitigated-disaster-of-waiting-times-and-overcrowding/

Dr MATT TREACY looks at new reports on the shortage in housing and the contradictions in thinking and policy-making that is hampering the response of both government and opposition while families grow more desperate for homes.

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https://gript.ie/2022-ends-with-the-housing-crisis-intact/

“This is about the credibility of Europe”: European Parliament vice-president arrested on corruption charges and suspicion of bribery.

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https://gript.ie/eu-parliament-vice-president-arrested-on-corruption-charges/

ON THIS DAY: 12 DECEMBER: Feast Day of St. Finnian, father of Irish monasticism


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https://gript.ie/on-this-day-12-december-feast-day-of-st-finnian-father-of-irish-monasticism-3/

A secondary school in Blanchardstown is unable to provide students with three key courses as it struggles with staffing shortages as housing costs drive teachers out of Dublin


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https://gript.ie/dublin-parents-frustrated-at-lack-of-gov-action-over-loss-of-three-subjects/

“There is an absolutely urgent need to increase as quickly as possible both the number of disability respite beds and indeed the number of staff to make them operational and available to families,” said Deputy Nolan.

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https://gript.ie/recruitment-challenges-severely-impacting-disability-respite-services-carol-nolan/