MARGARET HICKEY: Times change, but the magic of Christmas is eternal

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A very happy Christmas to all our readers, subscribers and contributors!
Happy Christmas
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We are sorry to report that Donal Rogers, who came to prominence this year amid a fight to save the life of his dog, Kim, passed away on Christmas Day. He was 85 years old.

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ON THIS DAY: 26 DECEMBER: Feast of St. Stephen or Wren Day

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"I was sixteen years old when the troubling of my life began. It was then that the fatal ambition to be a poet seized me."

Maolsheachlann Ó Ceallaigh writes

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PAT SHEEHAN: Christmas: The Greatest Revolution

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ON THIS DAY: 27th DECEMBER 1969: Death of Dan Breen

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“I have lost count of the number of times I have pleaded with former Taoiseach, Micheál Martin, to create a ministerial role that would accord fisheries the level of respect and concentrated full-time engagement that it demands,” said Deputy Collins.

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LOOK BACK: The Irish Times advice column openly encourages a woman who is also a wife and mother to pursue life as a gay man after she says she was encouraged by members of the trans community to do so

https://gript.ie/irish-times-encourages-mother-to-live-as-gay-man-is-this-the-worst-advice-ever/

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LOOK BACK: “Sadly, for all the talk of inclusion, it appears RTÉ does not believe Dana’s is a story worthy of telling. Regardless of RTÉ’s pettiness, the story of the girl from the Bogside winning our first Eurovision is an incredible one.”

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LOOKBACK: “The ranks of gender detransitioners appear to be growing. Over the last number of years, an emerging community of people who have undergone medical and/or surgical treatment to change their sex, and then realised this was a mistake, has formed and begun to find its voice."

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https://gript.ie/what-have-i-done-the-people-who-realised-changing-sex-was-a-mistake-now-speak-out/

LOOK BACK on the story of 85 year old Donal Rogers who spent much of the last year of his life fighting to save his beloved pet Jack Russell, Kim, from being put down.

https://gript.ie/roscommon-man-fights-to-save-pet-jack-russell-from-being-put-down-2/

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Parents of children with Down syndrome have said that the Rotunda needs to examine the message it is giving parents after the master of the maternity hospital, Dr Fergal Malone, said that 95% of babies diagnosed with Down Syndrome were aborted.

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A LOOK BACK on pride 2022 and how organisations like Stonewall ‘encourage’ businesses to contribute to lgbt+ interests.

https://gript.ie/pride-and-placement-are-inclusion-and-marketing-becoming-symbiotic/


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UK disability rights activist Heidi Crowter has been named in the BBC’s ‘100 Women of the Year’ for 2022. The campaigner, who has Down Syndrome, came to prominence after she brought a legal challenge against the UK’s abortion law.

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https://gript.ie/down-syndrome-campaigner-heidi-crowter-named-in-bbcs-100-women-of-the-year/

Conor O’Dowd, a young man with Down syndrome, has delivered a letter to the Rotunda urging them to ‘save babies’ after the master, Dr Fergal Malone, said 95% of babies with the condition were now aborted – almost double the 50% figure he gave in 2018.

https://gript.ie/watch-save-babies-young-man-with-down-syndrome-delivers-letter-to-rotunda-as-95-aborted/

LOOK BACK Doing silly dances while relating details of personal tragedy feels very wrong to me, but TikTok is the home of this new form of attention seeking - is it appropriate? writes Fatima Gunning

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https://gript.ie/tiktok-and-the-emergence-of-sympathy-porn-is-dignity-in-grief-outdated/

Preparing the Obituaries - Pope Benedict XVI has died. DUALTA ROUGHNEEN writes on the legacy of a man who was important figure for those within the Church and outside.

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ON THIS DAY: 1ST JANUARY 1577: Massacre at Mullaghmast

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LOOKBACK: "A new branch of Irish historical revisionism is centred on attempts to portray Ireland as a nation of colonialists and slave traders at a time in our history when we were an occupied colony and a dispossessed people," writes DR MATT TREACY

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https://gript.ie/irelands-legacy-of-colonialism-is-not-what-it-seems/