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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https://gript.ie/all-kinds-of-shenanigans-going-on-in-rte/

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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https://gript.ie/rotunda-downsyndrome-95-shock/

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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https://gript.ie/preparing-the-obituaries-pope-benedict-xvi-has-died/

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

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https://gript.ie/on-this-day-1st-january-1577-massacre-at-mullaghmast-4/

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/

LOOKBACK: "Ireland’s national curriculum body has encouraged teachers to study “crossdressing” for “erotic enjoyment,” “drag,” “gender queer” and “gender-fluid” identities as part of an “SPHE and RSE toolkit” for primary schools," BEN SCALLAN found.

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https://gript.ie/irish-primary-teachers-discouraged-from-saying-boys-girls

LOOKBACK: A Chinese police station in Capel Street? MATT TREACY reported: "According to human rights monitors the Public Security Bureau is blithely ignoring international policing conventions and is most likely in breach of international law".

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https://gript.ie/are-the-chinese-public-security-police-operating-a-station-in-dublin/

LOOKBACK 2022: "Ruminant Livestock Methane is virtually irrelevant as a greenhouse gas. No cow, sheep, or goat has ever managed to create carbon from nothing. Methane from cattle is part of the biogenic carbon cycle which has been around since life began"

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https://gript.ie/the-great-livestock-methane-misconception

LOOKBACK: There was a huge reaction to the suspension & jailing of teacher Enoch Burke in a row over proscribed use of transgender pronouns 'they & them'. Mr Burke was jailed for contempt of court after an injunction was breached-and only released Dec 21

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https://gript.ie/suspended-for-refusing-to-partake-in-fantasy-strong-reactions-to-enoch-burkes-case-on-social-media/

LOOKBACK: "The political parties would sooner stay silent in the face of this nonsense than risk being called “transphobic”. And the consequence of that is that terrible things are happening, because people are too scared to open their mouths."

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https://gript.ie/clown-island/

LOOKBACK: "Part of me thinks I shouldn’t even post this video. But are we just going to scroll on, and let our city, and our country, go down the toilet," asks NIAMH UÍ BHRIAIN.

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https://gript.ie/slashed-woman-is-latest-victim-of-our-lawless-republic/

Ireland’s An Cailín Ciúin is among fifteen films announced today on the shortlist for the ‘Best International Feature Film’ category for the 95th Oscars.

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https://gript.ie/irish-language-film-an-cailin-ciuin-shortlisted-for-oscar-best-international-feature-film/

Gardai in Killarney have arrested another four men as part of an investigation into a stabbing spree at Hotel Killarney where 400 migrants claiming asylum are currently being housed.

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https://gript.ie/4-more-arrested-after-stabbing-at-killarney-migrant-centre/

Young mothers in Hungary will be offered zero percent income tax for life under a new scheme to boost national birthrates. Here’s who can qualify:

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https://gript.ie/hungary-exempts-mothers-under-30-from-income-tax/

The story of Donal Rogers and his little dog Kim came to a tragic end after Rogers (85) was found dead on Christmas Day. Fatima Gunning, who broke the story, recounts her experience with the pair who fought so hard to stay together.


https://gript.ie/donal-and-kim-the-tragic-end-to-a-battle-fought-from-the-heart/

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