The CEO of a food bank in Canada has expressed concern over increasing numbers of people living in poverty asking about assisted suicide

https://gript.ie/charity-ceo-says-poor-in-canada-are-asking-food-bank-about-assisted-dying/

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The Oireachtas Justice Committee has recommended that all people working in the courts system, including courts services staff, lawyers, and judges receive “culture competency training to understand how to work across different cultures and to tackle the unconscious bias that may exist and the assumptions they may hold about those from a different background.”

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https://gript.ie/justice-committee-judges-should-receive-minority-related-culture-competency-training/

Mastodon, a social media platform that became popular with left-wing activists, academics, and journalists after Elon Musk bought Twitter, is reported to be "dominated" by child pornography.

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https://gript.ie/mastodon-dominated-by-child-pornography/

“The main reason provided the Minister when he was granting the original exemption was that no progress had been made on the feasibility of alternative options to the burning of this kind of waste, such as mulching and chipping,” said Deputy Nolan, TD, Laois Offaly

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https://gript.ie/waste-burning-exemption-must-be-extended-as-lack-of-alternatives-continues-to-be-a-reality-nolan/

MATT TREACY, in the first of several reports, shows how the enormous amounts being spent on “asylum seekers accommodation, support and maintenance” by the DOJ alone are spent.

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https://gript.ie/what-is-your-involuntary-migrancy-donations-being-spent-on/

"In contrast to Meloni, Jacinda Ardern speaks with a mid-Atlantic tone and uses the newspeak of the liberal establishment, which likes to style itself as progressive and compassionate."

THADE ANDY writes on changes he sees coming to the Global order

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https://gript.ie/georgia-melonis-fiery-speech-on-globalism-exposes-the-reality-of-harm-caused/

A German doctor has been sentenced to years in prison and fined tens of thousands of euros for handing out thousands of illegal mask exemptions during the pandemic.

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https://gript.ie/german-doctor-given-years-in-prison-for-illegal-mask-certs/

Author Brandon Sanderson has branded audio book platform Audible's treatment of smaller writers as "shameful" and said that he will not be releasing new work on the platform "for the foreseeable future."

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https://gript.ie/author-brandon-sanderson-accuses-audible-of-shameful-behaviour

BEN SCALLAN: “Only a politician could look you dead in the eye, and tell you with a completely straight face that the government has to increase tax on heating to make poor people’s homes warmer.”

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https://gript.ie/scallan-the-irish-government-cant-tax-people-out-of-poverty/

Owen Hanley, a Social Democrats councillor for Galway City, has resigned following serious allegations made against him on social media.
Mr Hanley did not deny the allegations in his statement. #gript https://gript.ie/soc-dems-cllr-owen-hanley-resigns-as-very-serious-allegations-investigated/

A final Mass of thanksgiving and farewell will take place this morning at the Friary in Clonmel as the Franciscans prepare to leave the town after 753 years.

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https://gript.ie/a-sad-day-final-mass-today-as-clonmel-friary-closes-its-doors/

"And now an Ecuadorian dad caught up in a messy divorce case has declared that he is really a woman, and therefore a mother of his two daughters. The possibility of changing gender came as godsend to him, because a judge had declared that she could only grant custody to the children’s mother."

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https://gript.ie/self-determined-gender-opens-up-a-can-of-worms

Australia: Activists slam local council decision to continue renting facility to Anglican church over its views on same sex relationships

https://gript.ie/aus-activists-seek-ban-on-christians-renting-council-facilities-over-views-on-lgbt/

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PODCAST: David Quinn and leading EU critic, former diplomat, Ray Bassett, discuss the 50th anniversary of Irish membership of the EU, plus the chasm between Pope Benedict’s harsh image in the media and the humble, courteous, gentle person he really was.

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https://gript.ie/podcasts/the-weekthat-really-was-11-the-death-of-a-pope-plus-50-years-in-the-eu/

FLASHBACK: In 2018, before Stephen Donnelly was in government as Health Minister, he described the state’s trolley figures at the time as “appalling and unacceptable.” But what are those figures like now?

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https://gript.ie/donnelly-called-2018-trolley-stats-borderline-elder-abuse/

"Ehrlich may be a buffoon but he was the original of the charlatans who are still telling you that cities are going to be submerged by melting polar tidal waves. Which was supposed to happen around 1978. Know them for what they are: Aspirant small town Lenin and Maos searching for a new way to take their hatred of humanity out on us."

MATT TREACY writes...

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https://gript.ie/discredited-climate-extremist-ehrlich-doubles-down-on-his-prophesy/

Tent accommodation for asylum seekers is back in use in Co. Clare, despite a government TD describing it as “inhumane” just last month.

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https://gript.ie/controversial-tent-asylum-accommodation-returns-to-co-clare/

2022 saw the homicide rate in Ireland almost double, with 43 unlawful killings, compared to 22 in 2021. Where do we lay the blame? Bad sentencing, societal breakdown, a lack of respect for life, the erosion of morality? MÁIRE NÍ MHAOINE comments.

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https://gript.ie/are-we-living-in-a-more-dangerous-ireland/

Another protest against migrant accommodation in Dublin this evening, this time in Ballymun, as residents express concern at the arrival of a large number of people to emergency accommodation

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