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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Heartbroken golden retriever follows hearse of deceased owner to her final resting place

https://gript.ie/faithful-pet-bessie-follows-owners-coffin-along-final-journey/

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JOHN MCGUIRK: Four questions every voter should ask about the Government's proposal to have a referendum on housing.
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https://gript.ie/four-questions-voters-must-ask-about-a-right-to-housing/

JOHN MCGUIRK: Matt Cooper is a member of the media, and the establishment, in good standing, and therefore he can, apparently, say things about immigration that you or I are not allowed to say.
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https://gript.ie/matt-cooper-declares-im-not-a-racist-but/

Protests took place in Ballymun on Saturday and Sunday after local hotels were used to house migrants, with locals saying they would not accept unvetted men in particular in their community.

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https://gript.ie/hundreds-protest-in-ballymun-as-migrant-centre-opens-without-consultation/

“In ten years all important animal life in the sea will be extinct,” Ehrlich said. “Large areas of coastline will have to be evacuated because of the stench of dead fish.”

PETER JACOBSEN writes on Paul Ehrlich

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https://gript.ie/paul-ehrlich-wrong-on-60-minutes-and-for-almost-60-years/

POLL: Do you favour HAVING a referendum to insert a right to housing into the constitution?

VOTE in our online poll and leave your comments

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https://gript.ie/poll-do-you-favour-having-a-referendum-to-insert-a-right-to-housing-into-the-constitution/

Coillte are using ‘climate change goals’ to justify selling 123,000 acres of Irish land to a British investment fund says MATT TREACY, a sort of reversal of the outcomes of the Land War.

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https://gript.ie/climate-change-a-trojan-horse-for-selling-our-coillte-lands-to-british-fund/

Independent TD for Laois-Offaly, Carol Nolan, has said that she is deeply concerned about the increasing number of representations being made to her by constituents and people in rural Ireland who are being left in planning limbo due to the inordinate delays within the An Bord Pleanála planning and appeals process.

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https://gript.ie/fallout-from-an-bord-pleanala-chaos-is-hitting-rural-home-building-applications-hard-carol-nolan/

Wicklow affordable housing scheme 'unfair as majority of units available to applicants outside the county says Independent Cllr. Joe Behan
https://gript.ie/wicklow-cllr-voices-concerns-over-fairness-of-affordable-housing-scheme-application-process/

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"I was a far-from-perfect child, but I never spoke to my parents the way I hear children (mine included) speak to their parents today."

IDA GAZZOLA writes...

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https://gript.ie/why-are-so-many-parents-today-asking-what-have-i-done-wrong/

Proposed offshore windfarms in catching areas have sparked fears among Irish fishermen, with representative bodies saying they are “not being consulted.”

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https://gript.ie/windfarms-in-catching-areas-spark-fears-among-irish-fishermen/