The World Bank has slashed its 2023 global economy growth outlook to 1.7% from its earlier projection of 3% and is warning of the risk of a global recession.

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https://gript.ie/world-bank-warns-of-global-recession-risk-as-growth-falls/

BEN SCALLAN: “It’s great that our leaders are able to make up fun little projects like this to amuse themselves, but maybe they’ll eventually get around to doing something useful with their energies at some stage.”

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https://gript.ie/shocker-all-government-departments-have-a-gender-pay-gap/

China celebrates ending lockdown but appears to want to stoke fears in the West around yet another Covid variant

MATT TREACY writes...

https://gript.ie/china-celebrates-ending-lockdown-but-appears-to-want-to-stoke-fears-in-the-west/

“This was wrong…I apologise”: Fine Gael TD Damien English resigns over planning permission controversy.

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https://gript.ie/fine-gael-td-resigns-amid-planning-controversy/

Fianna Fáil Senator seeks to make protesting outside DP centres illegal, with possible jail time for offenders, as Bill intended to move to second stage in current Seanad term

https://gript.ie/fianna-fail-senator-seeks-to-make-protesting-outside-dp-centres-illegal-with-possible-jail-time/

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This week came the very sad news out of Gneeveguilla in Kerry that the renowned accordion player Jimmy Doyle, famed as much for his endless fun as his masterful musicianship, had died. Ar dheis lámh De go raibh a anam ceolmhar.

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https://gript.ie/jimmy-doyle-imithe-uainn-a-musical-giant-from-gneeveguilla-has-died/

JOHN MCGUIRK: "Apparently, or at least in the Minister’s perception of how things are done, follow up questions in response to self-serving waffle are not permitted, or at least are not commonly asked."
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https://gript.ie/the-case-of-ben-and-the-cranky-minister/

JOHN MCGUIRK: "A panicked political class is running out of alternative ideas, and when in doubt, they go back to what’s worked before.
If they can’t persuade people off the streets, prepare to see them try to force people off the streets."
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https://gript.ie/the-coming-war-on-immigration-protestors/

DON'T INTERRUPT ME: Paschal Donohoe gets testy when challenged on whether government has achieved value for money in HSE spending.

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https://youtu.be/a1wHfjP_8oo

"The Laois-Offaly TD was speaking after she met with concerned farmers who fear that proposals are being put in place to ensure that they will bear the cost of all TB testing above and beyond the single annual test that they already pay for"

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https://gript.ie/nolan-says-farmers-must-not-bear-additional-costs-for-increased-tb-testing-or-control/

ON THIS DAY: 12 JANUARY 1885: Birth of Thomas Ashe was born in Kerry

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https://gript.ie/on-this-day-12-january-1885-birth-of-thomas-ashe-was-born-in-kerry-4/

Report finds “no evidence” of welfare abuses at Dublin Zoo, despite allegations voiced in the Seanad last year

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https://gript.ie/report-finds-no-evidence-of-welfare-abuses-at-dublin-zoo/

Remembering Ashling Murphy on year anniversary of her death

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https://gript.ie/we-left-sunflowers-because-she-was-so-bright-and-happy/

MATT TREACY remembers ROGER SCRUTON on the anniversary of his death

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https://gript.ie/roger-scruton-the-battle-of-ideas-and-why-the-left-has-only-contempt-for-those-it-claims-to-wish-to-save-2/

'Meanwhile, the same online People Before Profit journal that published Paul Murphy’s pleas for the NGOs to earn their few bob and “confront” the nasty racist scobes also carries a piece wondering how the “eco socialist” left can undermine the same skangers’ faith in “bourgeois democracy.” '

MATT TREACY writes

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https://gript.ie/we-know-all-about-the-for-roysh-but-what-about-the-far-left-who-invented-the-term/

"So now the government's policy is just to just bully the people who can’t afford lawyers. They don’t even do communities like East Wall the courtesy of an announcement or a letter in the door. They can’t afford Senior Counsels. Feck them."

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https://gript.ie/what-happened-when-an-asylum-centre-was-proposed-in-ballsbridge/

Local groups opposing the rapid opening of migrant centres in their communities will hold protests across Dublin and other parts of the city this evening.

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https://gript.ie/protests-against-immigration-policy-to-take-place-across-dublin-and-elsewhere/

As evening bus services to part of Dublin are being suspended from today due to anti-social behaviour, Fatima Gunning asks if there is cause to bring back the bus conductor?
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https://gript.ie/unions-suspend-bus-services-due-to-anti-social-behaviour-can-we-bring-back-the-conductor/

A series of protests against migrant accommodation are taking place in Dublin and elsewhere in the last hour.

FINGLAS residents express concern at the arrival of a large number of people to emergency accommodation.

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A series of protests against migrant accommodation are taking place in Dublin and elsewhere in the last hour.

DRIMNAGH residents express concern at the arrival of a large number of people to emergency accommodation.

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