A Catholic diocese has spoken of their shock and horror after a priest was burned to death on Sunday after bandits set fire to his parish rectory in northern Nigeria.

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https://gript.ie/horror-as-catholic-priest-burned-to-death-in-nigeria/

JOHN MCGUIRK: "Instead of being told what these people actually want, you are told by a serious looking chap in a uniform to fear them, and to not consider their arguments.

Who is really trying to scare the public?"

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https://gript.ie/drew-harriss-sinister-blabber/

“Those who argue that these people ought not be in direct provision are correct. They most likely ought not be in the country at all,” writes MATT TREACY

"Ireland rejected over 80% of applications by people from Zimbabwe but they all seem to stay anyway."

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https://gript.ie/new-figures-underline-what-a-farce-irelands-asylum-system-is/

JOHN MCGUIRK: One need only look at the broader culture, and what liberals are willing to promote and tolerate, to realise that the great Andrew Tate panic isn't really about his views on women.
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https://gript.ie/the-irish-medias-hypocritical-andrew-tate-panic/

The EU is to introduce mandatory data collection to combat illegal immigration on flights

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https://gript.ie/eu-to-introduce-mandatory-data-collection-to-combat-illegal-immigration-on-flights/

A Scottish serial rapist, who targeted victims in toilets and changing rooms, is reportedly hoping to be transferred to a women’s prison after allegedly changing his name from Jonathon to Charlene #gript

https://gript.ie/serial-rapist-who-changed-name-to-charlene-seeks-transfer-to-womens-prison/

British PM Rishi Sunak says the right to protest is ‘not absolute’ ahead of legislation to amend the Public Order Bill

https://gript.ie/british-pm-rishi-sunak-says-right-to-protest-not-absolute-ahead-of-new-legislation/

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BEN SCALLAN: “You wouldn’t offer to let a guy crash on your couch while he’s unemployed, and then expect him to still be there 20 years later. That wasn’t the deal. Yet it's exactly what the government expects you to accept regarding Ukraine.”

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https://gript.ie/offering-ukrainian-refugees-irish-citizenship-is-a-recipe-for-disaster/

Ireland has experienced a large spike in excess deaths which is not primarily due to the Covid-19 virus, new estimates released this week indicate.

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https://gript.ie/huge-spike-in-excess-deaths-not-attributable-to-covid/

ON THIS DAY in 1909, 114 years ago: Anglo-Irish explorer Ernest Shackleton’s expedition finds the magnetic South Pole.

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https://gript.ie/otd-16-january-1909-irishman-ernest-shackletons-expedition-discovers-the-south-pole/

Medics must speak with one voice on the need to uphold and strengthen freedom of conscience, and to ensure that no-one is compelled to perform an abortion, a conference organised by Doctors For Life has heard.

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https://gript.ie/medics-must-speak-with-one-voice-on-upholding-freedom-of-conscience-conference-hears/

A Romanian who violently raped a teenager with a mild intellectual disability, and then imprisoned her and raped her twice more, was given an extraordinarily lenient sentence because he can't speak English, the Court of Appeal has heard.

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https://gript.ie/romanian-rapist-given-extraordinarily-lenient-sentence-as-he-didnt-speak-english-court-of-appeal-in-dublin-hears/

JOHN MCGUIRK: Believe it or not, under the Oxfam definition of "poverty", poverty can be eliminated simply by making rich people poorer, lowering the average income and doing literally nothing else.
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https://gript.ie/about-that-annually-misleading-oxfam-poverty-report/

"So the new tactic by the elites of Ireland is not only to create this smear campaign nationally across the main stream media, but also to find individuals in local organizations to amplify this message in an attempt to ostracise and outcast people within those communities who voice dissent."

THADE ANDY writes

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https://gript.ie/the-establishments-rage-against-ballymun/

“My last memory of my child is telling her I loved her and her saying, ‘I’m sorry’. “Eve fell, she went for help, she didn’t get it,” Ms Sheehan recalled ahead of Saturday’s protest in Limerick city.

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https://gript.ie/mother-whose-daughter-died-needlessly-at-limerick-hospital-to-speak-at-protest/

In a constitutional first, Downing Street has blocked Nicola Sturgeon’s controversial transgender reforms after concluding that the new law would have “chilling effects” on the safety of women-only spaces across Britain.

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https://gript.ie/uk-govt-blocks-scotlands-transgender-law-in-unprecedented-move/

CANADA: Hospital security guards accused of the manslaughter of a patient after an altercation arouse over a covid mask have had the case against them struck out

​​https://gript.ie/judge-dismisses-case-against-guards-accused-of-killing-a-woman-for-not-wearing-mask/

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JOHN MCGUIRK responds to Fintan O'Toole's attack on the "far right": "Is this the best that the Irish Times can offer, by way of analysis?"

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https://gript.ie/fintan-otooles-erratic-far-right-broadside/

"Free GP care, in the short term, may well deliver some votes. But there is no reason – no reason at all – to believe that it will deliver a better health system."
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https://gript.ie/why-free-gp-care-risks-making-the-health-system-worse/

A film shot in Antrim and featuring acclaimed Belfast actor, James Martin, who has Down syndrome, is now on a shortlist for an Oscar nomination.

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https://gript.ie/irish-goodbye-actor-with-down-syndrome-on-oscar-nomination/

Enoch Burke has refused to comply with conditions that would have granted him his injunction against Wilson’s Hospital School - he said previous judgements against him were made ‘faster than a chicken fillet roll’.
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https://gript.ie/enoch-burke-refuses-courts-conditions-to-gaining-injunction-against-school/