"All of us, looking at the photo of Matthew with his lovely smile, are imagining our own fathers in this terrifying, unspeakable situation. We are imagining the fear and the terror and wishing that, somehow, this evil and inhuman act could be undone." #gript https://gript.ie/brutal-killing-of-kind-and-gentle-matthew-healy-is-terrifying/

"Why, you might ask, is a respected British newspaper promoting people who appear to advocate violence or why is a multi-billionaire funding their “allies.” This might bring you to another question: why does the far left in Ireland seem to enjoy similar cover?"

MATT TREACY writes

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https://gript.ie/the-different-faces-of-antifa-in-dublin-and-atlanta/

A public consultation on services for those who have been bereaved by suicide in Northern Ireland is to take place following an 8% spike in the suicide rate in the North in 2021.

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https://gript.ie/public-consultation-on-suicide-launched-after-8-spike-in-2021-in-ni/

Gardaí still at scene after disturbance between males at CityWest International Protection Accommodation Centre

https://gript.ie/gardai-called-to-city-west-dp-centre-after-public-order-incident/

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JOHN MCGUIRK: When it comes to the "far right", the media can talk about the boogeyman constantly, but note that they can never actually talk to, or show you, the boogeyman, lest he appear much less scary than they insist him to be.
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https://gript.ie/the-medias-boogeyman-problem/

JOHN MCGUIRK: Leo Varadkar has had a quietly terrible start to his second term as Taoiseach.
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https://gript.ie/varadkars-dreadful-restart/

Businessman Michael Stone has resigned from two roles amid the ongoing Paschal Donohoe poster controversy, calling the Minister “a man of honour.”

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https://gript.ie/michael-stone-resigns-from-two-roles-over-donohoe-posters/

City West transit hub is to cease accepting new arrivals due to capacity issues as international protection applicants continue to arrive

https://gript.ie/city-west-transit-hub-to-pause-entry-of-new-arrivals-due-to-capacity-issues/

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BEN SCALLAN explains what old coins like this can tell us about Irish culture decades ago.

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https://youtu.be/FgxKyDVjaBo

An Albanian man who repeatedly raped a 23-year old woman he met on dating website showed no remorse even after being found guilty, the Central Criminal Court has heard.

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https://gript.ie/albanian-showed-no-remorse-for-repeatedly-raping-woman-in-galway/

BEN SCALLAN: “If Sinn Féin were paying the Greens to kamikaze the entire coalition’s electoral chances, things probably wouldn’t look much different to what we’re seeing now. The train is going off a cliff, and the entire cabinet is going with it."

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https://gript.ie/integration-minister-hey-lets-plan-for-80k-new-migrants-this-year/

“When it comes to energy, the Irish state ought to be taking a leaf out of the book of those states outside of the EU who merely pay lip service to the climate change agenda and prioritise their own development.”

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https://gript.ie/ireland-near-bottom-of-table-for-this-eu-climate-target-despite-green-claims/

Rural TDs have slammed the government for reinstating bankers’ bonuses and pay rises, as an EU Banking Authority (EBA) report confirms that one Irish banker earned over €6 million —while 48 were paid on average €1.8 million, in 2021.

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https://gript.ie/rural-tds-describe-top-bankers-average-e1-8-million-pay-in-2021-as-immoral/

Canadians have been told to cut their alcohol limit to two drinks per week – while a number of Class A drugs, including crack cocaine, will be decriminalised in some regions from next week.

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https://gript.ie/canada-no-more-than-two-pints-a-weekbut-cocaine-decriminalised/

An assistant professor in the Department of Geological Sciences at the University of Alabama says that he is leaving his position partly because of the false “climate emergency” narrative, and the “rise of illiberalism” on campuses.

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https://gript.ie/prof-leaves-university-post-due-to-silence-on-the-false-climate-emergency-narrative/

“So what’s happening? The three biggest manufacturers in the industry: General Electric, Vestas, and Siemens Gamesa are all seeing turbines tumbling – and it may be a production quality issue, Bloomberg says.”

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https://gript.ie/toppling-turbines-why-windmills-twice-the-size-of-big-ben-are-falling-over/

JOHN MCGUIRK: "Even those accused of the most outrageous scaremongering during the abortion referendum could hardly have imagined that within four years, we would have moved on to questioning the legal protection for born, living, breathing infants."

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https://gript.ie/ff-senator-perhaps-we-need-to-change-the-law-about-killing-newborns/

JOHN MCGUIRK: "I think we are importing people who will, in time, come to deeply resent us, and hold to their own myths about the treatment they received at the hands of the Irish state. We are repeating the mistakes of other countries."

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https://gript.ie/the-citywest-riot-is-a-warning-for-the-future

"What message is being sent, here, to the hundreds of thousands of children who play Gaelic Games daily, and weekly? Effectively, it seems to be that cheating (deliberate or inadvertent) is okay, so long as you don’t get caught or nobody complains."

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https://gript.ie/the-gaas-common-sense-problem/

Ireland’s An Cailín Ciúin has been nominated for The 95th Academy Awards in the ‘International Feature Film’ category of the Oscars.

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https://gript.ie/an-cailin-ciuin-makes-history-as-the-first-irish-language-feature-film-to-be-nominated-for-the-oscars/

MICHAEL COOK: Has Canada finally realized that its euthanasia law is a human rights disaster?

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https://gript.ie/has-canada-finally-realized-that-its-euthanasia-law-is-a-human-rights-disaster/