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There is “no climate emergency” according to over 1,100 scientists and professionals from across the world, led by the Norwegian physics Nobel Prize laureate Professor Ivar Giaever, who have signed the World Climate Declaration.
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‘There is no climate emergency’: 1,100 scientists and professionals sign World Climate Declaration - Gript
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“Oodles of data”? Minister fails to produce studies on mask effectiveness as promised
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“Oodles of data”? Minister fails to produce mask studies - Gript
“Any number of studies.”
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The Irish government offering foreign language voting guides to help asylum seekers vote in elections is a self-serving power-grab disguised as a good deed, says Ben Scallan:
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The Irish Government is acting like citizenship doesn't matter
The Irish government offering foreign language voting guides to help asylum seekers vote in elections is a self-serving power-grab disguised as a good deed, says Ben Scallan:
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JOHN MCGUIRK: If western support for Ukraine simply means prolonging an endless meat-grinding stalemate that slowly claims Ukrainian and Russian lives, can it really be called support?
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It’s right to question the west’s endgame in Ukraine - Gript
Stalemate as policy
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The Government is heralding speed limit changes to "reduce road deaths" - but its review into speed limits, on which changes are based, was explicitly asked to consider two other factors.
You'll never guess what those factors were, writes JOHN MCGUIRK:
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You'll never guess what those factors were, writes JOHN MCGUIRK:
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The Government’s entirely dishonest speed limit idea - Gript
This is about emissions, not lives.
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People living in cities like Dublin “cannot expect” to just get in their car and drive whenever and wherever they want given the impact on the environment, Irish Labour Party TD Aodhán Ó Ríordáin has said, adding: “Those days are over.”
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People “cannot expect” to drive wherever they want given climate change - TD - Gript
“We have to have a radical rethink.”
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The aftermath of a gang rape trial, which saw just one man jailed, has rocked Germany - with a psychiatrist who said that the rape may have been a way to vent "frustration" due to "migration experiences and sociocultural homelessness" receiving criticism:
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Aftermath of gang rape trial rocks Germany - Gript
8 out of 9 men found guilty receive no prison sentences
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The Global Government Affairs team for social media giant X has sharply contradicted Minister Helen McEntee, saying her claim that the platform did not cooperate with Gardaí to remove inflammatory content during the Dublin riots is “inaccurate”.
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X says McEntee's claim re their actions on riot content "inaccurate" - Gript
1,230 pieces of content removed
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Senator Sharon Keogan has said a family from Bangladesh who arrived in Ireland on the 28th of November and made an application for international protection on the same day were given an apartment hours later.
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Senator claims family from Bangladesh given apartment hours after arriving in Ireland - Gript
'Housed within hours'
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It's the time of year when political journalists, looking for something - anything - to write, start doling out the political awards. JOHN MCGUIRK presents the Gript Media gongs to deserving politicians here:
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And the winners of the Gript end of year awards are…… - Gript
Award! Award!
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House prices nationally rose in 2023 across the country, but by the smallest increase since 2013 – but people ‘struggle’ to get mortgage approval from banks despite paying more in rent than what a mortgage would cost.
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People 'struggle' to get mortgage approval, but house price growth slows - Gript
DAFT report 2023
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Aontú's Peadar Tóibín says the government’s road toll increases should be scrapped, saying he believes the hikes are "part of the Green Party policy of trying to beat people out of cars".
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Tóibín says road tolls should be scrapped, not increased - Gript
Aontú's Peadar Tóibín says the government’s road toll increases should be scrapped, saying he believes the hikes are "part of the Green Party policy of trying to beat people out of cars".
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Over €750,000,000 in social welfare has been paid to Ukrainian refugees from March 2022 to the end of last month, figures from the Department of Social Protection reveal
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Ukrainian refugees paid over 750m in social welfare since start of conflict - Gript
€2.6 million for clothing
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With immigration now a top issue for voters, speakers at Monday's march said government policy was failing communities.
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Thousands marched through Dublin to demand immigration controls
With immigration now a top issue for voters, speakers at Monday's march said government policy was failing communities.
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IGNORED: Taoiseach Leo Varadkar walks out of a press briefing as Ben Scallan is mid-sentence asking about government ministers spreading referendum misinformation.
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This week Taoiseach Leo Varadkar launched an attack on Gript, dubbing this outlet "disingenuous" and questioning our funding sources. Ben Scallan responds. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAm8ms98A4c
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Varadkar called Gript "disingenuous" - our response
This week Taoiseach Leo Varadkar launched an attack on Gript, dubbing this outlet "disingenuous" and questioning our funding sources. Ben Scallan responds.
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Cllr John Snell speaking from the protest at Newtownmountkennedy today where a large crowd marched from the town to the proposed IPAS centre
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Cllr Snell speaking from the protest at Newtown; a large crowd marched to the proposed IPAS centre
Cllr John Snell speaking from the protest at Newtownmountkennedy today where a large crowd marched from the town to the proposed IPAS centre
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