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“When I saw the positive pregnancy test, I thought my life was over — I couldn’t have been more wrong”: MMA star Shauna Bannon on her undefeated journey as ‘Mama B,’ being signed to the UFC, and how crisis pregnancy support changed her life. Watch the full video: https://youtu.be/WVXg1ccnsIA

"They are being investigated": Taoiseach Leo Varadkar confirms that allegations of children being abused by gangs of predatory men under State care within Tusla are currently being looked into. #gript

Eamon Ryan urges the public to keep paying the TV license fee: "Knowing the truth, having accuracy and fairness and balance, particularly in current affairs, but also in having a service that entertains us...if we stop paying we lose all of that. And that would be really harmful and bad for our country." #gript #RTÉgate

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar: "As far as the European Institutions will be concerned, we're one of the best behaved countries when it comes to fiscal policy." #gript

Organisers estimated over 10,000 people thronged Dublin city centre today in the Rally for Life, calling on the government to retain the 3 day wait before abortion and to take action to address the spiralling abortion rate. #gript

Can you count how many things People Before Profit wants to nationalise? #gript

Irish Taoiseach Leo Varadkar says his government has "no official position" on how many genders there are, even though genders "other than male or female" are protected categories under his government's hate speech bill. #gript

Irish Taoiseach Leo Varadkar says his government has "no official position" on how many genders there are, even though genders "other than male or female" are protected categories under his government's hate speech bill. #gript

Gary Kavanagh sat down with Bryan Fanning, Professor of Migration and Social Policy at UCD, to discuss the professor's latest book, Public Morality and the Culture Wars; immigration; LGBT rights; abortion; and coercive public morality. Book: https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B0BHSWHDNJ/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_tkin_p1_i0

MATTIE McGRATH TD says that plans for large scale rewetting of farmland will lead to 'dangerous' situations including 'food shortages' - and that many scientists don't agree its necessary. #gript

Independent TD Carol Nolan has called on Green Senator Pauline O'Reilly to resign after her comment on the hate-speech bill saying that freedom was being restricted for the common good #gript

Laoise Aodha de Brún says women's rights group The Countess are backing a bill to ban biological males in women's prisons, saying vulnerable women are being threatened and subject to sexualised abuse. #gript

Thousands of women don't return for an abortion after the 3-day wait. So, with 8,500 abortions in 2022, why would the government scrap it and risk driving the abortion rate up further, asks Fatima Gunning. #gript

In the wake of the Barbie Kardashian scandal, Peadar Tóibín TD explains why Aontú is introducing a bill to prevent male-born criminals being placed in women's prisons #gript

"I didn't hear the remarks": Irish Taoiseach Leo Varadkar denies seeing comments by government senators who said that the hate speech bill is about "restricting freedom" and implying that "jokes" could be hate speech. #gript

Last week, The Journal issued a highly dubious "fact check" on a Gript story. Our Editor responds and outlines the facts #gript

Justice Minister Helen McEntee says that "the vast majority of people" want hate speech laws. #gript Tags:

When it comes to Ireland's immigration debate, politicians have a new favourite talking point: "international obligations." #gript

Senator warns that activist groups are “likely to push gardaí and DPP into taking action” against people for possession of material subjectively seen as ‘hateful’ due to lack of definition in new hate speech bill. #gript

Carbon labelling, the turf ban, more funding for NGOs, and pushing people to go “plant-based”: Ben Scallan explains how the Citizens’ Assembly on Biodiversity was simply a means of laundering support for government climate policy. #gript

'You weren't allowed to say it. I was told my trans surgery regret was OCD'. Gender de-transitioner Ritchie Herron shares his story. #gript

"I'm calling for a referendum": Mattie McGrath TD is "calling for a referendum" on immigration following the results of the RedC poll which showed that 75% of Irish people think Ireland has taken in too many asylum seekers. #gript

Tánaiste Micheál Martin says he is "very conscious" of "commitments" made during the 8th Amendment referendum, but declines to say whether he belives reneging on the 3-day wait would be breaking a campaign promise. #gript

"Sometimes people have their application for refugee status refused, but they will be granted leave to remain": Taoiseach Leo Varadkar admits that some migrants are allowed to stay in Ireland even after their asylum claim is rejected, even if "they're not genuine refugees." #gript

"He's an outright traitor": Mattie McGrath had exceptionally strong words for Tánaiste Micheál Martin on his comments on the 3-Day Wait, and says it is an "abject disgrace" that the government allowed the abortion bill to progress to the next stage. #gript