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DÓNAL HORGAN: "The left like to claim the working class is being manipulated by outside actors such as the far right. Curiously, the same people will never admit that their own middle class support base might well be the ones who are being manipulated." https://gript.ie/donal-horgan-is-ireland-now-a-socialist-country/

BREAKING: The Police Service of Northern Ireland say that the man in his 30s arrested on suspicion of attempted murder following a horror knife attack in the Kinnaird Avenue area of north Belfast last night is believed to be a Somalian. https://gript.ie/man-in-belfast-horror-knife-attack-believed-to-be-somalian/

On this week's episode of The Long Game podcast, the lad's discuss Ben's viral exchange with Norma Foley, the politicisation of the Irish school system, the Government's plan to scrap the Triple Lock, and more. PODCAST: https://gript.ie/podcasts/filthy-books/

HORROR ATTACK: The MP said that "Belfast has witnessed a shocking and brutal act of violence" and that the attack was "barbaric". "I've never seen an attack like this happen on the streets of north Belfast," a local Independent councillor said. https://gript.ie/belfast-in-significant-fear-after-barbaric-knife-attack/

A man from Ghana, who held his ex-wife at knife-point as 10-12 Gardaí worked to free her, has been jailed for two years. https://gript.ie/motion-also-demands-ban-on-israeli-president-entering-ireland/

Sinn Féin football motion also demands ban on Israeli President entering Ireland https://gript.ie/motion-also-demands-ban-on-israeli-president-entering-ireland/

Festival organisers are “devastated” at the unforeseen liquidation of “tickets.ie” which they say has left them out of pocket to the tune of over €1,000,000 as Ken O’Flynn TD calls for “urgent intervention”. https://gript.ie/debts-unpaid-after-tickets-ie-goes-into-liquidation-say-clients/

EXCLUSIVE: Gript analysis of hundreds of submissions to the Government's security consultation found more respondents wanted to keep the Triple Lock than remove it: https://gript.ie/public-consultation-on-triple-lock-showed-support-for-policy/

"The reality is that we have peat coming from Latvia to supply our power stations that used to use turf. That is madness," said one TD, while another slams European Court of Justice as "Kangaroo Court" as Ireland faces EU court case over peat extraction: https://gript.ie/td-hits-out-at-european-kangaroo-court-over-peat-extraction/

JASON OSBORNE: The cancellation of Professor Michael Foran over an Oxford lecture series on sex and gender is evidence that the culture wars trundle on. Take note, Taoiseach. https://gript.ie/irish-prof-cancelled-at-oxford-woke-is-definitely-not-dead/

MATT TREACY: South Dublin County Council to vote on motion to prevent rezoning of sporting facilities at Coldcut - a community and sports facility. Land sold to imprisoned developer might be worth over ten times the price when developed for housing. https://gript.ie/treacy-coldcut-controversial-land-rezoning-to-be-debated-at-sdcc/

SÉAMUS CLARKE: A useful way to put the debate about inequality into perspective is to compare two major trends in modern Ireland: the steady decline of the gender pay gap and the equally steady collapse in birth rates. https://gript.ie/the-gender-pay-gap-and-the-birth-rate-a-question-of-priorities/

The Offaly TD said that the EU Migration Pact is “the crack through which chaos will enter” - while, separately, a petition seeking an opt-out or referendum on the Pact reaches almost 14,000 signatures https://gript.ie/eu-migration-pact-is-crack-through-which-chaos-will-enter/

LORCÁN MAC MATHÚNA on Caoineadh Art Uí Laoghaire: “In 1773 Eibhlín Dubh, traverses the five stages of grief fully two centuries before Elisabeth Kübler-Ross gave them their modern names. ” https://gript.ie/lorcan-mac-mathuna-the-caoineadh-that-knew-its-own-shape/

Climate change was a major focus of the Junior Certificate History exam sat by students last week, Gript can confirm. https://gript.ie/climate-change-major-focus-of-junior-cert-history-exam/

The Competition and Consumer Protection Commission is warning parents and caregivers not to buy or use pillows marketed as baby sleep accessories - saying the products can cause death through suffocation or overheating. https://gript.ie/risk-of-death-from-baby-sleep-pillows-ccpc-warning/

MARIA MAYNES: Belong To has failed to answer questions about an LGBTQ+ pilot scheme it has been running in Irish primary schools, with parents saying it is impossible to find any public information about what the programme involves.  https://gript.ie/belong-to-fail-to-answer-questions-on-lgbtq-scheme-for-primary/

The Italian Senate has voted in a landslide to make parental consent mandatory for sex education, with the country's Education Minister saying this was done to "protect children from the confusion of gender propaganda": https://gript.ie/italy-makes-parental-consent-mandatory-for-sex-education/

The Italian parliament has voted in a landslide to make parental consent mandatory for sex education, with the country's Education Minister saying this was done to "protect children from the confusion of gender propaganda": https://gript.ie/italy-makes-parental-consent-mandatory-for-sex-education/

The trial of Riad Bouchaker, the Algerian man who is accused of attempting to murder three small children outside a school on Parnell Square, Dublin, almost three years ago, is due to start this morning at the Central Criminal Court. https://gript.ie/trial-of-riad-bouchaker-to-start-today/