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"The DUP won't collapse the Executive for now, but options are available": Stormont row escalates as DUP halts joint engagements with Sinn Féin's First Minister Michelle O'Neill. https://gript.ie/dup-halts-joint-engagements-with-sinn-feins-michelle-oneill/

Political commentator Kirk Loco has been cleared of criminal charges related to a tweet he sent about an allegation of sexual misconduct on a bus, which was linked to a migrant residing at Trudder House IPAS centre. Solicitor, Pádraig Langsch reacts:

Patrick Stewart has passed away at the age of 86: https://gript.ie/star-trek-and-x-men-actor-sir-patrick-stewart-has-died-at-86/

Patrick Stewart has passed away at the age of 86: https://gript.ie/star-trek-and-x-men-actor-sir-patrick-stewart-has-died-at-86/

Citizen journalist, Kirk Loco acquitted of criminal charges stemming from a tweet related to an alleged incident on a bus involving an asylum seeker from Trudder House IPAS center. https://youtu.be/uI-veLJKJpI

Numerous Governments worldwide, including the Irish State, are urging citizens to stockpile multiple days-worth of food, water and supplies at the same time: https://gript.ie/numerous-countries-urging-citizens-to-stockpile-food-and-water/

MATT TREACY: New work permit and visa scheme follows demands from employers’ organisations which represent companies that largely recruit from overseas. These US corporations, not the Irish people, are actually deciding our immigration flows. gript.ie/us-corporations-have-their-demands-on-work-permits-satisfied

Wicklow man Kirk Loco, who was charged with sending a “grossly offensive” tweet about an alleged incident of exposure on a bus, was cleared after a judge found the State failed to prove its case. gript.ie/man-cleared-of-charges-re-grossly-offensive-tweet

KEVIN MYERS: Why on earth would we now want to belong to a military alliance that protects the demented multiculturalist ideology of Europe’s courts? And what other alliances are desirable? https://gript.ie/myers-irish-neutrality-and-the-demented-ideology-of-the-eu/

CORMAC LUCEY: The revolt against experts is not necessarily a revolt against knowledge. It may instead be a revolt against the presumption that knowledge belongs exclusively to those at the top, and that their failures should carry no consequences. https://gript.ie/lucey-the-revolt-against-experts-isnt-always-irrational/

On this week's episode of The Long Game, the lads discuss the insane citizenship story from Longford and what an "Irish person" is; the creepy "consent" ad about grandparents' hugs; and video game companies going broke due to wokeness. PODCAST: https://gript.ie/podcasts/irish-person/ ‎

Tributes pour in for ‘inspirational’ footballer turned Catholic missionary Níall McDonagh following his death this week. Níall, from Galway, “left an indelible mark everywhere he went” and showed “perseverance in the face of suffering”. https://gript.ie/tributes-to-footballer-turned-inspirational-catholic-missionary/

GUNNING: No jail for man who groped teen: “I find it beyond bizarre that someone in the field of Human Resources could ever think that it was appropriate to grab anyone by their genitals.” https://gript.ie/e5k-and-a-suspended-sentence-for-assaulting-a-child/

The leader of Independent Ireland Michael Collins has described reports that the new €90 million surgical hub at Cork University Hospital (CUH) treated fewer than ten patients after opening and was subsequently forced to close for a period as a “staggering indictment of how healthcare is being managed in this country.” https://gript.ie/e90m-surgical-hub-closure-monument-to-mismanagement/

A Romanian woman accused of “coordinated” smuggling of two Albanian men into Ireland via Dublin Airport within two weeks this month has claimed she was duped. https://gript.ie/no-bail-for-woman-in-coordinated-people-smuggling-case/

NIAMH UÍ BHRIAIN: Tusla begs the courts for help as groups of men rape young girls in care. But why aren't the evil bastards who gang-rape children arrested? And why aren't the authorities revealing who these people are? Is this Ireland's Rotherham? https://gript.ie/what-excuse-will-the-state-offer-for-ignoring-rape-gangs-here/

Over €3 billion in state contracts have been awarded following single-bid competitions since 2021, which a TD has described as raising questions about “significant oversight gaps”. https://gript.ie/over-e3bn-in-state-contracts-awarded-following-single-bid-comps/

Equality Minister Norma Foley has announced €2 million in funding for various NGOs and groups to "support women in attaining a fair share of economic and financial power", saying that the "gender pay gap" is a "key priority" for Government: https://gript.ie/foley-hands-e2m-to-female-only-employment-schemes/

MATT TREACY: Zimbabwean national is still employed by DePaul - an Approved Housing Body - despite losing his right to be in the state or to work in July 2025. https://gript.ie/zimbabwean-with-deportation-order-still-working-in-depaul-office/

TADHG PIDGEON finds himself opposing the striking solicitors. The purpose of the courts is to administer justice, not to sustain a billing model. But the real failure is political, since governments allowed a system to develop which rewards delay. https://gript.ie/pidgeon-striking-solicitors-and-why-ireland-has-a-lawyer-problem/