Peadar Tóibín of Aontú said at the party's Ard Fheis today that the government was not listening to the people on a whole range of issues from climate change to immigration.

NEWTOWNMOUNTKENNEDY: Protesters gather today in continued opposition to the proposed migrant centre in the small Wicklow village.

“Indeed, many gardai are privately wondering how it will even be possible for a normalised version of community engagement to return given the fact that we are looking at a decade and more of ten thousand plus IPAS applicants arriving annually.”

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Labour Party Justice spokesman Aodhán Ó Ríordáin has said that “building more prisons” is “a misguided attempt to address symptoms rather than root causes” of jail overcrowding, adding that “prison should be a last resort' in the criminal justice system.

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“A shocking figure”: The number of homeless people in Ireland has increased to a new high yet again in March, rising 1,878 in just the past 12 months.

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'Big trouble here': A Palestinian asylum seeker living in the IPO tent city on Mount Street has told Gript that he can't sleep at night because as many as '10 or 11' other asylum seekers living in the tents are buying drugs.

He asked to have his face blurred to avoid 'trouble.'

Material including the remains of trees being removed from River Lodge Trudder, Newtownmountkennedy as Gardaí have blocked both ends of the road.

A one month-old baby boy has been airlifted from an NHS hospital in Britain to Rome to receive treatment for a serious heart condition, in a landmark intervention staged by Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni. 

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Downing Street has rebuffed suggestions from Tánaiste Micheál Martin that asylum seekers are now fearful of staying in the UK.

A spokesperson said it is 'too early” to say if the Rwanda plan is causing an influx of migrants to Ireland, as claimed.

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Three men and a woman have been charged in relation to public order offences after clashes erupted between protestors and riot police in Newtownmountkennedy last night.

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MATT TREACY: A resident of Baltinglass informed Gript that they believe all of those properties have been bought by a developer based in Cork but, despite extensive inquiries, Gript has been unable to confirm for certain the identity of the developer in question…

Two men have appeared in court charged with the murder of Croatian man Josip Strok who died following an incident in west Dublin last month.
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Between 2013 to 2022, €2,236.55 million in Overseas Development Aid was sent to 12 Countries below. Senator GERARD CRAUGHWELL asks ‘Are we being taken for fools?'

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A leading medical expert and ethics lecturer has expressed “great concern” about what he described as the “under the radar process” by which the Medical Council dropped its stance that doctors “must not take part in the deliberate killing of a patient.”

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Gardaí advance on and pepper spray protesters opposing an IPAS centre in Newtownmountkennedy in clashes last night. Gript captured front line images.

'The idea that the state would have to hold us down and inject us with a microchip seems even more far fetched now, since 99% of us voluntarily carry such a chip around in our pockets.'

That, and other observations, in this week's weekly roundup:

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JOHN MCGUIRK: 'That Mr. Nkencho was armed is not in dispute. That he was suspected of assaulting somebody earlier that same day is not in dispute. That he lunged, with a knife in his hand, towards Gardaí is not in dispute.'

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