Olympic champion Kellie Harrington has teamed up with Dublin City Council to launch the 10th annual SportsFest, featuring a free family sports day in Dublin:

https://gript.ie/olympic-star-kellie-harrington-leads-dublins-new-sports-drive/

An Oireachtas committee hearing has revealed a significant operational barrier to enforcing Grace’s Law, with Garda Commissioner Justin Kelly confirming that one in four Garda pursuits involving scrambler bikes and similar vehicles are blocked by Garda HQ.

https://gript.ie/commissioner-confirms-one-in-four-garda-pursuits-blocked-by-hq/

Aontú's Peter O'Donoghue called on the government to "end the standoff " with those suffering with Friedreich's Ataxia, and fund Skyclarys.

He made the call ahead of a march to the Dáil this weekend by campaigners.

https://gript.ie/aontu-govt-must-end-standoff-re-friedreichs-ataxia/

"Fuel protests part 2": The Government is under fresh pressure not to hike fuel prices on 1 September - while the Dail is still in its summer recess - amid warnings of a second round of fuel protests, organised by farmers, hauliers, drivers and others.

https://gript.ie/fuel-protest-leader-govt-under-pressure-not-to-hike-fuel-prices/

CEUTA: Brussels says repatriations are lawful but insists on strict child-protection rules and confirms Spain has not yet filed its emergency funding request.

https://gript.ie/eu-clears-spain-to-return-ceuta-minors-once-safeguards-are-met/

FATIMA GUNNING: From Culture Night's Aztec regalia to the Fleadh Cheoil's "diversity paint job," a pattern is emerging in how Irish cultural events are being diversified. This isn’t preservation; it's dilution.
https://gript.ie/from-fleadh-to-faceless-and-the-aztecs-of-dublin-culture-night/

PAT COYNE: High Court rules that the Minister acted within the law when removing four species of duck from Ireland’s hunting list in a case taken by an organisation representing 26,000 hunters.

https://gript.ie/duck-species-hunting-ban-upheld-in-high-court-challenge/

CORMAC LUCEY: What should concern an Irish reader is how thoroughly this exposure has been exported. Irish pension funds, PRSAs, and life assurance products are stuffed with US equity trackers - and the US Equity Markets are flashing classic bubble symptoms.

https://gript.ie/lucey-how-us-equity-markets-are-flashing-classic-bubble-symptoms/

MATT TREACY: Demolishing homes during a housing crisis sounds mad unless you know the entire Brittas build was ruled illegal, a flagrant breach of planning, and the sudden "free social housing" offer never once surfaced in a year of court hearings.


https://gript.ie/brittas-free-social-housing-proposal-never-mentioned-in-court/

NIAMH UÍ BHRIAIN: Should Gardaí risk life and limb in pursuit of teenage joyriders who seek the thrill of the chase, when the system ensures this lethal behaviour has no real consequences? The horror crash on the M9 should be a wake-up call.


https://gript.ie/should-gardai-risk-lives-in-pursuit-of-joy-riders-who-evade-jail/

A Pakistani doctor who was jailed for sexually assaulting two of his UK patients last week worked in Dublin for over two decades.

https://gript.ie/pakistani-dr-who-worked-in-ireland-jailed-for-sexual-assault/

The European Union is set to aid the injection of government funds into media outlets considered to push an agenda friendly to “diversity”, draft legislation has shown.

https://gript.ie/eu-to-aid-state-cash-injections-into-pro-diversity-media/

Spanish opposition leader Alberto Núñez Feijóo returned to Ceuta yesterday, saying Spain has “lost control” of the border. He outlined a seven-point plan to deal with thr crisis, built on expulsions, a single command structure, and reinforced security.

https://gript.ie/opposition-says-spain-lost-control-of-ceuta-border/

GUNNING on the McKenna West case: “The idea of ending the life of an unborn child because he or she is not ‘perfect’ says everything about how, for some couples seeking surrogacy, it’s more about them than the child: and that is the very problem with turning a human being into a saleable commodity.”

https://gript.ie/surrogacy-the-chasm-between-what-is-legal-and-what-is-moral/

In a bid to alleviate domestic prison overcrowding, Sweden has begun transferring inmates to Estonia, but the majority of the first batch have been rejected due to "obvious" gang links and radicalisation concerns.

https://gript.ie/estonia-blocks-majority-of-swedish-prisoners-over-gang-tie-fears/

Gardaí are seeking an extradition warrant for the prime person of interest in the murder of US mother-of-one Jamey Carney.

A file had been sent to the DPP recommending that Ahmad Al-Saqar, 28, be prosecuted for Ms Carney's murder:

https://gript.ie/jamey-carney-murder-gardai-seek-extradition-warrant/

TREACY: Guess who will own a little piece of the high rise ‘Dunsink city’ of at least 45,000 people, mostly immigrants, planned for north county Dublin, with an expected population density of 13,800 people per square km - three times that of Dublin city?


https://gript.ie/dunsink-city-would-have-population-density-of-the-bronx/

An academic who published evidence of plagiarism by late Cambridge Prof. Jason Arday has been suspended from his position at the University of Ghent. https://gript.ie/academic-who-exposed-cambridge-scandal-suspended/

"The face is central to identity and to human communication": In a move to enforce "parity and equal dignity between men and women," Portugal's President has promulgated a new law banning the burka in public areas:

https://gript.ie/portugals-president-enacts-new-burka-ban-for-public-spaces/