Amid the ongoing cost of living crisis, a new public sector pay deal could see TDs taking home an extra €6,500 per year, bringing their total salary to almost €108,000.

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https://gript.ie/tds-set-to-receive-a-e6-5k-pay-rise-bringing-salaries-to-e108k/

I tried the Liveline tip of boiling my egg in water for the tea. Here’s what happened

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https://gript.ie/austerity-egg-water-ala-joe-duffy-has-it-really-come-to-this/

Over 1 million Irish households are set to experience hikes of hundreds of euros to their annual gas and electricity bills from October, in a situation that industry experts are calling “unprecedented.”

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https://gript.ie/one-million-irish-households-set-for-large-gas-energy-price-hikes/

POLL: Do you think the government should restart peat harvesting given the energy crisis?

VOTE in our online poll and leave your comments

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https://gript.ie/poll-do-you-think-the-government-should-restart-peat-harvesting-given-the-energy-crisis/

LORCÁN MAC MATHÚNA: "The desire to predict future events has plagued mankind in the mythological age of uncertainty, and even more pressingly in the present age that craves certainty. As we crave certainty we find uncertainty increasingly disorientating."

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https://gript.ie/the-aisling-oracles-the-unknown-future-and-the-impulse-to-control/

Minister warns of “contagion effect” saying she believes some nursing homes are opting to repurpose themselves as refugee centres. Nursing Homes Ireland refutes this saying operators are being forced to close due to mounting costs.


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https://gript.ie/are-we-putting-elderly-folks-out-on-the-road-due-to-our-immigration-policy/

An assassination attempt on Argentina’s vice-president has sent shockwaves through the country.

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https://gript.ie/watch-shocking-moment-as-assassination-attempt-on-argentinian-vp-caught-on-camera/

An investigation released this week by GB News uncovered a significant rise in the number of women making 999 calls after taking abortion pills at home.


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https://gript.ie/how-to-deal-with-babies-that-survive-abortion-pill-uk-ambulance-staff-shown-baby-mannequins/

ON THIS DAY: 2 SEPTEMBER 1792: The September Massacres were a number of killings in Paris and other cities that occurred from 2–6 September 1792 during the French Revolution. Catholic Bishops, priests, prisoners and peasants were singled out.

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https://gript.ie/on-this-day-2-september-1792-september-massacres-3/

"Rulers cannot ask this much of their people, for so long, and expect it to be borne without rebellion"
- JOHN MCGUIRK on the ESB bill increases, which come, he writes, "after a decade or more of the public constantly being asked to make sacrifices"
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https://gript.ie/the-breaking-point-approaches/

The Irish Farming Association has said that it “beggars belief” that farming land has been included in a newly proposed tax on “idle lands” unless owners use it to build housing.

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https://gript.ie/beggars-belief-that-irish-farmers-will-be-charged-on-agri-land/

Local authority water service workers will take to the streets of Kilkenny this month to protest the treatment they say they have received from SIPTU over the transfer of their employment to Irish Water.

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https://gript.ie/local-authority-workers-to-protest-transfer-of-3000-staff-to-irish-water/

ICCL blasts “abuse of legislative process” as Bill was amended at last minute to include sweeping powers to restrict expression of political opinion.

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https://gript.ie/iccl-flags-chilling-effect-on-the-free-expression-of-opinion-in-government-bill/

She’s the conservative firebrand tipped to be crowned Italy’s first ever female Prime Minister in the country’s snap election later this month. But who exactly is Giorgia Meloni, and what is she offering to Italian voters?

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https://gript.ie/meet-giorgia-meloni-the-fiery-conservative-powerhouse-tipped-to-become-italys-first-female-pm/

"Why are we letting Eamon Ryan away with this madness? And by ‘we’, I mean the idiotic government who would rather leave us sitting shivering in the dark than stand up to the demands of a Swedish schoolgirl."

NIAMH UÍ BHRIAIN writes...

https://gript.ie/the-madness-of-greens-now-eamon-ryan-is-coming-for-our-boilers/

ON THIS DAY: 3 SEPTEMBER 1658: Oliver Cromwell dead, like all those people in Drogheda

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https://gript.ie/on-this-day-3-september-1658-oliver-cromwell-dead-like-all-those-people-in-drogheda-2/

The most dramatic indication of this is that the chances of a person aged 30 now owning their own home is half that of someone who reached that age in the 1990s when more than 60% of people aged 30 owned their own home.’

MATT TREACY writes

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https://gript.ie/young-people-leaving-home-later-mirrors-housing-crisis/

Ireland’s biggest teaching union has appeared to quietly remove a controversial video about transgender children from its Vimeo account.

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https://gript.ie/into-seems-to-remove-controversial-lucy-to-liam-trans-kids-clip/

The Ireland Thinks/Sunday Independent poll published today shows the Green Party trailing last at 2% as the energy crisis deepens and soaring inflation exacerbates cost-of-living difficulties.

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https://gript.ie/greens-lowest-party-in-poll-as-energy-crisis-deepens/

TRY NOT TO HURL CHALLENGE: As climate activists tell us to ditch meat to save the planet, Ben Scallan gives the top 5 grossest insect-based alternatives being proposed (number 3 is a doozie):

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https://gript.ie/5-most-disgusting-insect-foods-being-promoted-to-save-the-climate/