ON THIS DAY: 7 SEPTEMBER 1695: Penal Laws are enacted

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The Swiss will have to abandon their saunas and hot showers this winter as the government considers sending energy guzzlers to jail.

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https://gript.ie/switzerland-possible-3-years-in-jail-if-rooms-heated-over-19c/

ON THIS DAY: 8 SEPTEMBER 1908: Founding of St. Endas

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JOHN MCGUIRK: We are well prepared for the misery of the winter because the Government and the media trained us well, in the pandemic, to shut up and say nothing and do our bit.
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What Paschal Donohoe didn't learn from Darth Vader:
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FIRST, they came for Enoch.

"It is more important than ever to recognise resilience and character when we see it," writes KILLIAN FOLEY-WALSH.

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"Proposals to ban the use and future installation of oil and gas boilers in domestic homes would create an express track to fuel poverty for thousands of Irish families who could not afford heating alternatives."

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https://gript.ie/nolan-pressing-ahead-with-ban-on-boilers-will-place-families-in-spiral-of-debt/

The Swedish general election on Sunday looks set to see the nationalist Swedish Democrats become the second largest party. Concerns about immigration and crime are shaping voting patterns in the country. MATT TREACY writes

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https://gript.ie/anti-immigration-party-may-become-second-largest-in-sweden/

“RTÉ has become a manufacturer of stress” woman details why she will not be contributing to the six figure sums of RTÉ fat cats salaries.

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https://gript.ie/irish-woman-tells-an-post-why-she-wont-pay-tv-licence/

Black Lives Matter has once again found itself embroiled in controversy following fresh accusations of financial impropriety, with one executive now accused of syphoning $10 million in donations.

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https://gript.ie/black-lives-matter-leader-accused-of-stealing-10-million/

White House hears how covid jabs should provide protection from “serious illness” in the absence of new variants if taken once a year.

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https://gript.ie/covid-shots-to-be-made-annual-in-the-us-in-absence-of-curveball-variants/

BEN SCALLAN: With EU officials saying we need to “flatten the curve” of energy consumption, we may now be staring down the barrel of what amounts to a climate lockdown:

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“Something has got to give in the very near future”: Irish fishing group says EU claim of “level playing field” is “a joke”

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This weekend, the life of the magnificent Gaelic prince Aodh Ruadh Ó Domhnaill will be remembered and celebrated in Spain where he died as he sought assistance for Ireland after the Battle of Kinsale.

DR MATT TREACY writes

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https://gript.ie/aodh-ruadh-a-magnificent-gaelic-leader-remembered-in-spain/

The funeral of twins Chelsea and Christy Cawley (8) and Lisa Cash (18) will be held this morning in Brookfield, Tallaght.

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https://gript.ie/forever-loved-funeral-of-tallaght-siblings-lisa-chelsea-and-christy-to-take-place-today/

Government immigration policy is teaching Irish students what the Universities apparently cannot, writes JOHN MCGUIRK: Maths.
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The award-winning Cine4 film Róise & Frank will be released in cinemas nationwide on September 16th by Break Out Pictures.

Set and filmed in the Waterford Gaeltacht of Ring, Róise & Frank tells the story of the recently widowed Róise (Bríd Ní Neachtain) who is struggling in the aftermath of her husband Frank’s passing.

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https://gript.ie/new-irish-language-film-roise-frank-to-be-released-in-cinemas-nationwide-next-week/

BEN SCALLAN: Around a century after the War of Independence, Ireland now finds itself in the humiliating position of having to beg a European body to use our own generators and avoid freezing in the winter:

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https://gript.ie/cringe-overload-ireland-must-beg-eu-to-use-coal-oil-generators/

"High rents imposed by absentee landlords meant that most people could only afford to live on small tenant farms with inferior soil that only potatoes could grow on; but the potato crop was prone to disease and the farmers did not have extra land to rotate crops."

ON THIS DAY: 9 September 1845 : Newspapers report a potato blight has hit Ireland

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