What Paschal Donohoe didn't learn from Darth Vader:
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https://gript.ie/what-paschal-donohoe-didnt-learn-from-darth-vader/

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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https://gript.ie/first-they-came-for-enoch/

"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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https://gript.ie/eu-officials-want-to-flatten-the-curve-of-energy-consumption/

“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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https://gript.ie/irish-fishing-group-says-eu-claim-of-level-playing-field-is-a-joke/

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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https://gript.ie/the-housing-crisis-bites-students-and-they-deserve-it/

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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https://gript.ie/on-this-day-9-september-1845-newspapers-report-a-potato-blight-has-hit-ireland-4/

The new Prime Minister of Britain, Liz Truss, has announced a raft of measures that her government believes will ease the burden on hard-pressed citizens chafing under a cost-of-living crisis.

MÁIRÍN DE BARRA writes

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https://gript.ie/restarting-fracking-oil-gas-and-energy-price-caps/

Sources close to Eurovision legend Dana Rosemary Scallan have told Gript that RTÉ have yet to contact her directly, despite the national broadcaster’s repeated claim that it has done so.

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https://gript.ie/rte-hasnt-called-her-sources-close-to-dana-contradict-broadcasters-claims/

"Is social media harmful to kids? Some people are still sceptical about this: a few experts, the American Civil Liberties Union, and Big Tech itself, of course. Put a smart little device in the hands of teenagers, hook them up to platforms they find irresistible, and what could go wrong?"

CAROL MOYNIHAN writes

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https://gript.ie/they-threw-the-book-at-big-tobacco-and-it-worked-lets-try-it-with-big-tech-to-stop-harmful-social-media-use/

Aontú Councillor Emmet Doyle was the victim of an ‘unprovoked’ violent assault in Derry City centre on Friday morning. Doyle says he was attacked by an abortion campaigner for his stance on abortion and the right to life.

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https://gript.ie/aontu-councillor-violently-assaulted-by-abortion-campaigners-in-derry-city-centre/