ON THIS DAY: 14 SEPTEMBER 1812: Napoleon enters Moscow, the poor fool

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Dutch PM Mark Rutte has said his country will pledge 200m in reparations for the nation’s historic involvement in the slave trade.

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Blackouts across Ukraine as Russian missiles target power plants

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Hungarian PM Viktor Orbán has called on Europe to “fight the fundamentalist greens” to end the energy crisis, adding that Europe is the only continent that "makes our own lives this much harder."

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A review of the last ten years of data from Europol’s EU Terrorism Situation and Trend Report (TE-SAT) shows that there have been seven times more left-wing and anarchist acts of terrorism, than right-wing, in the EU. #gript

https://gript.ie/left-wing-and-anarchist-terrorism-far-more-common-than-right-wing-in-eu/

Senator Sharon Keogan has made a heartfelt appeal to young people not to leave Ireland as polls show growing numbers say the country has become a harsh place for their generation.

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The body of a man believed to have been murdered lay in the bedroom of a Dublin City flat for one week before it was discovered by Gardaí.

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Rural TDs have hit out at the government for blocking a debate on the energy crisis from taking place in the Dáil.

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https://gript.ie/government-tds-block-crucial-dail-debate-on-energy-security-says-rural-independent/

Sod it: A Co Limerick businessman has got people talking after advertising his sods of turf as bags of “decorative hardened Irish mud” in joke protest at the Government’s proposed ban on the sale of peat and other fossil fuels.

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https://gript.ie/thats-one-way-of-getting-around-it-limerick-businessman-advertises-turf-as-hardened-irish-mud/

The strongest argument against introducing a Republican Civil honours system in Ireland, writes JOHN MCGUIRK defending the idea in principle, is that we all know the kind of people who'd end up bedecked in medals:
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"One of these days, we may find a problem that Richard Boyd Barrett does not propose to solve by nationalising. But today, my friends, is sadly not that day"
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Jailed schoolteacher, Enoch Burke, has told the High Court that he believes he is a victim of a “gross injustice”.

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https://gript.ie/enoch-burke-says-a-gross-injustice-is-being-done-as-he-remains-in-jail/

Disappointingly for some, in relation primarily to her association with the feminist movement in Ireland, the author says she would do it all again.

BOOK REVIEW: Mary Kenny's "The Way We Were"

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https://gript.ie/review-the-way-we-were-catholic-ireland-since-1922-by-mary-kenny/

WATCH: Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald has said that “you can’t limit numbers” of Ukrainian refugees that Ireland accepts, even despite the accommodation crisis - effectively agreeing with the government’s “no cap” policy.

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Panda Power has told its customers that it has made "the difficult decision" to exit the electricity and gas market in Ireland.

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A selection of 21 penal crosses, ranging from the early 18th to the middle of the 19th century, has been taken out of storage and put on temporary display until the end of October at the National Museum of Ireland – Country Life, Turlough Park, Castlebar, Co Mayo.

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https://gript.ie/selection-of-crosses-on-display-for-special-anniversary-programme-at-national-museum-of-ireland/

“One of the most despicable acts of political negligence and contempt I have ever witnessed towards ordinary people.”

WATCH as Carol Nolan rips the government on the energy crisis in a blistering first speech since the Dáil’s return.

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Safe Ireland, the national development and co-ordination body working to eradicate domestic violence, have reported that throughout 2021 its refuge services remained ‘heavily reliant on public donations and the benevolence of free emergency hotel bed-nights from Airbnb which came to an end in July 2022.’

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https://gript.ie/domestic-violence-refuge-services-heavily-reliant-on-airbnb-support-which-is-now-at-an-end/

Women in Hungary considering having an abortion will now be required to listen to the heartbeat of their unborn baby under a decree which came into force today.

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https://gript.ie/hungary-women-now-to-hear-to-unborn-babys-heartbeat-when-asking-for-abortion/

MATT TREACY says that questions need to be answered over the murder of a man in a flat managed by the McVerry Trust – and the policy of placing what can turn into drug dens into already under-pressure communities.

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https://gript.ie/questions-to-be-answered-over-the-murder-in-kevin-barry-house/