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A Fine Gael minister has clashed with the Green Party over a proposed €650m liquid gas storage plant that would ease the country’s dependence on Russian fuels.
On this day a century ago, one of the more awful events of Ireland’s bitter Civil War took place in Ennis, Co Clare. At 7.30am, two young Irishmen, one aged just 19, were taken out and shot by a National Army firing squad.
Medical prescriptions will soon be available to everyone via scannable barcodes – modelled on the successful Covid vaccination certificate system – the junior minister responsible for technology, Ossian Smyth, has said.
The growing assumption that Sinn Féin will inevitably lead the next government must be seriously challenged – and the influence of “hard-left think tanks and lobbyists” must be reduced, a former Fine Gael minister has said.
New updated laws on hate speech are currently making their way through the Oireachtas, but they are controversial.