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The 9 at 9 Cold snap to continue, explosions in Kyiv and reducing fuel costs.

LAST UPDATE | 14 Dec 2022

GOOD MORNING.

Here’s all the news that you need to know as you start your day.

Cold Snap

1. A Status Orange low temperature and ice warning is set to come into effect across most of the country this evening.

The warning, issued by Met Éireann earlier yesterday, impacts 19 counties across the country and will come into effect at 6pm tomorrow until midday on Thursday.

Homelessness

2. Outreach groups are “doing all they can” to ensure people sleeping rough take up offers of emergency accommodation during the current cold snap.

During the extremely cold weather period in late February and early March of 2018, dubbed “The Best from the East”), some homeless people had to be sectioned under the Mental Health Act after refusing to enter emergency accommodation.

Action

3. Grateful Nkencho, whose 27-year-old brother was shot dead by Gardaí in 2020, has initiated High Court proceedings against the Garda Commissioner, the Attorney General, the Minister for Justice and the State arising from his death.

Harringtons LLP Solicitor confirmed that the case had been issued yesterday but declined to comment further.

New Rules

 4. Local authorities will be able to secure a proportion of any land value increase arising from planning and development decisions on newly zoned sites for housing.  

Under plans approved by Cabinet yesterday, the State will be able to reap 30% of the value uplift.

Minister Darragh O’Brien got Cabinet approval yesterday for an updated General Scheme of the Land Value Sharing and Urban Development Zones Bill.

Explosions

5.  The mayor of Kyiv has reported multiple explosions in the Ukrainian capital for the first time in weeks.

Vitali Klitschko wrote in a post on Telegram that there were explosions in a central district of the capital that is home to many government agencies and buildings.

He said municipal teams were in place and more details were expected.

Injured

6.  Top Gear presenter Andrew “Freddie” Flintoff  was injured and taken to hospital to receive medical treatment after being involved in an accident while filming for the show.

The incident happened yesterday morning while the 45-year-old former professional cricketer was filming at the Top Gear test track at Dunsfold Aerodrome in Surrey.

Strabane

7. A man has been arrested in the investigation into the attempted murder of two police officers in Northern Ireland last month. 

It dates back to an alleged bomb attack on the night of 17th November when two constables on patrol were attacked in the Mount Carmel Heights area of County Tyrone.

Cost of Fuel

8. The average price of fuel has dropped by an average of more than 10% across the country, according to the latest AA Ireland Fuel Survey. 

The average price of a litre of petrol is now €1.60 per litre, a 17 cents (-9.8%) drop since last month and the lowest average price for petrol since September 2021.

Sound of Mars

9. A Nasa rover has recorded the sound of a red dust devil whizzing past on Mars.

The 10-second first-of-its-kind audio was released yesterday and captures not only gusts of up to 25mph but also the pinging of hundreds of dust particles against the rover Perseverance.

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    Mute Ronan Stokes
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    Dec 29th 2014, 6:43 PM

    Funny how Water legislation can be rushed through the Dail, but the are no laws in place to protect mortgage holders from this? Hmmm…

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    Mute Alan Lawlor
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    Dec 29th 2014, 8:12 PM

    And how can an unregulated financial services company be allowed to buy IBRC mortgages (a state-owned company) and therefore operate in the State? Christ – the incompetence of our Govt and the Central Bank never ceases to amaze me.

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    Mute Darren Moloney
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    Dec 29th 2014, 8:44 PM

    I Think the state is a private company.

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    Mute Plantation Watch
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    Dec 29th 2014, 9:34 PM

    Defaulting mortgage holders you mean…

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    Mute johngahan
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    Dec 29th 2014, 9:35 PM

    People should probably have read their mortgage contract before signing it.

    But that sort of adult responsibility doesn’t sit well here on the mossy green Island.

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    Mute Darren Moloney
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    Dec 29th 2014, 9:46 PM

    AIB FOR SALE

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    Mute Darren Moloney
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    Dec 29th 2014, 9:48 PM

    SMOKE ………FIRE

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    Mute E
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    Dec 29th 2014, 11:18 PM

    I spoke to an ex boss of a big US bank in London recently.
    I mentioned to him some of the names companies who were buying up these debts.
    This guy said that all of these outfits were notorious cut and run vulture outfits who only do business in distressed sectors/economies
    who get in and get out fast and care nothing about the consequences.

    Please disregard the BS Noonan and Co Feeds us.

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    Mute Darren Moloney
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    Dec 30th 2014, 11:31 AM

    All up for re-possession.
    15th: Dublin x 2 families, Tullamore x 43 families, Galway x 1 family. Limerick 2 (ex parte), banks are up to something here. Roscommon x 81 families. Waterford x 30 families. Mulligar x 5 families.

    16th, Carlow x 20 families up for possession.

    17th: Longford x 27 families. Trim x 40 families. Cork x 2 families.

    18th: Nenagh x 54 families. Tralee x 65 families up for eviction

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    Mute E
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    Dec 30th 2014, 12:25 PM

    Amen Darren

    http://www.independent.ie/incoming/murdersuicide-dad-in-legal-battle-with-three-different-banks-30869593.html
    RIP
    These people and many others would probably be alive and still with us today if our government didn’t let the banks go to town on their victims.
    100,000′s of innocent men women and children have been persecuted at the hands of corrupt/criminal bankers for the past 7 years.
    In the absence
    of a strong government,
    of instant clean slate bankruptcy legislation,
    and firm bank regulation,
    this travesties will snowball in eternal perpetuation.

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    Mute Darren Moloney
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    Dec 30th 2014, 1:33 PM

    – we are no longer looking for a European deal to get the bank debt off our national debt. The “hugely significant” policy has been quietly dropped.

    This was sold as good news: we’ll flog off the banks and get €17 billion of the €64 billion back. Hurrah! Isn’t it marvellous? And so the “seismic shift” story has turned out

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    Mute Mick Hannigan
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    Dec 29th 2014, 6:27 PM

    Jesus this is going to hit a lot of people in 2015, I would love to see the Irish people get there own back with everyone in the country just telling the banks to feck off and nobody pay them anything back not even a car loan, and just tell them they have been paid all ready with the ball out, now that would be some payback

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    Mute Spiderman_Irish
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    Dec 29th 2014, 6:29 PM

    I think in our hearts we all want to do that and I would agree on principle alone. But my head says that would destroy the economy and hurt us more.

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    Mute Kal Ipers
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    Dec 29th 2014, 7:41 PM

    How about people pay for their own loans and take responsibility for themselves?
    The banks do have to pay us back you know and if the lose money we lose more

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    Mute Fin Tastic
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    Dec 29th 2014, 8:02 PM

    @Kal Ipers. Oh the irony. You do realise that all property bubbles are created by the influx of cheap credit to high risk mortgagees? It’s not as if this have never occurred before – Property bubbles have happened so many times, it’s a complete joke. Bank regulators, and government regulators should be shot for allowing such a situation to occur.

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    Mute Kal Ipers
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    Dec 29th 2014, 8:07 PM

    @fin
    Maybe I missed the part where people were forced to take out loans.
    You missed the part where the public insisted the banks give more money, lied on applications, took more money out in credit unions, borrowed from family etc…

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    Mute Darren Moloney
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    Dec 29th 2014, 8:22 PM

    yip if you wanted a family home you got a loan.

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    Mute E
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    Dec 29th 2014, 11:10 PM

    So you are basically happy with your little open ended “agreement” with these criminal private banks Kal?
    An “agreement” which allows them to pocket the profit but forces you to pick up their losses.
    We are 7 years on from the that they created.
    Time for them to come around with their bailout hat again?

    No one held a gun to the bankers heads to force them to lend out money that they didn’t have, to people who they knew fine and well could not ever pay it back,
    thus criminally busting their private businesses and sentencing generations of innocent Irish people (some as of yet, unborn) to eternal debt slavery.

    Save your lame rationalisations for the bankers, the government and NAMA’s finest.
    They lie at the root cause of this heinous sad travesty.

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    Dec 29th 2014, 11:11 PM

    Sorry Typo
    We are 7 years on from the BubbleBust that they created.

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    Mute Spiderman_Irish
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    Dec 29th 2014, 6:28 PM

    Protecting Bondholders was the priority of FG/LAB in 2014 just like any other year, 2015 will be the same.

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    Dec 29th 2014, 6:59 PM

    Let’s not forget that Fianna Fail started the whole process.

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    Dec 29th 2014, 7:34 PM

    Crystal ball is a great thing D.

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    Dec 29th 2014, 8:47 PM

    Maybe you should admit Fianna Fails part in the mess THE HONEST and DECENT people of this country are in because of them and not blame others for their mess.

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    Dec 29th 2014, 8:58 PM

    Fianna Fáil tds have some neck to warn us about what will happen next year and give advise. It’s as if they have no responsibility for putting the country in the mess it’s in. It’s unbelievable to think that we should have forgotten or have forgave them. THEY WILL NEVER BE FORGIVEN AND WE WILL NEVER FORGET SO DO US ALL A FAVOUR AND DISOLVE THE PARTY AND GO AWAY.

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    Mute Charles J. Ahern
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    Dec 29th 2014, 9:00 PM

    Yeah maybe the honest and decent people in Ireland who pay unreasonable taxes, childcare costs, private healthcare, mortgages etc. should be protected from Mortgage Vultures.

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    Mute Dermot Ryan
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    Dec 30th 2014, 1:38 AM

    They are Charles – why do you think Sinn Fein are becoming so popular ?

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    Dec 29th 2014, 7:05 PM

    Make no mistake this is a very worrying development given new mortgage rules- if these guys force up rates, repossess and dump property on market we could be in for a very turbulent 2015 in property prices. They bought loans at very heavy discounts and can affoard for property to be dumped on market and still make money- in fact they may try to buy them themselves at big mark downs as banks are not lending to joe public and then charge huge rents – whilst enda and cronies sit back and let it happen.

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    Dec 29th 2014, 6:24 PM

    Horse bolted.

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    Dec 29th 2014, 10:47 PM

    The government spent €10′s of billions (and counting) of taxpayers money via NAMA keeping gambling “developers” in clover by buying up the worthless loans that they took out on 10,000′s of acres of badly located swampland.
    The government then pumped €10′s of billions (and counting) of taxpayers money into private criminal banks who all (bar none) bust themselves with their heinous criminal behaviour.
    Then Mickey Noonan and the Government sell innocent people’s home-loans to foreign faceless parasitic vulture vermin funds.
    Please tell me if I just dream that?

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    Dec 29th 2014, 10:57 PM

    There are already approx. 150,000 Home-Loans and 40,000 Buy To Let Mortgages in Arrears and countless other headed there.
    This will force 10′s of thousands more into mortgage arrears/distress.
    The mortgage crisis in Ireland Eclipses all other mortgages crises.
    But don’t rely on Ireland’s media (who has been bought and paid for by property vested interests) to tell you that.

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    Dec 29th 2014, 10:58 PM

    Ireland 4 million people.
    142,000 Home-Loans in arrears (approx. 20% of all Home-Loans) and 40,000 buy to let mortgages (approx. 27%) in arrears.
    http://oireachtasdebates.oireachtas.ie/debates%20authoring/debateswebpack.nsf/takes/dail2013071000047
    http://www.centralbank.ie/press-area/press-releases/Pages/ResidentialMortgageArrearsandRepossessionsStatisticsQ42013.aspx

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    Dec 29th 2014, 10:58 PM

    UK 63 million people. 138,000 mortgages in arrears, (1.24% of all mortgages including Buy to Let Mortgages).
    http://www.mortgageintroducer.com/mortgages/249573/5/Industry_in_depth/Mortgage_arrears_down_in_first_quarter.htm

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    Dec 29th 2014, 7:07 PM

    Put a safe in house. . Iv no money trail now. .f@@k em.

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    Mute Darren Moloney
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    Dec 29th 2014, 8:06 PM

    why aren’t the people who are getting their houses taking, offered the option to buy at the auction price?

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    Mute Darren Moloney
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    Dec 29th 2014, 8:17 PM

    cap the price of houses in Dublin and get rid of the ponzi scheme once and for all stop any government incentives.

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    Mute Darren Moloney
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    Dec 29th 2014, 8:01 PM

    negative equity would be a great start, why can’t you give back your house without paying the difference?

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    Dec 29th 2014, 8:19 PM

    Everyone will forget about the crash in about 5 years and it will start all over again with the next housing boom and everyone will hit the shops remember credit is not your money it has to be paid back 50 years,100 years.

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    Dec 29th 2014, 11:22 PM

    Not if the bankers and regulators do what they are actually paid to do, for a change.

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    Dec 29th 2014, 9:25 PM

    The Taoiseach has hinted that Ireland will not take up a European deal on its banking debts.

    Enda Kenny said it may make more sense to sell AIB on the market rather than striking a deal with Europe, and added it would be very difficult to convince 27 other countries to give us a deal.

    Ireland is now eligible to make an official application for a deal to get some of its money back for the bailout of AIB and Bank of Ireland.

    Mr Kenny raised the option of offering a portion of AIB for sale, and multiplying the resulting offer to calculate the overall revenue that would be generated from a sale of the bank.

    He added Finance Minister Michael Noonan had made it clear he did not wish to dispose of the remaining shares in Bank of Ireland “so that he can have an influence on bank policy”.

    In the clearest sign that Ireland may not take a deal – or may not get one – the Taoiseach underlined how difficult EU-wide agreement would be.

    “It requires unanimous approval from (our EU) colleagues and I can understand some of them would say ‘Your country is growing at 5% a year. You’ve come through a rough time, but you’re doing very well now in comparison with where we are.’

    “The Eurozone growth rate is about 0.8% and for the EU as a whole will be 1.8% next year.”

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    Dec 29th 2014, 11:39 PM

    The problem we have with Enda is he suffers from low self-esteem. The EU leaders showered him with accolades and he had his face on the front cover of ‘Time’. Now that he likes living in the ‘success bubble’ that they made for him, he doesn’t want to come out.
    Things like talking to Vincent Brown or asking for retrospective bank deals would burst his bubble. The result of this ego problem is the enslavement of us, our children and their children to repay a debt which was never ours….if we don’t remove him from power soon, we will have incurred the most expensive treatment for low self-esteem in the history of planet Earth.
    It would therefore be much cheaper to remove him…his mute FG TD’s and the Champagne Socialists who sold out their party in the twilight of their years for one last career shot at a Ministerial post.
    And when that is done…we can tell Dragi where to shove the promissory note that they illegally placed on the Irish people….I’ll even supply the lube….free.

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    Dec 30th 2014, 1:47 AM

    Al Ca – excellent assessment of Enda – the clue was in his interview with Gaybo – Meaning if life .
    Michael Noonan is in a similar position and totally malleable in Europe……….
    Don’t worry though – The swing to Sinn Fein sinply means that Europe will not be putting a gun to our heads again –
    Would Mario Draghi put a gun to Gerry Adams’ Head – he might and he might even pull the trigger – but then where does he hide then – Mars ?.
    .That is the thinking that is subconsciously entering the political mind of Ireland – Massive trouble ahead for those who have gambled long in Ireland ..

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    Dec 29th 2014, 9:24 PM

    kennys trying to sell AIB.?

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    Dec 29th 2014, 8:33 PM

    Repudiate is a word that never comes up when the math masters of keynesian economics do a sum only bonuses, growth and no moral hazard.

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