The Taoiseach is trying to get a 'quick fix' for pay as you go energy customers by telling them to get help from social welfare offices.
That's the view of an Independent TD who says community welfare offices have been removed from rural villages.
Mattie McGrath says Micheál Martin isn't being realistic as hours are also being cut back in other social welfare offices.
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A murder investigation's continuing this morning after a man was gunned down in west Belfast.
He was shot dead at the Donegal Celtic Sports and Social Club, when two gunmen burst in and opened fire in front of people watching football on TV.
They shot the victim a number of times at the soccer club on the Suffolk Road and fled the scene on foot.
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New laws which come into effect from today will see all adopted people have access to their birth certs.
The Information and Tracing Services will also help those whose births were registered illegally.
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Gerry ‘The Monk’ Hutch is due to go on trial today for the murder of David Byrne, who was shot dead at a boxing weigh-in at the Regency Hotel in Dublin in 2016.
Before that, the sentence hearing is due to take place of former Sinn Féin councillor, Jonathan Dowdall, who last week admitted facilitating the gangland murder.
