The Taoiseach says the Government will do everything it can to alleviate the pressure households are facing in terms of the cost of energy but has stopped short of saying that price caps will be introduced.
Micheál Martin was speaking in Cork yesterday as more homes and businesses report getting large electricity bills as the cost of energy crisis continues ahead of the winter.
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A Cork East TD says the government must introduce a price cap on energy bills - to prevent businesses in Cork being forced to shut their doors for good.
Deputy Seán Sherlock says the government must act to take pressure off businesses, and to ease the hardships that "obscene and outrageous energy price hikes" are causing ordinary people.
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A man has appeared in court charged with the murders of his siblings in Tallaght, in the early hours of Sunday morning.
18-year-old Lisa Cash, and her eight-year-old twin brother and sister, Christy and Chelsea Cawley, died after they were attacked and stabbed at their family home in Rossfield Avenue, in the Brookfield area.
Andy Cash with an address at Rossfield Avenue appeared before Judge Patricia McNamara at a special sitting of Dublin District Court last night.
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One of the suspects of a mass stabbing attack in Canada's been found dead.
Canadian Police say Damien Sanderson's injuries are not self-inflicted.
They say his brother, Myles who is also a suspect, is still on the run.
