<p>Ireland's drive to cut peak-time power demand will range from encouraging big firms and households to use off-peak power, down to cutting cooking times. Stock picture: iStock</p>

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Irish homes and firms will be asked to cut peak-time power use to avoid winter blackouts

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<p>Dr Jo Murphy-Lawless of the Elephant Collective said there needed to be answers on why a woman 'in a fully equipped, up-to-date hospital in a highly developed western country' died shortly after giving birth to her healthy daughter. Picture: Dan Linehan</p>

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<p>British Heiress Rose Dugdale who was part of a IRA gang which stole 19 painting during an art theft at Russborough House in Wicklow 1974. Dr Dugdale is seen here during a Sinn Féin Ard Fheis in 1991.</p>

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