Dublin rioters have pushed people away from the untried and untested towards the status quoIt was inevitable there would be political consequences from the Dublin riots, which are still being played out this week, with a confidence motion in the justice minister. There are those who will claim they knew how the events of November 23 would land with the public, but such people always blow their own trumpet into the soupy fog of the city streets. Nobody knew for sure what the impact would be, other than that there would be an impact — and what an impact there has been, according to today’s Sunday Independent/Ireland Thinks opinion poll.

Saturday sport: New Leinster hurling and football champions; Leinster head to the ShowgroundsUpdated: 9pmHere's the latest from the day's sporting action...RugbyLeinster are doing battle with Connacht looking to return to the top of the URC table this evening. GAAO'Loughlin Gaels are the Leinster Club Hurling champions, while Kilmacud Crokes have been crowned Leinster Club Football champions. In the hurling final, the Kilkenny side came from behind to beat Na Fianna of Dublin 0-22 to 1-18 in the decider. Kilmacud Crokes have become the first team to win the Leinster Club Football final three times in a row. Galway's Sarsfields will play Dicksboro of Kilkenny in the All-Ireland Camogie Club Championship final.

Petrol bombs were thrown at police in Carrickfergus. A teenager has been arrested after PSNI officers came under attack from petrol bombs. Police were in the area at around 1am, dealing with an abandoned vehicle, when two petrol bombs were thrown towards them. A 15-year-old boy was arrested at the scene on suspicion of possession of a petrol bomb in suspicious circumstances, throwing a petrol bomb, disorderly behaviour and assault on police. “We believe at this time that there were at least two other males present when the petrol bombs were thrown and we are working to establish their identities.

Addressing a press conference, the villagers alleged that the Sunburn organizers had taken the locals and all other authorities including the village panchayat for granted by advertising on their official website sale of tickets two months prior to the festival. “We should have been taken into confidence but they (organizers) have taken us and Anjuna-Caisua village panchayat for granted. Former Anjuna-Caisua panchayat member Hanumant Govekar said that it is for the first time that the Sunburn organizers have announced the festival for four days instead of the usual three days. They have been holding the festival at Vagator for the last few years but never extended it to December 31. Most of the locals demanded to know how the organizers announce tickets without obtaining the necessary permissions from the authorities.

“However, the Scottish Greens cannot support a new relief from non-domestic rates for businesses in the hospitality sector,” she adds. “There is already a broad spectrum of reliefs from NDR on offer, ranging from the small business bonus scheme to hardship relief, business growth accelerator relief, and rural rate relief. The small business bonus scheme in particular has no equivalent elsewhere in the UK and a large number of hospitality businesses will already benefit from it. READ MORE: Major test looms for Yousaf's New Deal for BusinessBut her stance cut no ice with Stephen Montgomery, spokesman and director of the Scottish Hospitality Group, who said the position taken by Ms Slater on business rates was “very disappointing”. “Today is Small Business Saturday, and we would ask the Scottish Greens to rethink their stance on this, because without their help, hospitality businesses in their constituency may well not make it through another year.

To change the tide and make farming attractive once again, the government introduced Community Farming scheme in the State. But the community farming scheme gave us a boost to continue farming,” said Pratap Pednekar, a farmer from Galgibaga. The subsidy is limited to Rs 2.50 lakh per hectare, irrespective of area covered by the community farming group. The community farming can be undertaken as Joint Community Farming and Loosely Amalgamated Community Farming. Under Loosely Amalgamated Community Farming, a community farming group is formed with the intention to create permanent infrastructure such as fencing, creation of irrigation infrastructure, etc and the cost of infrastructure is borne in the name of the group.

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From that perspective, unfortunately, we did not achieve the desired results,” Mr Zelenskiy said of operations that began in June with the aim of splitting Russian forces in southeastern Ukraine and possibly severing the land link between Russia and Crimea on the Black Sea, which Moscow annexed in 2014. READ MORE“We have a new phase of war… Winter as a whole is a new phase of war,” Mr Zelenskiy said after visiting troops in the eastern Kharkiv region. He held talks with his military commanders about fortifying Ukrainian positions along the 1,000km front line in eastern and southeastern Ukraine and in northern regions bordering Russia and its ally Belarus, from where attacks have also been launched. For more than a year, Western allies did not give Ukraine missiles that could strike the area. Mr Zelenskiy said Ukraine needed to “boost and accelerate the construction of structures” and “discussed the mobilisation of resources, the motivation of private business in this work, and financing.

You had your Will Carlings, Rory and Tony Underwoods, rugby players who had gone into corporate speaking. “You can have the best manager, the most expensively-assembled team, the best training ground. With Celtic and Rangers, it is probably very easy to simplify it back to who is spending the most. You can have all the pieces in place, the right manager, the right coaches, the right players, the lack of injuries and suspensions, and still not win the league. We work with people who have had amazing careers and show them how share their stories with people in the corporate world.

James CoxA nationwide Status Yellow low temperature and ice warning has been extended. Met Éireann is warning of very slippery and hazardous conditions as temperatures plummet. Very cold day and night-time temperatures are predicted for the coming days, with Met Éireann warning of “sharp to severe frosts”. According to the Dublin Airport website, two outbound Lufthansa flights to Munich have been cancelled, in addition to three inbound flights operated by Lufthansa and Aer Lingus. Munich Airport cancelled all flights until at least 6am local time on Sunday due to the snowfall.

Foreign taxi drivers working in Ireland face being robbed at knifepoint, racially abused by passengers and regularly have customers run out of cars without paying their fare. In the wake of the Dublin riots, many are fearful they will become targets for abuse, with some indicating they no longer intend to work night-time shifts.

Cop28: Ireland will boost contributions to tackle climate change, Varadkar saysJonathan McCambridge, PAIreland will double its contribution to international climate finance to at least €225 million a year by 2025, Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has told delegates at the Cop28 summit in Dubai. Mr Varadkar pledged €25 million to a new Loss and Damage Fund for 2024 and 2025 to help poor and vulnerable countries affected by climate disasters. In his formal address on behalf of Ireland to Cop28 on Saturday, Mr Varadkar said never before have alarm bells been ringing so loudly over climate change and world leaders must rise to the challenge. He told the summit: “We cannot prevent climate change. “Ireland will double our climate finance to at least €225 million per year by 2025, and this year, we will spend close to €150 million.

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