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Nobel peace prize winner calls for Ukraine to agree ‘ceasefire’ with Russia

Mairead Maguire also stated that Ukraine should not receive military support, despite being illegally invaded by Russia, saying, ‘Violence is never right’

Lucinda Creighton: Enough of the naivety – we need to take a stand, starting with Russia’s embassy

Russia placing 52 Irish officials and politicians on a banned list gives the lie to the belief that Ireland is somehow exempt from being targeted by malign global actors because of our ‘neutral’ stance

Fleeing Ukrainians unaware of Irish accommodation shortage

Volunteer says 40 to 50 people travel to Ireland every week from Lviv, but they know nothing about the difficulty in securing a place to stay here

Ukrainian Refugee Crisis

State in scramble to find room for refugees as system strains

Croke Park, disused barracks and school halls are all being considered, as Ukrainian embassy warns those fleeing war that Ireland cannot guarantee homes

Ukrainian dispatch: ‘After four reasonably quiet months, I’m not ready to die’

Following a period of relative calm, Kyiv is under attack by Russian rockets – and Ukrainian sports journalist Oleksandr Proshuta is again fearful for his life, and for the lives of his parents who are in constant danger in Zaporizhzyha

Jeff Farrell in Ukraine: ‘This is the bloody Russian world’

Until a few weeks ago, the village of Tetyanivka was on the front line of the Ukraine invasion. Now the few residents left are coming to terms with the trauma and trying to rebuild

Jeff Farrell: ‘My friend doesn’t even have spoons, no fridge, nothing, they took everything’

The people of Izium are beginning the task of rebuilding their city, devastated after Russian shelling and six months of occupation

Russia launches fresh strikes in Ukraine

Infrastructure facilities were damaged in a new missile attack on the city of Zaporizhzhia, while the Dnipropetrovsk region was shelled by Russian forces overnight

Soaring inflation puts ‘vital’ new gas-fired power plants at risk

Developers call on regulator to index-link payments with inflation while Eirgrid warns that the highest risk of blackouts is expected to occur between early January and mid-February

Get in, stay in, tune in: state prepares plan in event of a nuclear emergency

Event of this nature ‘highly improbable’, but government currently reviewing 2019 plan as European leaders grow concerned over Putin’s Ukraine escalation

Comment & Analysis

Lucinda Creighton: Decisive action needed to disarm Putin’s global disinformation war

Balancing free speech with retaliation against disinformation is not easy but we can no longer tolerate the manipulation of whole swathes of our populations by Putin and his propaganda machine

The unknowable mind: Will Putin risk going nuclear?

The bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945 killed 70,000 people, but those bombs had just a fraction of the strength of the smallest bombs available to Russia today. The Business Post asked some experts how seriously we should take the Russian leader’s threat to use nuclear weapons in his war with Ukraine

Editor’s picks: Sit down with the best of our big reads

Our editors handpick the best writing in this week’s Business Post – including the inside story of Budget 2023 and the man who helps Premier League stars with their money

Casualties of war: Despair as fallout of Putin’s invasion now grows wider

The ongoing conflict is destroying lives not only in Ukraine but also in Russia – where citizens are fleeing or going into hiding to avoid being forced to fight in Putin’s war, while here, Ukrainians fear the refugee system can no longer cope

Aughinish plant gets €2m IDA grant to treat ‘red mud’ dump

The Co Limerick Alumina refinery, currently up for sale, received planning permission to increase size of dump in face of local opposition

Elaine Byrne: Rise of far right across Europe creates perfect storm for Putin

Italy, which today is likely to elect its first far-right government since the rule of Mussolini, is only one of several EU states where nationalist parties are gaining ground

Lucinda Creighton: As Putin’s desperation grows, so must West’s support for Ukraine

From nuclear threats to ‘independence’ referendums, the Russian leader is becoming increasingly isolated – so the West must hold the line

Putin orders mobilisation of army reserves to support Ukraine invasion

Russian president’s threats come after a Ukrainian counteroffensive in the last few weeks dealt his troops their worst defeats since the early months of the conflict

Business Post's View

Editorial: Could a Chinese chill loosen Putin’s grip on absolute power?

With his war in Ukraine going badly, the last thing the Russian president needs is to incur the displeasure of his powerful opposite number Xi Jinping

Keeping the lights on: How EU countries are responding to the energy crisis

With Russia edging closer to a full shut-off of gas exports, European governments are in full crisis mode as winter approaches. But countries as powerful as Germany are in a bind when it comes to reducing energy demands, and less wealthy nations such as Spain and Italy face their own particular difficulties. How can this once-in-a-generation problem be overcome?