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• EV Sales Increase As Motor Industry Presses For More Incentives To Encourage Drivers To Go Electric

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• Kildare Among Top Counties For Speeding Fines As Speed Cameras Operate At A Loss

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• Unethical Backyard Breeding: Pup's Death Piles Pressure On Government For New Law

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• Kildare Sinn Fein TD Says She Knows "What It Means To Resist Colonial Violence" Ahead Of Gaza Flotilla Trip

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