Yesterday's IT letters page included an open letter from the Ireland Palestine Alliance (Sadaka) calling on Government to pass an Occupied Territories Bill in order to "give full effect to our obligations under international law, and to the promises made to voters before the general election."
Elsewhere, Dublin City Council has said it will remove and destroy lockboxes that have been attached to poles and cycle stands across Dublin city to distribute keys for Airbnb-style lettings, and there's some pushback on yesterday's news about rent pressure zones, while a public servant responds to yesterday's coverage of civil service career breaks in the Irish Times letters page.
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A small confectionery company, Sugar Plum Sweetery, is producing more than 3,000 bars a day of a trending bar of chocolate, requiring 24/7 production. The bar is based on Knafeh, a Middle-Eastern pistachio-stuffed filo pastry that its creators have dubbed Can’t Get Knafeh Of It. The story of this global phenomenon - the 'Dubai chocolate bar' - was picked up by the New York Times. The Sugar Plum Sweetery is located in Mullingar.
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