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IRELAND

Athenais aged 12, Ariane Eugenie aged 9 and Aristide Selve aged 14 from Roscommon who won first prize in Family Ensemble at the RDS for the first day of the Feis Ceoil Sasko Lazarov / RollingNews.ie Sasko Lazarov / RollingNews.ie / RollingNews.ie

• The Supreme Court declared that the seizure of a computer was unlawful in the Patrick Quirke investigation for the murder of Bobby Ryan.
• The coalition leaders are meeting this evening ahead of a Sinn Féin motion in the Dáil on Wednesday on an extension to the eviction ban.
• A security guard told the Roscommon eviction trial that groups of armed men smashed their way into the house and attacked him and his colleagues.
• Mother-of-two Jasmine McMonagle met a “brutal death” after she was strangled and had “blows reigned upon her” by her “on and off” partner, a murder trial jury heard.
• Ireland is to offer gardaí and forensic experts as well as €3 million worth of funding to the International Criminal Court at a conference in London today.
• Complaints to the Food Safety Authority of Ireland’s (FSAI) advice line increased by close to a fifth last year, when compared to 2021.
• The driver of a car was taken to hospital after his car collided with a bus stop and drove into the front window of a busy Dublin Aldi store this morning. 
• Gardaí renewed their appeal for information about the whereabouts of Tina Satchwell on the sixth anniversary of her disappearance.

INTERNATIONAL

Russian President Vladimir Putin meets with China's President Xi Jinping at the Kremlin in Moscow today. Alamy Stock Photo Alamy Stock Photo

#WINDSOR FRAMEWORK The DUP is to vote against the Windsor Framework later this week as the party says it does not deal with “fundamental problems” posed by the Northern Ireland Protocol.

#JOB CUTS Amazon is to cut a further 9,000 jobs from its global workforce in the coming weeks, CEO Andy Jassy told staff members in a memo today.

#RUSSIAN VISIT Russian president Vladimir Putin and visiting Chinese leader Xi Jinping concluded several hours of informal talks in Moscow, Russian news agencies said.

#CLIMATE INACTION Countries’ current climate promises will likely not be sufficient to prevent temperatures from warming by more than 1.5 degrees Celsius, according to a leading climate science body.

PARTING SHOT

The happiest country in the world has been revealed – and it isn’t Ireland.

It's #HappinessDay today 😁

According to the 2023 World Happiness Report, the top 5 happiest countries are...

1️⃣ Finland 🇫🇮
2️⃣ Denmark 🇩🇰
3️⃣ Iceland 🇮🇸
4️⃣ Israel 🇮🇱
5️⃣ Netherlands 🇳🇱

Join us TODAY at 12pm (ET) for the launch of #WHR2023 🎉 ➡ https://t.co/DCYCNENxDE pic.twitter.com/fHe693VUyo

— SDSN Youth (@SDSNYouth) March 20, 2023

According to the World Happiness Report, published by the Sustainable Development Solutions Network, Finland is the happiest country in the world for the sixth year running.

The annual report uses six metrics – GDP per capita, available social supports, life expectancy, freedom, generosity and corruption levels – to come up with its happiness ranking. 

Denmark was named the second happiest country, while Iceland ranked third.

Israel took the fourth place spot, followed by the Netherlands, Sweden, Norway, Switzerland, Luxembourg and New Zealand.

Ireland was ranked 14th in the report, dropping a place from 13th since last year’s report. 

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