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IRELAND

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• Nóirín O’Sullivan has indicated that she’s staying put after political pressure has been mounting on her to resign.
• SIPTU members in Dublin Bus and Irish Rail are to ballot for industrial action.
• An investigation has been launched after the body of a young mother was found in a Cork home overnight.
• A man has died after a light airplane crash in Waterford this afternoon.
• The North will now go back to direct rule from Westminster unless a deal is done in the coming days.
• Gardaí have said that Dublin’s latest gangland victim was shot a number of times as members of the public attempted to perform first aid on him.
• Tributes have been paid to a young couple who lost their lives in a road traffic crash; in total seven people lost their lives over the weekend.
• A former Sinn Féin councillor and his father have pleaded guilty at the Special Criminal Court in Dublin to falsely imprisoning and threatening to kill another man.
• A Meath mother destroyed evidence after her daughter told her she had been raped by the woman’s fiancé, a court has heard.
• Eircom has been fined for over-charging a nuns’ nursing home and leaving it without phone service for weeks.
• Gardaí are appealing to the public to help identify men after an attack on Dublin’s South William Street in November.

INTERNATIONAL

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#UK: The mother of Westminster terror attacker Khalid Masood has said she was “deeply shocked” by her sons actions and condemned the attack he carried out last week.

#SCOTLAND: British Prime Minister Theresa May travels to Scotland today to try to avert its independence bid.

#MYANMAR: A free lunch for villagers in southern Myanmar turned sour after it landed more than a third of the rural community in hospital with food poisoning.

#US: United Airlines found itself at the centre of a social media storm after it barred two girls from boarding a flight in Denver because they were wearing leggings.

PARTING SHOT 

These beautiful photographs of the Milky Way in Glendalough and the Poulnabrone dolmen in the Burren in Clare were sent in by Shane Phelan.

Simply stunning.

Shane Phelan Shane Phelan

Shane Phelan Shane Phelan