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Justice Minister Alan Shatter and Lorcan O’Connor, Director of the Insolvency Service of Ireland (File photo: Photocall Ireland)

IRELAND

• The new Insolvency Service of Ireland opened its doors at its Dublin 8 HQ.
• Mayo General Hospital confirmed almost 13,000 cancer tests are being reviewed.
• Phil Hogan said he was still expecting the mediation report on Priory Hall.
• An armed gang escaped with a sum of cash after a raid on a security van in Tallaght.
• President Higgins said in a speech that stigma was still a major barrier to suicide prevention.
• Strikes were averted at four M&S stores.
• A Mountjoy prisoner was on life support after a suicide attempt.
• Minister Richard Bruton went walkabout in Dublin to canvass on the abolition of the Seanad.
• Two Labour senators confirmed they would campaign with Mary O’Rourke to maintain the upper house.
• The FSAI put out a safety advisory to boil all frozen fruit before eating.
• Tributes have been paid, following the death of actor Susan Fitzgerald.
• A Mercedes driver got stuck on a traffic ramp inside the gates of Leinster House.

INTERNATIONAL

(Image: CBS This Morning)

#SYRIA President Bashar Al-Assad (above)  has put it up to US to produce evidence of a chemical attack in a TV interview with CBS.

#NSA It was reported that the NSA can access most smartphone data, including contact lists.

#SHOOTING A 107-year-old man was killed in a shootout with US police.

INNOVATION

• Organisers of a tech conference have been forced to apologise after two Australian developers unveiled a controversial app.
• Buzzfeed has used Facebook’s new Keyword Insights API to determine which news event more people are talking about: Miley Cyrus or Syria. [Buzzfeed Tech]

PARTING SHOT

(Image: BBC/British Antarctic Survey)

The above glacier is contributing more than any other to sea level rise on the planet. A team of UK scientists are about to head for Antarctica to investigate the Pine Glacier, which has seen a marked thinning and surge in velocity in recent years. [BBC]

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