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1. #PAT HICKEY: The acting president of the Olympic Council of Ireland says the organisation will “defend itself to the hilt” over the ticketing controversy that has engulfed Ireland’s Olympic Games in Rio. Here’s how the world’s media reacted to the arrest of former president Pat Hickey yesterday.
2. #SHOOTING: Spanish police are investigating the fatal shooting of an Irish man in his 30s on the island of Majorca last night, believed to be related to the ongoing Hutch-Kinahan feud.
3. #RIO: Two American Olympic swimmers have been taken off a plane leaving Rio for questioning over their testimony regarding an alleged mugging.
4. #RIP: Tributes have flooded in for five-year-old ‘Batman Ben’ Farrell who has lost his battle with cancer.
5. #TURKEY: Three people have died and 120 people have been injured in a car bomb attack at Turkish police headquarters.
6. #SEIZURE: Almost €750,000 worth of drugs have been seized in Dublin and Limerick.
7. #TORTURE: Syrian people have been speaking of the horrific torture they endured in prison.
8. #NOAH: Kerry TD Danny Healy-Rae has said that he believes the story of Noah’s Ark to be “a fact”.
9. #VERY SPECIAL: Explorers have discovered a 200-year-old shipwreck in New York.
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