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IRELAND

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• Schools will reopen tomorrow as teacher strikes called off
• Nurses and midwives will ballot their members for industrial action
• Fianna Fáil announced it would back a bill calling for a referendum on the ownership of Irish Water
• The HSE will receive €63,500 in compensation from the former director of a Hepatitis C support group who stole over €116,000 from the organisation
• The European Court of Justice said the Irish government was entitled to pump €4 billion into Irish Life and Permanent Group (ILPG) in 2011
• Irish Water has published details of its preferred route for a new pipeline that will provide water for 40% of the country’s population up to 2050
• Temple Street Children’s Hospital is currently off-call for ambulances as a power outage has affected its phone lines and lighting
• Aer Lingus is facing trial on health and safety charges in connection with the death of a driver at Dublin Airport
• The Dublin Bikes scheme is set to be expanded to the suburbs.

WORLD

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#US ELECTION: It is V Day in America – after a presidential campaign full of many twists, we’re finally on the verge of a result. See the latest updates on our Liveblog.

#FRANCE: Investigators identified a key plotter of attacks in Paris and Brussels today, just before the anniversary of the French capital’s terrorist attacks.

#NEW YORK: A woman was crushed to death by a subway train last night after another woman pushed her onto the tracks at the bustling station beneath Times Square.

INNOVATION

• A Letter from Lisbon: an insight into what the Web Summit is really like a day into the digital extravaganza [Fora.ie]
• Emoji inclusivity: the prominence of diversity in something as trivial as these tiny symbols is actually more important than we think [Guardian]

PARTING SHOT

This election has been full surprises – trust no one.

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