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IRELAND

Dr Adedayo Adedeji who performed the procedure on Aisha Chithira. Yui Mok Yui Mok

• Health Minister Simon Harris said there’s potentially a “considerable number” of cervical cancer cases that have not yet been subjected to an audit
• A UK coroner described the events that led to the death of Aisha Chithira, who travelled from Ireland for an abortion as “catastrophic and deeply sad” [RTÉ]
• A body was discovered by gardaí in Sligo who were searching for missing woman Natalia Karaczyn
• A teenager is in a critical condition after a hit-and-run in Blanchardstown
• The family of a nine-year-old boy who has cerebral palsy was awarded €5m in a settlement over the circumstances of his birth at Sligo General Hospital [RTÉ]
• Graphic imagery related to pregnancy and abortion displayed outside maternity hospitals was condemned by both sides of the Eighth Amendment debate
• Leo Varadkar said he thought a unionist politician’s Twitter which called him a “typical Indian” was a “parody account”.

WORLD

Here comes the summer: Students from the University of St Andrews take part in the traditional May Day Dip on the East Sands in Fife. PA Wire / PA Images PA Wire / PA Images / PA Images

#ZUCK IT UP: British politicians threatened to issue a formal summons to Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg for him to testify after he declined to appear.

#TIME’S UP: Actress Ashley Judd began a lawsuit against Harvey Weinstein, saying that he hurt her acting career in retaliation for her rejecting his sexual advances.

#ASHER’S BAKERY: A Belfast bakery that was found to have discriminated over its refusal to make a wedding cake with a slogan supporting gay marriage had its appeal heard by the British Supreme Court.

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