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IRELAND

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar with some youngsters at the launch of the Get Ireland Walking campaign Leah Farrell / RollingNews.ie Leah Farrell / RollingNews.ie / RollingNews.ie

• The Taoiseach said he has “no recollection” of walking away from an LCD Soundsystem guitarist, who was wearing a Repeal bag.
• Varadkar also said that Ireland would not recognise the result of the Catalan referendum.
• A Sinn Féin councillor climbed atop City Hall with a Catalonia flag during a demonstration in Dublin.
• The Minister for Justice has refused to revoke a deportation order for a man with links to Islamic terrorism.
• The authors of a Kinahan crime book have apologised to a man they claimed was involved in criminality.
• A man was jailed for eight years for repeatedly raping his two nephews when they were children.
• An air horn rang out in court as Jobstown charges were officially dropped.
• Patients “have a right to ask doctors and nurses if they have received the flu vaccine” according to Minister for Health Simon Harris.
• An appeal was issued for a Dublin man who went missing in Carrick-on-Shannon at the weekend.
• A Lisdoonvarna inn has become the first pub in Ireland to win a Michelin Star.

INTERNATIONAL

Drapes billow out of broken windows at the Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas after the mass shooting. John Locher AP / PA Images John Locher AP / PA Images / PA Images

#LAS VEGAS: The city of Las Vegas was the scene for the worst mass shooting in American history, as 58 people were killed and 500 hospitalised in a concert attack.

#CATALONIA: The Catalan leader said the region had won the right to independence after 90% voted yes in a chaotic referendum.

#MONARCH: The collapse of a UK airline has left 110,000 passengers stranded.

PARTING SHOT

Keith Arkins Keith Arkins

The Tree Council of Ireland launched its Tetra Pak Tree Day themed ‘Our Planet, Our Choice – Ár bPláinéid, Ár Rogha’ event today.

On Tetra Pak Tree Day, taking place on Thursday 5 October, primary schools and families nationwide are invited to spend the day learning about trees and being outside enjoying their natural environment.

Here, Tailskinner the Tree Man tries to get ‘uprooted’ by senior infants pupils from Our Lady of Consolation National School in Donnycarney in St. Annes Park.

We reckon they managed it.