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IRELAND

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• A Government briefing note reveals that a cardiac lab at Waterford hospital was ‘not a top priority’.
• Ireland’s water charges are among the lowest in Europe with Dublin ranking 31st out of 31 European cities in terms of percentage of income spent on charges each year.
• A 23-year-old man has been arrested over the fatal stabbing of Dun Laoghaire student.
• Micheál Martin has said the “11th hour” nature of some Budget measures proposed by the Government is a concern to Fianna Fáil.
• The HSE spent nearly €200 million on agency staff in seven months.
• A man in his 40s died in a road crash in Dublin overnight, while a second woman died after a three vehicle crash in Westmeath yesterday.
• Gardaí have renewed their appeal for a teenage girl missing from Dublin since Thursday.
• The Government is finally going to outlaw forced marriages.
• Tillage farmers in Ireland are ‘stressed, anguished and in pain’ after a bad harvest year.

INTERNATIONAL

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#UK: The British Government has stepped back from a plan to make employers list their foreign workers, after a backlash among business leaders.

#US: McCain, Rice and Schwarzenegger added their names to the list of senior Republicans abandoning Trump.

#MINSK: A woman was killed after a man attacked shoppers with an axe and a chainsaw in a shopping centre.

INNOVATION 

• Here are some handy iPhone and Android gestures you might not know about.
• An Irish conference for the Snapchat generation has caught the eye of foreign entrepreneurs.

PARTING SHOT 

Everyone is talking about Alec Baldwin’s spot on Donald Trump impression on Saturday Night Live.