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IRELAND

Male Fallow Stag grunt during the Rutting season in the Pheonix Park this afternoon. Sam Boal Sam Boal

• The outbreak of measles in Dublin has now spread to Meath.
• Ex-garda commissioner Nóirín O’Sullivan has been appointed Director of Strategic Partnerships for Europe at the International Association of Chiefs of Police.
• Bus prices on three million journeys in Irish cities will drop next year, but some Dublin Bus prices will go up.
• A Limerick biker was sentenced to life imprisonment for murdering a member of a rival motorcycle club in a territorial dispute.
• Irish filmmaker Simon Fitzmaurice has died aged 43.
• Another Irish electricity provider is increasing its prices – the fourth to do so this month.
• Theresa May wants to honour the first woman elected to the House of Commons next year – which is the Irish Republican Countess Markievicz.
• UCD Students’ Union President Katie Ascough has been overwhelmingly impeached following a row over the publishing of abortion information in a student handbook.
• Conor McGregor has withdrawn from several planned media appearances and interviews in the run-up to the world premiere of a new documentary about him.

INTERNATIONAL 

People gather to celebrate the proclamation of a Catalan republic at the Sant Jaume square in Barcelona SIPA USA SIPA USA

#CATALONIA: Spain has dissolved the Catalan parliament, removed its leader, and called an election for late December.

#US: The US government has released a trove of secret files on the assassination of president John F Kennedy.

#AUSTRALIA: The Australian deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce has lost his seat in parliament over his dual citizenship.

PARTING SHOT 

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The site where the iconic and much loved Red Chestnut Tree which grew in the Naul for many years is now being worked on after the tree was removed.

Despite efforts to save it the tree had become dangerous and for safety reasons has been felled and removed.

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Fingal County Council says the tree will be replaced by a new specimen chestnut tree. Fresh soil and a built in watering system will be provided for the new tree.

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