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IRELAND

Leah Farrell Leah Farrell

• Children’s Minister Katherine Zappone has said today that she told Taoiseach Enda Kenny of a Tusla link to the Maurice McCabe case before the Cabinet meeting last week.
• Meanwhile, McCabe has called for a full public inquiry into the allegations made against him, saying that “there is no reason to have any secret or private inquiry”.
• Sinn Féin has published its motion of no confidence in the Government.
• The former head of the Garda Press Office has been cleared by the DPP of leaking sensitive information to the media.
• A Fine Gael senator who got €30k after losing his Dáil seat has only repaid €2k.
• Dunnes Stores takes top spot in supermarket rankings for second time.
• Gardaí have appealed for witnesses after a man in his 30s died in a single vehicle crash last night.
• A 31-year-old man is fighting for his life after 20 shots were fired into the living room of a house in Armagh this morning.
• A man who claimed he was injured after being trapped in a Luas door has lost his €60,000 claim.
• RTÉ has received a string of complaints and ‘negative feedback’ on the Late Late Valentine’s special.

INTERNATIONAL 

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#NORTH KOREA: There are calls for the UN to step in after Kim Jong-Un ‘personally guided’ a ballistic missile launch.

#HUNGER STRIKE: Russia has ordered a prisoner to pay his own medical costs after he went on hunger strike over jail conditions, his lawyer said today, a move that could curb protests against poor treatment of convicts.

#FRENCH ALPS: At least four people have died in the French Alps after an avalanche engulfed nine people who were in an off-piste area near the ski resort of Tignes.

#BREXIT: British businesses are struggling to fill in vacancies because of a drop in the supply of European Union nationals following the Brexit vote.

PARTING SHOT

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