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IRELAND

'No To Racism' rally in Rooskey today. Niall Carson / PA Images Niall Carson / PA Images / PA Images

• A ‘No To Racism’ rally in Rooskey on the Roscommon-Leitrim border has been met with confrontation. 
• Homeless service providers and politicians have criticised Dublin City Council’s Chief Executive for saying that homeless services create demand. 
• Protesters gathered outside the Dublin 9 home of the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment Richard Bruton this afternoon.
• A man in his 30s was released from Garda custody after being arrested over a public order incident at Beaumont Hospital in Dublin.
• There were 24 reports of sexual assault involving students at third level institutions in Ireland over a six-year period.
• A Hot Press journalist has launched legal proceedings against Twitter and the company behind the website Broadsheet.ie.
• Gardaí have spent €19.56 million on hiring private companies to provide tow trucks services since 2012.

INTERNATIONAL 

Singer Joni Mitchell holds hands with painter David Hockney. Jacob Sousa via Twitter.com Jacob Sousa via Twitter.com

#BRITISH AIRLINE: Flybmi has announced it will cease operations and file for administration, blaming spikes in fuel, carbon costs and uncertainty over Brexit.

#DONALD TRUMP: The US President has said European countries should take back hundreds of captured Islamic State fighters.

#EMILIANO SALA: Cardiff City F.C. could launch a negligence claim against Nantes as soon as next week if an official report finds that striker Emiliano Sala was flown to his death by a pilot who did not have the correct licence.

PARTING SHOT:

Criticism has been levelled at those who draped a Russian flag on scaffolding outside Salisbury Cathedral in light of last year’s Novichok attack on former Russian double-agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia.

A Russian flag was spotted on scaffolding at Salisbury Cathedral this morning. It has now been taken down - with one man describing it as "completely insensitive" pic.twitter.com/Bz1EQVXKUJ

— BBC Wiltshire (@BBCWiltshire) February 17, 2019