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1.  #ARREST: Investigations are continuing into Friday’s double shooting in west Dublin which left local man Keith Walker dead. The gunman was dressed as a woman according to locals, while a 32-year-old man was arrested in Ratoath, Co Meath yesterday in connection with the incident.

2. #DALLAS: The father of the man at the centre of yesterday’s armed assault on a Dallas police station has said that his son ‘snapped’. 

3. #WATER PRESSUREThere’ll be water supply issues all day today in Dublin to facilitate the cross-city Luas works.

4. #MERS HITS EUROPE: A South Korean citizen has been hospitalised with the deadly virus in Slovakia. Meanwhile many more instances of the disease are being reported in South Korea.

5. #WEDDING SHOOTING: Five people have been hurt at a wedding in the Waldorf Astoria hotel in New York when a guest accidentally fired a gun.

6. #SOUTH AFRICA: The International Criminal Court has called on South Africa to arrest President Omar al-Bashir of Sudan who has arrived in the country. Al-Bashir is wanted for crimes against humanity dating from the 2003 Darfur conflict.

7. #EQUALITY: Thousands of people turned out for a Belfast rally calling for same-sex marriage in Northern Ireland yesterday.

8. #CLERYS: The fallout from the liquidation of Dublin’s landmark department store continues. Yesterday workers picketed the closed store demanding justice, while employment junior minister Ged Nash told the Irish Times the treatment of workers was “cold and callous”.

9. #UNFAIR DISMISSAL: A Dublin man has been awarded €20,000 after he was fired from a restaurant for letting his wife drink coffee at a staff discount.

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