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Taoiseach Enda Kenny was “naturally, personally disappointed” by the goverment’s defeat in the Seanad referendum. (Niall Carson/PA Wire)

IRISH

• The Seanad is to be kept after a government proposal to abolish it was defeated in a referendum.
• “Sometimes in politics you get a wallop” – that’s what the Taoiseach thought of the result.
• ‘A great day for Irish democracy’: Senators and Fianna Fáil toasted the government’s defeat.
• The government did have one win today, the Court of Appeal referendum passed comfortably.
• “I never thought I’d see this day.”- Lindsey Kinsella, sister of Chloe whose body was found in the River Shannon yesterday.
• A 36-year-old man found unconscious at St Patrick’s Quay in Cork yesterday died in hospital this morning.
• Tánaiste Éamon Gilmore thinks Ireland should have a minister for the diaspora.
• Independent Senator Rónán Mullen will run for a seat in the European Parliament next year and is also weighing up a Dáil bid.
• A man died after a collision between a truck and a car on the M7 motorway near The Curragh.

INTERNATIONAL

The coffins of 111 migrants who died after their boat capsized off Italy on Thursday. (Pic: AP Photo/Luca Bruno)

#ITALY: Divers hope to resume the search off Italy amid fears the death toll could reach 300.

#WHITE WIDOW: Samantha Lewthwaite was not part of the Nairobi shopping mall attack last month according to Kenyan police.

#SHUTDOWN: The US Secretary of State John Kerry has warned that any prolonged shutdown of the government could affect US reputation internationally. [BBC]

INNOVATION

• A cancer-killing computer chip and telepathic brain-to-brain interface is among some of technologies you mightn’t know are already in development.

• Potential investors in Twitter aren’t sure whether the company’s reach big enough. [Wall Street Journal]

PARTING SHOT

(Pic: Benjamin Lawlor)

Dubliners were treated to an unexpected re-enactment of a the Lottery’s ‘rainbow’ TV ad this afternoon.

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