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TDs Stephen Donnelly, Catherine Murphy and Róisín Shortall at Leinster House. RollingNews.ie RollingNews.ie

IRELAND

• Stephen Donnelly announced he was leaving the Social Democrats.
• A school reversed its decision to deny a place to a Traveller child
• An investigation found a crisis pregnancy agency was giving abortion misinformation to women
• A man and a woman died in separate road crashes in Tipperary and Louth
• Pat Hickey will meet with Rio police tomorrow
• Thousands of Dublin homes and businesses were affected by a power cut
• A staff member in a disabled care home was accused of verbal and psychological abuse
• A survey revealed the cleanest and most littered areas of Ireland.

An aircraft drops water as Spanish firefighters try to extinguish a wildfire in Benitachel village, near Valencia. Associated Press Associated Press

WORLD

#SPAIN: Hundreds of people were evacuated from a popular resort due to a wildfire.

#OUCH: The President of the Philippines called Obama a ‘son of a whore’.

#SCOTLAND: A man pleaded guilty to murdering 15-year-old Paige Doherty.

#THE JUNGLE: Farmers and truckers blockaded Calais in protest at the migrant camp.

INNOVATION

• A new Facebook tool will allow users to help someone they feel is at risk of suicide
• The missing comet lander Philae has been spotted at last

PATING SHOT

People can’t stop talking about this toilet flusher for kids that featured on last night’s Dragon’s Den.