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IRELAND

Republican Sinn Fein members dressed in uniform in the Garden of Remembrance before an Easter march in Dublin. Leah Farrell / RollingNews.ie Leah Farrell / RollingNews.ie / RollingNews.ie

• One of the three teachers’ unions says schools across the country will be shut down if the government does not restore equal pay for young teachers.
• Police were attacked by youths armed with petrol bombs in Derry ahead of an unauthorised nationalist parade commemorating the Easter Rising.
• The Minister for Justice has said he will review legal protections offered to complainants in cases of rape.
• Equipment worth thousands of euro was stolen from a mountain rescue team’s base in Sligo.
• A threat by a section of the UDA against a Belfast-based journalist has been condemned by the NUJ.
• A Lithuanian trucker was refused bail after he appeared in court charged over a €1.8 million drugs seizure at Dublin Port.
• A new survey has revealed that many motorists are still seeing increases in premiums.
• An Irish footballer has apologised for a tweet sent following the Belfast rugby rape trial.

WORLD

Winnie Mandela (left) and Coretta Scott King in Soweto, South Africa. (Sept., 1986) Greg English / PA Images Greg English / PA Images / PA Images

#RIP: Winnie Madikizela-Mandela died aged 81, triggering an outpouring of tributes to one of South Africa’s defining and most divisive figures.

#WASHINGTON CALLING: US President Donald Trump proposed a White House meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin when they spoke on the phone last month.

#PATCH: In a rare interview, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said that the company will need “a few years” to fix data privacy issues.

#MIDDLE EAST: The Palestinian death toll following last week’s mass protest on the Gaza-Israel border has risen to 18.

PARTING SHOT

Ahead if a protest march this Saturday against homelessness, Focus Ireland has teamed up with leading Irish rapper Nugget from Ballyfermot to create this song, Stand Up.