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IRELAND

Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin and Nemo Rangers' Paul Kerrigan. Martin's son, also Micheál Martin, was playing in goal for the Cork club, Oisin Keniry / INPHO Oisin Keniry / INPHO / INPHO

•  Contact between Noirín O’Sullivan and the Department of Justice was among the revelations in a trawl of department documents provided to Fianna Fáil.
• As the talk of an election intensifies, politicians hit the airwaves to blame each other.
• If there is to be an election, it seems that Frances Fitzgerald will run.
• Ireland’s EU Commissioner Phil Hogan spoke to a UK newspaper to urge the British government to keep Northern Ireland inside the customs union.
• A man died following a single vehicle collision in Cornamona, Co Galway.
• Tourists are slowly being diverted away from some of Ireland’s most iconic monuments to protect them.
• Scientists at NUI Galway have made a breakthrough in regenerative medicine approaches to Parkinson’s disease.
• A union representing GPs has said that the number of violent incidents against its members is increasing.

WORLD

A participant wearing outfits of traditional Japanese samurai eats a rice ball in Tokyo. Shizuo KambayPA Images Shizuo KambayPA Images

#TENERIFE: Forty people were injured after a section of floor at a packed nightclub on Spain’s holiday island of Tenerife collapsed, sending people tumbling into the basement.

#LONDON: Two men suspected of a fight that sparked a terror scare in London’s Oxford Street shopping district have been released without charges by police.

#CONSENT: A 31-year-old French teacher will go on trial tomorrow for sex with an underage pupil after being dragged to a police station by the girl’s furious stepfather.

PARTING SHOT

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Thousands of people turned out at Our Lady’s Hospice in Harold’s Cross today to support its 25th annual Light Up A Life campaign.

The record crowd was in part due to the attendance of Daniel O’Donnell, who spoke to RTÉ News about his and his wife Magella’s connection to the hospice.