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IRELAND

The Glendasan River in County Wicklow flowed fiercly today as it carried water from Wednesday night's storm down from the Wicklow Gap Eamonn Farrell / Rollingnews.ie Eamonn Farrell / Rollingnews.ie / Rollingnews.ie

• The Regency Hotel murder trial has been viewing CCTV evidence from moments after Kinahan Cartel member David Byrne was shot dead, including footage of what the prosecution say is a dissident republican gunman escaping from the scene. 
• Equality Minister Roderic O’Gorman said he cannot rule out that refugees arriving in Ireland seeking accommodation may have to sleep on the streets.
• A man who sent sexually explicit videos to a Fine Gael TD during the 2020 general election campaign was handed a suspended sentence and ordered to stay away from Leinster House. 
• A Green Party senator settled a High Court action against him over an incident in which a car he was driving went through a red light and hit a pram being pushed by a mother-of-two.
• Less than half of adults in Northern Ireland are aware that abortion is lawful despite it being decriminalised there three years ago, according to a new poll.
• Finance Minister Paschal Donohoe said it is in Ireland’s interest that the UK economy is stable. 
• It’s a wet weekend ahead with some possible spot flooding, Met Éireann warned.
• Gardaí arrested two people and seized over €1 million worth of heroin and cocaine in Dublin. 

THE WORLD

Leader of the House of Commons Penny Mordaunt PA PA

#UK Penny Mordaunt became the first Tory MP to announce that she will run to be the UK’s next prime minister.

#UKRAINE Ukraine forces are continuing to put pressure on Russian forces in occupied Kherson.

#US Former Trump aide Steve Bannon was sentenced to four months in prison for refusing to testify in the congressional probe of the 6 January attack on Capitol Hill. 

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