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IRELAND

Sunday Tribune and Magill magazine editor Vincent Browne with Fianna Fail TD Bertie Ahern during their election manifesto launch in November 1992. Eamonn Farrell via RollingNews.ie Eamonn Farrell via RollingNews.ie

• Water services returned to Louth and Meath after a “complex” pipe repair
• The last episode of Tonight With Vincent Browne will air this evening – you can follow our liveblog here
• A person has been struck by a Luas tram in Dublin city centre
• Radio listenership figures were announced today – and showed audience numbers for RTÉ Radio One dwindle while 2FM surged in popularity
• A man in his 80s was hospitalised after being hit by a bus in Dun Laoghaire
•  The Jason Corbett trial heard that he had only a low-level of a sleeping pill present in his bloodstream at the time of his death
• Brian Cowen said he “deeply regrets” the number of jobs lost during the recession
• Singer Sinead O’Connor is being sued by her former manager Fachtna O’Ceallaigh and his company for alleged breach of contract and defamation
• The chairman of Bray Wanderers FC released a statement calling Wicklow the “North Korea of Ireland” in a bizarre statement on the club’s future.

WORLD

Madonna sits with her children Stella, David and Mercy at the opening of a children's surgical unit at a hospital in Blantyre, Malawi. Siphiwe Sibeko via PA Images Siphiwe Sibeko via PA Images

#USA: Hundreds have marched in New York over US President Donald Trump’s ban on transgender troops in the military.

#RICH LIST: Amazon’s Jeff Bezos has become the world’s richest person, overtaking Microsoft founder and billionaire Bill Gates.

#CHARLIE GARD: A UK High Court has ordered that Charlie Gard should be moved from a hospital to a hospice, despite his parents’ request for him to be brought home.

#COURTS: Madonna and her daughters Stella and Estere have accepted damages from the publisher of the Mail Online website over an article that was a “serious invasion of privacy”.

PARTING SHOT

As journalist and presenter Vincent Browne ends his late-night skewering of political heavyweights and social commentators, here’s a look back at a few of his best moments.

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