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IRELAND

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• The cystic fibrosis drugs Orkambi and Kalydeco will be available to patients from next month.
• The Joint Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services has finally passed its final report.
• Garda Commissioner Nóirín O’Sullivan asked middle-ranking gardaí to tell her how they think breath test and fixed charge notices errors occurred.
• Meanwhile, just under half of people have confidence in the gardaí to protect and serve their community.
• The National Museum of Ireland say they’re dealing with “prolonged, systemic, institutionalised bullying” against staff.
• TDs said they’ll challenge a change to Dáil rules requiring deputies to stand as a prayer is read each day.
• The number of data-protection breaches involving personal information held by the HSE almost doubled to 212 last year.
• Lucy Deegan, aged 17 from Co Laois, won this year’s Texaco Children’s Art Competition with a detailed portrait of her brother.

WORLD

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#DORTMUND: A Champions League match was postponed after three explosions went off near the German team’s bus on their way to their match against Monaco.

#SYRIA: White House spokesperson Sean Spicer said that even Hitler “didn’t sink to using chemical weapons”, in an effort to condemn the Syrian government.

#THE STORM LAKE TIMES: An Iowa newspaper with a circulation of just 3,000 has won the Pulitzer Prize for taking on powerful agricultural organisations.

PARTING SHOT

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Scientists have identified the regions of the brain involved in dreaming, which could help us understand understand how and why we dream, reports the Guardian.

“It seemed a mystery that you can have both dreaming and the absence of dreaming in two different types of [stages of sleep],” said Francesca Siclari, co-author of the research.

“[It's] a proof of the fact that dreaming is an experience that occurs during sleep, because many researchers up until now suggested that it’s something you invent when you wake up,”

“The importance beyond the article is really quite astounding,” said Mark Blagrove, director of the sleep lab at Swansea University (who was not involved in the study).