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1. #ATTACKS: Early signs suggest the Islamic State group was behind yesterday’s triple suicide bombings in Istanbul, Turkey’s prime minister has said. Three suicide bombers opened fire at passengers with automatic rifles before blowing themselves up, Binali Yildirim told reporters.
2. #ABORTION: Independent Alliance members of government want a free vote on a Bill that would allow for a termination in cases of fatal foetal abnormalities.
3. #TORIES AT WAR: A group of Conservative MPs have banded together to ‘Stop Boris’. The former London mayor Boris Johnson has become the favourite to become Prime Minister of Great Britain.
4. #LEAVE IT DAVE: EU leaders are to begin the second day of their Brussels summit – but without the UK being represented, the BBC reports. Awkward.
5. #CONSOLE: An audit of the charity Console has found that half a million euro was spent on foreign trips, designer clothes, eating out and other expenses between 2012 and 2014 – while another half a million was spent on salaries and cars for Paul Kelly and his wife Patricia Kelly.
6. #TRUMP: Donald Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee for president, has said a major trade deal is continuing the “rape” of America. He also called for a new era of economic “Americanism”.
7. #CRASH: A man has died after his motorbike crashed into a ditch in Kerry. The collision happened shortly before 7pm last evening around three miles outside Sneem.
8. #FAIR PLAY: Ireland’s fans outdid themselves at Euro 2016 – and now they’re being given a medal by the French.
9. #WHEN BONO CALLED ALAN: U2′s Bono made a return to the Irish Register of Lobbying in the last year, it’s emerged. His lobbying efforts included a phone call to then-environment minister Alan Kelly promoting a plan for a film studio in Dublin.
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