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IRELAND

Social Protection Minister Leo Varadkar launching the review of the Back to Work Enterprise Allowance today RollingNews.ie RollingNews.ie

• The girlfriend of a Kinahan cartel member has been arrested in Dublin.
• The Charleton Tribunal into alleged Garda smears is to begin on Monday.
• Power has been restored to 50,000 homes in the wake of Storm Doris.
• An investigation has been launched after a teenager exposed himself to children at a Co Wicklow hotel kids’ club.
• Transport Minister Shane Ross says that penalty points for mobile phone use could be increased.
• Legendary filmmaker Martin Scorsese is in Dublin.
• Gardaí seized €250,000 of herbal cannabis during a random traffic stop in Co Laois.
• Golfer Rory McIlroy has revealed an ‘interest’ in the rise of Donald Trump.
• Kym Owens, the Co Monaghan schoolgirl who suffered serious injuries in her university town of Maynooth, is recovering at home after being released from hospital.
• Strikes at six Tesco stores have been delayed over a union notice.
• A bus driver has been awarded €12,500 damages over some ‘very offending’ graffiti on a toilet door.

WORLD

Donald Trump speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Maryland this afternoon Alex Brandon Alex Brandon

#NORTH KOREA: The brother of North Korean leader Kim Jung-Un was killed by the ‘most potent’ chemical weapon VX nerve agent.

#POPE FRANCIS: The Pope has said it’s better to be an atheist than a “hypocritical Catholic”.

#TRUMP: At a conservative event the US president said that the media should not be allowed to use anonymous sources.

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