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IRELAND

People out walking in the sunshine by Poolbeg in Dublin as the Royal Princess Hamilton approaches the port. RollingNews.ie RollingNews.ie

• A GPs group called on Health Minister Simon Harris to ensure doctors must “opt in” to provide abortion services.
• A teenage boy was killed after the car he was driving crashed in Donegal.
• Dublin Fire Brigade battled gorse fires in Howth.
• Gardaí investigated after a man was discovered with a serious head injury in Bray.
• Cork Fire Brigade called for garda assistance after being pelted with stones by youths.
• A woman died after the lawnmower she was driving crashed into a ditch.
• The cost of 99 ice creams is set to rise as Irish companies are hit by the vanilla price hike.
• Minister Shane Ross said that the ‘dog’s dinner’ judge’s Bill will be passed by the summer.
• Illegal dumping is being tackled through Eircodes investigation.
• The Rio Olympics ticketing controversy probe cost the State over €300,000.
• Supermac’s chief Pat McDonagh has moved to add this Athlone hotel to his empire.
• Police in the North said they believed the same organised gang has been involved in 15 burglaries in the last few weeks.
• There was a hayfever warning with high levels of pollen expected this weekend.

INTERNATIONAL

Activists demanded more rights and acceptance for same-sex couples at Bucharest Pride today. Vadim Ghirda / PA Images Vadim Ghirda / PA Images / PA Images

#STAREDOWN: US President Donald Trump has said he’ll know “within a minute” if Kim Jong Un is serious at their upcoming summit.

#ME TOO: Pixar’s John Lasseter quit Disney after sexual harassment complaints.

#AFGHANISTAN: The Taliban announced an unprecedented ceasefire for the end of the holy month of Ramadan.

PARTING SHOT

There are some quite lovely tributes doing the rounds to Anthony Bourdain, and this one from the Washington Post is very, very good.

“He helped the revolutionise the travel food TV show, taking the format beyond offering tourism tips and escapism. Watching a brash man with a magnetic personality stuff his face in far-flung and domestic places while chopping it up with locals turned out to be great television. He’d look for hole-in-the-walls over 15-course meals, wax poetic about Waffle House and refer to banh mi he bought on the street as “a symphony of a sandwich”.

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