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IRELAND

Primary School teachers protest outside Leinster House this evening in protest over pay. Sam Boal / RollingNews.ie Sam Boal / RollingNews.ie / RollingNews.ie

• The ban on asylum seekers working in Ireland was today deemed unconstitutional by the Supreme Court.
• Two young detainees at Oberstown detention centre assaulted a staff member and escaped from the north Dublin campus.
• Tusla said it was “very concerned” after issues relating to child abuse were raised in an RTÉ investigation last night.
• Three people, including a 17-year-old boy, were arrested for their involvement in an attack on an elderly couple in their home in Tipperary.
• A cyclist, who was in her 60s, died after she was involved in a crash with a 4×4 in Kerry.
• A man accused of raping a woman he met on the dating app Tinder has said he met her for a “hook up”.
• A smaller amount of Irish children are drinking, smoking and doing drugs than their 1998 counterparts, a new study found.
• Experts have claimed that a crow which attacked a group of up to 20 people may just have been ‘hangry’.

WORLD

Rosa King, who died in the incident at Hamerton zoo in England yesterday. Hamerton Zoo / Facebook Hamerton Zoo / Facebook / Facebook

#HAMERTON ZOO: The English zoo has blamed a freak accident after staff member Rosa King was killed by a tiger.

#MANCHESTER: Ariana Grande will be performing a charity gig in Manchester this Sunday and Justin Bieber, Coldplay, Katy Perry, Miley Cyrus, Pharrell Williams, Usher and Take That will be joining her.

#PANAMA: Manuel Noriega, the former dictator of the Central American nation, died last night. 

PARTING SHOT

Birthday parties these days are usually quite similar. Pub or drinks in some house and then on in for a meal etc etc yada yada yada.

Noel Gallagher turned 50 and didn’t quite sit in the local.

The former Oasis man had a Narcos-themed birthday and Bono, Michael Fassbender and Alicia Vikander were among the guests. You can see some snaps over on the DailyEdge.

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