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IRELAND

Alison Canavan and Ellen O' Gorman hold a key at the launch of the new Peter McVerry Trust ad campaign entitled 'These Little Things' Leon Farrell Leon Farrell

• It was a tough day for Garda Commissioner Nóirín O’Sullivan, with independent TD Clare Daly suggesting the Commissioner’s position is untenable amid the Garda whistleblower controversy
• 170 jobs are to be lost at the Cameron factory in Longford Town
• Local councils are to pay up-front rent to private owners of derelict houses for social housing
• People in Ireland are deeply pessimistic for the future of Irish healthcare
• A farmer has been airlifted to hospital in Wexford following an incident with a cow
• A woman has won €15,000 damages after a ‘vicious assault’ by a bouncer outside Krystle nightclub in Dublin
• Fine Gael TD John Deasy argued that there is “very little principle in Irish politics”
• Gardaí continued their search for a man in a blood-stained top in connection with the stabbing murder of a man in south Dublin yesterday
• Transport Minister Shane Ross came under fire regarding plans for Bus Éireann Expressway
• Dublin City Council says it wants to ban cars and lorries from parts of Dublin’s quays
• Independent TD Stephen Donnelly says accountancy firms are advising vulture funds on how to get around the Section 110 tax loophole closure
• A Dublin community spoke of its shock at the death of two elderly brothers
• Irish people talked about their experience of work discrimination because of their nationality in Australia

WORLD

UK Prime Minister Theresa May gives her keynote address on the fourth day of the Conservative party conference in Birmingham Joe Giddens Joe Giddens

#BRITAIN: The UK government says it wants to draw up a list of all ‘non-British’ workers

#ALEPPO: Four of the Syrian city’s eight hospitals have been bombed in the last five days

#FAKE SHEIKH: Mazher Mahmood, the man behind a string of tabloid celebrity ‘stings’ has been found guilty of perverting the course of justice in the Tulisa Contostavlos drug trial

#GERMANY: Police are investigating a case in which a man appears to have been held in isolation” at his parents’ home for 30 years

INNOVATION

• A virtual reality cup that simulates the feeling of holding different drinks? Yep, it exists, and apparently it’s quite convincing too [Geek]
• The Hoverboard may have been freakin’ amazing, but Back to the Future II’s self-lacing runners weren’t bad either. Well, now Nike has gone and made them for real [Engadget]

PARTING SHOT

Elizabeth Parsons / Twitter Elizabeth Parsons / Twitter / Twitter

An American hospital has billed a couple who had just welcomed their child into the world the equivalent of €35 to hold that child after it was born. Seems a little extreme.

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