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IRELAND

Dr Antoinette Perry at the launch of the Irish Cancer Society's new campaign. Sam Boal / Rollingnews.ie Sam Boal / Rollingnews.ie / Rollingnews.ie

• Paramedics detailed the long delays being faced transferring patients to Emergency Departments.
• Cork could be set to get the country’s first floating hotel.
• A young mother has urged the government to introduce an opt-out organ donor system after she received a life-saving liver transplant.
• An Irishman in Canada has been charged with breaking into a bank by driving through the front door.
• A “serious collision” on the M50 caused long delays this evening.
• The Irish Cancer Society says people should stop “pussyfooting” around the topic in relation to its “I want to get cancer” advertisements.
• Shane Ross said he is considering “naming and shaming” drink drivers in the same way tax defaulters are.
• The unemployment rate has dropped to a post-crash low of 7.2%.
• Nigel Farage reckons Ireland will call to leave the EU in the future, but Minister for Foreign Affairs Charlie Flanagan isn’t so sure.

INTERNATIONAL

A supporter of Israeli soldier, Sgt Elor Azaria cries outside court, after he was found guilty of manslaughter of a wounded Palestinian. Ariel Schalit AP / Press Association Images Ariel Schalit AP / Press Association Images / Press Association Images

#ISTANBUL: Police in Turkey believe they have identified the man they believe is responsible for the Istanbul nightclub massacre.

#BROOKLYN: Over 100 people were injured after a train derailed in Brooklyn, New York.

#BREXIT: The UK’s ambassador to the EU criticised “muddled thinking” in the Brexit negotiations upon his resignation, but Downing Street has acted quickly to replace him.

PARTING SHOT

Senior Republicans in the US have taken exception to Donald Trump citing Wikileaks’ Julian Assange to dispute the role that the Russians had in the pre-election hack.

House speaker Paul Ryan called Assange “a sycophant for Russia” while party senator Tom Cotton told MSNBC he had “a lot faith in our intelligence officers serving the world… than I do in people like Julian Assange”.

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