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IRISH

• The Tánaiste Eamon Gilmore said Ireland should try to meet the the target of 5.1 per cent of the gross domestic product, rather than adhering to a Budget adjustment of €3.1 billion.
• A JobBridge ad for a full-time teaching post in an Athlone primary school has been slammed as “exploitative”.
• The man arrested in connection with the death of Dean Fitzpatrick has been released.
• Several houses in Anrtim were evacuated during a security alert following the discovery of a suspicious device.
• Junior Minister Brian Hayes has explained the reasons behind his recent unusual remarks in which he told Senator John Crown: “You lick yourself every night before you go to bed.”
• ‘Siptu Grassroots Unite’ held a protest march in the centre of Dublin today, calling for the Irish Congress of Trade Unions to “arise from the dead”.
• Police in Co Down has repeated their appeal over the serious sexual assault of a teenage girl last week.
• Two men have been arrested after gardaí seized cocaine and cannabis worth €470,000.
• Singer Daniel O’Donnell confirmed that his wife, Majella, has been diagnosed with breast cancer.

WORLD

People carry the coffin of medical student Laura Naveiras Ferreiro, one of the train crash victims, during her funeral at the San Pedro de Visma cemetery in A Coruna, Spain, Saturday, July 27, 2013. (AP Photo/Lalo R. Villar)

#SPAIN: The driver of a speeding train that hurtled off the rails killing 78 people in Spain on Wednesday has been detained for “reckless homicide”.

#EGYPT: Clashes in Cairo between police and Mohamed Morsi loyalists have led to dozens of deaths.

#ITALY: Italy’s first black minister Cécile Kyenge, who has been subject to racist abuse several times since taking her post, had bananas thrown at her as she delivered a speech.

#PAKISTAN: Fifty-seven people are dead after two suicide bombers targeted a crowed market in northwest Pakistan.

INNOVATION

• Dublin is to play host to some of the internet’s pioneers – including Google, Alta Vista, and Jumpstation – at a conference celebrating 20 years of web searching next week.
• New Yorkers have been queueing in droves – sometimes in sweltering temperatures – for the novel experience of walking through rain without getting wet. [AFP]

PARTING SHOT

A Canadian woman who went missing more that 52 years ago has been found alive and well.

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