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IRELAND

Sam Boal Sam Boal

• Taoiseach Leo Varadkar paid his first visit to No. 10 Downing Street today for talks with UK Prime Minister Theresa May.
• Attorney General Máire Whelan has been officially appointed to the Court of Appeal.
• The body of a man in his twenties has been recovered after he got into difficulty while swimming with his brother in Carrick-on-Suir in Tipperary this afternoon.
• A man who falsely imprisoned, tied up and raped a woman in a hotel meeting room during a Dublin gaming convention has been jailed for 12 years.
• The Lord Mayor of Dublin Brendan Carr caused a stir this weekend with a hoax statement suggesting that people with disabilities may be allowed to use cycle lanes in the city.
• There has been a surge in interest in Islamic State propaganda magazines from Irish internet users recently.
• Ireland’s teen suicide rate is the fourth highest in the EU according to new figures.
• The current sunny spell is set to last for the early part of the week, but we can expect thundery downpours on Wednesday.

INTERNATIONAL 

John Stillwell John Stillwell

#LONDON: A man has been arrested after a suspected terror attack in London that saw a van crash into pedestrians outside a mosque.

#PARIS: A car loaded with gas canisters rammed into a police van on the Champs-Elysees avenue in Paris today, leaving the driver dead in what the interior minister said was an “attempted attack”.

#PORTUGAL: Portugal is in mourning as firefighters continue to battle a giant forest fire that killed at least 62 people.

#LA: Carrie Fisher had a mixture of drugs including cocaine and ecstasy in her system when she suffered a fatal mid-air heart attack, a coroner’s report revealed today.

PARTING SHOT 

Luke ‘Ming’ Flanagan learned not to mess with Aer Lingus on Twitter this morning.

The Roscommon politician complained that Aer Lingus flights consistently leave late and that the company doesn’t provide sufficient information on the actual time that they expect to take off.

But Aer Lingus replied to Flanagan when his flight landed with this burn, “Hi Luke, we see that your flight landed a few minutes early today. We hope to see you on board again soon!”

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