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IRELAND

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• A Meath man has been convicted of raping a woman he met on a dating app.
• A passenger who was removed from a Ryanair flight to Ibiza claimed that reports of a disturbance on board are “fake news”.
• Ireland is the second-worst performing EU country for tackling climate change, according to a report published today by Climate Action Network Europe.
• Internet giant Amazon Web Services (AWS) will create 1,000 jobs across Dublin, it has announced.
• The trial of Independent TD Michael Lowry heard that a woman who was at his home when Revenue officers raided it feared she was going to be killed by burglars.
• Housing Minister Eoghan Murphy has criticised Sinn Féin after the party backed out of tabling a motion of no confidence in him.
• Prostitution outreach service Ruhama said it supported 109 people affected by sex trafficking last year.
• Up to and including polling day on the 25 May, Dublin City Council received 279 complaints regarding posters for the Eighth Amendment referendum.
• A woman was airlifted to hospital today after she fell at Dalkey Quarry at around 9am this morning.

INTERNATIONAL 

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#US: The UN’s rights chief has condemned the “unconscionable” separation of migrant children from their parents at the US border.

#UK: Three people died after being struck by a train in south London.

#OSAKA: At least three people have been killed and dozens injured following a strong earthquake around metropolitan Osaka in western Japan.

PARTING SHOT

A campaign has been launched in a bid to save Dublin’s murals and street art.

An eight-minute documentary called ‘Grey Area’ has been created in a bid to get people interested in creating more public art in the capital.

It was made by Subset, the group describe themselves as ‘a protest project to demonstrate the colour and life art could bring to Dublin streets’.

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