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IRELAND

Members of the public sign a book of condolence at Mansion House in Dublin for those killed in the Berkeley balcony collapse. Niall Carson Niall Carson

• The remains of four students killed at the Berkeley balcony collapse will arrive in Dublin on Sunday morning.
• The State Pathologist has said she was surprised by the ‘guilty’ verdict in the Graham Dwyer murder trial.
• Clerys workers protested outside the headquarters of the company that bought the department store last Friday at the expense of 500 jobs.
• A Tipperary man who raped a girl for almost a decade of her childhood has been sentenced to 15 years.
• Roy Keane was cleared of ‘road rage’ allegations by Manchester Magistrates’ Court.
• A pregnant woman who assaulted two brothers with the heel of her stiletto shoe has avoided a jail-term.
• A woman has been awarded €70,000 on the grounds that she was discriminated against and brushed over for promotion due to her being on maternity leave.
• This 72-year-old has been missing from Wexford for the past two weeks.
• A woman in her late 20s died after the car she was driving collided with a truck in Donegal this morning.
• Three prison officers were hospitalised overnight after an inmate lashed out with a brush handle.

INTERNATIONAL 

Dylann Storm Roof. His jacket bears badges of Apartheid-era South Africa and Rhodesia.

#ECUADOR: Julian Assange is STILL living in that Ecuadorian embassy.

#SOUTH CAROLINA: The Charleston church shooting suspect has been charged with nine murders.

#BRITISH AIRWAYS: A man plunged to his death after trying to cling onto an airplane from South Africa to London.

INNOVATION

• A museum is battling moths by turning them gay. [TheJournal.ie]
• WhatsApp failed almost all criteria for data protection. [TheJournal.ie]

PARTING SHOT

Shoppers on Grafton street were treated to a surprise performance from the musical Once and they loved it:

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