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IRELAND

Protest against bin charges at South Dublin County Council, Tallaght RollingNews.ie RollingNews.ie

• Minister for the Environment Simon Coveney appears set to freeze bin charges for at least the next 12 months in an attempt to draw a line under the current bin charges controversy.
• A man suffering from paranoid schizophrenia who attacked his parents with an axe has been committed to the Central Mental Hospital in Dublin.
• Police in Northern Ireland have launched an investigation after the body of a woman was discovered next to a lake.
• Children were found with lice and ringworm in a house with no food according to a new report into Ireland’s children’s courts.
• Gardaí are investigating an incident of attempted poisoning of a pet in south Dublin after a number of pieces of poisoned sausage were thrown into a dog-owner’s garden.
• Gardaí are renewing their appeal for information on the whereabouts of missing woman Kathleen Reilly.
• A former Deliveroo worker says his contract was terminated because he would not sign a new agreement that would dramatically decrease his earnings.
• A mother has avoided a jail term after she admitted harassing a former family friend for two months over some “mild school banter” between the women’s young daughters.

INTERNATIONAL 

MP's pay their respects to MPJo Cox at a memorial on Parliament Square PA Wire / Press Association Images PA Wire / Press Association Images / Press Association Images

#LONDON: The House of Commons in Westminster reconvened this afternoon especially to pay tribute to murdered MP Jo Cox.

#US: Donald Trump has dropped his controversial advisor who came up with ‘let Trump be Trump’ campaign.

#MEXICO: Six people have been killed and more than 100 injured after a gunman opened fire at a teachers’ protest in Mexico.

INNOVATION

• This 11-year-old girl from Dublin built a robot that can solve a Rubik’s cube.
• Is it bad if you keep your laptop plugged in all the time?

PARTING SHOT

Forget the single green man giving you the go ahead to cross the road, London is doubling up to celebrate Pride.

Around the streets of Trafalgar Square – where Pride will be held this weekend – around 50 sets of little pedestrian crossing people have been changed.

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