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IRELAND

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• Two children were among six people injured in a crash involving a car that was under garda surveillance this afternoon.
• The moon will turn blood red tonight in extremely rare Supermoon total eclipse.
• The homeless man found dead in Dawson Lane in Dublin city centre on Friday has been named as Alan Murphy.
• Dara Murphy has apologised to people who think he wasted Garda resources after it emerged two gardaí in Cork drove him over 200 kilometres to Dublin for an early-morning flight.
• Some €260,000 was seized in Dublin this weekend as part of an operation investigating organised crime.
• Jeremy Corbyn has repeated his call for a united Ireland, saying “it’s an aspiration that I have always gone along with”.
• A Sinn Féin member who was accused of bullying one of the party’s councillors on Facebook has resigned his membership.
• Ireland’s most venomous spider is on the increase and is heading indoors out of the cold.

INTERNATIONAL

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#SYRIA: France carried out its first air strikes against the Islamic State group in Syria, following nearly three weeks of surveillance flights.

#LONDON: The Cereal Killer Café was targeted by anti-gentrification protesters last night, customers barricaded themselves inside as the demonstration took place.

#AUSTRIA: Some taxi drivers are earning up to €450 a day from the migrant crisis.

INNOVATION

• Here’s how to get rid of those annoying startup programmes on your PC.
• This is how you check what plugins are running on your browser.
• Here’s how you can really make the most out of Google Photos.

PARTING SHOT 

These Irish fans pulled off the best prank on the big screen before the rugby match in London.

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