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IRELAND

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• There have been calls for Taoiseach Enda Kenny to cancel his upcoming visit to the White House to mark St Patrick’s Day.
• Cocaine and heroin worth €3 million were seized in a house in Kildare.
• Fianna Fáil is the most popular political party in the country, according to the latest opinion poll.
• A woman was seriously injured in a crash in Lucan village in Dublin this morning.
• A man in his 20s has died after the car he was driving collided with a bus in Mallow, Co Cork.
• Daniel O’Donnell’s former manager and business partner of 30 years has been replaced by Majella.
• Two priests have said the Vatican should change how it deals with clergy and lay people.
• One of Ireland’s biggest mushroom farms has bought a major rival – all because of Brexit.

INTERNATIONAL

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#TRAVEL BAN: A federal judge issued an emergency order temporarily barring the US from deporting people from nations subject to President Donald Trump’s travel ban.

#US: Trump’s travel ban has sparked protests in airports around the country.

#UK: Prince William and Prince Harry have commissioned a London statue of Princess Diana.

PARTING SHOT 

Irish actor Aidan Gillen has accidentally become part of a bizarre ‘alt-right meme’.

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The Daily Edge explains how.

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