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IRELAND

Ava Beckett-Millea, Usna Hickey and Paddy Walsh announce details of National Potato Day Patrick Browne Patrick Browne

• Former Taoiseach Liam Cosgrave is to be given a limited State funeral as per his family’s wishes.
• Ulster Bank has identified almost 3,500 customers who were affected by the tracker mortgage scandal, its CEO revealed today.
• Dil Wickremasinghe’s Newstalk show has been cancelled.
• Meanwhile, Newstalk has banned Irish Times journalists from its airwaves after the George Hook furore.
• Almost half of all calls to the Dublin Rape Crisis Centre in 2016 were related to childhood sexual abuse, according to the organisation’s annual report.
• Ahead of next week’s Budget, the Economic and Social Research Institute has predicted more jobs, more spending and higher wages in 2018.
• Swedish tech and communications giant Ericsson has announced that it will cut over 100 staff across its Irish operations.
• Microsoft has announced it will create 200 new jobs through the expansion of its operations in Dublin.

INTERNATIONAL

Undated photo of gunman Stephen Paddock Eric Paddock Eric Paddock

#LAS VEGAS: Hotel gunman Stephen Paddock had previously booked rooms overlooking two other music festivals in Las Vegas and Chicago.

#SPAIN: Spain’s constitutional court has ordered the suspension of a planned session in Catalonia’s parliament which separatist leaders have called for the region to declare independence.

#CANADA: A plaque has been removed from Canada’s Holocaust memorial just a week after it opened, because it didn’t mention Jewish people.

PARTING SHOT

Calvin Harris and Florence Welch have hit out at the Conservative Party for using their music without permission. [TheDailyEdge]

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