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IRELAND

Paul Murphy TD leaving the Central Criminal Court of Justice in Dublin. He and others are charged with false imprisonment of Tanaiste Joan Burton and her assistant. Leah Farrell / RollingNews.ie Leah Farrell / RollingNews.ie / RollingNews.ie

• A 15-year-old Irish girl drowned in a swimming pool on the Greek island of Crete.
• Tom Humphries, a prominent sports journalist and author, is to be sentenced next month for the sexual exploitation and defilement of a child.
• The jury in the Jobstown trial heard the judge’s closing remarks ahead of their deliberations in the case of six people accused of falsely imprisoning Joan Burton and her colleague on 15 November 2014.
• House prices across the country increased by 11.2% in the past 12 months.
• An elderly husband and wife who have been married for 63 years were separated when only one them was granted a place in a nursing home.
• A number of senior judges wrote to Taoiseach Leo Varadkar to express their concerns over the Judicial Appointments Commission Bill.
• Almost 1,500 calls were made to the Sexual Violence Centre Cork in 2016.
• A man died after being hit by a truck in Dublin.
• Gardaí appealed for information following the discovery of a seriously injured woman on the outskirts of Carlow town.
• Sinn Féin’s Mícheál Mac Donncha was elected the new Lord Mayor of Dublin.

WORLD

UK Prime Minister Theresa May greets DUP leader Arlene Foster outside 10 Downing Street in London Dominic Lipinski / PA Wire/PA Images Dominic Lipinski / PA Wire/PA Images / PA Wire/PA Images

#LONDON: The Democratic Unionist Party signed a £1 billion deal to prop up Theresa May’s Conservative government in London.
#US: The US Supreme Court is letting the Trump administration enforce most of its 90-day ban on travellers from six Muslim-majority countries, overturning lower court orders that blocked it.
#UK: The company that makes the cladding implicated in the Grenfell Tower fire has withdrawn the material from sale for high-rise blocks.

PARTING SHOT

Check out this lovely video Mark Broderick made to showcase the highlights of the Skerries Midsummer Festival:

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