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IRELAND

David Drumm leaving court in Dublin today. Leah Farrell / RollingNews.ie Leah Farrell / RollingNews.ie / RollingNews.ie

• A jury found former Anglo Irish Bank boss David Drumm guilty on charges of conspiracy to defraud the public and of false accounting in 2008.
• A man was killed in a workplace accident at Dublin Port.
• Gardaí investigating the death of a man in pub in Cork last Friday appealed for dashcam footage.
• A retired senior garda told the Disclosures Tribunal that he purposefully did not seek to engage with Maurice McCabe.
• CCTV footage of the fatal shooting of Gareth Hutch outside Avondale House flats in Dublin over two years ago was shown at the Special Criminal Court.
• A GP who dodged the payment of almost €100,000 in income tax was jailed for 16 months.
• Gardaí continued to search the Bray harbour area following yesterday’s shooting which left one man dead and another two injured.
• Survivors of the Magdalene institutions called for the establishment of a museum to teach younger generations about what happened to them.
• Vicky Phelan is to be given an honorary doctorate by the University of Limerick.
• Over 120,000 students began their Leaving and Junior Certificate exams today – with Leaving Cert students sitting the first of their two English papers.
• Aer Árann said it intends to end its contract to provide flights to the Aran Islands from 6 December.
• The deadline for applications was extended in An Garda Síochána’s latest recruitment campaign due to “technical difficulties”.

WORLD

Acrobats from Cirque Berserk perform on the streets of Edinburgh to help launch this year's Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Jane Barlow / PA Wire/PA Images Jane Barlow / PA Wire/PA Images / PA Wire/PA Images

#GUATEMALA: At least 75 people were killed and 200 more are missing after a volcano erupted.

#US: President Donald Trump commuted the prison sentence of Alice Marie Johnson, whose release had been championed by reality TV star Kim Kardashian.

#LONDON: 120 firefighters attended a hotel in central London after a huge fire broke out.

#FRANCE: At least four people were injured in an explosion at a grain silo in Strasbourg, eastern France.

PARTING SHOT

Foo Fighters pranked their fans in Gothenberg, Sweden last night – using a stunt double to make concertgoers believe Dave Grohl fell off the stage (via RollingStone).

The band’s frontman broke his leg after falling off the stage at a concert in the same city in 2015.

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