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Students, teachers and education innovators gathered at the Foundry in Google to celebrate the first year of Trinity Access 21 Project. PAUL SHARP PAUL SHARP

IRISH

• Gardaí are searching for the mother of a newborn baby found abandoned in Dublin.
• A prisoner in Mountjoy was found dead in his cell.
• HIQA’s report on Portlaoise Hospital found some women were handed their children’s remains in a tin box.
• A woman was killed after a car and a lorry collided in Offaly.
• A man in his 70s died in a Cork house fire.
• There was a passionate debate on the 8th amendment in the Dáil.
• We found out what Charles and Camilla will get up to on their Irish visit.
• A Donegal priest outlined why he’s voting Yes in the same-sex marriage referendum.
• This Kildare schools has 22 different sets of twins.

WORLD

Boris Johson, elected MP for Uxbridge and South Ruislip reacts after the General Election count. Andrew Matthews / PA Andrew Matthews / PA / PA

#BRITAIN: There was good news for David Cameron when the results of the general election were announced.

#MIDDLESBOROUGH: A man who had his penis cut off in an assault last year was found dead.

#PAKISTAN: Ambassadors of Norway and the Philippines were killed in a helicopter crash.

#BALTIMORE: The US Justice Department will conduct an investigation into the police force.

#NORTH AFRICA: Police found an eight-year-old boy from the Ivory Coast hidden in a suitcase that was smuggled across the border.

INNOVATION

• Remember the time Bill Gates jumped over a chair during an interview? [Business Insider]
• Microsoft has created the first cheap Surfact you will actually want.

PARTING SHOT

Amateur photographer Eva Donlon sent us this great photo from Tullamore, Co Offaly, of a rare upside-down rainbow. It is technically known as a circumzenithal arc or Bravais’ arc.

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