IRELAND

Ed Sheeran smiles to a packed out Croke Park during the first of his two nights at the venue. RollingNews.ie RollingNews.ie

• Taoiseach Enda Kenny has told former Anglo CEO David Drumm to “cooperate fully and completely” with the banking inquiry. 
• Friends of an Antrim man who died in Ibiza say he was beaten by police hours before his death.
• The jury in the trial of three former Anglo officials were told that Sean FitzPatrick was not on trial even though he is mentioned in evidence.
• A change in the law is being proposed to prevent a person guilty of murder or manslaughter from benefitting financially from a victim’s death.
• Derry’s council has passed a motion to drop ‘London’ from the city’s name. Unionist aren’t happy.
• In separate drug seziures, €1.2 million worth of cannabis was found in Donegal and €720,000 worth of cocaine was found in Dublin.
• A Dublin grandfather who molested his young daughter and granddaughter has been jailed for seven years.
• Irish naval vessel the LÉ Niamh rescued 358 migrants from a wooden barge off the Libyan coast.

WORLD

Chris Moriarty has his beard prepared for the Great British Barber Barber Bash in Glasgow. Andrew Milligan Andrew Milligan

#LOUSIANA: A lone gunman opened fire in a US cinema killing two people before killing himself.

#BORDER PATROL: Donald Trump toured the US-Mexico border in Texas, he condemed illegal immigration and promised to ‘make America great again’.

#AYLESBURY: Six men have been found guilty in the UK over the repeated rape of two teenage girls, one of whom was forced to have sex with more than 60 men.

#SLÁINTE: An Irish pub in New York City has been named the best bar in the world.

INNOVATION

• Jeff Bezos, CEO of Amazon, became $7 billion richer overnight after shares in the company soared. 
• Nasa’s been revealing more and more of the new images it has of Pluto after last week’s ‘fly-by’. (Techcrunch)

PARTING SHOT

Locals in a Kazakh mining region keep falling asleep for days at a time. Buzzfeed went there to find out why.

Here’s what happened yesterday > 

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