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IRISH

Taoiseach Enda Kenny at the launch of the 20th annual Science Week. Jason Clarke Photography Jason Clarke Photography

• Proposed rules restricting rent price increases to every two years has promoted fears landlords will rush to push up rents.
• A prominent Muslim cleric has claimed that Irish Muslim children are being taught ‘hatred of other communities’.
• Leo Varakar’s proposal to allow private companies take over the management of underperforming public hospitals has been heavily criticised.
• Gardaí in Kerry are investigating the death of a man in his forties at a house in the Glenbeigh area of the county.
• The mother of a teenager who was fatally stabbed in Ballsbridge has called for the jury system to be abolished in cases of murder and manslaughter.
• Opel Ireland is recalling 8,000 Zafira cars in Ireland over fire safety issues.
• Gardaí in Monaghan today recovered an ATM which had been stolen from a supermarket in Newry, county Down.
• A team of explorers found a possible mass grave from the time of the Spanish Armada.
• Another hospital trolley scandal has emerged today of a 93-year-old woman on a trolley for 29 hours.

INTERNATIONAL

Iraqi security forces block a street heading to the heavily guarded Green Zone. AP / Press Association Images AP / Press Association Images / Press Association Images

#EGYPT: Analysis of black box flight recorders from from the Russian plane that crashed in Egypt “strongly favours” the theory of a bomb attack.

#PANTS ON FIRE: US Presidential candidate Ben Carson has admitted making up the stoy that he was admitted to the prestigious US Military Academy at West Point.

#LAYLA RICHARDS: A one-year-old girl in Britain has become the first in the world to be treated with “designer” immune cells genetically engineered to reverse her cancer.

INNOVATION

• Nintendo is launching a popular Japanese video game in the US that people are calling ‘the new Pokémon. (WSJ Tech) 

INNOVATION

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