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IRELAND

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• Taoiseach Enda Kenny attended the funeral of Martin O’Rourke, who was laid to rest today
• A woman gave birth at a social welfare office in Dublin
• Two men were found guilty of murder for beating a man up and leaving him to die in the River Shannon
• The government talks have ended for the night, but ‘fundamental issues’ remain
• Meanwhile, Gerry Adams has said that Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil need to set a deadline or go back to the people
• A gang robbed men who were sitting in a car on the hard shoulder of the M7
• Siptu members are to be balloted on new proposals in the Luas dispute
• The Road Safety Authority boss has hit back at an RTÉ programme that claimed the NCT test is flawed 
• Emergency legislation is on the way after the confusion over suspended sentences
• David McSavage appeared in court charged with the non-payment of his TV licence
• A Donegal school is to install CCTV after ‘human excrement was left in a classroom’

WORLD

#OBAMA The American president is in the UK, and told Britain today that it would be ‘at the back of the queue’ if it leaves the EU

#OHIO Multiple deaths were reported after a shooting at a home in Pike County, near Cincinnati

#NORTH CAROLINA Travel advice has been given to LGBT tourists travelling to North Carolina, due to its ‘bathroom law’.

#ROMANIA The country was disqualified from the Eurovision over debts owed by its national broadcaster.

#MINNESOTA The autopsy results on singer Prince could take days or weeks to be released.

INNOVATION

• There’s a search feature in your iPhone photos app that you might not have spotted. Here’s how to use it.
• Love Game of Thrones? Find your kindred spirit on the show based on your music taste [The Next Web]

PARTING SHOT

Meet the CEO who can fit all of her rubbish from the last four years into a small glass jar.

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