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IRELAND

Lucy Mellon (10) from Dublin jumps into the sea at the Forty Foot in Sandycove. Sam Boal / RollingNews.ie Sam Boal / RollingNews.ie / RollingNews.ie

• A man has been charged by gardaí following the fatal stabbing of 25-year-old Karl Haugh in county Clare.
• Almost 4,500 people have signed a petition against the potential eviction of 17 tenants in a south Dublin apartment block.
• Molly Corbett waived her right to testify as she faces trial for the murder of her husband Jason Corbett.
• A man in his 20s died in a car crash in Portarlinton.
• A new survey shows that 16% of people under the age of 24 say they have driven a car after drinking.
• A Sligo garda has been hailed as a hero after he jumped into the Garavogue river to rescue a man who’d jumped from a bridge.
• Gardaí were called to the scene of an argument between two sets of GAA fans over the weekend.
• Nearly 875 pints of homemade alcohol or “hooch” were confiscated from prisoners serving time in Irish jails last year.

WORLD

The Seated Man, a three-metre sculpture by Sean Henry, at Castleton Rigg, near Westerdale in the North York Moors National Park. PA Wire / PA Images PA Wire / PA Images / PA Images

#BREXIT: The British government is expected to release key Brexit policy papers ‘in the next few weeks’.

#KOREAN PENINSULA: US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson ruled out a quick return to dialogue with North Korea.

#WRONG TURN: A British tourist was shot and wounded after accidentally driving with her husband and three children into a favela in the state of Rio de Janeiro.

#PRAISE THE LORD: Researchers may have found the home town of Peter and two other apostles of Jesus near the Sea of Galilee in northern Israel.

PARTING SHOT

A Korean Youtuber who’s known to explain some of the world’s language dialects to his subscribers has given his take on ‘Dublinese’.

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