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IRELAND

Performers in the St Patricks Day Parade in Dublin city. Sam Boal / RollingNews.ie Sam Boal / RollingNews.ie / RollingNews.ie

• St. Patrick’s Day festivities took place across the country.
• The rest of the world joined in as well.
• Taoiseach Enda Kenny refused to put a definite timeline on his departure.
• It came after he won plaudits in the international media for how he spoke to Donald Trump about immigration.
• Searchers found a section of Coast Guard helicopter Rescue 116 on an isolated rock about 10km from shore.
• The victim of a fatal stabbing in Dublin was named as father of three Mark Richardson.
• The requiem mass for Captain Dara Fitzpatrick will take place tomorrow morning.
• Maureen Haughey, the wife of former Taoiseach Charles Haughey, died aged 91.

WORLD

The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge are greeted by French President Francois Hollande in Paris. Dominic Lipinski / PA Wire Dominic Lipinski / PA Wire / PA Wire

#ENTENTE CORDIALE: Prince William and his wife Catherine made an official visit to Paris.

#GERMANY CALLING: Donald Trump hosted Angela Merkel at the White House and repeated his baseless claim that Trump Tower was wiretapped by Barack Obama.

#SKIRMISHES: Israeli warplanes bombed targets in Syria prompting retaliatory missiles launches from Syrian forces.

PARTING SHOT

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Gardaí in Tallaght reunited a lost husky with his owners after he went missing. The nicknamed him ‘Paddy the Puppy’, for the day that’s in it like.

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