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IRISH

Eva Panicker (4) who's sparked a debate about whether school's should be allowed choose schools based on religious grounds. Leah Farrell Leah Farrell

• A man has been sentenced to 17 years in jail for abducting and falsely imprisoning a young girl in Laois.
• A man in his 70s was found dead in his car at a roundabout in Galway.
• The family of a young man who bled to death waiting 40 minutes for an ambulance have blamed health cuts for his death.
• A train strike is looking likely tomorrow.
• The Supreme Court has upheld an appeal by a Kildare farmer, blocking a compulsory purchase order for his family home by IDA Ireland.
• A Mayo man who stabbed Dublin GAA star Jonny Cooper has been jailed for five years.
• As the Web Summit wraps up, founder Paddy Cosgrave has pulled out of an appearance on The Late Late Show.
• Leo Varadkar says the case of a 91-year-old man on a hospital trolley for 29 hours is ‘indefensible’.
• The Walk4Eva march attracted crowds to protest against school admission policies that favour children of a certain religion.
• Women have been tweeting Taoiseach Enda Kenny about their periods as part of the campaign to repeal the 8th Amendment.

INTERNATIONAL

It's Bonfire Night in the UK and people wearing anonymous masks are demonstrating near Parliament Square. Dominic Lipinski / PA Images Dominic Lipinski / PA Images / PA Images

#2015: Canada’s new Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has appointed a new Cabinet with a 50/50 gender split.

#OHIO: A five-year-old boy who went missing from his home 13 years ago was found unharmed and living with his father after he applied for college.

#ELECTION TIME: Hillary Clinton has promised to reaffirm the United States’ “unbreakable bonds” with Israel and strengthen its military if she became president.

INNOVATION

• The much loved Nokia 3310 now has its own emoji.
• Facebook now averages over a billion people on the site every day.

PARTING SHOT

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A French windsurfer has broken the world record for the fastest ever windsurf at nearly 100kph.

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