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IRELAND

Waves breaking over the Great South Wall at Poolbeg in Co. Dublin. John Coveney Photography John Coveney Photography

• Gardaí are to use undercover female gardai in an attempt to catch a repeat sex offender in Dublin.
• A woman faces a hefty legal bill after her stepson won a €560,000 High Court case over a Lotto jackpot win.
• Bus Éireann workers are to go on indefinite strike from Monday 20 February.
• Industrial action for secondary teachers also moved closer.
• Formerly independent TD Stephen Donnelly is joining Fianna Fáil.
• Up to 1,000 people attended an anti-Donald Trump demonstration in Dublin.
• Head of RTÉ 2FM described a ‘battle royale’ between his station and Today FM.
• Ireland has spent €1.8 million on legal costs fighting the ruling that Apple owes the State €13 billion in back taxes.
• A then 14-year-old boy accused of raping a young girl at a park in Dublin has been sent forward for trial.

WORLD

Fruit and vegetables on sale in Mercado Medellin in Mexico City. Rebecca Blackwell / PA Rebecca Blackwell / PA / PA

#SPAT: US President Donald Trump reportedly ripped into his Australian counterpart, saying their conversation “was the worst call by far.”

#MIDDLE-EAST: Israel has unveiled plans for 3,000 new homes in the West Bank, its first settlement there in 20 years.

#BERKELEY: Violent protests erupted at the University of California at Berkeley over the scheduled appearance of a controversial editor of Breitbart.

PARTING SHOT

President George Bush’s former speechwriter David frum has been a vocal critic of Donald Trump, he writes in The Atlantic about the Trump could build an autocracy.

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