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IRELAND

Mary Murphy (centre) with her family after selling a €500,000 Euromillions ticket on Bere Island, Cork. DonMacMonagle / MacInnes Photography DonMacMonagle / MacInnes Photography / MacInnes Photography

• The search of an area in Dublin for missing man Trevor Deely has been called of after gardai found nothing of significance.
• More flight cancellations could be on the way after Ryanair pilots threatened work to rule and rejected a bonus offer from the company.
• The Dáil voted to defeat a Bill that aimed to make housing a constitutional right.
• A bomb scare sparked an evacuation at the RTÉ building in Montrose.
• Census figures show that the number of dual Irish citizens living here has jumped by almost 90% over five years.
• Taoiseach Leo Varadkar wants to introduce an auto-enrolment pension system by 2021.
• The family of an Irish man who died in London after he was found on fire have appealed for information about what happened to him.
• Gardaí have submitted a file to the DPP concerning the 2015 Carrickmines fire that claimed ten lives. 

WORLD

a Spinosaurus model at the Jurassic Kingdom in Newcastle. Owen Humphreys / PA Images Owen Humphreys / PA Images / PA Images

#CATALAN CRISIS: Plans in Catalonia to hold an outlawed independence referendum have been hit after Spanish police seized 10 million ballot papers, sparking more protests.

#FREEZE OUT: US President Donald Trump paved the way for sanctions against foreign companies doing business with North Korea, a dramatic ratcheting up of pressure on the regime.

#EXTREMISM: A man who shared an audio recording of a hate preacher’s speech justifying the 2015 terror attacks in Paris has been jailed for four and a half years in the UK.

PARTING SHOT

Fairly or unfairly, Marilyn Manson is one of music’s most infamous performers, but Guardian journalist Alexis Petridis still didn’t expect the US singer to flick him in his testicles when they sat down for an interview.

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