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IRELAND

Tánaiste and Enterprise Minister Frances Fitzgerald is under pressure about her time as Justice Minister. Leah Farrell / RollingNews.ie Leah Farrell / RollingNews.ie / RollingNews.ie

• Minister Frances Fitzgerald is facing questions about what she knew and when about a strategy to attack the credibility of Maurice McCabe.
• The family of a four-year-old boy with cerebral palsy has slammed the ‘unforgivable’ treatment by the HSE following award of €15 million.
• One of Ireland’s top gardaí has criticised groups engaging in vigilante activity to try to ’trap’ online predators.
• Journalist and presenter Sarah McInerney announced she is leaving her role at Newstalk.
• As both parties head to Downing Street, DUP leader Arlene Foster says Sinn Féin’s ‘glorification of terrorism’ isn’t helpful.
• A youth who left a Dublin girl permanently scarred after she rejected his sexual advances has been spared a jail sentence.
• The Criminal Asset Bureau seized nine cars, €100,000 in cash and Rolex watches in a number of Kerry raids.
• The High Court has thrown out three legal challenges against plans for a new €320 million runway at Dublin Airport.
• A man has gone on trial charged with the sexual assault of a woman he met on Tinder.
• A settlement was reached in connection with the fatal collapse of an apartment balcony in Berkeley.

WORLD

Celebrations in Harare after Robert Mugabe stepped down as president. Ben Curtis / PA Images Ben Curtis / PA Images / PA Images

#END OF AN ERA: President of Zimbabwe Robert Mugabe has resigned from his position having ruled the African state for 37 years.

#NIGERIA: At least 50 people were killed after a suicide bomber blew himself up at a mosque in northeast Nigeria.

#ARA SAN JUAN: Experts have ruled out the possibility that noise detected at sea could have come from an Argentine submarine missing with 44 people aboard.

#GET STUFFED: US President Donald Trump pardoned two turkeys as part of the annual Thanksgiving tradition in the White House.

PARTING SHOT

While turkey pardoning isn’t exactly traditional in Ireland, our most famous foul-mouthed fowl Dustin was himself pardoned by the Acting US Ambassador Reese Smyth at his residence in the Phoenix Park.

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