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IRELAND

The Dublin Kite Festival is being held this Sunday on Bull Island. Jason Clarke Jason Clarke

• A shooting at a boxing gym in Bray left one man dead and two others seriously injured.
• Boxing trainer Pete Taylor is among those who were injured and gardaí are investigating whether he was the target of the shooting.
• Irish Examiner journalist Mick Clifford told the Disclosures Tribunal that he heard false rumours that were circulating about Maurice McCabe.
• A number of Magdalene Laundry survivors met with President Michael D Higgins in Áras an Uachtaráin.
• A brother, sister and third man have gone on trial for the murder of Gareth Hutch.
• Street lamps are to be used to charge electric vehicles in south Dublin.
• The government is planning to put a minimum five-year expiration date on all gift cards.
• Two Irish firms are going out of business due to issues following the collapse of UK construction giant Carillion.
• Social Protection Minister Regina Doherty ruled out means testing child benefit payments.

WORLD

Spade is pictured with handbags and shoes from one of her collections in 2004. Bebeto Matthews / PA Images Bebeto Matthews / PA Images / PA Images

#RIP: Fashion designer Kate Spade was found dead in her apartment in an apparent suicide.

#ABORTION: The UK’s abortion laws and their effect on Northern Ireland are being debated in the House of Commons.

#ME TOO: Harvey Weinstein pleaded not guilty to rape and criminal sex act charges in New York City.

#LANDMARK RULING: Same-sex partners of EU citizens have the right to live in any member state whatever their nationality, the EU’s top court ruled today.

PARTING SHOT

Gary Haran was filming red deer in Killarney National Park when one of the new arrivals to the herd, unfamiliar with humans, decided to come over to say hello.

Luckily, mama deer didn’t get too involved in the entire situation or things may have gotten a little testy. (Video via Wild Deer Ireland)

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