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1. #BERKELEY: The bodies of four of the victims of the balcony collapse will be flown home today.
2. #GUN CRIME: A man is due in court this morning over the mistaken identity shooting of Keith Walker in Clonsilla.
3. #IRISH WATER: Joan Burton has revealed how much it will cost her department to administer the Water Conservation Grant – some €6 million.
4. #NORTHERN IRELAND: A woman who lost her son to a loyalist bomb is to take a civil action against the state, The Irish News reports.
5. #GRAHAM DWYER: State Pathologist Dr Marie Cassidy said she was surprised by the guilty verdict delivered in the Graham Dwyer murder trial.
6. #HARVEST RUINED: A much loved community garden has been ordered to close its gates just as the summer fruits have started to ripen.
7. #CHARLESTON: US President Barack Obama has said racism remains a “blight” on the country’s society and called for a new debate on gun control, BBC reports.
8. #CRISIS: Greece is hopeful for an 11th hour deal to stop it defaulting on is debt ahead of a fresh round of emergency talks on Monday, AFP reports.
9. #WELL DONE: Scientists have declared humans have started the sixth mass extinction event - it is now too late to reverse the damage we have caused, Stanford News reports.
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