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1. #DALLAS Barack Obama is to cut short a visit to Europe in order to travel to the Texas city, scene of a mass shooting of police officers at a protest against police brutality on Thursday. Shooter Micah Johnson has been described as a “loner” who said that he wanted “to kill white people”.

2.#CONSOLE The Irish Independent reports that former Console CEO Paul Kelly inflated his staff numbers in order to secure additional funding from the HSE.

3. #SLIGO-DUBLIN A teenager, who went on a rampage on a Sligo-Dublin train after allegedly being assaulted, has been detained for six months.

4. #TORY LEADERSHIP Conservative leadership candidate Andrea Leadsom has drawn criticism for an interview in which she appeared to suggest that the fact she is a mother gives her an advantage over rival Theresa May.

5. #NAAS A man who was found in possession of child pornography has been ordered not to “loiter around playgrounds or schools”.

6. #MARY BOYLE A documentary published online last week, telling the story of Ireland’s longest-running missing person case, has received a “phenomenal” reaction. Six-year-old Mary disappeared in rural Donegal in 1977.

7. #OUTBREAK A single ‘super-spreader’ patient caused the infection of 82 people with Middle Eastern Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) in just three days at a South Korean hospital.

8. #IN SICKNESS Ireland’s public servants took over two million sick days in 2015 – an average of over eight days per worker, according to figures published in the Daily Mail.

9. #MOORE STREET: Traders on the iconic north Dublin market street have spoken out about how they have been ‘forgotten’ in the fallout from the battle for the 1916 National Monument.

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