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GOOD MORNING.
Here’s all the news you need to know to start the day.
1. In our main story this morning, Valerie Flynn reports on what people who can’t vote in the upcoming presidential election – emigrants, immigrants and Irish citizens in Northern Ireland – make of it all.
Readers in the North who got in touch were united in expressing disappointment, frustration or disgust at the current system, with one reader saying: “Being denied this right feels like being told I’m less Irish than someone in Cavan or Kerry.”
2. Staying with the Áras race, the latest Sunday Independent/Ireland Thinks poll puts Independent Catherine Connolly out in front on 32%, with Fine Gael’s Heather Humphreys on 23% and Fianna Fáil’s Jim Gavin way behind on 15%.
3. ESB crews are continuing to work to restore supply to homes and businesses in the wake of Storm Amy, with some 13,000 still without power.
4. A man in his 60s has died following a two-vehicle collision near Drinagh in Co Wexford.
5. In the US, Donald Trump has authorised deployment of 300 National Guard troops to Chicago after a federal agent shot an allegedly armed woman there yesterday.
6. Back home, lawyers for a number of Irish citizens who were detained by Israel while sailing to Gaza have written to Foreign Affairs Minister Simon Harris to express concern about “credible reports of mistreatment” the detainees are facing.
7. Lauren Boland reports from Sólheimajökull, a prominent glacier in southern Iceland which has retreated by about 2,000 metres over the last century, leaving behind a lake where the glacier once covered the valley.
8. Demonstrators were pepper sprayed and two people were arrested for public order offences at a small protest at Dublin’s Port Tunnel.
9. The three Áras candidates will appear today on RTÉ’s The Week in Politics for the second presidential debate this afternoon – will you be watching? Let us know in our daily poll.
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