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GOOD MORNING.
Here’s all the news you need to know as you start the day.
1. Bulgaria were announced as surprise winners of the Eurovision Song Contest in Vienna last night, beating Israel into second place.
Pop star DARA’s nonsense dance anthem, Bangaranga, topped the table with 516 points as the final public votes were announced, finishing well ahead of Israel’s Noam Bettan on 343.
2. The World Health Organisation has declared an Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda a “public health emergency of international concern”.
Some 88 deaths and 336 suspected cases of the highly contagious haemorrhagic fever have been reported so far, though the WHO said the outbreak does not meet the criteria of a pandemic emergency.
3. A pedestrian in her 20s has died after being struck by a car on the N11 Bray Road in Loughlinstown at around 11.50pm.
The coroner has been notified and the scene has been preserved for technical examination.
4. Two people have died and four others have been injured in a road crash between two vehicles in Co Donegal.
Emergency services were alerted to the crash on the N15 shortly after 2pm.
5. A man in his 60s who was arrested in connection with the death of a man in his 30s at a house in north Dublin has been released without charge.
6. In this analysis piece, Paul O’Donoghue writes that workers now should be better off versus those of 20 or 30 years ago. But there’s one area in which many workers are far worse off compared to their parents – their pension.
7. Police in Northern Ireland have launched a murder investigation following the death of a man in east Belfast.
The PSNI believe the assault took place at around 4.45am on Tuesday after a number of intruders entered an apartment building.
8. After Bertie Ahern’s blunder, a new opinion poll that showed who’s leading the Dublin Central byelection and another delay to the short-term let register, our politics team crowns the winners and losers of the week.
9. The Sheep Detectives, a comedy mystery film about a flock of sheep who have to solve a murder mystery, is out now in cinemas.
So naturally, we thought we’d test your knowledge with a quiz about sheep. Do you have shear knowledge, or is the wool firmly over your eyes?
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