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1. #RESCUE 116: RTÉ Prime Time reported last night there were warnings four years ago that Black Rock island off Mayo was not on the onboard warning systems that Coast Guard search and rescue teams use, but no action was taken.

2. #BASTILLE DAY: French president Emmanuel Macron will travel to Nice today to mark the occasion of the one-year anniversary of last year’s terror attack.

3. #ACID ATTACK: London’s Met Police are investigating after acid attacks were carried out on five people in the city in just over an hour.

4. #RIOT: Newly released figures show that riot squads were deployed at least once a day in Portlaoise Prison last year.

5. #AN POST: The nation’s postal service has told a woman who received a request to pay her TV licence in the post that it cannot tell her how it got her data.

6. #INQUIRY: Health Minister Simon Harris has said that he is “seriously considering” a request to conduct an independent investigation into the circumstances behind the death of a pregnant woman at the National Maternity Hospital last year.

7. #PAUL MURPHY: The Solidarity-PBP TD has said that he will make an official defamation complaint to Dáil authorities regarding Taoiseach Leo Varadkar, The Irish Examiner reports.

8. #WEATHER: There’s a warm weekend ahead with top temperatures of 24 degrees and some showers forecast.

9. #TIES: US president Donald Trump said that ties between the United States and France were “unbreakable” after a warm meeting with French President Emmanuel Macron.