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EVERY MORNING, TheJournal.ie brings you all the news you need to know as you start the day.
1. #WICKLOW: Garda crime units have received information that a row between two drug gangs in the North Wicklow area has escalated, leading to calls for extra resources.
2. #MIGRATION: US first lady said that she “hates” to see families separated at the US border and hopes “both sides of the aisle” can reform the nation’s immigration laws.
3. #OSAKA: At least three people have been killed and dozens injured following a strong earthquake around metropolitan Osaka in western Japan.
4. #REFERENDUM: Up to and including polling day on the 25 May, Dublin City Council received 279 complaints regarding posters for the Eighth Amendment referendum.
5. #FINES: The government is set to increase the on-the-spot litter fine from €150 to €250, under plans being considered by Minister for Communications Denis Naughten.
6. #COLOMBIA: Conservative Ivan Duque won Colombia’s presidential election yesterday after a campaign that turned into a referendum on a landmark 2016 peace deal with FARC rebels that he pledged to overhaul.
7. #WEATHER: The week is set to be mostly cloudy with some spells of rain, but there’s a good chance of warm weather for next weekend.
8. #RYANAIR: Budget airline Ryanair has called for a pre-10am booze ban at airports after a group of Irish-based holiday-makers forced an Ibiza-bound Ryanair flight from Dublin to divert to Paris Saturday morning.
9. #CLARE: A man has been killed and two other people injured in a road crash in Co Clare.
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