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IRELAND

A harvest of golden winter wheat arrives at the Athgarvan Mill in County Kildare today Rollingnews.ie Rollingnews.ie

• Rainfall warnings are in place for most of the country.
• Ruth and Paul Morrissey have described the actions of the State Claims Agency with regard to incorrectly read cervical smear tests as being ‘cynical and self-serving’.
• A man who robbed a post office in Dublin said he did so ‘as a joke’.
• A Garda convicted of assaulting two women has won his appeal against that conviction.
• Sinn Féin will announce its presidential candidate in September.
• A boardwalk near the Battle of the Boyne site was damaged in a suspected arson attack.
• Irish Water’s hosepipe ban was extended to the end of August.
• Tributes were paid to a 25-year-old man stabbed to death in Waterford.
• A new home HIV testing kit went on sale across the country.

INTERNATIONAL

A burnt-out VW beetle stands in a garden in Mati, Greece DPA / PA Images DPA / PA Images / PA Images

#GREECE: Reports suggest that arson may have been the cause of the deadly wildfires near Athens in recent days.

#LONDON: A man has been jailed for the rape of a girl in 1978.

PARTING SHOT

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