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IRELAND

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• A man who was injured in a fire at a Stryker plant in Co Cork in April has died.
• A former senior officer in An Garda Síochana has been arrested by detectives investigating alleged sexual offences.
• A former waste company owner has been handed a three-year prison sentence over three waste management breaches at a landfill site in Co Kildare.
• A spokesperson for the OPW said it is possible for new modular homes that Ukrainian refugees will be moving into from this week in Cork to be “put on a ship and sent to Ukraine” if the Government decides to do so. 
• A cyber-attack on a software for the HSE’s recruitment system, ran by an external operator EY, has lead to information relating to “no more than 20 individuals” being accessed, the HSE said today.
• An inquiry into the response to the Covid-19 pandemic in Ireland is to be set up this year, the Taoiseach has said.
• Police in the North are continuing to appeal for information and witnesses in their search for Chloe Mitchell who went missing in Co Antrim last week. 
• Audio recordings of court proceedings will be released to gardaí and to Simeon Burke as part of an appeal against the student lawyer’s conviction for a public order offence during a “melee” at the Court of Appeal.
• It’s set to be a warm and humid few days ahead with temperatures set to hit as high as 26 degrees next week. 

INTERNATIONAL

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#RESIGNATION Former British prime minister Boris Johnson resigned as an MP after accusing a House of Commons investigation into whether he misled Parliament over partygate of attempting to “drive me out”.

#CLASSIFIED Donald Trump took secret documents dealing with US nuclear and weapons programs from the White House after leaving office, potentially putting national security at risk, according to the newly unsealed indictment of the former president.

#UKRAINE Russian President Vladimir Putin said that a long-expected counteroffensive from Ukraine had started but that Kyiv had not reached its goals.

#FRANCE The child victims of a playground stabbing in France are all in a stable condition. The four children, who range in age from just 22 months to three years, were attacked by a man with a knife at a lakeside park in Annecy yesterday.

PARTING SHOT

Greta Thunberg arrives at a Fridays for Future demonstration at the Mynttorget square next to the Swedish Parliament Pontus Lundahl / TT News Agency/PA Images Pontus Lundahl / TT News Agency/PA Images / TT News Agency/PA Images

Swedish environmental activist Greta Thunberg has taken part in her final school strike to draw attention to climate change.

Thunberg, 20, started staging Friday protests outside the Swedish parliament during school hours in 2018.

Teenagers from around the world followed her lead, leading to an international student movement called Fridays for Future.

The campaigner has now graduated from high school and noted that her future Friday activities “technically” will not be school striking.

But in a tweet, she vowed to continue protesting, saying: “The fight has only just begun.”

“We are still moving in the wrong direction, where those in power are allowed to sacrifice,” Thunberg wrote on Twitter.

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