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IRELAND

Oliver Gormley, of Gormleys, and Howard Hastings, chairman of Hastings Hotels, with Patrick O’Reilly’s Larger Than Life Press Eye / PA Images Press Eye / PA Images / PA Images

• PSNI Chief Constable Simon Byrne has said he is confident that information mistakenly released in a major data breach last week is in the hands of dissident republicans.
• A 17-year-old boy wept in court today after being charged over an unprovoked “extremely violent” robbery of an English tourist in Dublin’s Temple Bar.
• The board of RTÉ has been given the second Grant Thornton report, which looked at the understatement of Ryan Tubridy’s published fees by €120,000 from 2017 to 2019.
• Owners of apartments in Swords have been warned that they may face legal action if they do not begin to pay part of €15,000 needed for fire safety works.
• Opposition parties have called on the Government to take action to ease the burden of mortgage interest rate hikes on Irish households. 
• The PSNI is appealing for witnesses to come forward following the death of a 19-year-old motorcyclist after a collision in Co Antrim yesterday evening. 
• A planning row has has broken out over plans by the owner of one of Cork’s best-known golf courses to develop luxury holiday apartments.
• The Irish Coast Guard retrieved an inflatable object off the coast of Portmarnock beach in Dublin after false reports of a missing child.

INTERNATIONAL

A portion of the Shimla-Kalka heritage railway track that got washed away following heavy rainfall on the outskirts of Shimla, Himachal Pradesh state Alamy Stock Photo Alamy Stock Photo

#JETS: The RAF has scrambled jets to intercept two Russian bombers that were travelling north of Scotland.

#INDIA: Heavy monsoon rains have triggered floods and landslides in India’s Himalayan region, leaving at least 22 people dead and many others trapped.

#EVERTON: A 26-year-old worker has died during construction work at Everton’s new stadium.

#MISSISSIPPI: Six former Mississippi law officers have pleaded guilty to state charges over torturing two black men in a racist assault.

PARTING SHOT

This week’s episode of The Explainer podcast looks at what’s happening to the Rohingya minority fleeing Myanmar.

Listen here: 

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