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NEED TO CATCH up? TheJournal.ie brings you a round-up of today’s news.

IRELAND

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• The HSE has “apologised unreservedly” to Garda Sergeant Maurice McCabe for the ‘administrative error’ that saw a file on him forwarded to Tusla in 2014.
• Sinn Féin is to table a motion of no confidence in the Government in the wake of the McCabe revelations – while a Sunday Times/B&A poll puts Fianna Fáil 11 points ahead of Fine Gael.
• A flight from Dublin Airport was diverted to a Dubai military base after the discovery of an “onboard security threat”.
• A Sligo man who came to the aid of a young girl who was injured in a car accident had his own car cut to pieces by the emergency services.
• Eight people have been deported after a Garda immigration operation in Co Louth
• Two men with screwdrivers raided the house of an elderly man in Co Kildare.
• Seán Canney and ‘Boxer’ Moran will not be getting a ministerial pension each.

INTERNATIONAL

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#US: Not content with one travel ban, Donald Trump is now talking about introducing a second one.

#UK: A key witness is being sought by police after an Irishwoman was killed in a Birmingham train collision.

#APPLE: CEO of the tech giant Tim Cook says that fake news is “killing people’s minds”.

#POLAND: The prime minister of Poland was involved in a serious car accident just one day after meeting Enda Kenny for crisis Brexit talks.

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