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#UK: Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II has died aged 96. Buckingham Palace said the UK’s longest-serving monarch died peacefully in Scotland this afternoon.
#WEATHER: The summer of 2022 was the hottest in Europe’s recorded history, with the continent suffering blistering heatwaves and the worst drought in centuries, the European Commission’s satellite monitor said today.
#USA: A man killed at least four people and wounded three others in an hours-long shooting rampage across Memphis, Tennessee yesterday, before a high-speed chase that ended with his arrest, police in the US city said.
Following the death of Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II today, The Journal’s Rónán Duffy reflected on Ireland’s relationship with the UK monarch and the impact of her 2011 visit, which was the first ever by a reigning British monarch to the Republic of Ireland.
“While the visit was a success in how it continued the normalisation of the relationship between the two near neighbours, it did not heal wounds in a lasting way that some had predicted,” Rónán writes.
“Anyone who says following her death that the 2011 visit was a moment of lasting reconciliation is not acknowledging the reality of British-Irish relations over the past six years.”
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