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IRELAND

Smock Alley theatre in Dublin earlier played host to the 28th Children's Books Ireland Book of the Year award. Pictured in centre frame are winner and author of Tangleweed and Brine Deirdre Sullivan and the book's illustrator Karen Vaughan Leon Farrell / Rollingnews.ie Leon Farrell / Rollingnews.ie / Rollingnews.ie

• Mark Hennessy, the killer of student Jastine Valdez, was shot dead in the driver’s seat of his car. Meanwhile, gardaí have appealed for information on Valdez’s missing blue handbag and iPad.
• Stephen Rae has stepped down as INM’s editor-in-chief.
• Pro-life groups secured access to the names and addresses of Irish voters ahead of the referendum.
• Swimming has been temporarily banned from a Clare beach due to high levels of E coli being found in the water.
• There’s just one day left for a EuroMillions winner in Cork to claim their €1 million prize.
• A garden centre was ordered to pay one of its former employees compensation after sacking him 11 days after his child was born.
• Both sides played the blame game in the aftermath of last night’s Prime Time debate on Friday’s referendum.
• A giant No sign was removed from the Dublin Mountains.
• Killer Mark Hennessy died after a ‘chance in a million’ bullet ricocheted off his collarbone and severed his artery.
• A man died after being stabbed in Cahersiveen, Co Kerry.

INTERNATIONAL

Michael Rotondo sits during an eviction proceeding taken in New York state against him by his own parents Douglass Dowty / PA Images Douglass Dowty / PA Images / PA Images

#NEW YORK: Two parents have gone to court to have their 30-year-old son evicted from their home.

#BLOCK ROCKIN’ TWEETS: Donald Trump violated the US constitution by blocking people on Twitter, a US court has said.

PARTING SHOT

The recent Royal Wedding has gotten the Bad Lip Reading treatment. And it’s great.

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