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IRELAND

James Joyce lookalike John Shevlin attends the Bloomsday Breakfast at Belvedere College in Dublin. Bloomsday is a celebration of James Joyce, observed annually worldwide on June 16, the day his 1922 novel Ulysses takes place in 1904. Alamy Stock Photo / Brian Lawless Alamy Stock Photo / Brian Lawless / Brian Lawless

• The horse abattoir at the centre of a welfare abuses investigation was shut down by the Agriculture Minister.
• Newly elected MEP and former champion jockey Nina Carberry was “horrified” by the abattoir abuses, but said she never sent horses to Shannonside Foods.
• President Michael D Higgins warned that libraries are facing “censorship” due to “intimidation by far-right groups”.
• Gardaí charged 14 people in connection with a drugs and money laundering investigation in Dublin.
• Social Democrats leader Holly Cairns said “it’s important to talk” as she spoke about her experience of going through two miscarriages before becoming pregnant.

In Ciutadella, Spain, a man clad in a sheepskin, carries a live ram around his shoulders as he spends the Sunday before the city's Saint John festival walking barefoot through the ancient streets. Alamy Stock Photo Alamy Stock Photo

THE WORLD

#GAZA A rare day of relative calm was found in Gaza after a “tactical pause” by Israel.

#GERMANY A man wielding a pickaxe was shot by police in Hamburg hours before the city hosted a Euro 2024 match.

#PEACE SUMMIT A total of 80 countries jointly called for the “territorial integrity” of Ukraine to be the basis for any peace agreement to end Russia’s war, though some key developing nations at a Swiss conference did not sign up.

#FRANCE France football team captain Kylian Mbappe warned that French politics faces a “crucial moment” with “extremists very close to power”..

PARTING SHOT

We’ll end the week the way it began.

Fianna Fáil won the highest number of council seats in the local elections, prompting a question in some quarters: is the party back?

Our Political Editor Christina Finn weighs up the evidence here.