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IRELAND

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• The rate of unemployment in Ireland has hit its lowest level in over 20 years.
• The Women of Honour group has said it is unhappy with the proposed involvement of the Department of Defence in the new independent oversight board for the Defence Forces.
• The HSE continued to recruit nurses from Zimbabwe, Ghana and Nigeria for over a month after they were added to the World Health Organisation’s (WHO) no-recruit list.  
• The sister of one of the Stardust victims has told an inquest how how her family want to reclaim her memory from the darkness and bring her “back into the sunlight where she belongs”.
• Sarah McInerney has become the latest person to pull out of contention to replace Ryan Tubridy as the host of RTÉ’s The Late Late Show. 
• Met Éireann issued a Status Yellow thunderstorm warning for 11 counties until 10pm.
• A man in his 40s died in a single-vehicle crash in Co Cavan. 

THE WORLD

WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus. Alamy Stock Photo Alamy Stock Photo

#COVID-19 The WHO has said Covid-19 no longer qualifies as a global emergency.

#UK The Labour Party gained an additional 510 seats in local elections in England, while the Conservatives have lost 763, with results available from 200 out of 230 councils.

#SUDAN Air strikes and gunfire rocked the Sudanese capital as fighting showed no signs of abating.

PARTING SHOT

Our reporter Carl Kinsella is across the water for the coronation of the UK’s King Charles.

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