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IRELAND

Back-to-school season is in swing. Sam Boal / RollingNews.ie Sam Boal / RollingNews.ie / RollingNews.ie

• Carlow is reeling from the “devastating loss” of 33-year-old Irish woman Martha Nolan-O’Slatarra, whose body was found in the early hours of yesterday morning on a yacht in Montauk in New York.
• A colleague of Gena Heraty, the Irish missionary kidnapped by a gang in Haiti, described her as “an amazing person” who “serves with love, compassion and dignity”.
• An Indian nurse in Ireland has spoken out about an alleged attack on her six-year-old daughter by a group of boys who punched her in the face, hit her with a bicycle, told her to “go back to India” and used abusive language in a housing estate in Co Waterford.
• Ireland’s tax receipts for the year ending in July came in at €58 billion, up nearly 11% on last year as corporation tax intake increased.
• Money that parents have been able to save on back-to-school costs through the government’s free schoolbooks scheme is being swallowed up by the cost of schools requiring students to have electronic devices like a laptop or tablet, according to a new survey of parents.
• A 35-year-old has been jailed for three months for a random “unprovoked” attack on a woman while she was jogging in Dublin.
• ‘The mound’ at Dublin Airport was the place to be this morning as aviation enthusiasts from all over Ireland gathered to watch the landing of the Antonov AN-124, a giant cargo plane.

THE WORLD

An artist's impression of a planned bridge to connect Sicily to mainland Italy Stretto di Messina Stretto di Messina

#GAZA 20 people were killed when an aid truck overturned near the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza Strip.

#HAITI ‘Purge’-like gang violence in Haiti has worsened in recent months, with 1.4 million people internally displaced within the country in crisis.

#ITALY The Italian government is planning to construct a bridge connecting the island of Sicily to to the mainland.

#UK Gary Lineker is taking up a presenting role on a new ITV game show three months after he departed from the BBC.

PARTING SHOT

Heading to Electric Picnic this year?

Organisers have just announced 11 more acts joining the line-up, including Noel and Mike Hogan of the Cranberries performing with the RTÉ Concert Orchestra.

The full list of new acts is available here.