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IRELAND

Scenes in Dublin city. Leah Farrell Leah Farrell

• Practically everything is more expensive than it was a year ago. Here’s a look at what could be done to disrupt the surging cost of living. 
• The Taoiseach said that a suite of measures which aim to tackle rising living costs will be published at the end of this week.
• A man (73) is on life support after receiving injuries during an aggravated burglary in Sligo last month. 
• A man died following a crash involving a motorbike and a car in Cork.
• A man died and another man was hospitalised after a crash involving two vans in Co Kildare.
• DUP leader Jeffrey Donaldson called on Boris Johnson to give a firm commitment that he will trigger Article 16 of the NI Protocol if agreement cannot be reached with the EU.
• Two gardaí were hospitalised after their car collided with a vehicle they were pursuing in Dundalk, Louth.

INTERNATIONAL 

Rescue workers in Morocco trying to access the five-year-old boy who fell down a well. Mosa'ab Elshamy Mosa'ab Elshamy

#RUSSIA: US officials said that Russia was building up a force amounting to what is needed for a full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

#FISH: France’s maritime minister ordered an investigation into a possible violation of fishing practices, after an environmental group released video and photos of a massive swarm of dead fish released by a huge trawler in the Atlantic off France.

#RIP: A five-year-old boy was found dead at the bottom of a well in Morocco in a tragic end to a five-day rescue operation. 

PARTING SHOT

As Ireland celebrates 100 years of independence, The Good Information Project has been looking at the role of Irish women in the fight for freedom – and at efforts to restore their names and images to the historical record and physical landscape of memorials. 

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