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IRELAND

Fixed charge notices are set to be introduced for cyclists to help encourage safe cycling practices Conor McCabe Conor McCabe

• Former Taoiseach Brian Cowen has been appearing before the Banking inquiry today to answer questions about his time as Finance Minister. 
• Drinks manufacturer Tullamore Dew is set to cut 50 jobs at its distillery in Clonmel. 
• A suicidal woman was repeatedly refused admittance to a Galway hospital’s psychiatric ward. 
• A former Catholic archbishop who had taken a defamation case against RTÉ has settled. 
• Relatives of those killed in the Stardust nightclub fire held a sit-in at the Department of Justice over the investigation into their relatives’ deaths. 
• Irish crooner Val Doonican has died at the age of 88. 
• An investigation has been launched after a teacher was spotted correcting a Leaving Cert paper on a train. 
• A man is set to take the State to court after armed gardaí raided his flat by mistake. 

INTERNATIONAL

Jamaican / German tennis player Dustin Brown has eliminated former champion Rafael Nadal from Wimbledon Pavel Golovkin / AP/Press Association Images Pavel Golovkin / AP/Press Association Images / AP/Press Association Images

#FRANCE: A woman has been jailed for suffocating eight of her children. 

#TUNISIA: Eight people have been arrested in Tunisia in connection with last Friday’s terrorist attack. 

#UNITED STATES: A woman recently found in California with an acute case of amnesia has been identified. 

INNOVATION

Google has apologised after its new photo app put a ‘gorillas’ label on a black couple. 

PARTING SHOT

Ever wondered why mosquitoes bite some people and not others? Well Business Insider has tried to find out. [Business Insider]

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