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IRELAND

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• Garda sergeants and inspectors are to strike for four days in November, alongside their rank-and-file colleagues.
• A Dublin man who sexually abused four sisters in their home has been given a 12-year sentence.
• A mother who failed to protect her six-year-old son from “extreme sexual violence” by his father has been jailed for 18 months.
• An estimated €100,000 has been stolen from cash in transit vans in Dublin.
• Buyers are snapping up new homes in the town once dubbed Ireland’s first ghost town.
• The rugby world has been paying tribute to Munster head coach Anthony Foley who died suddenly yesterday

INTERNATIONAL

#ETAN PATZ: A retrial is to begin in the USA’s most famous child abduction case.

#EXPLOSION: Two people were killed and six others injured after an explosion at the world’s biggest chemical complex in Germany.

#KO SAMUI: A Thai woman accused of insulting the country’s late king was forced to kneel before his portrait outside a police station as several hundred people called for an apology.

INNOVATION

• Wikileaks has accused unknown state actors of cutting Julian Assange’s internet connection.
• Here are the key things you need to know about Tesla coming to Ireland.

PARTING SHOT 

St Andrews University students took part in a foam fight known as Raisin Monday following the ‘Raisin Weekend’, an annual tradition where student “parents” inflict tasks on the unfortunate first-years they have adopted as “children” as part of a mentoring scheme.

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