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Today’s top stories in 6 seconds

Don’t have time to catch up with everything? Here are the top stories.

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1. A man in his 60s was shot dead in the Walkinstown area of Dublin.

2. Rents are getting more expensive all over the country. Up by almost 10% last year.

3. There’s been another arrest following the Joan Burton Jobstown protest, that’s 21 now.

4. In another World Cup upset for Cricket Ireland, the Boys in Green beat the West Indies in Australia.

5. Seven water meters protesters could be jailed today for breaching a High Court injunction.

6. Egypt has bombed Islamic State group targets after the jihadists posted a video showing the decapitation of 21 Coptic Christians.

7. A survey of Irish butchers has found that nearly a third of pork sold as ‘Irish’ was not from this country.

Main pic: A soldier from The Royal Regiment of Scotland takes aim as part of British Army exercises in Kenya.