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IRELAND

A press conference about the proposed garda strikes on Friday. Eamonn Farrell Eamonn Farrell

• The bodies of a man and woman were discovered at a house near Irishtown, Co Mayo, while a third person has been rushed to hospital.
• The Garda Commissioner Nóirín O’Sullivan issued a directive ordering gardaí to come to work on Friday, to try and stop a strike by three ranks of the force.
• Rugby players Paddy Jackson and Stuart Olding have denied any wrongdoing after the pair were arrested and questioned by the PSNI over alleged sexual offences.
• A report into claims of sexual abuse at a foster home in the south-east has revealed that the HSE failed to investigate claims fully.
• Gardaí are appealing to the community to come forward and help track down those responsible for the killing of a man in his 20s overnight.
• Five units of the Dublin Fire Brigade are at the scene of a fire in a block of apartments in Clongriffin, Co Dublin.
• Freddie Thompson – a.k.a. ‘Fat Freddie’, a key associate of the Kinahan drug cartel – has been arrested in Dublin.
• Gardaí are investigating after two bodies were discovered in a house in Kildare.
• A jury has failed to reach a verdict in the case of a man who claimed he was acting in his sleep when he allegedly raped his friend.
• Ulster bank has been fined €3,325,000 by the Central Bank in respect of anti-money laundering and terrorist financing failures.
• Dublin Fire Brigade dealt with 872 calls on what has been described as a “full-on” Halloween night.

WORLD

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#BATTLE FOR MOSUL: Iraqi forces entered the outskirts of Mosul, as they begin their attempts to drive Islamic State militants from the northern city. [BBC]

#US ELECTION: CNN has let analyst Donna Brazile go after emails showed that she shared questions with Hillary Clinton’s campaign ahead of media events.

#BRITAIN: The former deputy leader of the Tory party has called reports from the BBC that he had strangled his mother’s dog a “terrible misrepresentation”.

INNOVATION

• Constantly using our smartphones has become the norm, but one of the lesser known perils of constant smart phone use is that they may actually make us blind.

PARTING SHOT

TG4 are known for their creative ways of showing the weather (check out the Twitter account An Aimsir Láithreach). But this weather forecast on Halloween night was particularly impressive. Lean leis an dea-obair!

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