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IRELAND

Young artists with their paintings today as the winners of the 68th Texaco Children's Art Competition were announced Leah Farrell / RollingNews.ie Leah Farrell / RollingNews.ie / RollingNews.ie

• Passport Express has been renamed ‘Post Passport’ amid significant delays in processing new passports. 
• The father of two-year-old Santina Cawley, who was murdered three years ago at an apartment in Cork, has pleaded guilty to a charge of assault causing harm to his former partner who was found guilty of killing his daughter.
• Civil liberties campaigners said they are “strongly opposed” to gardaí being allowed to use facial-recognition technology.
• The HSE launched a harm-reduction strategy for drug users at music festivals.
• The housing minister clashed with Sinn Féín’s finance spokesperson during Leaders’ Questions today over a State subsidy scheme for developers. 
• The Taoiseach told a TV interview in Davos during the World Economic Forum that “wind is Ireland’s oil”.
• A new €500 grant towards the cost of a hairpiece or wig will be offered to around 2,000 people with alopecia.
• Gardaí arrested a man in his 30s after seizing cocaine from a car in Limerick yesterday evening.  

THE WORLD 

Flowers outside Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas after a gunman killed students and teachers Jae C. Hong / PA Images Jae C. Hong / PA Images / PA Images

#US The gunman who shot and killed 19 students and two teachers at an elementary school in Texas posted his plan on Facebook 15 minutes before the attack.

#UKRAINE Russian troops advanced in eastern Ukraine as the war entered its fourth month.

#UK Boris Johnson said he believes he should remain prime minister despite the Sue Gray report’s conclusion that ‘senior leadership’ must take responsibility for lockdown breaches.

PARTING SHOT

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