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St James's Brass & Reed Band leads the procession at Fianna Fáil’s 1916 Centenary Commemoration at Arbour Hill Cemetery today. Leah Farrell / © RollingNews.ie Leah Farrell / © RollingNews.ie / © RollingNews.ie

IRELAND

• Multiple tenants of the country’s largest landlord firm are locked in a stand off over what they say is a hardening of policy on allowing tenants to replace departing flatmates and still maintain their existing rental agreement. 
• Independent Ireland has faced booming membership interest, including from government party supporters, in the past week following the fuel crisis protests according to the party leader Michael Collins.
• Independent TD Barry Heneghan defended standing by the government on the hotly-contested fuel package that was announced in the aftermath of the fuel protests. 
• Energy Minister Darragh O’Brien said he has written to the consumer regulator to track soaring cost of fuel caused by the US and Israeli war on Iran.
• It is likely to take upwards of three months before Daniel Kinahan is extradited to Ireland to face charges on alleged serious organised crime offences, according to Pat Leahy, a former Assistant Garda Commissioner.

INTERNATIONAL

Residents of northern Israel living near the Lebanese border protest the security situation, outside the US Embassy in Jerusalem. Hebrew on a sign bearing an image of US President Donald Trump reads Hezbollah thanks Trump. AP Photo / Mahmoud Illean AP Photo / Mahmoud Illean / Mahmoud Illean

#LOUISIANA: Eight children were shot dead in Louisiana in the US this morning.

#STRAIT OF HORMUZ: US President Donald Trump said negotiators will be in Pakistan tomorrow to resume talks on ending the war with Iran, as he once again threatened to destroy its power plants and bridges if no deal is reached.

#LONDON: UK prime minister Keir Starmer said he is “appalled” after another attempted arson attack at aLondon synagogue following a spate of similar incidents.

PARTING SHOT

President Connolly pictured during her address. TONY MAXWELL TONY MAXWELL

“IS THIS AN anti-Trump summit?”

It was a question put to President Catherine Connolly as she arrived at a gathering of left-leaning world leaders in Barcelona.

She didn’t answer it directly. Inside the building, the answer felt fairly clear.

The Journal’s Andrew Walsh reports from Barcelona, where Connolly made her first overseas trip as Ireland’s head of state.