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IRELAND
- Latest homeless figures showed there were 2,777 children homeless in emergency accommodation in Ireland.
- The director of Oberstown youth detention confirmed that two incidents involving inmates took place there this week.
- Health Minister Simon Harris said he wants to see a referendum held on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution next summer.
- Gardaí announced details of a seizure of drugs with an estimated street value of €3.8 million.
- Solidarity-PBP TD Paul Murphy made a call for a public inquiry into how the Jobstown protest investigation was conducted.
- The High Court appointed a provisional liquidator to Dublin cake shop Decobake Limited after an ‘aggressive’ standoff over the firm’s unpaid rates.
- Two men were arrested following a burglary at a home of a couple in their 80s in Beaumont, Dublin.
- The Court of Appeal upheld the convictions of two former bank executives jailed last year for a €7.2 billion conspiracy to defraud the public about the true health of Anglo Irish Bank in 2008.
- Crimestoppers issued an appeal for a man missing for nearly two years who gardaí believe may have died.
- A man was arrested after a woman was found unconscious on the grounds of a castle in Carlow last week.
WORLD
#NEW YORK: At least three doctors have been shot at a hospital in the New York borough The Bronx, according to reports.
#GRENFELL: The head of Kensington council Nicholas Paget-Brown has announced that he will step down in the wake of the Grenfell Tower fire.
#FRANCE: Marine Le Pen was charged over claims her party illegally claimed millions of euros from the European Parliament to pay for France-based staff.
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