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IRELAND

Anti-water-charge protesters unfurl a banner under the watchful eye of James Larkin this evening. John Brady John Brady

• Two men who were working on a bridge in Limerick died after their support cage fell into the River Shannon.
  
• Crowds of protesters marched in Dublin city centre for the abolition of water charges.
• A man charged with the burglary of a house in Limerick where a man died said he was “sorry for the death of that man”.
• President Michael D. Higgins signed the Marriage Equality Bill into the Irish constitution.
• The funeral took place of 16-year-old Donal English-Hayden who died in a farming accident in Carlow.
• The criminal trial of former Anglo chairman Seán FitzPatrick has been put back until next May.

INTERNATIONAL

A Donald Trump supporter stands on a chair to get a better view of the Republican presidential candidate. AP / Press Association Images AP / Press Association Images / Press Association Images

#BANGKOK: A 28-year-old Turkish man was charged over the bomb attack in Bangkok last week that killed 20 people.

#SWAZILAND: At least 38 girls and young women were killed in a crash as they were travelling to Swaziland’s famous Reed Dance where the king chooses a new wife.

#WDBJ SHOOTING: The survivor of the Virginia shooting is awake and has spoken to her family about surviving the horrific attack.

INNOVATION

• Six people have shut themselves inside a dome for a year in an experiment aimed at helping NASA prepare for a pioneering journey to Mars.
  
• A new Irish start-up is looking at a high-tech way of measuring your stress, it’s called the Pip.

PARTING SHOT

Shaun Utter Shaun Utter

A Boston-based coder has created a site that generates random Google Maps images and assigns them a random colour. It’s strangely hypnotic. (Mashable)

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