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IRELAND

N7 CHECKPOINTS 1L2A5997 A garda checkpoints on N7 Motorway. RollingNews.ie RollingNews.ie

Two deaths and 511 new cases of Covid-19 were confirmed by health officials as the HSE said that total vaccinations will top a million in the coming week.
Some new cases of Covid-19 variants of concern already identified in Ireland have been identified that are not linked to international travel.
A total of 27 PSNI officers were injured during rioting in Belfast and Derry as politicians called for calm.
Non-EU doctors in Ireland are calling for all frontline workers’ citizenship applications to be fast-tracked.
Former taoiseach Enda Kenny said it was time to ‘move on’ from golfgate as he ruled out presidential ambitions on the Late Late Show.
Gardaí have seized €160,000 in cash after stopping a car in Athlone on Friday night.

WORLD

taiwan-train-accident Rescue workers near the derailed train in Hualien, Taiwan Chiang Ying-ying / PA Chiang Ying-ying / PA / PA

#WEST MIDLANDS: An 85-year-old woman has died after being attacked by two dogs from a neighbouring property in the UK.

#VACCINES: The UK’s medical regulator regulator has said that seven people out of 30 people who suffered blood clots after receiving the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine have died.

#TRAIN CRASH: Survivors of Taiwan’s worst rail crash in decades have recounted their desperate efforts to find loved ones in the wreckage of the train at the start of a holiday weekend.

PARTING SHOT

EASTER LAMBS 1L2A5893 A young lamb in a field outside Naas in County Kildare. Eamonn Farrell / RollingNews.ie Eamonn Farrell / RollingNews.ie / RollingNews.ie

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