Updated 20.46pm
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IRISH
- Labour’s Aodhán Ó Ríordáin said there should be measures in the Budget to alleviate pressures on the lower paid and those on social welfare, but water needs to be paid for.
- The 1916 Relatives Association has called the planning of the centenary celebrations a “shambles”.
- A man is in a serious condition after falling 25 feet off Bray Head cliff in Wicklow.
- The National Ploughing Championships are heading back to Laois next year.
- Following the search of a farmhouse, 500 kilogrammes of feriliser, explosives and detonators were recovered.
- The remote control for the Sean O’Casey Bridge in Dublin has been replaced after being missing for years.
- The water charges protest made some international headlines today.
- Focus Ireland has seen a big increase in the number of people coming to them for advice about becoming homeless.
WORLD
#DALLAS: A breach in protocol is being blamed for the Ebola infection of a health care worker in a Dallas hospital.
#UK: The practice of posting elicit photos of exes on online will soon carry a prison sentence of two years.
#GAZA: World leaders are planning the rebuilding of Gaza after months of shelling.
INNOVATION
- Here’s how to set up Family Sharing for your Apple devices.
- Farmers have a new way to keep an eye of beef prices.
PARTING SHOT
Earth is looking pretty amazing in this photo that NASA released today. If you look closely you can see Mars too. [NASA]
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