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IRELAND

A Mother's Day like no other. Four generations of ladies meeting for the first time through a window. Noel Gaule Noel Gaule

Pictured: Kathy O’Hare (great grandmother), Mary Fitzpatrick (grandmother), Lorna Gaule (mother), Fiadh Gaule (five days old).

• A fourth death related to the Covid-19 coronavirus has been confirmed in the Republic of Ireland with the total number of cases now 906.
• Northern Ireland also recorded its second death with 20 new cases also confirmed. 
• About 40,000 people in Ireland are waiting to have a Covid-19 test, the HSE has said.
• The HSE has also confirmed it has placed huge orders for Covid-19 testing equipment and face masks.
• Tánaitse Simon Coveney said the government is arranging a charter flight to fly Irish citizens out of Peru.
• Gardaí took action to restrict access to parts of Clare and Wicklow today as the public flocked to outdoor areas. 
• A young boy is boy is in a serious condition in hospital after a reported attack by a number of dogs at a house in the Tallaght area of Dublin. 
• Three men have been arrested in the midlands by members of the Special Detective Unit investigating dissident republican activity.
• A motorcyclist in his 30s has died following a crash in Waterford. 

WORLD

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#UK: The death toll from coronavirus in the UK now stands at 281 after 48 deaths in the previous 24 hours, the British government has said.  

#ITALY: Italy today recorded 651 deaths, fewer than yesterday’s highest total of 793. The country’s death toll now stands at 5,476.  

#SPAIN: Spain’s prime minister is to ask parliament to extend a state of emergency until 11 April 11 to try to curb the spread of coronavirus after the country recorded 394 new deaths from the disease.

#GERMANY: German chancellor Angela Merkel Merkel is in quarantine after meeting a doctor who tested positive for the novel coronavirus.

PARTING SHOT

EasyJet executive Peter Bellew has apologised to his pilots and staff after a video message he delivered to airline employees turned out to be a heavily plagiarised version of Leo Varadkar’s address to the nation on St Patrick’s Day.

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