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IRELAND

Photo shows the damage at MDR recycling centre as they responded to a large fire that broke out at the centre in west Dublin last night. RollingNews.ie RollingNews.ie

• After a hectic day for Maria Steen, the Áras hopeful looks to be closing out the day three votes short of the required 20 Oireachtas members.
• Union representatives have accused TikTok of conducting multiple rounds of ‘quiet layoffs’ in its Irish operations since the firm announced it would be making 300 people redundant as part of an organisational restructuring in March.
• Barack Obama will be conferred with the Freedom of the City this Thursday, eight years after it was first extended to him and Michelle Obama in 2017.
• Independent presidential candidate Catherine Connolly has said she abhors violence and acknowledged that Hamas is a proscribed terrorist organisation, but maintained her position that the future governance of Palestine was up to the Palestinian people, not UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer.
• Comedy duo the 2 Johnnies got paid nearly €25,000 by the Irish Prison Service to host a show on the attractions of working as a prison officer.
• Medics, scientists and autism campaigners in Ireland have today pushed back on the claim US President Donald Trump made that the pain reliever Tylenol is strongly linked to autism as a causation factor.
• The Office of Public Works (OPW) has paid snipers more than €17,000 to kill 118 deer in the Phoenix Park since the beginning of last year – some of which were fawns less than one year old.
• Anti-immigration activist Derek Blighe has appeared before Cork District Court charged with the harassment of a member of An Garda Síochána.
• Cork legend Patrick Horgan has retired from inter-county hurling, aged 37.

INTERNATIONAL

President Donald Trump meets with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy during the United Nations General Assembly. Alamy Stock Photo Alamy Stock Photo

#GENERAL ASSEMBLY: US president Donald Trump has claimed European countries are “going to hell” because of immigration, as he addressed the United Nations General Assembly for the first time in six years.

#KIMMEL: It took less than a week of backlash to the suspension of US comedian Jimmy Kimmel’s late-night TV show for his network’s parent company Disney to reverse course and announce his return to the air. The U-turn was celebrated last night by fellow late-night TV hosts Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert. 

#COPENHAGEN: Large drones that flew over Copenhagen airport for hours and caused it to shut down constituted the “most serious attack on Danish critical infrastructure” to date, Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said today.

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