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GOOD MORNING.
Here’s all the news you need to start the day.
1. Ireland is on course to deliver only half the reductions of greenhouse gas emissions required by 2030.
2. Ireland’s construction firms and state agencies have told the government that there is a widespread shortage of specialised construction and infrastructure workers, resulting in delays to projects in the sector.
3. Around 160 Irish peacekeepers have been welcomed home from Lebanon after their deployment to Lebanon as part of the United Nations Interim Force Lebanon (Unifil).
4. Israel said today it had killed the new head of Hamas’s armed wing in Gaza, Mohammed Odeh, while strikes on southern Lebanon killed 31 people, both on Tuesday.
5. It has played host to countless world leaders and moments in history. Now US President Donald Trump has built a huge cage-fighting arena on the White House’s South Lawn.
6. Labour leader Ivana Bacik has called on the government to issue a formal State apology to thalidomide survivors.
7. The PSNI have extradited a man from Belfast to Denmark to stand trial for murder.
8. A plea for information has been made for a “much loved elder brother” in Co Antrim who was disappeared by republican paramilitaries as a search begins to find his remains.
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