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GOOD MORNING.
Here’s all the news you need to know as you start your day.
1. Blockades in Dublin City Centre, on the M50 and on other motorways are continuing today, after yesterday’s talks aimed at defusing protests failed.
2. Six counties will be under weather warnings today, as a wet and windy weekend is forecast for the west.
3. An elated NASA was celebrating its successful voyage around the Moon last night, after four astronauts safely returned to Earth having completed the first lunar flyby in more than 50 years.
4. Rory McIlroy delivered one of the most stunning finishes in major golf history, making birdies on six of Friday’s last seven holes to seize a record six-stroke lead after the second round at the Masters.
5. Every garda in the country has been ordered by the Garda Commissioner to work for the next three days to police the ongoing fuel protests and blockades.
6. Hungarians will tomorrow go to the polls in parliamentary elections that could end Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s 16 years in power. Our Political Correspondent Jane Matthews examined what’s next for Hungary.
7. A delegation of top Iranian officials arrived in Islamabad ahead of ceasefire talks with the United States in the Pakistani capital.
8. One of the central demands of the current fuel price protests has been a suspension of carbon tax on fuels given the current global energy crisis. Is it possible? Our reporter Valerie Flynn investigated.
9. Prince Harry is being sued for defamation by the charity over allegations he co-ordinated an “adverse media campaign” which caused “operational disruption and reputational harm”, its board of trustees has claimed.
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