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The 9 at 9 Trump’s chaotic 4 July celebrations, new rules for buying concert tickets, and more details emerge from the Swift wedding.

GOOD MORNING.

Here’s all the news you need to know to start the day.

New estates

1. A probe is underway into whether a major developer breached planning laws over the number of charging points for electric vehicles (EVs) it installed at houses in a brand-new Dublin housing estate.

Wedding 0f the Year

2. A performance from Stevie Nicks, personal vows, high school friends and a “garden inside the Garden”: details are slowly emerging about Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s star-studded wedding in New York.

Chaotic 250th birthday

3. Trump hailed America on its 250th birthday Saturday as the “crowning achievement” of human history, even as he used the event to renew his attack on domestic opponents he branded communists.

Concert tickets

4. Concern promoters will be required to disclose how many tickets are available at each price point while a person is in a queue online waiting to purchase, according to EU Commissioner Michael McGrath, Ireland’s European commissioner for justice.

France beat Paraguay

5. France needed a second-half Kylian Mbappé penalty to break down a stubborn Paraguay side on Saturday, winning a niggly World Cup last-16 clash 1-0 to set up a quarter-final showdown with Morocco.

Sick leave

6. Germany’s new sick leave laws would not work in Ireland, a business body representing employers has said. 

Fatal collision

7. A man in his 50s died yesterday after a single-vehicle collision in Killick, Kilcock, Co Kildare this morning.

GAA

8. Orlagh Nolan and Kate Sullivan grabbed late goals at Parnell Park as defending champions Dublin snatched victory on Saturday in a dramatic finale against Cork to book a date with Kerry in the last four of the TG4 All-Ireland senior football championship.

Nato 

9. Trump spoke with his Russian and Ukrainian counterparts Vladimir Putin and Volodymyr Zelenskyy Saturday to discuss the conflict in Ukraine ahead of a Nato summit in Ankara, the Kremlin and Zelenskyy said.

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