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IRELAND

EU Trade Commissioner Phil Hogan speaking to RTÉ's Tony Connelly. Screengrab / RTÉ Screengrab / RTÉ / RTÉ

• A further 92 cases and no deaths of Covid-19 have been confirmed in Ireland today.
• EU Commissioner Phil Hogan has delivered a report to the commission’s president in the wake of the golf dinner controversy.
• Hogan has said he does not accept HSE advice that someone restricting their movements after arriving in Ireland from a non-Green List area must continue to quarantine even if they received a negative Covid-19 test.
• The Department of Health was evacuated after a suspicious package was discovered at its premises on Baggot Street.
• Five cancer patients in Craigavon Area Hospital in Armagh have tested positive for Covid-19.
• Details of the controversial National Broadcast Plan have been published in a heavily redacted form.
• Gardái are investigating an “alleged racially-motivated incident” at NUI Galway after a video surfaced of a man verbally abusing a woman on the campus.
• Taoiseach Micheál Martin has told farmers that a new Agriculture Minister will be appointed next week following Dara Calleary’s resignation.
• Inland Fisheries Island has said the re-appearance of the invasive fish species Chub presents a “real and pending concern” to the Shannon’s biodiversity.
• A garda investigation has been launched after a vehicle drove through a level crossing barrier in Co Roscommon, causing delays to rail services.

WORLD

Police and protesters in Kenosha, Wisconsin. PA Images PA Images

#ELECTIONS: Republicans opened the party’s convention last night with a push to re-elect Donald Trump

#WISCONSIN: Protests following the shooting of Jacob Blake by police continued in Kenosha, Wisconsin for a second night

 #SCHOOLS: South Korea has ordered schools and kindergartens in Seoul to move online after an increase in Covid-19 clusters.

#INDIA: Rescue teams are searching for survivors after a five-storey apartment building collapsed in Mahad in western India.

#HEARING Victims and families impacted by a mass shooting in two New Zealand mosques last year have given impact statements during a four-day sentencing hearing for the mass murderer.

PARTING SHOT

Citizens Information is trending on Twitter in Ireland after it released a statement shortly following comments from EU Commissioner Phil Hogan this evening.

Hogan said that he was not required to “self-isolate or quarantine” after returning to Ireland because he tested negative for Covid-19 after a hospital appointment, and that he was following information on the Citizens Information website, which he said was funded by the HSE.

Citizens Information responded: “We are not funded by the HSE. We are funded by the Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection.”